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[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 182 points 1 week ago (46 children)

Africa, Asia, and South America

So we are not counting North-America, where the ICE raids continue then?

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 71 points 1 week ago

“Today there are so many places in the world where the U.S. government is conducting military operations — including the war at home on migrants — that each event eclipses the last in terms of media attention,” said Stephanie Savell, the director of Brown University’s Costs of War Project.

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[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I mean, at this point everyone knows Trump lies out of his ass, right?

Actually, if you tune into just right wing news they make Trump look like a 4D chess genius.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

where's all those "Free Palestine" folks that were parroting this bullshit?

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bots did their job and got sent off to the clouds

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's crazy to me that anybody can see this old washed up orange piece of shit and think, yeah, I'd follow that guy's orders.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People treat him like he's literally the second coming of Jesus. Imagine living such a sad and depraved life that he's your model of a perfect man

Trump ... the Musical!

"I am the very model of an orange racist paedophile!"

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's the second coming of American Jesus. White, violent, racist, and full of shit.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know someone who has never cared about a non-american before but thinks the Iran war is justified because "those people were killing thousands of protesters". This person also normally doesn't speak highly of any protester I'm aware of.

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[–] jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Americans still go without healthcare, struggle to pay rent, struggle to buy fucking groceries, but we somehow have more than enough to wage unnecessary war.

We need a revolution.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

the subsidies from covid ended it allowed the subsidies to go back tot he pre-covid times(the schumer help end), and customers so a massive increase in thier preminums, it was on various insurance sub reddits, strangely its missing from news subs so nobody really was talking about that, reddit was definitely suppressing the news to prevent alarm.

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[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So... about that Peace Prize...

[–] plyth@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana

The Pax Romana (Latin for 'Roman peace') is a roughly 200-year-long period of ancient Rome that is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"Fighting for Peace is like fucking for Virginity." - George Carlin

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

Like the committee didn't see this coming. The guy changed the name from the Dept of DEFENSE, to the Dept of WAR. You don't think the Nobel Committee doesn't understand what that signals? They tend to be pretty smart people, but dummies like MAGA don't recognize intelligence. It's an entirely foreign concept to them. So he thought he was getting something over on them, getting the Peace Prize, then attacking everybody, so he could hide behind his Peace Prize, saying it's THEIR fault, I didn't start it, I have a Peace Prize. And his idiot followers would actually parrot that, just like they are parroting that Iran started this war 47 years ago.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A constant state of war is essential to fascism.

The reality is, there will eventually be a draft. Will Americans stand for it? Probably.

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[–] Loce@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

At this point I'm convinced Trump raped, tortured, killed and ate the babies in the Trump-Epstein files... distractions are wild... and working

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[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think there are any voters besides military contractors and politicians who are in favor of these wars. No one wants to spend our hard earned money blowing up a bunch of starving homeless people on the other side of the ocean.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They just elected a right wing guy playing off the fear of crime, they used to be one of the safest but have had a crime wave. Columbia's president just said they found a score or so of charred bodies on the Columbian side of the border that were bombed too. The US violated their sovereignty just the other day.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Ecuador? Why?

They voted against a constitutional change that would reallow US bases.

following four questions:

Whether to lift the ban on foreign military bases on Ecuadorian territory;

https://constitutionnet.org/news/voices/peoples-verdict-why-did-ecuadors-constitutional-referendum-fail

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why is Biden such a warmonger?

This is clearly the Dems fault.

What was Obama doing during 9-11?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was not even aware of somalia. ugh.

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[–] Cardinal-Rule@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago

Remove him from office now

Remember "terrorist" is an ill defined term trump can apply to anyone who thumbs their nose at him and use as justification for sending our sons overseas to kill them.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nuke Antarctica already and be the first to declare care on penguins!

Seriously though this timeline is so disappointing that it may Happen. Bad time to stop sniffing glue i guess.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He already put tariffs on an island inhabited by penguins, so...

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