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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 9 hours ago

How about go swimming off the beautiful Cuban coast, and get eaten by a school of sharks?

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Alright that's the last straw, I've had enough news about tyrants today. I don't even believe in magic but I'm still gonna put a curse on every single one of these disgusting fascists and enabling fuckwits. Rot, bastards. All of them

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Vihhoo tihhkuvat akat, ukotkii eltaantunneet,
vajjoot mahollistajat, kansoo nii murhhanneet,
sikkailevvat raharikkoot, lapsiiki raeskanneet,
kaik nuo elonkehhee ryöveevät suatanan ahhneet;

lihat sulakee poies, suoletki määtkää,
täysiks visvoo piät ilikeet ja tyhymätkii,
kalluu nuo luut viel paha syöpäkkii,
kaik fasistihet työ elävält mättääntykkää;

puolest kaikkie heikompie, ny mie pistänkii vihoiks,
kirroon verellä, kirroon raualla,
kirroon sylellä ja suolalla,
peittelennii viel tuhhkasella,
mie kuritan mualimanpaskojia näen julumasti kostoks.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hold him accountable or something, yall dont even have guard rails to protect american citizens and hold people in power accountable, america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible. Citizens rights? Fuq that shit xd

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible

Unfortunately, this 100% true, and most people don't truly realize it. In 1919, Dodge sued Ford, claiming that Henry Ford was operating his company under policies that benefitted him and his workers more than they benefitted the shareholders. The court found for Dodge, and ever since, corporations have been enslaved by their Stock Price, and all company policies have to increase the stock price, no matter what. If they don't put the shareholders first, the shareholders can sue the company.

That forces companies to abuse and under-pay employees, and make immoral corporate decisions because serving the Stock Price is literally the ultimate objective of every corporation. More than a good product, more than quality control, more than utility to the consumer, more than being a moral company who cares about their employees, the Stock Price is literally the only thing that matters, because that's the law. Ultimately, the only product that any public corporation cares about, is its Stock.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If they don’t put the shareholders first, the shareholders can sue the company.

The thing that gets you sued is not doing what you say you're supposed to be doing. And that entirely depends on what it says in the corporate charter. A corporation is only obligated to maximize quarterly shareholder returns if they don't clearly state otherwise. And it's never been the stock price, it's been dividends (which drive the stock price). And you'll notice that quite a lot of software firms don't turn a profit for many years and pay no dividends. And yet they're not sued by shareholders, because they openly announced that that was what their strategy was.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

So what about Iran and or the Epstein files?

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

First finish with Iran, you Orange Ape

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago

This is about shifting media attention away from Iran. When Miami gets shelled, then the Gulf becomes boring.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

As long as we don't do anything about it he can indeed do whatever he wants

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 28 points 1 day ago

Ha ha!

It's funny because no one in a position of power will try and stop him and he will fucking kill us all for his vanity, or to escape narcissistic injury, or because he's bored...

Wait.. yeah, that's not funny. Can someone please take away grampas nuclear weapons and put him in a home/jail?

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (20 children)

I'm so glad I listened to all the posters who said voting for the Democrats was voting for GENOCIDE. Boy we sure dodged a bullet there didn't we!

[–] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.

The reality is many democratic voters were simply not motivated to vote for an administration that was more interested in supporting a genocide than dealing with the riding cost of living. You can argue that’s stupid or irrational but that won’t affect how voters actually vote. You might as well be yelling at a brick wall. It won’t change anything.

The fact is that Biden, Kamala, and other high level members of the Democratic Party knew that supporting a genocide might cost them the election. They did it anyways. They cared more about Israel’s ability to bomb children than they cared about protecting the American people from a second Trump term. The blame lies entirely with them.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

some small segment of vocal lefties

Most if not all of them were bots and right-wing trolls, operating with the objective of suppressing Democratic Party turnout. The remainder (if any) were just gullible.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Ah, but it's not just those who voted this way. It's more those who actively supported this idea and were pushing for people not to vote because of it. We'll never have certainty about how much of an impact it made on the actual vote but I think any reasonable person would concede by this point that the consequences of the result they were advocating for have been much, much worse than just picking the lesser evil even if you believe that lesser evil allowed an unrestrained Israel to conduct genocide. I do think the facts contradict that claim anyway since we've seen Israel's actions rise to a whole another level after Trump has truly let the Netanyahu government loose but even if that wasn't the case there's a lot more harm being done both domestically and abroad in addition to that all continuing.

It's also not just the presidential election by the way, in a world where the House had been under Democratic control we'd probably have seen Trump limited in meaningful ways over the past year.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.

Because then they'd have to confront the fact that there was whole list of popular (with everyone, not just the left) issues that the democrats where turning their noses up at, not just Kamala's promise to keep Joe's genocide going.

But it is funny how the anti-genocide folks are the ones they're blaming the most for their defeat. No one is hissing at people who wanted single-payer health care for instance. Totally a real winning strategy and not just another smear job paid for by AIPAC.

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[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Maybe it was the fact that Kamala was fake as hell, or maybe that the Democratic canvassers knocked on people's doors (including mine) two dozen times before the election, even though I told them every. single. time. that I was voting for her.

Or hell, maybe it's that she called Gen Z voters dumb after they clenched the 2022 midterms. Or maybe it's the fact that they didn't primary a candidate. They kept saying Biden was going to run again and then tried to use his popularity to force us to vote for her. I'm sorry, but that faded Obama magic doesn't transfer from one candidate to another, especially when Biden was so-so at best with almost no charisma. I was already pissed that we got the rug pull with Bernie for Biden in 2020. To not even get a fucking primary for 2024 has left me beyond bitter.

Still, I voted for her and Fetterman. I will not vote for a candidate I don't believe in again. At this point, I'm writing in a third-party name. If the establishment can't learn, then let them burn. Don't bother with whatever guilt trip of a response you might have. I'm sick of feckless leaders. I will always vote, but I won't hold my nose for the establishment anymore. Fascism is here, and the ratcheting fuckers of the Democratic Party are useless. It's just too bad. Trump is essentially burning the country to the ground, but the flames won't hit the support beams until they can blame the Democrats, and, like always, it will work. Politics piss me off so much.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

talk to the dem leaders about their failure on that one. You would hope at least one of the parties would be against war crimes. Why werent the DNC? Rhetocial question: because they are irretrievably corrupt and cashed some AIPAC checks.

I think you'd best be mad at that corruption and not the voters put in an impossible spot because of it. Unless you are dishonest, a warmonger or zionist, in which case go on with your prattle.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

blockade is defined in the UN charter as an aggressive act of war. Any fallout from that would mean NATO has no duty to support the US.. in that conflict or any conflict continuing from it.

it’s in the definition of Agression Resolution (Re. 3314) and is considered an illegal act, and a war crime if it halts import of food and medicine.

Retaliating with commensurate and proportional force against a blockade is legally allowed by art. 51 of the UN Charter.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago

NATO has no duty to support the US anyway unless we're talking about an attack on the US which this isn't looking like any way you slice it.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"The Honor of taking Cuba" sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he's about to rape.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never thought I'd see the day when even childish Saturday morning cartoon villainy became this real.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is his dementia talking, or more specifically, his frontotemporal dementia, a major symptom of which is that his brain no longer has efffective impulse control He lacks inhibition, much like you see in drunk people, and he's just acting on whatever idiotic thought pops into his head or gets mentioned to him

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

How about you finish your current war you sad old bag of hamburgers.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The USA is a terrorist country.

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[–] wombatmacncheese@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Spoken like a true rapist.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago

Rapist gonna rape

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