Meanwhile, dozens were injured by Iranian strikes in Israel, as Tehran targeted a nuclear site.

Donald Trump threatened Iran in a Truth Social post Saturday evening, warning that the U.S. would target the nation’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed.

“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump wrote in the post.

Approximately 20% of the world’s oil passes through the the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade route. Iranian attacks on ships in the area have seen the area essentially close to maritime traffic, while oil prices have soared globally.

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    Thanks for ruining the world, Americans. Holding you all responsible for this.

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      Where are you from buddy? I bet your leaders have done some bullshit. People aren’t responsible for their government necessarily.

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        us crimes against humanity go far deeper any other country in history.

        don’t excuse yourself off from this, this shit is your fault.

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          Ha, spoken like someone with no historical knowledge. The conservative romans were fucking pricks like the republicans dyed in wool for instance. Tamerlane? Shiiiiiit.

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      As a Native American who doesn’t even have a voting member of congress please go fuck yourself. White people are doing this and white people didn’t come from America.

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          My comment was directed specifically at the person I was responding to. Obviously being an ally is a choice not helped or hindered by one’s own ethnicity, creed, religion, sexuality, etc.

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          We were promised our own representatives that we still don’t have. As you may be able to imagine, the white people who are elected state wide don’t always have the best interests of Native peoples in mind.

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            No shit, in case you haven’t noticed, the “white” people elected don’t have the best interests of white people in mind either. You are barking up the wrong tree, this is a class war, and we are losing.

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            Yeah Im Canadian and Indigenous rights are not respected here either but fuck, at least they can vote.

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              Natives can vote in the US. The republicans have tried to make it harder because they vote against them.

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              Native Americans can vote in state and national elections and are supposed to be represented in Congress by the senators and representative of the state they live in, but they are not represented directly by a native with equal standing and their land and rights are usually not a priority for their legislators or states they live in.

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      Tomorrow you wake up American. You are the same person, nobody asked your permission, you had no say in the matter, but you are within the borders of America, are a citizen, and have no other citizenship. In fact, because you are American, no country will take you, and even if they would, it would take years up emigrate.

      What do you do?

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        More than Americans have, presumably. All this US apologia is fucking hilarious, you guys elected a pedophile. Fuck off with this “not all americans” bullshit. Do something about it, or youre a pedo protector, simple as. If you dont like the entire world hating you, dont commit evil shit as a country.

        To be clear, i am American. We all deserve every bit of hate the world can muster.

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        The options are run or fight.

        And your scenario seems to eliminate run as an available option.

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        They give us entertainment and lifestyles that are planned, focus grouped, and created to psychologically make us disassociate from the reality of humanity.

        It’s not even a conspiracy anymore. And when I say they I mean the corrupt class and the American dreamers that think because they are attaining success from a taught career that makes them somehow believe they are on the right side of history.

        I swear to god Americans aren’t even human anymore. They are cattle, products and consumers. They are the equivalent of the people fent bending on the sidewalk except they are culturally accepted. It doesn’t matter if you have success here… You could be a celebrity, chief of police, a family dad, a politician… It doesn’t equal being someone worth respecting or that they are a good person. I can’t stop seeing American success as an illusion to keep people as cattle or working cattle… The real wealthy get to use them all because it’s like the nation is just a service. We get sold to the highest bidder. America is a service. This isn’t freedom or democracy. Our freedom is a like a fake free-range farm system. And it’s getting even more evil as they start implementing Ai…

        We are getting kettled. On a national scale.

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        Maybe not equally but they will need to take a good chunk of responsibility for this.

        Americans saw his first term, his attempts to bomb Iran were thwarted back then.

        Americans watched as he tried to steal the 2020 election.

        Americans and democrats had 4 years to punish him for this.

        What did Americans do? They gave him an even bigger mandate in 2024.

        Assuming the 2024 election was valid, this is an American-wide problem. You’ve all got to own this and you’ve all got to be the ones to do something about it.

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          It’s pointless as enough people are encouraged by influence ops to support the dems to run opposition. And their leadership is doomed to fail. Fuck this country, straight to hell, waiting for the phoenix.

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            Protect myself as best I can financially from the coming recession. Little else I can do. Thankfully I live in a country with decent worker rights and benefits systems so even if I lose my job I should be able to bounce back. Not like capitalist dystopian USA.

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            I’m American, so I’m going to stream the latest hot marvel movies and pay taxes to kill people so I can continue to be a worthless thoughtless human being.

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          Oh come on.

          This is his second term. I’m not going to give free pass to trump voters, third party voters, and non-voters.

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      I help fund it! I killed a bunch of people with my tax money, and I go about my day with extreme privilege, arrogance, naivety, and ignorance of the honest reality of what it means to be a human being.

      🇺🇸🦅

      How are people not realizing there’s a narrative, a class of corrupted people, and psychological manipulation to keep us submissive? And it very well could have been an ideology preexisting America’s founding.

      This culture is a lie.

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        We did this.

        Trump is the inevitable result of liberals spending all their energy opposing progressives and cooperating with fascists.

        The portion of the adult American population that remains blameless is vanishingly small.

        We decided at some point to stop enforcing laws on rich people and the whole world is paying the consequence for that. We are mostly the source of most of the aggression on most of the planet, I don’t know about you but I’m old enough to say it’s been 40 years of this shit to my recollection.

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          We did this.

          Speak for yourself. I voted Green.

          Trump is the inevitable result of liberals spending all their energy opposing progressives and cooperating with fascists.

          That’s a salient point, but the ‘we’ you’re pointing to isn’t a part of this. Billionaires and the Epstein Class are who the finger should be pointing at. Voters only have any real power at the local level, unless you’re planning to follow in the footsteps of Player 2.

          We decided at some point to stop enforcing laws on rich people

          Again, I’d argue there’s no we here. The only power you or I have is in our local neighborhood, and in mine, we’re doing good things. Hell, my city was one of the few to put a killer cop behind bars. (And in the US, you can count on your fingers the number of killer cops who’ve spent any time in prison.)

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              Depends where he lives. I always vote third party, but every district I am in is gerrymandered, and my state is not within 10 points of competitive for president, so my votes do not matter other than getting third parties on the ballot.

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                Jill Stein is a Russian asset and anyone who supported the green party in 2024 is a cuck who got trump elected. Even if your vote didn’t matter, you contributed to the dialogue and publicity they got for their blatant effort to split the vote. We shouldn’t have only 2 parties, but in the current system voting 3rd party is performative at best and genuinely dangerous at worst.

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          Simple.

          The billionaires decide.

          You can blame the whole of the US population if you like, but voters here only have any power on the local level. National elections are wholly driven and decided by the billionaire class (which is why you saw both Democrats and Republicans fight so hard against Mamdani), so to me, it’s a tad absurd to pretend that the people as a whole support this. That’s even more true when you look at the 2025 and 2026 elections (so far), where nearly all of the candidates backed by Donald have lost, regardless of the state, and most in districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. (Demonstrating that people do not support the war in Iran or the pedophile coverup.)

          Hell, Donald can’t even gerrymander anymore, because the Republican Party can’t accurately project where they have voter strength. That is the incredible extent to which people are opposed to this.

          And you make yourself sound ignorant by pretending otherwise in the face of all of these facts.

          The downside is that, since the Epstein Class controls politics at the national level, the opposition party doesn’t really oppose anything, but there are a few candidates with some strength that could do some limited good, like Graham Platner.