We double dog dare you.
Killing the US president out of retaliation for an illegal war would make us ... unhappy ... or something. Maybe ... I dunno.
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If you do that, we may have to bomb you in retaliation. Maybe even kill your leaders.
Be my guest.
Join the club guys.
We cannot forget that the administration is actively trying to architect a tragedy against Americans. It is high treason.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/patel-fbi-national-security-division-firings-iran
Ironically, so does his medical team. Based on the bruising, wouldn't surprise me if they're having to draw blood constantly for all the testing required to keep his corpse functional.
They can have him, and all of his appointees, and the billionaires as well. We won't miss them.
We will absolutely not regret sinking it if you do that. How many warships will it take to do the whole line of succession?
It would be nice to see, but I still wouldn't have paid 130 human beings just to get another nation do something that should be done by an American. We can't let these foreigners take our jobs or something.
Seriously. What do we need to do to get you to follow through on that? Is there a go fund me?
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
You can fucking have him... If he's got any blood left in him and it's not all just McDonald's brand cholesterol™, you're welcome to it.
Unfortunately, they will absolutely take the blood of kids from low income families who got duped by sociopathic high school recruiters in his stead.
Sadly, I had quite a few friends fall for it when Dubya did this. Surely we'll take care of them when they come back this time...
Narrator: We will not take care of them when they come back this time.
They can take the cholesterol too. And also the shitty orange dollar store packaging around it.
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Just sayin, were already gonna have to rebuild part of the White House...
I wouldn't see any need to rebuild mar lago tho
what if we rebuilt maralago as a skate park and public restroom. so people could ollie and shit on his grave
Transitional housing for abused women and children would be the ultimate slap in the face.
Transitional housing for abused women and children
i'd agree with you, but a very important feature of those is that we don't tell anyone but the people who need its services where it is. like, i was ran some homeless shelters. two of them were for abused women and children. I still haven't got a clue where they are. only people in the organization who knew were people who needed to know and i was not one of them.
That would be pretty sicknasty, I'd learn to skateboard so I could go there
skate parks are pretty welcoming. you could learn there!
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This sinking seems like a really big deal to me, but I don't feel like it's been treated that way. Everyone seems to react like it's just another example of Trump being shitty, and it is, but also, we sank another country's warship with a torpedo. That seems pretty momentous no matter what country it was.
And it was unarmed, coming back from an exercise that was essentially a parade. Bonus points of shit!
Apparently the US had pulled out of that exercise at the last minute. So it's the dickest of dick moves.
Well, I mean, it would have been a little more dickish if we hadn't pulled out and still sank them after… but yeah.
I just learned that five minutes ago, and it really does make it even worse.
This is only the second warship sunk by a nuke sub (HMS Conqueror) and the first warship the US has sunk with a sub since 1945. We won't talk about the Russian cargo ship that "exploded" in 2024.
In the frame of war, this is big. In the frame of history this is huge. The lack of coverage and the apathy to it is ridiculous. This has never happened in our lifetime, well unless you are 80, so we have that going for us...at least its new lol.
It's the first fully unarmed warship sunk though, so that makes it unique. Also extra unique is that the nation and crew were basically invited first to the parade in part by the USA. So basically it's one for the history books in that is a modern red wedding.
Haha Trump launching tor-pedos
Different from smashing their airfields with missiles? Or, is it different because of where it happened?
It feels different in a few ways to me. One, it feels much more personal and "fuck you in particular." It's one thing to lob missiles at a base and fuck whoever happens to be there, but you KNOW there's a real possibility that you kill every mother effer on that ship if you hit it with a torpedo.
I'm not articulating it very well, but it's just got a different sort of cruelty that something like shelling an airbase just lacks for me.
I guess I can sort-of see where you're coming from. Presumably when they're bombing an airbase they're trying to hit planes, destroy runways, etc. If you're in the break room at the time there's a decent chance you don't die. If you're working on a plane, you're probably dead. But, when you sink a ship, everyone goes into the water and there's a good chance they'll die.
To me, the fact that it happened nowhere near Iran is the bigger deal. It means that parts of the world that aren't aligned with either side in the war now have to wonder what might explode in their own territory.
OTOH, at least when you sink a military ship there won't be civilian casualties. If the US had actually declared war on Iran, which of course never happened, but if... then another warship is actually a valid target. This isn't like blowing up an apartment building because a guy on your kill list is in one of the apartments.
Good points, especially this one:
To me, the fact that it happened nowhere near Iran is the bigger deal. It means that parts of the world that aren’t aligned with either side in the war now have to wonder what might explode in their own territory.
I skipped right over that but it's part of it for sure.
Hey Iran!
Don't forget about the rest of his family and all the sycophants that prop him up.
Conflicted on who I’m supporting here.
The safety of civilians in the region. You don't have to pick a side. We can simultaneously acknowledge that the Iranian and the US regimes are fucked up.
Then the sinking of a battleship seems like a pretty safe strike. Roughly zero chance of collateral damage.
Yeah I want both governments to fall and both countries' people to thrive and forge a better future
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