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[–] socsa@piefed.social 186 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The supreme Court says you can just kill them bro

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 day ago

Presidential act

Five words: I feared for my country

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Put the bloated military budget to good use for once.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For once? Are you not familiar with the whole situation in Ukraine?

[–] match@pawb.social 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

we're barely using our military there, as a percentage

[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I agree we should just straight up bomb the fuck out of Russia and assassinate Putin.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Finally, someone around here speaking my language.

Bare minimum we should be leveraging cyber power if we aren't going full kinetic.

Fuck Russia.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

Counter-point, we should scale our involvement in the whole thing waaaay back and spend that money on things like infrastructure, healthcare, and education.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah. We should be giving them more. But at least e we're giving some.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess you don't know what using the military means. We are financing and supplying them only.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The phrase used was bloated military budget, which definitely includes supplying and financing.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No it doesn't. Most are government contracts and funding is from congress. A completely different pot from the defense budget. We don't sell U.S. weapons to foreign countries. We sell them watered down versions.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours ago

Wait, so your premise hangs on thinking that synonyms mean different things?

Imagine, for a moment, me waving my hands over my head while bobbling my head back and forth in a syncopated rhythm, as I walk away, muttering. “Oh, but the defense budget isn’t the military budget!” “No, we’re just pretending colloquialisms don’t exist for the purposes of this argument.” “There’s always at least one!”

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

and have a martyr death fueling a potentially even worse successor?

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Toss him in prison then. Make it very public, announce that he's being arrested for treason and cuff him at one of his rallies.

But let's be real here, the Supreme Court's ruling only actually applies to the Toupee, since he's the one who put them there.