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JD Vance Says You Should Be Grateful Gas Prices Aren’t Even Higher (newrepublic.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 97 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The alternative, Vance said, was accepting that “the Iranians were going to shoot at ships like crazy people.”

Vance, the Trump administration was shooting at Cuban boats to score political points less than a year ago.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Trump regime continues to randomly blast ships out of the water half a world away with no care for who's onboard

Iran is shooting at ships in its waters

[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Double-tapping survivors. They were fishing boats, but even if they had been gun runners, that’s a war crime. Textbook definition.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Can’t be a crime if you get rid of the courts!

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

As I understand it, that's still happening.