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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Can't wait for the conspiracy theory that Hitler is alive to turn out to be true, and he just comes out of hiding, thanks Trump, and takes over.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

10 to 1 the voters didn't make that choice.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine putting a fucking bird on your chest for forty years, saluting a piece of fabric, sacrificing your family and shit.

40 years of putting on that clown makeup and they just stick the nose on someone else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What kind of bird, though? Like, we talking a chickadee? A northern flicker?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Ravens are pretty cool. Metal AF.

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[–] [email protected] 208 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Asking my Trump-voting Navy dad about this, wish me luck fam

[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What I've found works in exposing their bias and letting you know you'll never get an honest opinion is reversing the positions.

When news came out in his first term that Trump was having Lou Dobbs on conference call during important meetings I asked my dad "did you hear that Obama used to have Anderson Cooper on conference calls during important meetings?" and naturally he says "of course he would, that's pretty messed up they shouldn't allow that kind of stuff." then I apologized for lying and said "it was actually Lou Dobbs and Trump." again naturally he then changes his tune "oh, well Lou Dobbs is a respectable journalist, that's different..."

Ok thanks dad, I now know I can never trust your opinion. It changes based on whether it's your team or not.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago

"Did you hear biden's son in law was the ambassador to Ukraine? And right after he stepped down from his position, Ukraine invested 2 BILLION dollars with his company? Yeah that's messed up. Oh whoops, it was Jared kushner and Saudi Arabia, my bad."

I hit a guy with that one. I actually got him to say yeah they should investigate that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

That's normal though. Obviously not saying it's okay, but that's just how our brains work. You're never going to change someone's mind by "checkmating" them like that. You're just going to get them to get angry with you and double down.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's been 10 hours, I don't think they survived

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

inb4 "she must have been up to something, they wouldn't just fire her for no reason"

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago

Clearly an unqualified DEI hire, luckily she'll be replaced by a 'qualified white male'

/s cause that made me vomit.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bruh, if they keep doing this, Olympus Has Fallen's plot is gonna seem realistic

(Can we just get Morgan Freeman instead of whatever this dumpsterfire we got?)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

I think you mean Civil War (2024).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I liked that it specifically didn't choose a plot that mirrored any current events. It wasn't a conservative versus liberal thing, it wasn't a "south will rise again" thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I guess that depends on anyone's interpretation, it wasn't too on the nose, but imo the fact that it was "Ron" who played the president + they were racists against mexicans it can quite easily be interpreted as a stand-in for trump.

But I agree it wasn't trying to be preachy, just showing the horrific consequences of war, war on US Soil specifically

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And You know what's even worse? They did it a second time. After he fucked them over the first time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is what's really amazing to me, his whole 1st term, which culminated in a year so bad it was a running joke and then a coup, was completely forgotten about by so many, and practically never brought up by the (D) side. I live in a swing state too, and while I don't watch many ads, I certainly saw a bunch the last 6 months, and don't remember one that even brought up his first term at all. Some had some footage of J6 with no context/explanation of what it was (I know, most know/should know, but still), but then it was all pretty generic crap. Political malpractice, once again, have to wonder if the good cop/bad cop conspiracy is true and they don't really want to win.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago (37 children)

To be fair, we have a former actor and comedian as the president. The difference is he isn't a fascist piece of human garbage, not so much in the career paths.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

From what I've read, Zelensky as comedian made intelligent political and anti corruption criticism. Making jokes about the bad things in life, highlighting them, setting the stage for something being done about those problems. Broader than his on screen personality, he had middle class beginnings and on the back of his comedy work, he build a successful career as TV producer/executive. You probably know more about this than I do.

Trump as TV personality looked more like the most clueless person in the room, while all the actual work was done by others behind the scenes. No intelligence, no social commentary. Before his role in the apprentice, Trump had started his business career as a Nepo baby, and as a businessman he had failed every venture that he had tried, each time leaving a bloodbath of unpaid bills behind, a reverse Midas. And once his face was known from TV, he started with large scale scams like Trump University.

Those are 2 very different career paths.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it's the difference between John Stewart and Steve Harvey

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Man, I fucking hate Steve Harvey. He's such a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There's a timeline where Jon Stewart is POTUS and he and Zelensky have already put Putin where he belongs in the Hague.

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