• TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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    I don’t talk to my friends this casually.

    If I said “very complete, pretty much” I’m pretty sure they’d bring me to the hospital for a stroke.

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    The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’

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      No kidding, my entire life all I’ve seen is republican presidents take us into stupid ass wars.

      Why does anybody believe any of these people when they say they want to keep us out of wars?

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      We won’t be sending in ground troops this time. So there can’t possibly be a quagmire like we had in Iraq or Afghanistan. And Trump promised money to any ship that gets attacked in the Straight of Hormuz (which I’m more than confident that he’s good for) so trade will pick back up again as soon as the smoke clears.

      Honestly, I think he did a heck of a job and I’m excited to see what kind of incredible progress he can achieve for American foreign policy in Cuba next.

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    Well fuck. I was worried it was going to drag out for far too fucking long, but now that the orange turd has said it’s over I’m absolutely certain it’s going to drag out for far too fucking long.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    So what did we accomplish?

    …What did we go in to accomplish, for that matter?

    I’m not talking about distractions, that’s fine to discuss, but as far as I’m aware, I’ve not heard any justification for why we went in and that we’ve reached any objectives.

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    So he has reached all his goals? Or did he forgett what he wanted to do? What is now with the eppstein files?

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      His goal is to foment Iranian terrorist cells to attack on US soil, thus giving the pretext this regime was looking for to institute martial law or cancel midterms all together.

      Also his other goal was to do anything Israel wanted so they don’t release all the kompromat of Trump raping children.

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    “We have a plan that I think is going to be fantastic. It’s going to be released fairly soon.”
    - Trump discussing his health care plan in 2017

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    Never mind about that, he changed his mind again.

    After comments that seemed to suggest President Trump was looking towards an exit from his war with Iran, Trump said in a speech to Republican lawmakers in Florida that “we have won in many ways, but not enough. We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all.”

    The enemy cannot anticipate your actions if you have no plan! No doubt Sun Tzu would have said something like that if he were American.

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      I’m always amazed to see the number of people go “oh no, he said one thing and now he says the other thing! Can you believe this? Wait till he says another thing and then when you’re smart maybe it’s not the thing if you wait a few days! That crazy president! Let’s subscribe to his twitter so we can be smart”

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    “They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country.”

    He’s gonna nuke them, isn’t he?

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    Now that this war is gonna wrap up according to Trump he can just go next door and fix Afghanistan and Pakistan. Afterall he is in the area. /s