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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

Zionist terrorists tried to kill student protestors at UCLA

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

The Onion unfortunately does miss like with one of their favorites, from GWB's inauguration: "nation's long nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over" writing a glowing ovation of Clinton rather than criticize Bush seriously. Liberals never miss a chance to miss the point

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

people have become a LOT more radical since then.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I think it was in 2018 that they unionized

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

*Latest Fad :kelly:

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also the whole "Joe Biden is your cool uncle who drives a corvette!" thing during Obama's terms, which was so bad they apologized for it.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Onion 2018+ >>> Onion 2018-

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

ehh the uncle Joe bit hardly made him look cool, it made him look like a pathetic old guy trying desperately to relive his glory days

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Bush, Clinton, Trump, Obama….all the same thing from where I am standing.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

11 terms of the Regan administration

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reagans the one that was big mates with Thatcher, isn’t he? You’ve got us Brits to thank for that.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This take is a tough one because it has a lot of truth, but someone who's even a little invested in the status quo can find some significant exceptions. It's further complicated by the fact that your Democratic presidents have been worse than Republicans on certain issues.

The specific exceptions I'm thinking of are Clinton's de-escalation with the DPRK (the most recent season of Blowback covers this) and Obama's de-escalation with Cuba and Iran. All significant steps in the right direction that were rolled back hard by the Republican successor.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not American. To me they all seem right wing. Some Americans like to make out Biden is some Marxist type, but he’s not much different to Trump.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh you're absolutely correct, they're all right wing.

I'm saying that for a U.S. audience, "both sides are the same" is a proven losing argument. There's some Rage Against The Machine music video from a quarter century ago (Jesus Christ) that features Bush II and Gore saying -- verbatim -- the same things. You can go back a generation farther, to left wing protests of the '68 Democratic Convention and MLK's letter from Birmingham jail, and see basically the same argument.

It didn't work any time over the last several decades, so we should try to learn from that. I think one reason it didn't work is that it simplifies too much. Something along the lines of "the two parties are more alike than different," or "at the end of the day they're both imperialist parties," or "Democrats are just five years behind Republicans and have better PR" could get the same point across without making it so easy to say "well come on now, of course they aren't the same."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We (The UK) are much the same, we are just a bit left of you. Many people here will also say “we aren’t right wing, we’re nothing like America”, but we are.

Cheers for the quote. Makes a lot of sense.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

I’m fucking terrified of what this means for my school. Are we just not allowed to have those conversations now?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seriously I’m genuinely worried I’m gonna get fucking fired and I all I’ve done is post on Instagram and go to a couple of very small events

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This definition was already controversial and contested. It'll likely get tied up in court and end up in front of the scotus. How they'll land on it? Idk

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Literally Germany rn germany-cool

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