• ChadGPT2@lemmy.world
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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?

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    Could he maybe say something that means something. Thanks.

    Also:

    I just got off the phone with President Trump," Tapper explained. "The president said, quote, we’re knocking the crap out of them. I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful. They’ve got the greatest military in the world, and we’re using it.

    Err who is “they”? Logically that would mean Israel right? Did he just tell a journalist Israel has the greatest military in the world?

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      American lives are being lost in this war for Zionists, and he praises Israel’s military.

      Epstein really was a Mossad agent.

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    Remember how shocked everyone became when it was revealed that some rich dudes enjoy watching torture videos and paedophilia? Maybe we should treat this the same (I mean better, because nothing was done for the former). It should scare the U.S. population that their president enjoys murdering people – enough to take it seriously and take real action against it.

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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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      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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    That’s right the big Epstein file drop is comming. About a day before a full scale invasion of Iran.

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

      Is that why the US is shooting down it’s own planes already?

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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.

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          Don’t change horses midstream

          Fuck that, put those horses down and turn them into glue.

        • 🌞 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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      What’s your actual fucking goal?

      I’d wager that the part they aren’t saying out loud has to do with a few different things:

      1. Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.

      2. War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.

      3. War fits into the “law and order” narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.

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        Honestly, as much as I hate the Epstein distraction narrative, it probably did play a role because Trump is petty like that. At the same time, this distraction is much more impactful than what it’s distracting from.

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          yeah, I hate that “EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION!!!” now.

          It’s fucking NOT. I’m sure they ARE trying to do some things as distractions, but most of it is just simply evil.

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            The annoying part is that the Epstein files would never turn many cultists. Most are fine with it or are willing to look past it. Many just reject that it exists.

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        \4. Zelensky told him that Ukraine has it in their Constitution that they don’t hold elections during times of war. He thinks this applies to the US Constitution.

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        Each day this happens it looks like they’re trying to breed more terrorists too.

        They’ve now blown up a hospital apparently, on top of the elementary school.

        Things were relatively quiet since ISIS/Daesh got destroyed. This is just going to make the world worse.

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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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    If ONLY there was SOMETHING we could Do! Wait! I GOT it! Let’s write a SEMI STERN Letter!

    -US Congress!