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    I am never going to forget that the US political system failed to employ its supposed superior checks-and-balances against a mad president brandishing nuclear weapons.

    Even if you guys elect AOC as your next president, you’re not coming back from this, nobody should ever trust you again, unless you do some big constitutional reforms. The ancient antidemocratic Constitution that you revere is obsolete and antiquated and your quasi-religious devotion to it trash and downright dangerous. Just like Nazi Germany had to denazify, you fuckfaces need to de-american-exceptionalism-ify.

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      Not only did our leadership handcraft the bullet they shot themselves with, they poured the gasoline in the barn and set if off at the same time.

      USA is fucked for a long time. We’ve burned every bridge imaginable for a few dollars. I hate it here.

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      I am never going to forget that the US political system failed to employ its supposed superior checks-and-balances against a mad president brandishing nuclear weapons.

      Are you talking about Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump 1, Biden, or Trump 2?

      (Carter gets a pass I think, don’t tell me if he did anything murderous like the others, allow me one good one thank you)

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        As far as I know (maybe I’m wrong), even if each of these fucks was a war crimina in his own right, they didn’t go around threatening to use a nuclear first strike to annihilate a civilization. There is something particularly evil about the brandishing of unclear weapons.

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      The US should never have been trusted, and no superficial “reforms” the dems push should change that.

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        Calling people subhuman and cockroaches is 100% Nazi rhetoric. You’re part of the problem.

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          They did it against Romas, disabled people and Jews. They could not NOT be those things.

          Fascists can stop being fascists anytime.

          That’s the difference.

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          All this unhinged fuck is doing is spewing this nazi debauchery everywhere he appears, and the mods are doing nothing to stop him, all they do is just remove a comment from time to time.

          Extremely disturbing.

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          Nope. Nazis (conservatives) are in fact vile, subhuman cockroaches. I will never humanize nazis. That doesn’t make me a nazi. That makes me normal. Stop defending nazis.

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              Nah. I see nazis. The normal people can see them just fine. You see them too, but as a tankie (conservative pretending to be a normal person) you just see them as peers to defend. That strategy will not work. Try harder.

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        We need to redact every single subhuman conservative cockroach from our nation. There is no peaceful solution and there can be no coexistence. We desperately need to finish our civil war. And this time, instead of stopping short and showing mercy to vile, subhuman vermin, we need to finish the fkn job completely. Conservatives are cancer and we are long overdue for the painful, permanent cure.

        A final solution! Your honesty is appreciated.

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        The Radical Republicans tried to put Gen. Sherman in charge of Reconstruction, but backed down under pressure. Let’s do it right this time. Year Zero the motherfuckers.

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        Your post is just more indication why the USA just needs to end. If you’re saying to want to impose your will on other Americans out of hateful spite, you’re part of the problem. Americans practice hating each other every day and sometimes that hatred boils over and impacts other countries. Your culture is built on hate and as you point out, it’s been this way for centuries.

        I don’t think a one state solution is viable any more for the USA. You shouldn’t be thinking in terms of getting revenge on other Americans, you should be thinking in terms of breaking up the country.

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          The only problem the US has is conservatives existing in it. They are the sole source of every evil act the US has ever done. Every single single time. If destroying conservatives would result in the US dying, then we can agree. But the disease is absolutely conservatism.

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    I think Trump wants to nuke his enemies, and is trying to normalize the idea. Iran, Canada, Greenland, New York, California, Mexico, South Korea, anyone who simply disagrees with him.

    It is my hope that the intelligence agencies of other nations are keeping close tabs on this. If need be, I hope they kill our nuclear codekeepers and destroy any means of launching the nukes.

    Trump is the kind of mad man who would sooner see the world burn in fire, before allowing it to defy him.

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      There are several reports about him wanting to nuke something and other people in the room talking him down from it. He even wanted to nuke a fucking hurricane.

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      I’m terrified once he dissolves congress, he’ll start nuking countries until the nukes run out

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    Yeah, if he was able to make the military do that, he probably would have the first time he mentioned it. Instead we got TACO.

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    Is anyone keeping count on the times statements like this have been made? It feels like it’s on a 3 week cycle.

    Almost like he’s trying to distract from something.

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        That man does not think that far ahead. He just wants wants people to stop questioning the size of his hands (penis).

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              That’s cause everyone has. Quite literally no one cares about it anymore. It’s only randoms on the internet here and there who are too out of touch with the reality of the world around them that are still harping in about it.

              Anything that was going to happen has come and gone. It literally in every sense of the word no longer matters at all to any one in power.

              They have moved on entirely.

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      Almost like he’s trying to distract from something.

      With Operation Epstein Fury?? Naaaaw!

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      For fucking real. Stop reporting on what the man says he’s going to do and report on what he actually does

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    MFer is out of missiles and cant make his darling billionaires pay taxes to buy more. What is the US gonna do, throw rocks at Iran?
    Nobody but Trump wants this stupid war. Dude needs impeached.

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      Conservatives will never impeach the most accurate representative of conservatism they’ve ever had.

      If conservatives wanted to stop him, they already would have. They hold both chambers of congress. They will never do that because he is doing exactly what they want. Trump is conservatism incarnate. A perfect reflection of all conservatives. He is them.

      Conservatism brings only sickness, oppression and death. This has always been true throughout all human history.

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      I think he’s talking about nuking them. The fact he says decision coming up, makes me think they’ve been delaying and putting off the conversation because even the dipshits controlling this situation know that’s going to start ww3 and it won’t go well for them, financially at least.

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      No one? I think there’s a lot of other people in the Epstein files who are profiting off this entire debacle that are happier than pigs in shit about it. I assume anyways

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    And none of his followers think anything about the potential annihilation of a whole country. Truly despicable. At least they’ll keep each other company in Hell.

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      I remember when i was a kid my mom would say shit like “we wouldn’t be in a war if we just bombed the shit out of them til there was nothing left.” They dont see the people living in the middle east as people, they didnt 15 years ago and they dont now. there is zero empathy and its disgusting

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        It’s just the natural continuation of a mentality that allowed “people” to come to a different land, rape and murder everyone in sight, settle in the graveyard they filled themselves, and still call themselves people, supported by God even. Nothing new, but the fact it’s been over 200 years and it’s still prevalent enough that Trump, the figurehead of Western imperialism and white supremacy, has over 30% approval rate, makes it all very sad. But John Brown existed, so I keep my hopes up that one day, God willing, humanity and the desire for peaceful coexistence will settle in the heart of “radical” Westerners.

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          Every people has some black stains on their past…but it really seems like white people are the last ones to realize it.

          We (white people) are the bad guys.

          There’s been lots of bad guys, but for the past millenia or so, white people have been and continue to be the worst.

          We’re #1?

          I guess what we have to accept is that if we’re not the bad guys, then someone else is and then we are the oppressed. So we can’t just forfeit being the world’s assholes, because somebody else will do it to us!

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            In my opinion, wealth is the primary driving factor of that. Exploitation and abuse of the bottom by the top seems to occur in nearly every culture that doesn’t put in strict safeguards to neuter the privileged.

            The British empire dominated so much of the globe that the white elites advanced to the Olympic level of exploitation, but if we blame it on their color alone, we are leaving the back door open for other ghoulishly rich groups to stand in their place.

            I believe the real issue is the aristocratic class. In England, it was determined by heredity, and in America, it is determined by money, but the kind of person who inhabits that role is the same: mean spirited selfish assholes who fundamentally believe they are better than everyone else and that they deserve to get everything they want because the average Joe is inferior to them in every way. They think normal people serve no purpose unless they are serving the needs of an elite.

            That attitude strikes me as profoundly anti-human, and I think they should be treated as what they are: a predator that threatens the entire species who must be eliminated for the common good.

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            Why take this to a racial place?

            Dozens of African warlords with their private armies of child soldiers would like a word with you.

            The only reason they’re not doing this on a global scale is that colonialism has crippled those countries for centuries, so their stolen wealth is running western countries now.

            Make no mistake, human malice knows no bounds of skin color or religion.

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        In the 80s, Americans sported “Bomb Japan Again” bumper stickers. So being cunts is not new.

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            That’s why they’re speed-running the surveillance state. The billionaires know full well the Overton window is about to shift on them.

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              That’s why they want all those massive AI data centers: they’re going to implement fully integrated, pervasive surveillance, and knowing the evil fuckers who are pushing hardest for it, it will not benefit us in any way, it will be used as a tool of oppression.

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          damn, just imagine if instead of doing that, they’d exhibited some solidarity(I’m assuming it’s about manufacturing jobs related to cars)?

          I bet if Americans had held strikes in response to layoffs OR chosen not to buy foreign cars back then, today their unions would be stronger and their cars wouldn’t be so… wasteful (in many ways). Sure does suck to suck.

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        I had a boss who said the solution to the middle east is to nuke it. I thought he was kidding at first, but I don’t think he really was.

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      Trump supporters are selfish people. The fact millions of innocent people would die is less important to them than the fact it will increase the price they pay at the pump

      At least they’re upset with the war because of gas prices, I guess

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        It is! But how I feel about it doesn’t make it any more or less true. And likewise, I try to behave in ways to avoid the same ending, even if it means less hedonistic enjoyment and material comfort.

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          No offense, but what a stupid way to live your life.

          Actually, I dunno why I said “no offense.”

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              I would say “rational people” is more accurate. Being rich and powerful is not relevant at all is it?

              Most of the rich and powerful people who are currently ruining the US agree with you that hell exists, by the way.

              Are we really gonna sit here and pretend that Christian nationalist don’t believe in hell? Give me a break.

              The entire concept of hell exists to control people like you.

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                You can be a rational person and be entirely immoral and self serving. And idk what those people believe in, they’re extremely confused, the worst form of Trinitarianism is the one that denies God’s judgment and I guess that’s what they’re about? “Jesus forgave my sins so I can colonize, murder and rape with impunity”? They can say they “believe in God” in whatever way they want the same way a wife beater can rationalize it as love and passion, doesn’t mean it makes any sense.

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                  You can be a rational person and be entirely immoral and self serving.

                  I never said nor implied anything different

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            Yeah, what a rube! They have beliefs that bring them comfort and that compel them to treat others well. So stupid.

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                It’s weird that you’re shitty to people for their beliefs. If those beliefs bring them comfort and help them treat others well, you benefit from them. You can value true beliefs in your own life and while choosing your immediate circle, and if you really want to spread it to the wider public, you could advocate for it instead of intentionally offending people for being different from you.

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        Trump backed down on Greenland when Europe said “nuh-uh”. He will go slaughter some starving cubans instead.

        What a lionheart trump is.

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          My only problem with “backed down” is that he says a lot all the time, but what he does or not does is completely different. He hasn’t actually taken any action against Greenland, just talked about it. (That company that was going to drill is, as far as I can tell, not related to the Trumps in any meaningful way)

          So not that I disagree with you per se, but… Iran he has actually attacked, although not invaded (ground troops).

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        I’m picturing a spinner with all the countries he likes to threaten. He spins the arrow and decides which one to threaten next

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    well it is Friday so I guess more market manipulation.

    Christ on a cracker people he ALWAYS says this shit on a Friday, I would have hoped we would have figured that out by now.