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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 65 points 4 months ago

Zionist terrorists tried to kill student protestors at UCLA

[-] panned_cakes@hexbear.net 57 points 4 months 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

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago

people have become a LOT more radical since then.

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago

I think it was in 2018 that they unionized

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 43 points 4 months ago
[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

*Latest Fad :kelly:

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

Onion 2018+ >>> Onion 2018-

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months 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

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

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

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

11 terms of the Regan administration

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months 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.

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months 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.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months 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."

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months 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.

[-] metaltoilet@hexbear.net 51 points 4 months ago

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

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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

[-] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months 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

[-] SpanishSpaceAgency@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Literally Germany rn germany-cool

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