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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 101 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Openly and directly threatening genocide.

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 32 points 14 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 20 points 13 hours ago

Where are the international assassins we see in movies??

[–] DrStrange@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

Real piece of shit.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 43 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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 8 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 23 points 15 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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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 174 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s called genocide

That word is too large for anyone in maga to know what it means

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 38 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 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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[–] forkDestroyer 25 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I really should start taking my PTO.

[–] mbp@slrpnk.net 9 points 13 hours ago
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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 128 points 19 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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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours 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!

[–] Redditsux@lemmy.world 139 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

If the stupid US laws don't persecute this war criminal, international court should. There's more than enough evidence.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 102 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Too bad the US doesn't recognize the ICC, for obvious reasons

[–] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 108 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Worse, they proactively passed legislation authorizing the invasion of The Hague in case a US official was ever brought there for war crimes. Thank dubya and the 2002 congress.

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[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 32 points 19 hours ago

As an American there is nothing more I'd love too see than this but it's never going to happen. The best we can hope for is a extremely painful death for him

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 86 points 19 hours ago (11 children)

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

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 42 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Trump has been itching to use the nukes since minute one. I can easily see him dropping one on a city in Iran, and then threatening to drop another every day until they surrender and open the strait. While that is absolutely horrific, the irony is that Trump is too fucking stupid to see that the "whole civilization" that will die is the U.S.. The world will shun the U.S., dump it's bonds and destroy the dollar. There will be hyperinflation, bank runs, chaos, and a hard splinter of the U.S. into factions and likely a "hot" civil war. Trump will make clear that all of the "fearmongering" from radical Islamists about the U.S. and the western world was true, potentially igniting world war. None of this will take away from the tragedy in Iran, which just happened to be the convenient target Trump the bully thought he'd punch down on.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I think what you're describing here is the best case scenario (if he would drop one). The worst case scenario (the one I'm most worried about) is that other (adversarial) nuclear powers react to the US launching one by launching their own, aimed at either the US, Israel or (worst of all) somewhere unrelated, like someplace in Europe or on Kiev.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 25 points 17 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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[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 47 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

World peace through extermination.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 34 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"The bombings will continue until peace is achieved" is an actual quote from Trump

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 41 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He's going to nuke them ,almost the same words were used moments before the hiroshima bombing

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 72 points 19 hours ago (35 children)

This is the first time I think someone's gonna drop a nuke and that it can actually happen.

If the pedohitler really drops a nuke, it's gonna be over for Iran but mostly for the US. Dropping a nuke is basically admitting they have lost not just the war but their own society.

[–] Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Immediate global pariah. All agreements with a rogue nuclear state would immediately be voided. All trade ceases, all loans rescinded. Every US base would be evacuated and be blown up from afar by their host countries. The word American would become a synonym for murderer.

[–] kcweller@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

European leadership will still be kissing "Daddy" Trumps little asshole even after nuking Iran. They haven't shown any sign of resistance up until now, what is a few extra dead Iranians going to change for western leaders?

Its fucking disgusting, but the greatest risk to world peace seems to be western civilization.

Fuck USA Fuck Israel Fuck war

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Low key concerned he’s gonna try to use nukes tonight

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Seriously fuck the USA, the only civilisation that deserves to disappear.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I still cant believe Im on Irans side in a war

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 9 points 15 hours ago

Israel too tho

[–] Foni@piefed.zip 31 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

The Persian civilization has existed since like 500BC when most of Europe was still nomadic and the Roman Empire was still centuries away, and this buffoon thinks he can do something about it? the desperation of being a loser, the audacity of being ignorant, or both

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