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Actually you didn't read far enough. Here's the actual decision:
You’re literally making excuses for crimes against humanity to own Drumpf, maybe take a step back?
I literally did the opposite of that, and called the Trail of Tears bad. My actual words:
Things can be very, very bad, and not illegal. Chattel slavery was totally legal and not morally defensible
You called it a crime and it is not.
Do you have actual crimes, like Trump is accused of, or are you going to make up more nonsense?
The Trail of Tears was a literally crime against humanity you fucking psychopath
"Crimes against humanity" are a rhetorical device, and most assuredly weren't an actual thing in the 19th century, while chattel slavery existed.
This is why King Leopold wasn't brought up in an international court on crimes against humanity - that didn't exist.
I'm just going to assume you don't know of any actual crimes.
Why are you making excuses for slavers and genociders? Very gross
You're dumb, but even you aren't dumb enough to actually think that's what I'm saying, when my own words state the opposite.
Literally you’re saying that Trump taking papers to his house is worse than slavery and genocide.
No I'm saying it's actually illegal and those things weren't.
Might wanna give "ex post facto" a quick Google.
Clinton blowing up the only pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan wasn’t illegal? What about Bush making up lies to invade a sovereign country and kill a million people?
Do you have anything, anything at all that is
1: domestic
2: actually illegal and not just a thing you don't like
Are you not tired of me constantly proving you wrong, with citations?
Are you not tired of excusing war crimes? How is a crime comitted domestically worse than murdering and raping abroad?
Well for one, given the things you've brought up, they'd be actual crimes and not just "things I don't like that I lay at a given President's feet because I don't understand how the world works."
Actual crimes, like the 91 felonies Trump committed and admitted to.
Is Putin invading Ukraine a crime?
I doubt it pretty sincerely. But his methods of war constitute war crimes, currently. More to the point, it's antagonistic to US interests so I hope we scale up to bombing there, or at least enforcing a no-fly zone.
I'd love to call Putin's bluff.
Every American president since WW2 is guilty of war crimes. I hope that president Xi launches nukes at Washington DC and calls their bluff.
President Xi would never bomb China's single largest trading partner during a time of extreme instability within the Chinese economy. He's a monster, not an idiot. Even Putin isn't that dumb, and he just started a land war in Asia (a classic blunder).
The US would most assuredly defeat China in any prolonged war. Even just imposing economic sanctions, probably worldwide given it would be an actual of unprovoked and extreme aggression, would cause China to collapse even if no nukes were actually exchanged.
No one is going to nuke anyone because of MAD, enforced worldwide. The danger of nukes is in rogue actors or rogue states acquiring them.
Just FYI youre talking to a 1 day old troll account who has apparently literally nothing better to do with their life but sit on lemmy and defend Trump
Weird, but hey I was bored earlier