• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Can we take a moment to acknowledge how weak trump’s raised fist always looks? I mean, look at this photo. Very limp and dainty.

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      There’s a very real possibility that everything this waste of meat has done in his life was to compensate for his tiny hands and microscopic penis.

      Everything he does is the Greatest, biggest like no one has ever seen, etc…

      “Big beautiful bill”

      There’s tons of examples.

      Inside his mind he really is a little bitch. This brings me confort at night.

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    3 months ago

    From a different article:

    “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Mr. Trump said, telling CNN it was unclear who was now leading Iran.

    “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick,” he said.

    What’s your actual fucking goal? I don’t get what they intend to hit here. They’re making it actually impossible for Iran to do the thing they want.

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      The goal is to keep war going until at least November, so it can be used to cancel or ignore midterms. Having no defined goals is essential to that.

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        If we start seeing a bunch of “Don’t change horses midstream” political commercials soon, then I know we’re in a simulation, and the creators are just lazy, pulling from “Wag the Dog” because they’re out of ideas.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          Rhaedas! Rhaedas! Wake up! We’ve been trying to wake you up for months now! Come on, man, wake up! You gotta be hearing us in your dreams, man, come on, man, wakf09234r 5tKT23 #:$LT #$@# $J% $R# $J#$DO NOT CHANGE HORSES MIDSTREAM. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP TRUMP IN POWER SO THE WORLD IS SAFE AND PEACEFUL. DO NOT VOTE AGAINST TRUMP OR WE WILL DO BAD THINGS TO YOU. AGAIN. DON’T YOU REMEMBER? DON’T YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME?

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      The thing they want is an external distraction so people will quit paying attention to domestic issues. Bonus points if Iran actually manages to become enough of a problem to “justify” emergency powers for the president. They don’t actually give two fucks what the final outcome for Iran is.

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      Ultimately bullies just want to bully. They don’t want anything from their target except to reflect back to them an image of their desired power.

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      The only thing they want is for Iran to be a distraction from the Trump-Epstein files and from the midterms in the fall.

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    Fuck, he’s going to nuke that one deep reactor site, isn’t he? Just because he can.

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    Ah yes, the genius tactic from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War - always tell everybody what you’re gonna do

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      If you go by Sun Tzu he has done literally everything wrong.

      If you want your enemy to acquiesce you give them an out, but instead they’re pushing them against a wall, which only strengthens your enemies resolve since there’s no other option.

      That’s why Obama’s nuclear deal was working. But these apes in the Trump admin don’t understand, they only understand “bug smash” levels of reasoning.

      I did like when he said they were so “successful” at trying to force regime change they killed every option they felt was agreeable. Great, you’ve successfully started a forever war instead of the quick regime change you wanted. Success!

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        We joke about Sun Tzu’s advice being obvious, but it’s the advice that an emotionally driven narcissistic nepo baby needs, because that’s who historically has been in charge of militaries. Anyone who understands people knows that cornered people don’t surrender unless the risk benefit feels worth it, but people who don’t understand other people’s mindsets and are focused on glory/conquest are going to think that you can bomb a regime into peaceful surrender and that they’ll gladly give up their leaders. No, you make moderates into combatants like that.

        Iran was having mass protests for liberalization. We could have been the heroes offering an out to the leaders and helping establish a liberal republic giving favorable deals. Make Iran into an ally for less money than war. But no, that’s not a dick measuring contest that shows how tough they are and so now a bunch of children will die and Iran will continue to hate us for good reason.

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      What does it matter? They said we went to Venezuela for the oil and nobody did anything about it. They know they can say what they want and Americans will never hold them accountable

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    Ten years ago I used to make the argument that having a psychopath with the mind of a toddler controlling the nukes was enough reason for supporting him to be and inherently insane, irrational act of pure irresponsibility. Everyone said I was over-reacting.

    Christ.

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    The entire world (other than Yemen) stood by while the US and Israel committed a genocide of hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza. Countries not particularly friendly to either country sent strongly-worded letters but not much more. Allies of the US/Israel actively went along with it and focused on crushing dissent inside their own borders. Then you have other events like trying to literally starve Cuba for no reason other than they looked at us kinda funny… and still the rest of the world does nothing. This is the prior information Trump and Netanyahu are working with. Would it not be entirely rational for the two of them to conclude that they can nuke Tehran and they won’t face any real consequences either domestically or abroad?