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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone (defector.com)

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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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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You have a much more optimistic view than I about the nature of the American character. If he incinerates 50 million people overnight, will you still go into work tomorrow? I probably would, cause really, what else you gonna do?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

This is the first time anyone has called me optimistic about anything in a long time.

This isn’t a matter of going to work tomorrow, this is a matter of the current American standard of living collapsing. Even if people keep going to work millions will starve to death and die from disease because the vast majority of our world is built on plastic from food containers to medical equipment. Not to mention the end of mass shipping and air travel as we know it by years end. Once enough people go hungry shit will get violent.