• cilantrofellow [any]
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    3 years ago

    If Reagan was assassinated as president or even as a presidential hopeful he would have been even more beloved than he is now.

    You’d have to kill him when he was shooting that monkey film.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "Mr Vice President, the president has been shot"

        GHB: "did we schedule that for this week?"

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Pappy was a Rockefeller Republican.

        Reagan took Goldwater's AnCap crankery and Ayn Rand's anti-Soviet polemics into the mainstream.

        There's a reason Bush only made it one term and was forgotten shortly thereafter, but Reagan remains a Jesus-like figure in the concervative mythos.

        Not that him dying would have necessarily prevented a... I don't know... Pat Buchanan Presidency. But these were not comparable politicians simply because they worked together.

  • Jadzia_Dax [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    You're right, this is the only good one of these memes I've seen. The amount of misogyny online isn't surprising at this point, but it's still very irritating. Most of the women on this site can probably fire a rifle better than a typical redd*tor!

    :rosa-shining:

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    My only complaint is that with a gun like that there should be far less of Reagan's head left

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I gotta find one around here that's not so chuddish

            Last one I went to had a mural comparing Obama to Hitler

            • Jadzia_Dax [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              I hate liberals as much as the next person and that’s definitely too far. :what-the-hell:

              Most ranges are going to be chuddish no matter where you go, honestly, so I try to just ignore it.

            • discontinuuity [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Last time I went to a shooting range, one of the guys working there said something sarcastic because I had a Starbucks cup with me. I had totally forgotten that Fox News got people riled up about Christmas decorations or some dumb culture war shit.

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              3 years ago

              Favorably, tho?

              Cause Obama did do those concentration camps on the border and the wars in the Middle East.

              It's not as far off as I'd like.

                  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    Yeah, it was Hitler being like "We must take arms from the people to subjugate them under our will" and Obama being like "That's right!"

                    And you better believe it was an offensive caricature

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's because his mind was already almost gone when that picture was taken.