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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Narrator: they voted for war

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump was isolationist and did not start any wars in his first term, and campaigned on isolationism not starting wars in his second term. It was actually quite reasonable, even for non-MAGA people, to expect Trump to not start any wars in his second term.

Though I guess the Iran war is ultimately a result of Trump being a mentally declining 78-year-old, losing his grip and impulse control. But going from that to concluding Trump would start a war with Iran was non-trivial.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Isolationism isn't nonintervention. Anyone who thinks maga wasn't going to keep us balls deep in the middle is was just straight up high. I know what he said, what maga people say. You have to realize they are gullible at best but usually more often they're just lying

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In his first term, Trump had made a (horrible) deal with the Taliban to get out of Afghanistan, and Trump had shamefully abandoned the US's Kurdish allies in Syria. A reasonable person would think that Trump was pretty committed to reduce US involvement in the Middle East.

So many of Trump's "promises" were transparently false. Trump not going to war with Iran actually seemed pretty credible, at the time.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe, if you didn't already see a psychopath who would do anything to stay out of jail?

I dunno. My Trump derangement set in early, you could say before it was even Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's hard not to blame people for romanticizing the various Ted Bundies who run our country

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish this were true. The Republicans I know are defending the war.

[–] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago

I work with a lot of blue collar guys who voted for Trump in 2024. The most common trend I've noticed in the last month or so is that they "don't want to talk politics" the disillusionment is spreading.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Until it directly affects them personally. When their little Jimmy gets blown to smithereens by an Iranian missile or drone, then they change their tune.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It'll be interesting to see what they blame gas prices on. Those "i did it" stickers need updating.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I fully expect some tone deaf comment about how Americans have to be willing to sacrifice.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, well fuck little Jimmy. He probably would have turned like their idiotic parents.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Republicans I know are defending the war and calling all the pedophilia evidence fake, they are mad about ... gas prices. You can't make that shit up.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

If this was a plot point in a book or movie, it would be criticuzed for being stupid and unrealistic, and yet here we are.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At least he's bombing brown people amiright? I agree though, racism closer to home hits different. Bring our boys home so they can get back to harassing people in our own streets!

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah! Back to deploying marines in american cities to support taking people off to concentration camps!

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago

At least he’s bombing brown people amiright?

It was fairly explicitly said that Trump's staff was trying to distract Trump from invading Greenland. It seems an obvious guess that the distraction offered was Venezuela and Iran.

Trump invading Greenland could have meant war with the EU. So in a quite literal sense, Trump is now bombing brown Iranians instead of white Europeans.