• BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
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      Civilization (noun):The stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.

      The definition Oxford Languages uses is:

      “they equated the railroad with progress and civilization”

      I hate to say it, but Trump used the correct definition of civilization in regards to his destruction of civilian infrastructure. It doesn’t imply genocide.

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        I had the same “well technically” thought at first but destroying that much infrastructure will result in some immediate deaths and mass casualties later. So maybe not technically genocide but in reality it’s close.

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          I’m not sure what my argument is exactly; I looked up the definition of civilization because I was bored and was shocked when Trump’s statement made literal sense.

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        Infrastructure can’t “die”. He’s taking about people, their culture, and everything that makes them who they are. He’s not talking about bridges.

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

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    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?

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      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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      I’ve seen a good amount of people at least saying its a bad look for trump at least… some are still clinging on though… idk…

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    • Trump will again chicken out.
    • He thought (or made to believe) Regime change in Iran will a walk in the park.
    • Given the situation he is currently in, he just wants to save his face by any mean.
    • Dropping Nuke is biggest threat he can think of.
    • He don’t have the guts to follow it through.
    • He will just extend the deadline, or declare himself a winner and left Middle East to its fate.
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    I for one am very thankful for our beautiful Democratic Party, which while all this craziness has entered a fever pitch, they have been loudly and boldly speaking out against this every minute of the day and not focusing on unimportant matters like trying to trash talk Hasan Piker and taking personal vacations to the beach.

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

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    He’s trying to bluff a nuke. He won’t do it. He’ll do more bombing runs, and that will be bad enough, but he won’t nuke them.

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    I’m sure Trump’s spiritual advisor, Kid Rock, will talk him out of this once he’s briefed into the classified plans.

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    Some apostates are still in iran. Not all of them landed lucrative projects in regime change think-tanks. This is why I don’t trust America and its eager bloodthirsty soldiers to liberate any of my cities. For warmongers, war is just a way to quell boredom and to sacrifice civilian lives in the name of pretentious logic.

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    How’s he going to do that? Just more bullshit from the deranged imbecile. Just a clown clowning around.