• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Why are you using the “Spaceball dollar” for most international trade?

    Why are you buying your weapons from the Spaceball?

    Why do you make deals conceding power to the Spaceball?

    Why does the Spaceball get a UN veto?

    WHY

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    4 hours ago

    I would just say don’t do Spaceballs wrong like that… But no.

    The actions of the US government have been so destructive that they are comparable to the empire in the dumbest way possible.

  • Zacryon@feddit.org
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    Yes and no. Unfortunately, they are not entirely incompetent in the crimes they are commiting, which is why they still inflict a tremendous amount of damage and suffering.

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      10 hours ago

      Always as stupid Rednecks with too much money and a big Dunner-Kruger Syndrom.

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    21 hours ago

    Actually the Avengers from Age Of Ultron is appropriate because they destroyed a country fighting an enemy of their own creation and expected everyone to congratulate them for it.

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    23 hours ago

    Need Frank Castle in the top photo. Bottom picture should replace center photo, and bottom photo should be replaced by the video of that orangutan driving a golf cart or a photo of a group monkeys, some masterbating and some flinging excrement.

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    I want to note that the grandparents of the modern day Americans saved us from oppression and fascism and I/we are still greatly thankful for that.

    A lot of this generation of Americans however are a disgrace. A disgrace to their parents and grandparents and to the everything that’s good and decent in the world.

    I like to pretend that the people that voted for trump are the descendents of either cowards or people lucky enough not to have fought in WW2.

    I can’t imagine decency and morality disappearing from a family’s upbringing in two generations.

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      The US only joined the war opportunistically and because Japan was stupid enough to drag them into it.

      Ever heard of the guy named Harry Truman (I’m sure he wasn’t anyone too important)? That’s what he had to say about WW2:

      If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

      The Soviets did the majority of the fighting against the Nazis and the Chinese againt Japan.

    • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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      America was isolationist until they were dragged kicking and screaming into the war. Churchill was regularly crossing the Atlantic to beg Roosevelt to try to garner enough support to join the war. The American people did not care. The majority were against joining the war.

      All the same today, The majority of Americans either support MAGA or are indifferent. Short of some great personal injury such as a Pearl Harbor type event, Americans will continue to be as they are.

      The idea that Americans were anti-fascist heroes is propaganda. They were only angry that they got got by Japan.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      The soviets saved the world from fascism, 4/5ths of Nazi deaths were on the Eastern Front. The US took advantage of its new privledged position after World War II to become the world hegemonic empire, which leads us to today. Before World War II, it was and still is to this day a genocidal settler colony.

    • Etterra@discuss.online
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      My grandfather served in the same Americanmilitary who thought it was inappropriate for him to die in the same trench as a black man or for women to wear pants. I’m not really interested in fluffing their generation - they’re perfectly happy doing it themselves.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I want to note that the grandparents of the modern day Americans saved us from oppression and fascism

      If you’re talking about WW2 then you’re wrong

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    “the americans can be relied upon to do the right thing, once all other options have been exhausted” --paraphrasing winston churchill