• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I don’t want to see people die, but the US needs to suffer a wound like this.

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        4 days ago

        The last time they needed desperately to bring the public support for a war around bcs the ppl were very much against a war (with financial/imperial goals).

        Ohhh … yeah, I see, poor ship.

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      3 days ago

      People like are terminally online. Your hatred for the US won’t go the way you like it. If a country gets tries to attack this ship, then they’re getting glasses, like actually. The US literally flattened Japan and nuked them twice because they attacked a naval port and partially damaged it. If some country tried to destroy the Ford Carrier, they’re going to face a worse fate.

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        2 days ago

        Hating the US isn’t a function of being online, just having and applying a well defined morality and being generally concerned with the wellbeing of people. I don’t necessarily dispute your take about the US committing crimes against humanity in response to such a loss. Such wanton violence is perfectly in character with the horrific evil that the US represents and that I am objecting to. Your casual acceptance of it is exactly why the US needs to be removed as the world hegemon.

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          1 day ago

          But that’s precisely the issue, your morality is neither well defined or consistent. If anything, I would argue that your worldview is irrational because everything is digested from an inherently hateful point of view. For example, in this hypothetical, if the US gets attacked, it would be rational for the country to fight back against whichever country attacked it. However, you would see it as war against humanity. The war against Japan, for example, was more than justified considering the genocides they were committing, but you would defend it if it means getting at the US. This type of worldview is simply irrational. I feel like you would be the type of person who blames the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the US.

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            1 day ago

            Oh, please enlighten us dolts. We are all waiting for you to explain how Iran has attacked the United States, justifying this oh so moral “defensive” war.

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              18 hours ago

              You really are a dolt, we’re talking about a hypothetical situation where Iran does actually attack or sink the Ford carrier. That is a justifiable grounds for war for any country, not just the US.

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                10 hours ago

                Ok dickhead. The scenario we are discussing is that the US, that beacon of morality, attacks Iran like we are saying that we will. Then in response, the Iranians put the Gerald Ford to rest. I am saying that the US, and the Gerald Ford, and all of its little war criminal inhabitants, would fucking deserve it. I’m further saying that the world needs to see the US get this kind of bloody nose. Right now, the US considers itself to be impervious, and beyond the scope of actual repercussions for its own actions. Your statements echo that sentiment. Such a loss would go some way to change that assumption.

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                  9 hours ago

                  No, we’re not. You’re trying to change the hypothetical to feed your hate masturbation of the US. Just as a reminder, this is the hypothetical we’re discussing:

                  Theoretically… what would happen if Iran or someone else happens to magically sink this thing, fighter jets and all?

                  All the other details are made up by you so you can justify indulging in the preconceived narratives you already subscribed to. Given the original hypothetical, if Iran were to attack and sink this carrier, that would be a direct attack on the US, therefore it would be a justifiable cause for war. This is true for all countries that have their flagship attacked and sunk. Your seething hatred of the US won’t change this reality just because you don’t like it.

                  But it’s funny how turned out to be exactly as I said word for word. You have no morals, you’re hateful to the point where it’s irrational and you’re trying to convince yourself that it’s okay under the guise of morality. It’s irrational to the point where you can’t even help but make up details to alter a hypothetical. That level of dishonesty makes you a lost cause dude.

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                    8 hours ago

                    The entire reason why there is a thread here, the entire reason the Gerald Ford is positioned where it is, the entire reason why any American is discussing Iran right now, is because we are building up to an unprovoked attack on them.

                    You perfectly embody the deluded depravity of this shithole nation.

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        4 days ago

        You got downvoted, but with the current administration? A WMD response might be chosen. So it might lead to nuclear war… and a chain effect.

        Then, suddenly…

        “I don’t want to set the world on fire~” 🥲

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          3 days ago

          It actually doesn’t matter which administration it is. American policy has been extremely consistent since the founding of the country that if US is ever attacked, the response has to be so ferocious that it guarantees that such an attack will never come again from that country.

          When the Mexican American war happened, the US won decisively and annexed half of Mexico. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, they literally burnt the country to the ground and nuked it twice for good measure. When Germany did something similar in WWI and WWII, they got bombed into the stone ages. When Al Qaeda did 9/11, the US bombed like a quarter of the globe to make sure this group is incapacitated.

          Why wouldn’t the US have a similar response here? The Ford carrier is the peak of American naval power, which is the basis for American hard power. A country attacking this ship is directly attacking the US military and threatening to undermine American power, and that’s not something that’s going to slide. If something like this happens, we might see an official declaration of war from congress, and whichever country attacked the ship is going to be made an example of.

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              3 days ago

              Idk where this idea came from that he has any legal basis in postponing elections.

              Even if Congress gave authorization to declare war, and Trump enacted martial law, the worst he could do is use law enforcement to intimidate voters. Which he’s already attempting to do.

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          4 days ago

          Keep in mind Trump was playing with the idea of nuking a fucking hurricane. Doesn’t seem so far fetched.