• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    Top Tier cliches I remember:

    • "They hate us for our freedoms."
    • "We gotta fight 'em over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
    • "We can't cut and run."

    Honorable mentions:

    • "Mission Accomplished"
    • "Who cares about WMD? Saddam was a bad guy. We freed the Iraqi people!"
    • "The troop surge is working."
    • "Building democracy takes time."

    the great thing about these cheers was that they were all completely false, but they were stated as obvious axioms by everyone from the $500 haircut in the $5000 suit on TV down to the retiree in the 55 and up only HOA trailer park obliterated by a hurricane, sending his last $50 to a televangelist with a private jet.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      The one that I'll always remember is my aunt claiming that if not for the US military, she'd be in a niqab. She'd say it all the time and people would solemnly nod as if that made sense at all.

    • NewLeaf
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      7 months ago

      "you have to go out and shop so everything looks normal otherwise the terrorists win"