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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 65 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

These christofascist assholes believe that if they start World War III it will bring about the end times. They are trying to destroy the world to get into heaven.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't think they realize yet how far from Christian principles they actually are. It's laughable. The goal post gets moved every few years, but it's always some hateful bullshit at the end of the day.

Breaking News, fuckers. Hitler didn't get into Heaven (if there is such a thing). The Vatican has flat out called you all "backwards", but that just motivates you to keep on doing whatever the fuck you think you're doing, in the face of literally everyone saying you've deviated so far from norms that you are a problem for society. Time to look inward.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

They're even willing to support the antichrist if that moves things along.

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Then they better start cramming for finals, because their grades look like shit.

[–] BassaForte@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Like in Far Cry 5

[–] GoddessNoAi@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 4 months ago

“If nuclear war happens, we won’t be second in line pressing the button,”

Which means you'll be pressing the button first. Which means you're the one starting the nuclear war.

And the worst part is, I think that might actually be what me means.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 16 points 4 months ago

It's psychopathic fuckwads all the way down.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Trump was conducting a nuclear test in his pants during the debate. You can hear the explosion.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Reactivating nuke tests will “maintain technical and numerical superiority to the combined Chinese and Russian nuclear stockpiles,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine.

The Project 2025 proposals, written by Trump’s former defense secretary Christopher Miller, call for the acceleration of all weapons production and prioritize nuclear development over any other security programs, including boosting supplies above treaty limits, and creating a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile — that type of weapon was retired under George HW Bush more than 30 years ago.

Project 2025 also calls for gutting any non-nuclear programs at national laboratories, like those currently working on the climate crisis, and boosting plutonium production.

“If nuclear war happens, we won’t be second in line pressing the button,” Trump reportedly told then- Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello while surveying hurricane damage in 2017.

In 2018, Trump posted on Twitter that the US has a “much bigger & more powerful” nuclear launch button than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

America’s European allies are also bracing for any changes to the already-fragile nuclear status quo, with Russia’s war in Ukraine and Trump’s repeated threats to blow up the US relationship with NATO.


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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I pushed a button and elected him to office and uh

He pushed a button and it dropped a bomb

You pushed a button and could watch it on the television

Those motherfuckers didn't last too long, ha-ha

I'm sick of hearing about the haves and the have-nots

Have some personal accountability

The biggest problem with the way that we've been doing things is

The more we let you have, the less that I'll be keeping for me

Well, I used to stand for something

Now I'm on my hands and knees

Traded in my God for this one

And he signs his name with a capital T

Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala

Don't really see what all the fuss is about

Ain't gonna worry 'bout no future generations and uh

I'm sure somebody gonna figure it out

Don't try to tell me how some power can corrupt a person

You haven't had enough to know what it's like

You're only angry 'cause you wish you were in my position

Now nod your head because you know that I'm right, alright

Well, I used to stand for something

But forgot what that could be

There's a lot of me inside you

Maybe you're afraid to see

Well, I used to stand for something

Now I'm on my hands and knees

Traded in my God for this one

And he signs his name with a capital T