• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    I am all for war if – and only if – the politicians and billionaires fight it themselves.

    Cage matches between the elites and oligarchs of each nation. To the death.

    Then I’ll get behind it.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    to veterans, thier “thank you for your service” is almost always PERFORMATIVE FOR republican voters/gop who support vets. how many times had the gop tried or has thrown vets under the bus after a major conflict. this is also a very fascist tactic, keep your military weak by not giving them any kind of "retraining, onboarding to civilian life,s o they cant perform a coup.

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    1 day ago

    A detail that is also lost is how he sent reserve support troops to die. They where people that have non-combat jobs, like fixing computers, who while trained for combat are never expected to be in combat unless all hell has broken loose.

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    I wonder if the first few military personnel killed even had a clue why they got killed. Trump launched his war pretty abruptly and Iran retaliated immediately. The military compartmentalizes information pretty harshly. They could have just going about their day knowing something big was going to happen and next thing they’ve got some rockets falling on the base.

    Who knows. This “war”, like everything trump touches, is another dumpster fire.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    How about we just start using the word “trump” as a term for the most disgusting and malevolent threst to humanity we see before us?

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    Pond scum is actually useful in the biological chain.

    I’d say a “douche” is a lower term. Totally unsafe, inclined to create more problems than it solves and not at all necessary.

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    When that first came out I honestly thought it had to be something an LLM spat out, because what he said was so close to the meme.