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President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.
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I hate what the US has become under MAGA.
So you’ve never heard of the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, known informally as the Hague Invasion Act enacted in 2002. Which protects American war criminals by invading the Hague if necessary.
Yeah, sure. If somehow Trump, or any other MAGA like Miller or Hegseth, ends up in the box at The Hague, there is no way that the military will crank up to rescue him. He’ll be on his own. There might be a lot of PedoCon squealing, but that will just be funny.
Trump and MAGA is really just showing what US has always been, which the country pretends not to be.
Jesus Christ… America needs to be bonked in the head until they start having some common sense.
is it bad i’m just kinda glad they finally went completely masks-off?
republicans used to be able to atleast pretend they werent bloodthirsty psychopaths when the cameras were rolling, and dems could passably act as controlled opposition when it was their turn to play pretend.
trump is just so batshit stupid and sociopathic that the entire facade is undone.
Not that it did any good. He was re-elected.
I understand this take, but honestly, there are things missing from it.
I think, like Vonnegut wrote, that we are what we pretend to be, and when we let them as a society get away with not even pretending to be good people…we worsen society overall.
There is another element to this as well, IMO, which is that people are mostly animals: monkey see, monkey do. When people see these psychopaths in high-powered positions getting away with whatever they want, they are more likely to model that behavior as well.
I’d rather have a society where everyone is pretending to be nice over one where people feel free to be the absolute worst version of themselves. I also think that being who you are pretending to be has a good side. People can “pretend” to be good and become better because of it.
People think that the more these people are obviously evil, the less the public will agree with them and the more precarious they’ll make the entire escapade. I think that the 2024 election and all of the events of 2025 have proven that notion is a dangerous fiction.
I’ve been of the same idea of the other user, but you have a very good point here.
Personally I will take oppressed racists over oppressing racists any day of the week.
Also while things are worse now, Republicans have been unapologetically evil for at least 40 years.
Personally I’d rather all racists burn, oppressed or not
Except before they were unapologetic because they could at least feign a moral compass despite knowing they were wrong when they were in the spotlight. Now they aren’t apologetic because they think what they’re doing is right.