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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thank god you disagree. Otherwise they would bomb schools and terrorize the whole world.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s no pleasing some people…

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• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unfortunately a majority of Americans voted for this. The “rest of us” is actually a minority group. Maybe we are the majority now with this war, but a little over a year ago we were not.

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The majority absolutely did not vote for this. Not only did a massive chunk of the population not even vote, but among those who did vote, Trump got less than 50% of those votes

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      chunk of the population not even vote

      This is also a choice. And in 2024 it was absolutely obvious that it’s a choice for Trump.
      Majority, supermajority even, either wanted Trump to be an absolute leader, or was OK with it.

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is also a choice.

        You need to get out more

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The left: war is bad, because it hurts people. The right: we died enough for foreign issues. The rulling parties: did you say…more war?

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That really makes the rest of us in the world happy to hear that the country bombing everyone and trying to intimidate allies is full of citizens who are utterly fucking useless.

  Ya’ll would do well to remember that, unless you actually do something, we don’t give a shit about how upset you are. You are a citizen of the US and I have some sympathy for that but when try to deflect like this that sympathy quickly evaporates. It reads loud and clear like you care more for your personal reputation than anything else.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, we do murder and assault each other at rates about 5x that of our European allies, and our cops kill us sometimes 20x the rate of our allies. We don’t just export violence, we have a thriving domestic trade in it as well. And it’s becoming increasingly politically motivated. My neighborhood has a squad of paramilitary Proud Boy wannabes that goes jogging every morning in their tactical gear and ARs. They’re not cops, not military, not ICE, just dudes drilling for the war. While the left didn’t ever not own guns, it’s surging. We’ve got LGBTQ gun groups, women only gun groups, socialist gun groups, and mutual aid networks on both sides kicking into high gear for the hunker down. I get that it’s frustrating to watch American leadership sow chaos globally, but internally our fight isn’t just with them, it’s with every one of our neighbors that supports it. Remove Trump and they’ll just move on to the next strong man. It’s the legacy of letting the Confederacy stew in its loss generation after generation and failure to prevent them from seeking power. There’s still a sliver of hope we can vote our way out of this when elections come, though I doubt that will work. It’ll be interesting to see what goes down when that fails and the regime declares itself dictator for life. You’ll either see the US decline into Russian style authoritarianism or a bloody shitshow as the most heavily armed populace in world history revenges itself on itself.

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