• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I am never going to forget that the US political system failed to employ its supposed superior checks-and-balances against a mad president brandishing nuclear weapons.

    Are you talking about Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump 1, Biden, or Trump 2?

    (Carter gets a pass I think, don’t tell me if he did anything murderous like the others, allow me one good one thank you)

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      20 minutes ago

      As far as I know (maybe I’m wrong), even if each of these fucks was a war criminal on his own right, they didn’t go around threatening to use a nuclear first strike to annihilate a civilization. There is something particularly evil about the brandishing of unclear weapons.