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sullat posted:IIRC the biggest flaw of Melania was that the first woman she'd hired to manage her first lady responsibilities was openly embezzling both the trump campaign and the white house budget and Melania doesn't appear to have been able to get her cut of the loot. Weird how that never headlined the libs critiques of her. Almost as though embezzlement of campaign and public funds is something they love and engage in frequently and see nothing wrong with in principle. But now for some psychic damage for the thread: How Hitler Used Democracy to Take Power quote:Adolf Hitler never won a majority in a free and open national election. He never received more than 37% of the vote in a free and open national election, but he argued that 37% represented 75% of 51%, and demanded political power. It was the political calculus by which the Nazi leader disabled, then dismantled, the Weimar Republic. Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures. When Hitler had vowed in court, in September 1930, to destroy democracy through the democratic process, a judge asked, “So, only through constitutional means?” Hitler replied crisply, “Jawohl.” Love how this moron purposely confuses the timeline of the Nazi's rise in the Reichstag to make it look like Hindenburg put up significant resistance before regrettably bowing to the inevitable. And the implied "we need to destroy democracy to save democracy" theme.
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My kid likes to pretend to be a dog with our actual dog and will insist i call her <name>-puppy when she does The battle was lost before i even knew it
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:My kid likes to pretend to be a dog with our actual dog and will insist i call her <name>-puppy when she does Many such cases!
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Uncle Wemus posted:As antisemitism flourishes online, and religion is weaponized and politicized, it’s a “Sonic the Hedgehog” show (?!?!) that lights the prayer candle we need. No!!
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:27 |
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B B posted:very funny top story on cnn right now: Huh having trouble finding it. It's not on the front page at least for me or easily found in the USA or politics sections
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 21:57 |
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Mukulu posted:From GBS Has anyone ever been at a large college protest before? Movements like this can never articulate their end goals and are NEVER happy. Biden shouldn't say one drat thing about them. The fact that the left and this board are perpetuating the outage of the moment is embarrassing. The right is focusing on this on purpose. They want this kind of discussion. They have ZERO policy proposals and are resorting to dangling their keys in the next room to distract and peel apart the Democratic coalition. No one should be surprised that the media is playing along but this board and the youth vote should be smarter. The Republicans have literally succeeded in framing the protests as against Biden and yet another culture war thing. Local overreaction by police should be a local outage, many people are allowing the right to make it an outage against Biden.
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november is going to be epic lol
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SgtMongoose posted:Weird how that never headlined the libs critiques of her. Almost as though embezzlement of campaign and public funds is something they love and engage in frequently and see nothing wrong with in principle. I'm not very well versed in the history of the time - is the issue that they make it seem like Hitler was a legislative blockade for all of 1932/33 and Hindenburg handed him the keys to just get something done, when really it was like two months of gridlock before Hindenburg said "gently caress this whole government anyway"?
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"can never articulate their end goals" stop giving Israel money and materiel isn't articulate enough? or is that discounted as a policy proposal because it's not "serious" enough?
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:09 |
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lol guy sources articles where biden codemns antisemetic protest response: i find your lack of media literacy disturbing
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mf’in edit button
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kristi noem's two animal murders have generated more discussion in lib spaces than the biggest college protests in 50 years. they are so relieved that they have something else to talk about that's more important than the crimes of genocide joe.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:15 |
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SixteenShells posted:"can never articulate their end goals" stop giving Israel money and materiel isn't articulate enough? or is that discounted as a policy proposal because it's not "serious" enough? "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" "Ah, they didn't say which river and which sea so we can safely disregard them as being fundamentally unserious."
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Willa Rogers posted:kristi noem's two animal murders have generated more discussion in lib spaces than the biggest college protests in 50 years. If there’s one thing you can count on it’s that the American public generally loves dogs more than people, to the point that it’s an old joke about one dog dying in movies with triple digit body counts getting all the attention Honestly I’m not sure why she decided that was a good story for her to even share
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:27 |
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I was at an anti-Iraq war protest in Worcester in 2003 where multiple cars were set on fire and our demands were to not do the Iraq war
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:31 |
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Joementum posted:I was at an anti-Iraq war protest in Worcester in 2003 where multiple cars were set on fire and our demands were to not do the Iraq war Hmm, but how? You haven't even written any draft legislation for anyone to look at. This is a fundamentally unserious pov.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:33 |
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VitalSigns posted:Out of curiosity I looked up the Rose Garden to see if Biden undid her changes and turns out 1) No, and 2) she repaired years of neglect. obama inadvertently destroying the rose garden because he valued its superficial image over reenforcing its foundations is a bit on the nose
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:39 |
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technically Hitler did make Germany great again, for a bit
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:50 |
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Alanis Morissette voice]:HallelujahLee posted:thank you north korea
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SixteenShells posted:I'm not very well versed in the history of the time - is the issue that they make it seem like Hitler was a legislative blockade for all of 1932/33 and Hindenburg handed him the keys to just get something done, when really it was like two months of gridlock before Hindenburg said "gently caress this whole government anyway"? Imagine a liberal government being unable to effectively govern due to an abject refusal to address material conditions. When a dissatisfied electorate punish them for this refusal/incompetence, and the liberals are forced to either ally with the fascists or the communists to govern, imagine which they choose. Crazy scenario, I know. But seriously, the SDP kept trying to ram through austerity in 1930/31 which is what kept getting blocked in the Reichstag and forced through by executive action (because everyone who wasn't the SDP hated it). As for Hindenburg's thoughts on Hitler, he wasn't offended by Hitler's antisemitism or hate mongering. He despised Hitler for being a lowly corporal in the army vs Hindenburg's generalship and for not respecting Hindenburg's leadership of the German right/nationalists. Read this paragraph from Hindenburg's wiki page for a distillation: quote:To cope with mounting unemployment, Brüning desperately wanted an emergency decree to launch a program in which bankrupt estates would be carved up into small farms and turned over to unemployed settlers. When they met, Hindenburg read a statement that there would be no further decrees and insisted that the cabinet resign and that there must be a turn to the right. Brüning resigned on 1 June 1932. He was succeeded as chancellor by Papen from the Centre Party, who was Schleicher's choice; Hindenburg did not even ask the party leaders for advice. He was delighted with Papen, a rich, smooth aristocrat who had been a famous equestrian and a general staff officer; he soon became a Hindenburg family friend. The president was delighted to find that eight members of the new cabinet had served as officers during the war. This was a month before the Nazi's won their 37% of the Reichstag. SgtMongoose has issued a correction as of 22:58 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Willa Rogers posted:kristi noem's two animal murders have generated more discussion in lib spaces than the biggest college protests in 50 years. For how much libs screeched and accused people of whataboutism from 2016-2020, they sure love highlighting Republican cruelty so they don't need to address the Democrat cruelty.
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Willa Rogers posted:kristi noem's two animal murders have generated more discussion in lib spaces than the biggest college protests in 50 years. the white house correspondent's dinner was that much of a bust, huh
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Uncle Wemus posted:As antisemitism flourishes online, and religion is weaponized and politicized, it’s a “Sonic the Hedgehog” show (?!?!) that lights the prayer candle we need. quote:At the dinner table, Wendy and Knuckles connect when talking about the history of their people. Knuckles reveals that the echidnas were wiped out by a fleet of giant owls and that he is the last of his tribe. “Our tribe has been through some tough times too,” she responds, adding, “minus the giant owls. He’s basically Jewish!” Lol It's the schindlers list pony post for real
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insane clown pussy posted:the white house correspondent's dinner was that much of a bust, huh I heard that a lot of jost's jokes fell flat for the crowd & I'm guessing that pop-pop wasn't more lucid at 9 pm than he is at 1 pm.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 23:14 |
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Willa Rogers posted:I heard that a lot of jost's jokes fell flat for the crowd & I'm guessing that pop-pop wasn't more lucid at 9 pm than he is at 1 pm. Here's the transcript https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2024-04-27/segment/02 e: it's partial and missing the next segment mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 23:23 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:As antisemitism flourishes online, and religion is weaponized and politicized, it’s a “Sonic the Hedgehog” show (?!?!) that lights the prayer candle we need. This depresses me
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 23:27 |
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lmao gently caress
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SgtMongoose posted:Imagine a liberal government being unable to effectively govern due to an abject refusal to address material conditions. When a dissatisfied electorate punish them for this refusal/incompetence, and the liberals are forced to either ally with the fascists or the communists to govern, imagine which they choose. Crazy scenario, I know. ah, thanks for the clarification!
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SgtMongoose posted:But seriously, the SDP kept trying to ram through austerity in 1930/31 which is what kept getting blocked in the Reichstag and forced through by executive action (because everyone who wasn't the SDP hated it). Eh, the SDP had gently caress-all for power by 1930. Brüning was in the Centre and governed after Müller's government collapsed... and a big part of the reason that collapsed was because the SDP was trying to hold together a coalition of center-right assholes. The SDP's moment to not gently caress things up was much, much earlier. By 1930 Germany had started voting for Literally Anyone Else. BRAKE FOR MOOSE has issued a correction as of 23:40 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Joementum posted:if i'm reading the story correctly, the College Republicans abstained lol lol
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Homeless Friend posted:Has anyone ever been at a large college protest before? Movements like this can never articulate their end goals and are NEVER happy. Biden shouldn't say one drat thing about them. hell yeah
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Clip-On Fedora posted:This depresses me It should excite you, for the future of human kindness and understanding
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mawarannahr posted:Here's the transcript https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2024-04-27/segment/02 I had to dip out of reading at "a celebration of the First Amendment and honoring those on the frontlines of journalism" bc I was started retching.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 23:53 |
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"let's celebrate our brave journalists & their defense of the first amendment (except the ones that the government censored) and those on the front lines (except the ones reporting from gaza that our bombs helped kill)"
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 23:54 |
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Biden was polling like fifth in 2020 because he's a doddering old man. Then the stupidest people on the planet (D primary voters) got spooked and did the dumbest thing. Then Biden barely beat Trump when Trump was presiding over the worst health disaster in 100 years. Trump is going to annihilate Biden.
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LarsPorsenna posted:Biden was polling like fifth in 2020 because he's a doddering old man. Then the stupidest people on the planet (D primary voters) got spooked and did the dumbest thing. Then Biden barely beat Trump when Trump was presiding over the worst health disaster in 100 years. Let's be fair to D primary voters. The stupidest people on the planet who got spooked and did the dumbest thing were Jim Clyburn and Barack Obama for pushing Biden in SC and ordering the Voltron, respectively. D primary voters just followed their orders like good soldiers.
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watch the entire thing https://twitter.com/montanatucker/status/1784605592977633582
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HallelujahLee posted:watch the entire thing "I think we need more barricades guys" lmao
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