I forgot to mention this is an onion article, so here’s the link to it:
https://theonion.com/gop-urges-democrats-to-tone-down-rhetoric-used-to-quote-president-verbatim/
The fact it sounds so real really shows how crazy the current American term is.
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- 3 days
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.
- 3 days
I remember that, too. He said that anyone else would have been removed from their job for saying something like that, but when he learned that Trump said it it was “oh he just messed up his words”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-rogan-corrected-own-show-175642179.html
- 3 days
The implication was that they’d be nuking them. Which presumably means he was threatening to give them nukes too.
- 3 days
Probably should make sure to include the onion logo when posting screenshots from the onion
- ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
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.
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!
- 3 days
You can’t use Daddy’s words against him! That’s not fair! - a bunch of fucking traitors
- 3 days
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
I really need people who say doomer shit like this to:
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Reflect on whether their words encourage solution-oriented thinking, or doomer thinking
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Learn emotional regulation
- 2 days
As an American I think the solution is for every other nation to work on excluding the the USA from everything they possibly can and get along without us. Trump’s administration has demonstrated that we cannot be relied on as trade partners, military partners, or anything else. Our word isn’t worth shit as long as our government is structured in a way that allows a new administration to come in and tear up everything that came before it. A blue wave isn’t going to fix things overnight. There is a hell of a lot of work to be done before we can be relied on again. It’s going to be years to fix things so we can be trusted again if it can happen at all.
- 2 days
I’ll see what I can do for you, boss.
I am not an american but I can only assume from your butthurt comment that you are, so I hope you apply that solution oriented thinking and
lwill go and convince other compatriots to go and vote or protest“Butthurt” implies that I took your comment personally. I didn’t, because it wasn’t personal — it was a comment about the U.S., to which I feel no particular loyalty, and my issue with it is what pessimism like yours does when people express it out loud to strangers without offering solutions. Negativity akin to what you expressed has a paralyzing effect rather than a mobilizing effect.
Notice you answered my critique with a (poor) guess at the motivation behind my comment rather than a logical defense of your doomerism. Ad hominems only work on insecure people.
- 2 days
You literally said that you need me to do x and y. Y being learning emotional regulation. Now in your latest comment you also said you have an issue with pessimism like mine. When you discuss you and me that makes it obviously personal, so I’m not sure why the irony escapes you. However while a bit annoyed of this hypocrisy, the important fact is that you seem to have gotten lost in your own words and kept banging on about not providing a solution, when I clearly said voting and protesting would be the solution in a civilised society. I don’t know what else regular people can do, and I’m not hearing any suggestions from you either. Now go and do your civic duty and stop wasting peoples time on the internet with big words that mean nothing
When you discuss you and me that makes it obviously personal, so I’m not sure why the irony escapes you.
Yes, discussing my personal thoughts and feelings is personal, and criticizing your words is also personal, I agree. But I used the word “personal” to describe being offended. I was not offended, as the initial comment to which I was responding was a broad comment about the U.S. I have no reason to take offense at that.
when I clearly said voting and protesting would be the solution in a civilised society.
You did not say this in your initial comment, you said it in your response to my comment. My original criticism of your original comment stands. You did not speak of any solution until I criticized you for not being solution-oriented in your comment.
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- 3 days
The fact that we have to ask speaks volumes about the current state of the US…
TBH I was 50/50 on if it was satire or not.
- 3 days
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
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.
- 3 days
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…
- 3 days
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.
3 dayshuh, 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.
FreeEnslaved MarketsFR, 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.
- kboos1@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
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.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish3 days
Found every national newsroom.
They have been sanewashing him since 2015.
- 3 days
Um… The voters knew who he was. They voted specifically for dumb and hateful
- 3 days
Me if I was the Dems:
"Sure, I’ll downgrade it toa fuck ton
Did I say downgrade? I meant upgrade"
- thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
How about you chill
One of my favorite videos of all time. In case anyone has not seen it - https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o
- 3 days
“you’re not supposed to rewatch an old video on youtube!!!”
how about I do
anyway
- thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Oh man, wait til you hear about the website is down - https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
It’s a monthly watch for me
- 3 days
lol this series is gold
kinda painful to see the mistakes tho.
and nostalgic to see XP
You also can’t tell because the image is extremely vague/fake looking in that it has almost no info to source it
Well fuck, this has to be Onion right? Right??
(please note that I am allowed to say fuck because I bribed @lwadmin@lemmy.world , I mean financially supported the lemmy.world instance and you should too).
- 3 days
They did that completely unironically with Charlie Kirk, and it was more than urging. Reality outpacing The Onion yet again.
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