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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Lord Dave on June 27, 2025, 09:07:05 AM »

Oh hey, something we all missed.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-hits-iranian-government-targets-day-after-u-s-strikes-on-iranian-nuclear-sites

Apparently, Israel wanted to attack an already obliterated site.  Weird, right?  Almost like Trump is lying about how much damage was done.  Probably why he's blocking congress from seeing the reports.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Lord Dave on June 26, 2025, 10:22:15 PM »

Before too long, they might have to start letting the illegals in again so that they have someone to deport.

Nah.  That'll show up.  They'll kidnap Mexicans and make them cross the border, then arrest them.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by markjo on June 26, 2025, 08:39:30 PM »

Before too long, they might have to start letting the illegals in again so that they have someone to deport.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Rushy on June 26, 2025, 04:51:17 PM »

3000 per day? Rookie numbers. We need to pump those numbers up.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Lord Dave on June 26, 2025, 11:40:47 AM »

https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-25/ice-arrested-a-6-year-old-boy-with-leukemia-at-immigration-court-his-family-is-suing

Welp, explains the rush of ICE detainments...

The Trump administration has set a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests per day, or one million per year, claiming that it is targeting violent criminals. ICE data obtained by the Cato Institute show that over 93 percent of immigrants arrested this fiscal year were never convicted of any violent offenses.

Know how y'all hate ticket quotas?  Yeah, this is worse.  Its likely an unrealistic number so they take anyone and everyone they can.  Once again, Trump exaggerated the problem and now everyone has to scramble to find a solution.

Also, they hire assholes who love to be racist.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Action80 on June 26, 2025, 09:57:43 AM »

If someone else was asking the question, I would reply, " Ask harder."

But, I don't think you want a war.

of course i dont. what normal human would actually want a war (aside from people who get paid to talk about how there should be a war). maybe i need to switch to journalism, id love to make 20% 70%+ or less than i do now to yell at people why war is coming. also, trump bad, two more weeks, etc...

There are a lot of regular posters here clamoring for war, demanding the US continue to support Ukraine and Israel in their wars.

I am glad you don't view them as normal.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by AATW on June 26, 2025, 06:53:05 AM »

I don't agree with the people giving even grudging credit to Trump over this. Trump clearly said that there was a ceasefire, and Israel and Iran clearly disregarded him and continued their war. The fact that at a later time Israel and Iran really did agree on a ceasefire doesn't somehow ripple back through time and imbue Trump's impotent declaration with retroactive relevance. No, Trump was bullshitting, because he's a thoroughly stupid man and a habitual liar, and he almost certainly played a very limited role (at best) in the actual ceasefire.

I dunno. While I certainly agree that orange man bad, it's not like he announced a ceasefire, then the war continued for another few weeks and then there was a ceasefire. After Trump announced the ceasefire there were some subsequent skirmishes, he yelled at them both and since then the ceasefire has held. Whether it will continue to hold remains to be seen of course. And of course like always he's massively exaggerating how effective everything he does is. But the timing is such that I don't think you can entirely detach the current ceasefire from his actions.
Don't get me wrong, this wasn't some brilliant strategic move from Trump. He operates entirely by gut feel. So if he did get this right it was more luck than judgement. But there are some tentative signs that he might have got it right.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by honk on June 26, 2025, 01:22:52 AM »

I don't agree with the people giving even grudging credit to Trump over this. Trump clearly said that there was a ceasefire, and Israel and Iran clearly disregarded him and continued their war. The fact that at a later time Israel and Iran really did agree on a ceasefire doesn't somehow ripple back through time and imbue Trump's impotent declaration with retroactive relevance. No, Trump was bullshitting, because he's a thoroughly stupid man and a habitual liar, and he almost certainly played a very limited role (at best) in the actual ceasefire.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by juner on June 25, 2025, 08:22:40 PM »

If someone else was asking the question, I would reply, " Ask harder."

But, I don't think you want a war.

of course i dont. what normal human would actually want a war (aside from people who get paid to talk about how there should be a war). maybe i need to switch to journalism, id love to make 20% 70%+ or less than i do now to yell at people why war is coming. also, trump bad, two more weeks, etc...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand on June 25, 2025, 11:44:40 AM »