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[-] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago

“So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor...."

The US was never faced with destruction during World War II.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

People like Graham are oblivious to the huge opportunity WWII gave us to dominate markets because Europe and Asia had been destroyed. They think it was American Exceptionalism all the way. Their inability to grasp this is why they are ineffective at leading now that other nations have caught up.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Obviously you haven't seen that fine documentary The Man in the High Castle.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Or the one about a post-Trump presidency, The Handmaiden’s Tale

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Hey now. The threat of destruction was just as bad as the actual destruction across Europe and Asia.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Americans and clutching at pearls name a better duo lol

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Americans and shooting people, both at home and abroad

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Americans and clutching at Pearl Harbor

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[-] [email protected] 134 points 1 year ago

Let's drop Lindsey Graham on Gaza instead of a nuke.

[-] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago

Haven't Palestinians been through enough? You'd make them clean up Lyndsey Graham, too?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Cannabalism is against Islam, otherwise I’d say that at least they’d finally get some food in Gaza.

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[-] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago

He can make both those statements. He should absolutely not be comparing them.

The decision to nuke japan was based on factors entirely different than any possible factor to nuke gaza.

In any sane world, senators suggesting dropping war crimes all over another country would be immediately removed

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[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago

Imagine how much better the world would be if there was just a simple process of psychological screening for would-be politicians, and psychopaths were barred from holding office.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

There should also be a limit on how stupid they're allowed to be.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

At this rate we'd have no politicians!

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago

Casually arguing for breaking the taboo on using nuclear weapons.

Forget Gaza, this is how human civilization ends.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

We have been saying that Israel is a moral and legal hazard to the entire world as it rallied its allies to throw out all resemblance of a rule based international order recognizing such basic human rights like not being slaughtered and having access to basic food, water and medicine.

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

This should disqualify him from ever holding office again. I know it won't, but it should.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You mean it should lock him behind bars for life.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Ya know, if post Civil War reconstruction had actually happened and we'd de-confederated the South like we de-nazi'd Germany and Japan the GOP wouldnt exist today.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, kinda, since the parties swapped roles in the Southern Strategy as a response to the civil rights movements, back then the democrats were the overtly racist ones. So we could assume the GOP would still exist but it would look nothing like the "modern" (hah) version.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yes, the nuance of the party swap in the 60s is lost on most people.

Thats how my ultra-maga relatives get to prpudly post on FB how theyre the party of Lincoln and in the very next post proclaim their hatred anything farther left than the taliban.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"We're the party of Lincoln, that's why everything needs to be named after a Confederate general. State's rights."

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

We didn't de-nazify Germany. We put Nazi officers in charge of NATO and we joined the Catholic Church in protecting Nazis and distributing them all over the world.

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Ahh yes, dropping nuclear weapons right next door, risking fallout in your own territory and pissing off every country around you, as well as all your allies. Why not?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

How dare you question the blinding brilliance that is Lindsey? I'm sure his masterplan accounts for things like inciting a global nuclear war with some clever solution that isn't just waiting it out in a congressional bunker with all his cowardly friends while we all die horribly, right?

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Israel wouldn’t do that. They want to give the beachfront property to American politicians as a “gift that’s totally not a bribe”

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Would be such a shame if a stray rocket hit Ted Cruz's beachfront house while he's on vacation 🙈

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

How is it even legal to call for the murder of so many people using one of the most atrocious weapons humanity has invented....but if one were to suggest to apply a guillotine to this person for doing so, they would be in severe legal trouble?

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm from in Belgium, and have colleagues from countries from both sides of the second world war. The carpet bombing of cities is still talked about every now and then. It's still remembered as one of the worst tragedies during that war (apart from the obvious), and the scars it left in many family trees still pain the people to this day.

Hearing stories from Gaza and the Donbas always remind me of the stories I used to hear from my grandfather, and I believed we left those war tactics behind in the last century. It's absolutely insane hearing an allied country to ours debating using those tactics again.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Indifference to human life totally on brand for the gop

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

This is not indifference. This is a call for genocide. And a genocide at Ausschwitz proportions.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."

Only thing this guy deserves to hear for the rest of his life.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I’m shocked! Who could have guessed this slimy invertebrate would have zero regard for anyone but himself!?

It’s wild that if anyone were to suggest killing Lindsey Graham they would probably be arrested and called a terrorist. But he can just casually advocate for nuking a densely populated area that is inhabited mostly by civilians and a bunch of brain dead morons will still vote for him.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

So did we ever find out if Biden can use seal team six to kill political opponents?

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only thing Lindsey likes more then male prostitutes is killing POC. 🐞🐞🐞

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Who votes for this monster?

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Nuking anything is never the right decision unless you're heating up some leftovers. There is no such thing as a justified mass destruction weapon.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Where did they find this absolute muppet? Does he not even know what fallout is?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Grindr, probably. Don't Google his ladybugs.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What a brilliant fucking suggestion, he obviously thought it through and is a very smart man.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Senator Graham has always been a pro war, pro bombing, neo conservative.

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