• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      13 hours ago

      People’s moral compass got seriously screwed over the past couple years. They hate america so much that they think every enemy of america is literally the reincarnation of jesus christ.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 hours ago

        It’s that silly all-or-nothing thinking. Just because America, Israel and Western vassals are objectively THE main world villains of the past few decades (and Western Europe before that, but that’s a different convo) doesn’t mean that everyone they attacked were saints, lol.

        • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          6 minutes ago

          Just because America, Israel and Western vassals are objectively THE main world villains of the past few decades

          It’s very hard for me to understand how russia is not on that list in the first spot ngl. That fucking country is second to none.

      • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        8 hours ago

        Believing Saddam is in heaven would require believing in some sort of god/afterlife/good place vs bad place, and I assure you the vast majority of people who make satirical memes commenting on the United States once again using the excuse of “WMDs!” don’t believe in that. This is gallows humor, grim laughter at being fed the same bullshit time and time again. It’s the by-product of burnout when the regime changes but the narrative remains the same.

        What has happened in America (and globally) is that digital interfacing has removed all the nuance, non-verbal, and tonal clues that would clue others in that satire is not endorsement. It relies on the belief that the listener/reader is literate enough to understand that what is being offered is not meant to be taken at face value. It can be true that Saddam was a piece of shit and that it wasn’t America’s place to take him out under false pretenses. I wouldn’t shed a tear if the mango turd got sent to Hell (metaphorically, since I don’t believe in Hell), but I would still be perturbed if his ticket was checked by some foreign nation that I knew didn’t actually give a fuck about me and my community or what came next for us.

        • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          17 minutes ago

          satire is not endorsement

          A few years ago, I would have agreed with that statement. But I’ve read people on lemmy unironically saying “Hitler was at least sorta right” and so I just can’t really believe that anymore.

  • Kowowow
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    13 hours ago

    Watching the us abomb iran, did mario write this?

  • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    12 hours ago

    IAEA made it quite clear that Iran was, in fact, producing highly enriched uranium. There’s no other use for that than to make nukes

    Ironically, IAEA reports also supported that Iraq was not doing so back in 2003.

    • Town@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      11 hours ago

      They have the right to make nukes as much as anyone. Kinda surprised they didn’t just buy some from North Korea to prevent all this.

      • Mika@piefed.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 hours ago

        It would prevent nothing of this. You need to deliver the nuke to the destination and USA is on the other side of the globe.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    12 hours ago

    Hey now, we still might bomb Iraq too. At least one of the regime mouthpieces fudged and said Iraq instead of Iran already, so to prevent that from looking stupid, we will also bomb Iraq.