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      Of course they demand this very thing every day. They hate reminders of Mr. Yellow’s diminished brain power and lack of heart.

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        Probably what’s gonna happen then. In a way I want the gop to win, because not, the rest of the world will cling on to hope that the US can recover and become at the very least as reliable as it was before. I don’t think it can

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          I really need people who say doomer shit like this to:

          1. Reflect on whether their words encourage solution-oriented thinking, or doomer thinking

          2. Learn emotional regulation

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    I remember when Joe Rogan was going off on Biden for saying something stupid about naval ships or war or something. Then kept saying how he’s not suited for office.

    Turns out Biden was quoting Trump.

    Rogan obviously backpedaled on that statement being suitable for the office of the president of course.

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      To be honest, I found the screenshot elsewhere and it didn’t even occur to me that it was an onion article because of how real it sounds, but I guess it adds to the comedic effect.

      I’ll add an acknowledgement and it’s URL, since I can’t switch the image. But hey, at least I didn’t post it in c/nottheonion!

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      The problem is without the logo its too believable which means its not satire enough and just made up news and not funny. Most likely just giving them ideas.

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    You can’t use Daddy’s words against him! That’s not fair! - a bunch of fucking traitors

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    As a non-American, I’ve seen GOP used occasionally and never really checked what it meant (I assumed it was a US government acronym within the Republican party for something). I didn’t realise it was another name for the Republicans, and worse still that it stood for ‘Grand Old Party’. Wtf kinda dumb name is that

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      The name is entirely ironic for several reasons. 1) The democratic party is older than the republican party by 26 years. 2).They have been nicknamed the Grand Old Party since the 1870s despite being founded in 1854. 3) The name was granted specifically as praise to the party for leading the Union to victory against the Confederacy in the Civil War, while many GOP members and supports proudly fly the confederate flag nowadays. 4) When they were given that name, they were the progressive party (relatively speaking) fighting for federal economic protectionism and civil rights, while the democrats were the ones were fighting for states rights and free markets. Yet they pretend to identify with “The Party of Lincoln” and cling to the “GOP” moniker to maintain the illusion of any real connection there.

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        The good ole southern strategy, basically some politicians decided to appeal to racist cockwhombles in the south to get votes, which flooded the GOP with former southern democrats, which made the original GOP politicians to switch parties.

        Basically the parties did one giant flip and ended up in the same place with different names.

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        That’s actually really interesting, thanks! Yeah it sounds about right that they’d cherry pick the good bits and rewrite history to suit them…

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        huh, i would argue the democrats were pursuing a different type of federal economic protectionism that “coincidentally” lined up with making slavery legal in all 34 states.

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          Free Enslaved Markets

          FR, though. We are talking Post-War here. But while enslavement was illegal, they still had the next closest thing for a long time… indentureship through share cropping (debt bondage), forced child “apprenticeship” for orphans, vagrants, and kids they just stole from their parents, and leasing prisoners convicted of such crimes as unemployment, loitering, and changing employers.

          Generations after the Civil War, people. 190,000 black children were re-homed and force to work in agriculture or domestic jobs until adulthood. Convict Leasing didn’t end in Alabama until 1928. Debt bondage wasn’t outlawed federally until 1966 over 100 years later. And only mostly because it had already faded with the mechanization of the Ag industry in the decade or two prior. That is well into the Baby Boomer era. This is still relatively recent history.

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    Guys, let’s stop quoting Trump. He says some really dumb and hateful stuff, so let’s not repeat it and remind people that electing him was a mistake that they can’t take back.

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    They did that completely unironically with Charlie Kirk, and it was more than urging. Reality outpacing The Onion yet again.