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Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




Grondoth posted:

"The constitution is actually garbage" and "we haven't fought a war to protect ourselves except for like 3 times" are things everyone knows but will never say.

which times

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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Rated PG-34 posted:

which times

He prolly means 1812, Civil War and WW2

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

:bernin::bernget20::bernout::bern101::bernpop:

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

Phi230 posted:

He prolly means 1812, Civil War and WW2

also/or the Barbary wars

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

quoting for av/username combo

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



once again you libs are overlooking the many brave men and women who gave their lives keeping america safe in the war on christmas

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Shear Modulus posted:

once again you libs are overlooking the many brave men and women who gave their lives keeping america safe in the war on christmas

don't forget the war on drugs too

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

LGD posted:

also/or the Barbary wars

Mexican-American War kind of hits that though it was more of a border skirmish that the US just took all the way to Mexico City because we've always been dicks. I'm kind of surprised we didn't just decide to annex Mexico outright since we grabbed like 1/3 of their territory with the peace treaty.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


ikanreed posted:

That already was tried. You're recounting history, not parodying

:thatsthejoke:

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

Phi230 posted:

He prolly means 1812, Civil War and WW2

Yeah, when the brits attacked us, when the south attacked us cause they wanted to keep slaves, and when the japanese attacked us

Every other time we've started it

GoluboiOgon
Aug 19, 2017

by Nyc_Tattoo

Thoguh posted:

Mexican-American War kind of hits that though it was more of a border skirmish that the US just took all the way to Mexico City because we've always been dicks. I'm kind of surprised we didn't just decide to annex Mexico outright since we grabbed like 1/3 of their territory with the peace treaty.

the us was worried about gaining too many non-white people if they took all of mexico. that is why they took the least populated areas.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

the Mexican-American war was understood at the time to be an imperial war of expansion, and all claims of Mexican aggression were paper thin.

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011
Yeah, even history textbooks say "yeah this war's causes were made up, this is an example of Yellow Journalism where the press is used to fabricate events to manufacture consent"

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



turns out that ocasio already said yesterday what every loving dem should be saying

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1016512829535539200

lol that dems have given up on saying bad things about a historically unpopular president as an election strategy

Grondoth posted:

Yeah, even history textbooks say "yeah this war's causes were made up, this is an example of Yellow Journalism where the press is used to fabricate events to manufacture consent"

"Good thing we learned our lesson and that this can never happen again"

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Grondoth posted:

Yeah, even history textbooks say "yeah this war's causes were made up, this is an example of Yellow Journalism where the press is used to fabricate events to manufacture consent"

Even Ulysses S. Grant came to that conclusion. The chapter in his memoirs about it can be summed up by "this is all bullshit".

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Phi230 posted:

He prolly means 1812, Civil War and WW2

all three of those are infinitely debatable

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)
https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1016790547636391937

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


hell yeah cynthia

https://twitter.com/nomikikonst/status/1016806621199126532?s=21

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


:bandwagon:

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1016818886296113152

bernie!!!!!!!!!

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Narrators voice: they don't

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Joementum posted:

one of their 51 cannot vote, currently

Even in perfect dem world where all 49 vote no which is unlikely as it is, no one in the GOP is above Weekend at Bernieing John McCain if needed

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

https://twitter.com/ceofBaes/status/1016821523254874112

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdjmdBogdnk

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWa4ScfQXc

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

IMO a mask law will probably be worse for the alt-right i think. antifas didn't mask up at charlottesville.

in the carolinas there are already mask laws, originally and ostensibly to criminalize KKK marches

do you believe they're enforced to that effect today

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

IMO a mask law will probably be worse for the alt-right i think. antifas didn't mask up at charlottesville.

didn't you see section (b) in the second screenshot? the alt-right is exempt

1994 Toyota Celica posted:

in the carolinas there are already mask laws, originally and ostensibly to criminalize KKK marches

do you believe they're enforced to that effect today

my favorite selective-enforcement story is that a bunch of states had laws in the early-to-mid-20th century that criminalized "violent speech" and speech that encouraged the commission of a crime

they were used exclusively against socialists and communists, and when one of them was appealed to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that the law was constitutional because the IWW was comparable to a criminal enterprise and the Communist Labor Party was a dangerous revolutionary organization

a couple decades later, one of those laws was used against a KKK leader who held an armed rally in which he called for "revengeance" against Jews and non-whites, and the Supreme Court unanimously struck down all such laws as unconstitutional

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1016789064379334656

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

why is that “unsettling?” unless of course you are classist.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Lady socialist Nixon sounds like a joke from a bad alt history story

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

In what possible scenario would a party that has control of the senate, ever vote to reform it to a more evenly distributed population?

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Good season for Dems getting owned

https://mobile.twitter.com/theintercept/status/1016814591354040321

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

The Nastier Nate posted:

In what possible scenario would a party that has control of the senate, ever vote to reform it to a more evenly distributed population?

Oh we're irredeemably hosed

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

why is that “unsettling?” unless of course you are classist.

kulaks were a class too

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Oh we're irredeemably hosed

We could slice the US into 25 evenly populated district that cross state lines and have each one elect 2 senators, then get 2/3rd control of the house, presidency and 2/3rd democratic senators on board for aconstitunal amendment, then bribe the red state ones with a lifetime supply of hookers and blow and cabinet positions to convince them to abolish their own districts and have to run for re-election against a poo poo load of chuds in other states.

Is that more or less accurate?

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


ate poo poo on live tv posted:

why is that “unsettling?” unless of course you are classist.

:nallears:

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

The Nastier Nate posted:

In what possible scenario would a party that has control of the senate, ever vote to reform it to a more evenly distributed population?

the dems could get more senate seats by adding new states, either by splitting up already existing ones or gaining statehood for territories

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Finicums Wake posted:

the dems could get more senate seats by adding new states, either by splitting up already existing ones or gaining statehood for territories

We could combine Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma into 1 state and nothing of value would be lost.
And do we really need 2 Dakotas?

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

the Mexican-American war was understood at the time to be an imperial war of expansion, and all claims of Mexican aggression were paper thin.

*Sends Army to border to provoke an incident, then when the Mexicans don't take the bait goes further and orders them to cross over and keep going until someone pushes back*
Polk: "AMERICAN BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED ON AMERICAN SOIL!!!"

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1016840868354019329

so unelectable

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