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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 03, 2025, 10:37:40 PM »

what lessons are there to learn?

Like: Rural hospitals really really really need medicare money to keep the doors open.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 03, 2025, 08:23:25 PM »

Welp, it passes the house without issue.

So Trump got what he wanted.

I'd day good luck America but honestly?  I hope you reap what you sow and if it's bad (it will be), you all suffer and know it's your own fault.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 02, 2025, 06:15:45 AM »

It's fairly absurd by any measure to claim that a billionaire is not a good businessman. Even the claim that he received a jumpstart through millions from his father just means that both Trump and his father are good business men.

His father?  Yes.
But you'd be amazed how far you can get riding on someone else's coat tails.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 01, 2025, 02:45:18 PM »

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-u-could-send-165839463.html

So...
Trump has given up on getting 90 deals. (Did he get any?)

And is just gonna write letters to Mr. Country and tell them what he decided.  No negotiation needed.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 29, 2025, 08:19:46 AM »

Sounds like obliterate means “cause a few months delay”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79qeqg89g2o

Ha!  The most successful military strikes in history?  By what fucking measure?  Because the dropping of the two atomic bombs, which made Japan surrender, was the most successful strikes in history.

Two bombs ended a war.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 28, 2025, 01:17:56 PM »

Early reports, like the leaked, classified report, indicates that not only did the strike not obliterate the sites, but the uranium was moved to other locations.

The fight now is: What does obliterate really mean?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 27, 2025, 07:24:32 PM »

From the above PBS article:

The Israeli military also confirmed it struck roads around Iran’s Fordo enrichment facility to obstruct access to the site.

They took out the roads to prevent emergency responders from trying to help people who may have been trapped or dying in the rubble. This is reprehensible, and likely a war crime. Attacking the survivors of a bombing is distinctly different than the bombing of the infrastructure itself.

But the site was obliterated, according to Trump.  Shouldn't have BEEN survivors.  And if Israel just wanted to kill anyone who tried to assess damage just because they can... yeah, that's a war crime.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 27, 2025, 02:53:46 PM »

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.

Or, maybe the US and other previous strikes didn’t take out every possible target.

But Trump said they did.  Hit that site and obliterated it.  Then Israel hits the same spot again.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« 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

« 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

« 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

« on: June 25, 2025, 09:12:37 AM »

Whisper it quietly, but he might have got this one right.
The ceasefire is holding, for now. Early days yet of course.
And naturally he's going "laa laa laa, can't hear you" at all the intelligence indicating the striker might have not been quite as effective at obliterating the Iranian nuclear sites as he's claiming.

I wonder what is wrong with him that he has to always claim the superlative, always be so absolute. All the "they said this was the greatest..." stuff. Who are "they"? And was it the greatest? (That's just an example, not referring to anything specific, just generally the way he talks such utter bollocks all the time.)

He was raised to believe himself to be the best.  His brain is just broken and now everything has to be at the extreme.  Either extreme great (because he's never wrong according to everyone he pays), or extreme bad (for everything against him).

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 25, 2025, 08:44:55 AM »

Sounds to me like Trump announced the cease fire before anyone else was ready to.  Or Iran was done because the US attack did nothing substantial.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 24, 2025, 06:11:03 AM »

ITT:

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1937296693583839639

Yeah.
Not sure he's being honest here.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 22, 2025, 09:59:43 PM »

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-parliament-vote-close-straits-hormuz-us-attacks-2088968

Will they?
Maybe.
I'm sure Trump will just launch missiles at them until they stop.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 22, 2025, 07:27:56 AM »

It's funny how he just ignores his own intelligence director then forces her to match him.

If Trump supporters don't see that his people are doing whatever he says, not what they should, they're brainwashed.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 20, 2025, 04:09:32 AM »

I do have criticisms about Trump...

You do?  Would you care to share some of them?

I've criticized that in Trump's first term his policies were too weak and he held back too much, giving leftists too many chances and too much leeway. Now that the gloves have come off in his second term Trump is doing what should have been done years ago, and the people love him for it.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1935774344732361207

So your criticism isn't criticism.  You just wanted more Trump.  Markjo's point stands: you have no criticism.  No questioning thoughts.  No disliked action.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 17, 2025, 10:51:21 AM »

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slams-obama-trudeau-pushing-russia-out-g8-summit-years-ago-wouldnt-have-war

And he once again fails to know who was in power at some given time.  Even Fox is calling him out on it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 15, 2025, 10:07:40 PM »

Come on, this is a safe space, Trump won't read this.

Unless Tom is sending daily reports and we're all on the anti-trump revenge list.


Tho... Trump doesn't even read daily briefings so .... You're probably right.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 15, 2025, 04:09:22 PM »

A railroad across any ocean or to any ocean is not just unreasonable, it is simply stupid.

Right?
I mean, once trade cargo gets off the boat at the port, its stupid to use a train to transport it across the country.  Right?