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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm from in Belgium, and have colleagues from countries from both sides of the second world war. The carpet bombing of cities is still talked about every now and then. It's still remembered as one of the worst tragedies during that war (apart from the obvious), and the scars it left in many family trees still pain the people to this day.

Hearing stories from Gaza and the Donbas always remind me of the stories I used to hear from my grandfather, and I believed we left those war tactics behind in the last century. It's absolutely insane hearing an allied country to ours debating using those tactics again.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How is it even legal to call for the murder of so many people using one of the most atrocious weapons humanity has invented....but if one were to suggest to apply a guillotine to this person for doing so, they would be in severe legal trouble?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Same way you can say guillotine the rich but not kill Jeffy Bezos

One is seen as more direct, even though the other includes more people

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

“So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor...."

The US was never faced with destruction during World War II.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

People like Graham are oblivious to the huge opportunity WWII gave us to dominate markets because Europe and Asia had been destroyed. They think it was American Exceptionalism all the way. Their inability to grasp this is why they are ineffective at leading now that other nations have caught up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Obviously you haven't seen that fine documentary The Man in the High Castle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Or the one about a post-Trump presidency, The Handmaiden’s Tale

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey now. The threat of destruction was just as bad as the actual destruction across Europe and Asia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Americans and clutching at pearls name a better duo lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Americans and clutching at Pearl Harbor

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Americans and shooting people, both at home and abroad

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It's very hard for people (well, neurotypical people) to understand what real destruction means when that contests their system of considering themselves (and their friends, their country etc) very cool.

Most of those advocating for bombing cities and big wars would turn into whining piss-smelling sacks of shaking meat the moment they meet one person not weaker than them angry at them in a back alley.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Casually arguing for breaking the taboo on using nuclear weapons.

Forget Gaza, this is how human civilization ends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

We have been saying that Israel is a moral and legal hazard to the entire world as it rallied its allies to throw out all resemblance of a rule based international order recognizing such basic human rights like not being slaughtered and having access to basic food, water and medicine.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This should disqualify him from ever holding office again. I know it won't, but it should.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

You mean it should lock him behind bars for life.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Who votes for this monster?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

More than half of the people who voted, since he ended up getting elected to the Senate.

On another site I saw someone argue that some Republicans intentionally say outrageous things or introduce inflammatory bills on purpose just to get opposing parties and such to rage over it and then they turn around and use that to their advantage somehow.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Let's drop Lindsey Graham on Gaza instead of a nuke.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Haven't Palestinians been through enough? You'd make them clean up Lyndsey Graham, too?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Indifference to human life totally on brand for the gop

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is not indifference. This is a call for genocide. And a genocide at Ausschwitz proportions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm saying lindsey graham doesn't care if people live or if people die.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I’m shocked! Who could have guessed this slimy invertebrate would have zero regard for anyone but himself!?

It’s wild that if anyone were to suggest killing Lindsey Graham they would probably be arrested and called a terrorist. But he can just casually advocate for nuking a densely populated area that is inhabited mostly by civilians and a bunch of brain dead morons will still vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Imagine how much better the world would be if there was just a simple process of psychological screening for would-be politicians, and psychopaths were barred from holding office.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There should also be a limit on how stupid they're allowed to be.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

He can make both those statements. He should absolutely not be comparing them.

The decision to nuke japan was based on factors entirely different than any possible factor to nuke gaza.

In any sane world, senators suggesting dropping war crimes all over another country would be immediately removed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nuking anything is never the right decision unless you're heating up some leftovers. There is no such thing as a justified mass destruction weapon.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Now imagine the headlines if someone in Russia said this but for bombing Kyiv with nukes.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Like-minded country we need to forge close ties with 🙄

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."

Only thing this guy deserves to hear for the rest of his life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ahh yes, dropping nuclear weapons right next door, risking fallout in your own territory and pissing off every country around you, as well as all your allies. Why not?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The only thing Lindsey likes more then male prostitutes is killing POC. 🐞🐞🐞

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

My dog barks some. Therefore nuke Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fucker would nuke Nanking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Where did they find this absolute muppet? Does he not even know what fallout is?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Grindr, probably. Don't Google his ladybugs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

So did we ever find out if Biden can use seal team six to kill political opponents?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What a brilliant fucking suggestion, he obviously thought it through and is a very smart man.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Great, now ChatGPT thinks he’s smart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This appeared in my feed right next to a movie called "Cocaine Werewolf". Seemed fitting.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Republicans are ghouls.

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