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[–] 11111one11111 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You must not remember 9/11 or the events that followed. Any attack on American soil is open season on tearing up American rights and freedoms. We are still getting buttfucked by the Patriot act and it's been 24 years since it was signed. You really think Trump is going to ignore all his fellow ~~potheads~~ hothead and turn the other cheek to infallible power?

Edit: lol autocorrected hothead to pothead🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Worth bearing in mind that we never actually retaliated against the power most closely tied to the attackers.
Most of the people involved were Saudi and they may have had Saudi assistance. Instead we invaded Afghanistan where he was for a period of time, and Iraq who had nothing to do with anything.

So Russia attacking the US could plausibly result in us suspending habeus corpus, abolishing the FDA and spending a decade embroiled in a land war in Azerbaijan.

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh, yes please, just saw that as an Armenian. Flattening Azerbaijan is worth the rest.

[–] FelixCress 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You must not remember 9/11 or the events that followed.

He does, that's why he said that.

If Russians were to hit the US, Trump would probably retaliate by hitting North Korea.

Exactly like Bush - he never hit Saudis, did he?

[–] Maggoty -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's because Saudi Arabia is an ally. The handful of Saudi Arabian born people that conducted the attack were enemies of Saudi Arabia as well. Osama Bin Laden would have happily shot the entire Saudi royal family.

[–] FelixCress 10 points 2 days ago

I am pretty sure Trump considers Putin "an ally"

[–] rottingleaf 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, not just American rights and freedoms. You know, all those US actions and UN votes and vetoes that seem to have only one thing in common - that people in the Middle-East must suffer. It's as if the American deep state, if such a thing exists, were still punishing them for daring to bring some of the pain to US as feedback.

You know, when the white master erases a couple of cities or does a genocide or two, they were trying for your good, it just went wrong, no hard feelings. And when you respond - you dare, you should be punished.

OK, I'm looping those feelings too much.

[–] 11111one11111 0 points 2 days ago

Yeah I apologize but I'm not even really sure what your context or message is with this comment. I don't even know what or who you are calling the white master cuz I assumed Trump but you go on to reference like the only crime he hasn't committed by saying "do a genocide?" I dont even know what fuckin cities you mean by saying "got erased."