I think I am missing the point here, why is this being shown as some sort of issue?

Wow, thats a bit of a crash out.

Yeah! That is my point!

That is a great attitude.

Has a single american ever faced an international criminal court? And have any been punished?

Mom is in the same boat, that is why she is asking!

They can and should see trial. We need to be demanding this, now. We need to be putting our efforts towards that outcome. We cannot just sit around, resigned to our fates, and see how it plays out.

You need to do more, yes. We are not all american and at this point I don’t think your nation has the ability to hold a trial much less stick to a punishment.

Eh, I live almost 2km above sea level 1000s of kms from any ocean or fault line with winters still getting into the -50s, I am sure it will be survivable. If I am still alive in 40 years I am interested in seeing what happens, if everything does not burn down in bush/forest fires.

As is Canadian tradition. It is not even the biggest waste currently in military spending.

Yeah, lots of that goes on here. See it as well, you are not the only one that get the fun end of American exceptionalism. In fact just today I pissed of one I guess enough to get hate DMs, and that is a new one for me.

Silver lining with the us empire coming apart in front of us is that hopefully the world will change and those “good guys” will not be so normal.

No it would be defending him if they said trump should not be held responsible, good thing that was not said. As far as “cannot” goes they are (correctly) pointing out that at this moment there is not a court in the us of a that will hold trump responsible.

Urgh, they are not “defending donald trump”. They are just commenting that due to the us supreme court the united states is no longer a nation under the rule of law and the constitution is more or less a dead document now. Sorry you had to find out on Lemmy about that.

I don’t think they have a guy at all. I think the us has just unfortunately gotten into a if not us then them mentality.

Any time someone says something critical of one person it seems to be taken by many as endorsement of the other side of the imaginary team based thing the states has become. And if you state you don’t like ether of the teams on display they call you a centralist as if you are part of their wild ride.

I am told water and electricity generation are important yet mostly unguarded. Weird thing to think about I know.

In all seriousness though, something has to give.

That was pro trump. I know in my area of the world even the most right people I talked did not understand why trump did not get any punishment, even the pro trump ones did not get it. I think that the lack of action was the last straw holding up the us’s illusion of democracy for many. The young man who drove down main st in the town I have a storefront with a literal 3rd retch flag flying off the back of his truck told me that he did not think trump and biden where on opposing teams at all (you can not get much more right wing then that guy). When the crazy people protesting the “world” government think that the usa’s two party system is fake, and yet not lizard people, start making sense the end is nigh.

Its not the privileged that piss me off so much as the down and out still fighting tooth and nail against any change. I can under stand the well off that have homes and a retirement plan that goes beyond a single bullet and a note. But the people barely making ends meet, or not making them meet at all tend to blame it all on “the other guys team” and just keep supporting the same system slowly crushing them.

And the wild part to me is we are not talking about some sort of socialist action, just normal for the literal rest of the world stuff.

Fox news ONN types need they’re thinking done for them.

And you see no issues with this statement? You need the wake up call, you live in a hellscape that is actively making the world worse and just assume I do too. You and your american exceptionalism can go to hell. The best time to fight was before and the next best time is now.

Please do the world a favor and ether fix your shit nation or collapse already.

Credit where it is due.

And to your point people did care when other nations were getting bombed, but most of them have been part of long on going situations that make black and white views difficult. The rest of the world has had the same reaction you are having now when people where bombed in almost every area of the globe, in this case though you have the whole thing happen very very quickly and with almost no rational reason. This time is only different in the lack of pretending.

But the world did time and time again deeply care when the us military killed people. It is a key reason the us reputation is less then stellar and why us tourists often put other English speaking flags on their bags.

Yes, the second and first most voted elections in your nations history. Clearly it is the small number of voters that are not supportive of the only two options at fault.

Managed democracy is meant to be a joke, but the real joke is the attitude on display from americans that somehow still think they live in a democracy.

Maybe they went to an Arkansas school, or any other american one that teaches people to only support the terrible system.

But hey! You voted right so you can be smug and its only fair you get to point your impotent rage at those who did not vote the way you did. And next time when the two parties are both somehow worse you can once again vote for the lesser evil!