What're We Fightin' For? Don't Ask Me, I Don't Give a Damn Next Stop is Venezuela!

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  1. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Ah…

    I figured it was some weasel ‘Why are y’all treating actual war crimes differently than not war crimes? I am very smart.’ bullshit.
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    Honduras is not Venezuela, libtard!

    We're mad at Venezuela for being a bunch of drug dealers, not Honduras. Did Trump pardon any Venezuelan drug lords? No? Then shut up and go be all liberal somewhere else.
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    Do you understand that attacking other countries for no good reason is problematic?
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    1) No good reason. LOL.

    2) That said as a native English speaker I understand that there are quite a few steps between ‘problematic’ and ‘war crimes’.

    As I said bullshit weaselly false equivalence.
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    Oops he'll do it again
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    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Pizza index* surging.

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    *Three decades or so ago the press realized that spikes in delivery times for places near the Pentagon usually meant lots of folks were staying late and ordering food which usually means something is potentially going down.
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    I hope when the Chinese nukes fly, my eyes will be closed in mid-blink so I don't even see the flash.
    :(
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    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    C’mon.

    You gotta find a little humor in the Domino’s Pizza Tracker being a more reliable tracker of us going to war than you know… Congress authorizing the use of military force.

    All hail capitalism!
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    Superbugs off the coast.

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    https://bsky.app/profile/darkwebmallcop.bsky.social/post/3m6smooa4tk2n

    Honestly maybe this is actually just a stunt?

    Why F-18s if you got 35s working out of P.R.?

    Or maybe we only see the 18s because of the whole stealth thing with the 35s?

    But why have them there at all? The 35s from PR and the mainland could take care of everything so this seems like a stunt no?
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    So while I cancelled my WAPO subscription I still get alerts and even though I don’t have an Archive link yet this seems better than nothing:

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    I'll wait for more facts before forming an opinion; I've only seen things alleged.

    However, it has been reported that the boat was still afloat after the first strike. If so, a potential defense is that the second strike was to sink the boat. It's also been reported that the U.S. has pulled survivors from the water on other occasions.

    My guess is this will come to nothing. And, in any event, no one actually cares.
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    That's because you are a boot licking coward.
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    It's because most of these controversies turn out to be nothing-burgers and I'm not wasting any bandwidth on them.
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    Especially if you have already concluded: „In any event, no one actually cares.“
    Congratulations on almost finishing the transition to a country where theres no accountability for the people in charge, other than the few things that would provoke outrage from the mob. Hooray for populism. Who ever needed the rule of law anyway.
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    Are we sure the Pizza Index is reliable now that Hegseth is at the Pentagon and could just be ordering to go with his 5pm keg?
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    Reps Don Bacon and Mike Turner (both Rs) said on Sunday shows that if the WSJ (reminder Murdoch owned) allegations are accurate then Hegseth committed a war crime.
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    Yeah, imaginary WMD's were not a good reason. I'm sorry if you're still struggling with this, decades later.

    :dayton:

    International treaties to which the US are a party are defined in your constitution as the "supreme law of the land". The US violated those treaties when it initiated military aggression against Iraq. That's a war crime.

    To say nothing of the conduct of routine massacres under "escalation of force" procedures. The indiscriminate bombing. The network of torture camps. The drone assassination programs. The other countries who've suffered similar aggression. The genocide you've been arming.

    Attacks on Venezuela are equally abhorrent, but you're just twisty about it because it's politically convenient.
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    Except a second strike on an already crippled boat with survivors is illegal.
    Uh-oh.

    And you might not care, but there are apparently many people who, thankfully, do.
    If it was such a nothingburger, by the way, Trump wouldn't feel the need to go after Kelly and others the way he is.
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    Hegseth is exactly the same level of crazy as people who've posted here.
    Do not doubt that if Dayton or Storm got their hands on power, they'll kill people. As fast as they could. With no buildup.
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    Hell, Dayton used to try to war game the best way to use nukes. You can bet that prick would have dropped one the instant he had the faintest excuse to engage in any kind of military operation.
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