There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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[–] 92 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Looking at you, Secret Service. If anyone can stop a nuclear war, it's you. We're all counting on you.

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  • [–] 81 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This isn't something we will be able to act on retroactively. What I mean is that if nobody in our government or military stops Trump from going nuclear in Iran there is no going back. If he isn't stopped until after it happens, nobody in the entire world will trust Americans ever again and we will all be hated (even more than we already are). This is the single biggest avoidable threat to national security that has ever existed. It's already the case that nobody outside the US cares if you are one of the "good ones" or not. If this fuck-face does what we all think he wants to do, the US and its citizens will be internationally considered a threat to everyone elses national security and will be cut off from the rest of the world indefinitely.

    Nobody will give a shit who you voted for or which protests you went to or not, everyone will hate us and rightfully so. If Trump goes nuclear in Iran it'll be the end of the American Empire basically overnight.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Here. I'll simplify it for you:

    nobody in the entire world will trust Americans ever again

    That's it. There's nothing that the US can do to change that anymore. Trust has already been broken. It will take decades to build it back, if that's even possible.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    He is actually threatening genocide. Didn't we hang people in Nuremburg for that?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    most em got of scot free actually

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, he is completely correct. It's true the criminals at Nuremberg were hanged but that was just a tiny insignificant fraction of the criminals that should have been hanged. The vast majority of them were forgiven, rewarded even.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That is absolutely correct. The vast majority of the actual war criminals, the Nazi's in charge and giving orders of execution/genocide, got away scott free. Only the peons and guards got tried and executed for treason. And not that many of them.

    The majority got away to Argentina, the US, or just given a cushy pension in Germany to fade away with.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The only way to know for sure is if a large bet is placed on Polymarket for "nuke dropped on Iran".

    Seriously that's what the world has come to. We only know what's going to happen if evidence of insider trading is found. Unbelievable.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    Now's your chance to be the American Jamie Lanister!

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

    Anyone else remember when Putin threatened to nuke Ukraine or anyone that helped them?

    This is just trump imitating his bestie, engaging in saber rattling to cow his enemies. It’s not going to work like he thinks it will

    Edit: Apparently it did work

    What a shame

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Except unlike Putin, Trump is certifiably insane.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Meh. I think we just don't know enough about Putin to certify him.

    Most people familiar with Russia and its politics say he's not the evil genius some people make him out to be - just evil, paranoid, delusional...

    His regime's biggest "achievement" was to repackage Soviet hybrid war strategies for the internet age.

    edit: being more intelligent than Trump isn't something to be proud of

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    happy TACO Tuesday everyone!

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago*

    Congress could do its fucking job and issue a war powers resolution but republican politicians see him as a piggy bank so that won't ever happen.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Unfortunately that just puts JD Couchfucker in the seat with Mike NoFap Johnson in the passenger seat.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    OK and? He's demented also but not "on deaths doorstep with nothing to lose because he's so old" demented. He's got more to live for and hopefully has the sense not to trigger mutuality assured destruction.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think JD Vance is demented at all.

    I think he's fairly well spoken, intelligent and in bed with every billionaire out there so if the base backs him he could be more dangerous than Trump.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    I'm pretty confident that even the suicidally greedy billionaire class recognizes the fact that nuking a foreign country is bad for business. However, I've underestimated their insanity before so maybe I'm wrong

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Johnson doesn't immediately become Vice-President. That's not how the succession works. But you're right, Captain Couchfucker is just as insane and stupid as Colonel Orangeballs.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    The Entire Republican Party. and their donors are problems. And likely need to be culled as well. Trump is just a figurehead, and intentional target. This shit doesn't end with his death, or JD's for that matter.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It seems clear the Americans will rather cling on to the life they claim to hate and the jobs they despise until they are slowly enslaved and killed, rather than risk anything to undo the massive mistake they caused by reelecting a convicted felon, child rapist and overall buffoon as president

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You’re asking them to admit they were wrong?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    I want them to wake up before their demented dictator wannabe literally takes the world to WWIII

    ps: by "wake up" I mean "act"… at the very least a general strike ta this point

    pps: I've read excuses for months, yet Muricans won't even quit nazi xitter or facebook as a sign they are not totally docile sheeple

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Just a little light market manipulation via terrorist threats to enrich the President of the US and his cabal of Bond villain kid-diddlers.

    I swear if I were the next guy elected US President, I'd use RICO and asset seizure take every last dime the Trumps and their friends stole and give it all to the people.

    And then we kick his traitor ass out of the country.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And the republicans will stand there tied to the execution post going "This is still better than Biden!"

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    There are also the Ferengi amongst us making huge ducats off blood on the streets.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    he WOULD do it, to get people to stop investigating the epstein files.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I can hear him salivating at the thought.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Stop acting as if this is because of one person. There is a whole lot more wrong with the USA than just Trump.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, this time it really is. "Fire ze missiles" in the US military is an extraordinarily one-man band kinda decision. Certainly, the problem has more complex origins and potential resolutions, but in the extreme short-term, this is a very "one person" kinda question.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Unfortunately, this time it really is.

    It absolutely is not. At the VERY least, the entirety of the republican party is to blame for sucking PedoTUS's dick so hard he thinks he can nuke Iran. His cabinet could 25th him and get rid of him right now. Republicans in congress could impeach him (which wouldn't be nearly as quick, but they could make it move if they actually cared).

    Do not let those assholes do a face turn and forget that they were more than happy to support trump until the ship was damn near sunk.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Demented PEDOPHILE Psychopath

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Such decadence.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    and then needing to type "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" into your web browser to see if he actually said that

    The irony is that a few years ago LLMs would routinely generate unhinged rants. But, these days LLMs have safeguards in place so that they only rarely say things as unhinged as the current president does nearly daily in his social media posts.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    God bless the great people of Iran

    Bless them with holy fire

    Bless their schools and hospitals

    Bless their bridges and power plants

    Bless them all to hell in the name of American ignorance

    Sixty-five years of unchecked growth of military power

    Let the world mourn the consequences as it will

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    is the herbal supplement for anxiety?

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