top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 146 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The US government can not be trusted. The UK government can not be trusted. The Iranian government can not be trusted. The Israeli government can not be trusted.

I think I am starting to see a pattern.

  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Countries whose names start with vowels can't be trusted?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Austrians right about now

    hehe

    Heck, Australians too

    And maybe the aliens ^idk^

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Is there any government that can be trusted? I feel like no matter what system or ideology is used, a society is always going to end up with a weird ruling class that's corrupt, power hungry, and is fond of using authoritarian tactics.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 100 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What a surprise.... No one could have seen this coming.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I may be naive, but I honestly didn't think UK would allow this, when Starmer clearly stated the war on Iran is illegal. Especially not after USA has been caught in several war crimes.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't he literally say he'd allow their use for "defensive" strikes? He's never really been hiding it.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    How is a bunker buster on a bomber defensive?
    Defensive is to scramble planes to shoot down missiles. An attack is not defensive in my book.

    Edit: A word.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but that's because you're using logic, reasoning, and commonly understood meanings of words. In Kid Starver's authoritarian mind none of those things matter.

    The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.

    • 1984, George Orwell
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • load more comments (6 replies)
  • [–] 81 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Goddam UK, didn't Starmer say he WOULDN'T allow this?
    This is participation in war crimes!

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, after Iran started targeting the gulf states and Cypress the UK shifted its position to allowing the US to use the UK's bases for missions targeting Iran's long range strike capabilities but not anything else. This video is consistent with that.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    It's funny how Ukraine has done that against Russia without ever using bomber planes and without even having bunker buster bombs.
    So I maintain that it remains a no. USA does not need bombers to defend itself. In fact all it needed to not even have to defend itself, was to not wage an illegal war on Iran.
    USA and Israel should not be aided in their illegal war in any way IMO.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (5 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 50 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    So UK bases are just a valid military targets now lol

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Guys, I'm starting to think that the US is dropping bombs somewhere

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 27 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I thought the UK wasn’t going to be complicit in this illegal US/Israeli mass murder campaign?? I thought they denied access to their bases for this. Guess not.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Those are "defensive" bombs!

  • source
  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Those must be them defensive bombs that only fall on people who are attacking you.

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)
    load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    So they're just loading the bombers right by the fence where journalists can see? Probably an order from Trump to stir up things up because the UK said they couldn't launch attacks from the UK.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Imagine if all US miitary assets were targeted, globally

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • load more comments (7 replies)
    [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Poking around an ADSB tracking site will very quickly illustrate the flight path of the logistics chain to the middle east, as well as the European bases passed through along the way.

  • source
  • Fascists helping fascists.  The new Axis of evil. 

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Herr Schtarmer

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    But Britain says its not involved /s

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    Operation: grab em by the pussy is a go!

    🫲🍊🫱

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Another Starmer lie?

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›