“US President Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered an incoherent primetime address in which he threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages” while also claiming negotiations to end the conflict were ongoing, remarks that provided no clear indication of when or how the illegal war of choice would end.
“Trump’s speech marked his first major address on the war since the US, in partnership with Israel, started bombing Iran more than a month ago, without congressional approval and in violation of international law. A day after declaring that Iran “doesn’t have to make a deal” to end the war, Trump said during his Wednesday speech, “If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously”—a grave war crime.
“Collin Rees, US campaign manager at the advocacy group Oil Change International, said in a statement that “Trump’s rambling lies can’t conceal how his reckless, illegal war of aggression is sending energy prices for working families through the roof.””
Too many people on Lemmy either aren’t on the trolley (Non-Americans) or they don’t realize they’re on that damn trolley with us. They’re the purity-testers who see their own left-purity as more important than the actual lives that could be not-dead while we try to pull a liberal to the left. Instead we get to collectively flail while fascists bomb Iran.
Yep, this.
I remember being in my early teens, where one is liable to apply purity tests everywhere one goes. Heck, we all do. But most of us tend to grow up.
Doing all this wishcasting about perfect leftist candidates that check all the buttons along with a perfect leftist electorate makes for great fantasy, I guess.
But then sitting back and declaring you are morally superior than everyone else when it doesn’t happen and you choose to sit out or vote for a ridiculous party like the Green Party is really not the flex these people think it is.