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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 week ago

ICE Apes should be dispatched to assist our Freedom Fighters in Iran. Put them right up front, where the action is. They love that shit.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Send in...the Gravy Seals.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

With meal team 6 at the head!

[-] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

"You ever fired a blaster at a living target?"

"Hahaha! All the time! I was the top womp rat hunter in my unit."

"No, I mean a sentient being. Something that could shoot back."

"No, I guess I never have."

"You must be joking. How long has it been since you graduated?"

"Over a year."

"What have you been doing all this time, looking the other way?"

-Jedi Outcast Stormtrooper/Officer conversation

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Normally this would end a Presidency within days of making remarks like that.

Nothing about this is normal.

Don't let them normalize this shit.

Join the next general strike or you'll be the next victim he can brag about or blame you for being a terrorist.

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I'll join the general strike that lasts for more than a day

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

You'll need to settle for 2 hours on a random Saturday

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[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, join the one that lasts a day, too.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

They shouldn’t call them that. It’s just a walk out. Maybe it’s OK to call it a dress rehearsal or practice run but the point would be to test community support mechanisms and get the word out, not to “put the corpos on notice” or lend virtue to someone’s extra personal day. The truth is it’s not much of a stress test if it’s just 1 day. Also it’s crying wolf. General strikes should damage the economy and an extra snow day just doesn’t. It fails that goal even if it feels nice to say they participated in a “general strike.”

But the more insidious problem is one of logistics, tactics, and reserves.

With protests, there’s often rotating participation so overall support/resource/attention burnout isn’t a brick wall issue. People generally know how many protest days they have to give up front and using them up just means they’ll need to be replaced by another protestor. The point is showing up if you can.

But “1-day general strikes” steal actual person-days from the real general strike (a protracted war of attrition between workers and the economy where the workers hurt themselves to hurt their enemy). Meaning, it actually helps corporations not just by dis-carding useable cards in our deck prematurely_and_ revealing to the opponent our possible hands, it also subtracts drawable cards from our reserves since each of those person-days eventually must be borne by mutual support networks later on.

“1-day General Strikes” are not general strikes!

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[-] totesmygoat@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago

He still had vets and current military vote for him. After. He called them suckers and losers.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That info didn't make it into their NewsMax/Facebook filter bubble. Even if it did manage to slip through via a relative or a coworker, it would have been too late, "fake news" or about those other people.

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly. People really underestimate the conservative ~~news~~ bubble.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

If you still support someone after they call you a sucker and loser, they might be right about you being a sucker....

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One atrocity can dissolve a government. But one atrocity every day can keep even the most hated and incompetent leader in power for a long time. While we‘re busy processing what has happened yesterday he already committed another unforgivable crime. And it goes on and on and on. He simply overwhelms the people with atrocities to the point everyone fights their own battle and debates which of the many crimes is worse and needs to be addressed.

[-] null@lemmy.org 1 points 1 week ago

That's been his style of political discourse forthis entire run. It's a neverending fountain of shit with some of it sticking to the wall.

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Surely another protest and a strongly worded letter will set him right.

People over there should skip the "maybe he'll blame me as a terrorist" fear, he's doing that anyway, and just jump right to the action of clean-up. French-style.

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[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 week ago

He's a narcissistic psychopath. That means his brain is literally incapable of processing empathy, let alone understanding it.

How Americans aren't storming the white house or Mar A Lago at this point with a bunch of guns is beyond me. 

[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Service members that voted Trump, do you get it yet?

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Not a service member, but Trump told you he only likes winners.

The people that died, well, they are losers like PoW John McCain.

So service members that voted for Trump will think he still likes them, until they are KIA (at which point, they no longer care).

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Why is this waste of life still existing?

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 points 1 week ago

Because someone didn't get a decent scope and a proper target rifle.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fuck that draft dodger. He should send his kid to die over there.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

No he should go there in person.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

He is the center of everyone's universe in his mind

[-] ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hell is too good for him

[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

"We expect casualties with something like this," [Donald Trump] said. "We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it's going to be a great deal for the world."

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

So, follow me on this. Iraq’s population was actually initially happy saddam had been deposed. And that turned into a $16T, 15 year, million life quagmire. And Iraq is still a weak, uncooperative country. I can’t imagine taking over Iran, a country that hates us and accepts its leadership, with weapons systems orders of magnitude greater in number, and far more modern equipment.

There can be no good deal for the world. I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman, but he’s the president. He’s literally bribing the military industrial complex to keep himself in power post-term and selling it as a good thing. Uuuuugh.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman

That's all this asshole ever was and ever will be, really. Guy made shitty real estate deals as a nepobaby failson and had a very big mouth. That's pretty much all he is.

Most of the people in NYC, and probably most of the people on the Eastern seaboard, tended to know who he was even by the early 90s. If they paid even the least bit of attention. But that stupid gameshow and that dumb book gave a whole lot of idiots the idea that he was really something more and somehow worthy of giving any power.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

This is it, 100% perfect. He was the poster boy for the blowhard business loser. By the early 90s, the NY times was reporting on investigations into money laundering schemes with Russian Oligarchs/mobsters.

His bank was Deutsche Bank, which was dubbed "the world's dirtiest bank" when investigations showed that their customers included corrupt business executives, dictators, terrorists, cartels, etc. He was traveling in rough circles by then, and it was well-known. His FBI file must have filled an entire cabinet, and that was in the early 90s.

So imagine Comey's and the FBI's reaction, years later, when this known criminal was getting closer and closer to the White House, and they see all that's going on with Russia and such? Trump has always characterized their investigations into him as spying, but they were doing exactly what they were supposed to do - investigate threats to national security.

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[-] rogsson@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Accepts their leadership with a gun to their head you mean?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Some yes, some no. They’re still a theocracy by popular decision, in spite of changing demographics. Last I checked, 60% happy, 40% unhappy

[-] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Coming his fat ass and Barron up asap!

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

What a fucking piece of shit

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And the media just keeps calling him "bold" and "decisive."

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Christ, what a fucking asshole.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Of course he did. No reason to debate this here; we all know this is abominable and he is a monster.

Can we chat about how a malignant narcissist who is willing to commit atrocities and has apparently decided he’s going to hell anyhow (and has become kinda obsessed with that) has access to the largest nuclear arsenal on earth? With the walls closing in?

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Hey, all you American servicemen. All you ICE thugs, and everyone else with a gun who's doing stuff because this guy is telling you to do stuff. Note how he thinks of you. Why are you risking your life for him, again?

I mean, I probably know why you ICE thugs are doing it - you get to go beat up and kill brown people, something you've always wanted to do. But you're also cowards, so maybe consider that angle. He'll sacrifice you in a heartbeat.

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[-] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I have to laugh because I know this won't phase his base.

[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"We expect casualties with something like this," the president said. "We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it's going to be a great deal for the world."

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