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[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

Sigh.

Shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago
[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

"hey, hey, lbj, how many kids did you kill today"

Famous progressive sentiment

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Came here to make sure this was posted.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

Honestly pretty funny bit though. Drop a horrible hot take and then lock the replies when you get mad that people call you out on your horrible hot take. I think I might steal that bit idea

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Felix is maulding that he didn't come up with this first.

[-] FanonFan@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

That bit would probably be infamous

[-] LeZero@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Their most infamous bit is actually the fact that there is no bit in the name

[-] FanonFan@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Revisionism

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Most people get caught up in the drama of the replies, it take a true visionary to drop a horrendous steamer and then just walk out of the room. Be that visionary.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 9 months ago

I am no longer accepting political takes, theories, or opinions from crackers, people with Ukronazi regime flags in their social media, or both

Anti-Peckerwood Aktion

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

Sr. Fellow @ManhattanInst Sen. Portman chief economist (2011-17), DC think tanker (2001-11), budget policy for 4 prez campaigns. Independent. Tweets mine.🏳️‍🌈

When an economist opens their mouth, everyone should be legally required to scream at them until they shut up. An endless chorus of screams like a Ligeti composition which only grows as more people hear it.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

everyone has to harmonize their voices so the economist explodes like in cube 3

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

It should be physically loud enough that it's like diving with sperm whales. All of society coming together for a psychic attack strong enough to rupture organs.

[-] don@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

I appreciate you three, carry on.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

budget policy for 4 prez campaigns

aka money laundering

[-] Jacobo_Villa_Lobos@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

And a manhattan institute sicko at that

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

That people like this have any influence in DC should be a sign to baby leftists that reforming from the inside is damn near impossible when even the outer circles of Washington are full of people like this.

[-] GingusBingus@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

god fucking dammit is the cheese emoji a political thing now? is this another one i gotta worry about? has the cheese slice been bastardized?

(this person could also be a wisconsinite, i hope that is the case i don't want cheese dog whistles)

[-] don@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

His page on the Manhattan Institute says he has a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin, so he could be a Wisconsinite.

Brian Riedl, Manhattan Institute page

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

a wisconsinite with a poli-sci AND econ degree???

thats it. im now pro-gulag

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago
[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

we all must go through our abolitionist struggles

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

barbara-pit but in the cheese caves would make a funny bit

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

berdly-actually Bullying Works

[-] funky_tomatoe@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 9 months ago

Ukraine flag never disappoints

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

bonus points if they're also a blue-check

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 9 months ago

I only know LBJ from his part in helping install the military dictatorship in Brazil. What else did he do?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

he happened to be the one in office when the Civil Rights Act was passed here in the USA, so we ("progressives" in general) are expected to treat him like a Good Guy

he also started US involvement in the vietnam war because he was a huge anticommunist piece of shit

he got harassed daily by crowds of people outside the white house chanting "hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today" because of that

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

started US involvement

shouldn't let off Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy on involvement in Vietnam

[-] LeZero@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah he certainly ramped up the war (he didn't want his brain splattered on a car like his predecessor) but yeah the US was actually involved since the french Indochina war

[-] Pili@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

ah crap I always thought LBJ was LeBron James.

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