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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

They don't have the bombs to achieve anywhere near what that bloviating chunk of rotten ham wants. Down with the king! Down with the king!

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago

Ah, just threatening with some casual genocide. No biggie.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 32 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Will someone please help us remove him? Our people who are supposed to do it are too spineless to try.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 hours ago

Where are the international assassins we see in movies??

[–] DrStrange@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

Real piece of shit.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

That's what you get with religious believers in power.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 103 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

Openly and directly threatening genocide.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 43 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

I'm looking at the /r/conservative subreddit right now. Of the comments that weren't removed (and there aren't that many, that place is a partisan shithole and a comment graveyard), it's just accusations of Iranian bots, claims that the Democrats are clutching at pearls, and mental gymnastics claiming that this is part of Trump's playbook...

How many world leaders have you seen make vulgar and genocidal threats like Trump has over the last few days?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

There is not a single genuine person commenting there. Bots and trolls all the way down.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago

How many world leaders have you seen make vulgar and genocidal threats like Trump has over the last few days?

I can think of another one of the criminal, Bibi Netanyahu.

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 25 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I really should start taking my PTO.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 40 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

This is a pretty straightforward declaration of genocidal intent. If the Americans bomb civilian infrastructure, there is a credible case for accusing them of Genocide in the Hague.

EDIT: Historian Timothy Snyder also identified it as such, pointing that this creates legal liabilities up and down the American state: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-president-speaks-genocide

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[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 hours ago (4 children)
  • Trump will again chicken out.
  • He thought (or made to believe) Regime change in Iran will a walk in the park.
  • Given the situation he is currently in, he just wants to save his face by any mean.
  • Dropping Nuke is biggest threat he can think of.
  • He don’t have the guts to follow it through.
  • He will just extend the deadline, or declare himself a winner and left Middle East to its fate.
[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

one would also hope the military would not follow such blatantly illegals orders.. but my hope on that is dwindling

[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago
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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

This is the man who wanted to nuke a hurricane. He'd love an opportunity to use that shit on people.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He will wake up tomorrow, and forget all about the veiled nuke threats he made a day before.

Tonight both US and Israel will likely hit harder (compared to what we already witnessed before), leaving a long trail of death (of civilians) and destruction of civilian properties and infras.

Tomorrow the pedo president will claim he sent Iran to stone age, and (again) proclaim victory in this war.

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[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I for one am very thankful for our beautiful Democratic Party, which while all this craziness has entered a fever pitch, they have been loudly and boldly speaking out against this every minute of the day and not focusing on unimportant matters like trying to trash talk Hasan Piker and taking personal vacations to the beach.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 177 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 131 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

If I ever found myself saying "a whole civilization will die tonight if I don't get my way", I think I'd just kill myself. What an utterly disgusting thing to threaten. He is truly devoid of any humanity at this point.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 86 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

Trump will nuke Iran, and the trolls on here will still insist Kamala would have done the same thing.

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Possibly, but its more likely that he just commits more warcirmes and further undermines American hegemony. The point of the far left in advocating for Trump was accelerationist; it's that he would speed up the collapse of the American Empire. No one expected that this would come without a heavy cost. Kamala would have just delayed the inevitable by a few more years.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Now I'm sincerely hoping it's gonna be another TACO Tuesday and Trump wimps out at the last second like he always does.

How he hasn't been 25th Amendmented yet is beyond me...

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