• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I hate to do this to you guys, but Iran’s going to have a nuclear weapon very soon. We have to go and attack.

    Am I wrong to interpret that as overtly sarcastic?

    Like he is making an off handed remark that the nuclear weapon thing has always been a bs justification toattack another country?

    • Hogrider@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Who the hell needs a nuke to hurt the US? The US is doing so much worse to itself and it’s former soft power. A recent report in Europe found that only 1 in 10 Europeans (from various countries, about 15-20 were asked) consider the US an ally. The tourism industry in the US is probably never to recover from Trump because the problem isn’t Trump, it is the fact that 70mæ million americans have shown themselves to be totally cool with fascism if it means they can feel superior as they’re getting fleeced by the criminals in charge.