• SovietyWoomy [any]
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    5 months ago

    MrBeast: I don't really understand for-profit prisons.

    Democratic advisor: They're good because I can make money off of them. You should arrest more people so I can make more money.

    Republican advisor: They're good because I can make money off of them. You should arrest more people so I can make more money.

    MrBeast: I understand the issue now. I'm going to make it illegal to not watch every new video that I upload.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    For problems I’m ignorant in I’d have experts from the left and right advise me on them and try to find the middle ground that’s best for America

    The right: Kill all trans people

    The left: Don't kill any trans people

    The middle ground: Kill half of the trans people

    • bumpusoot [any]
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      5 months ago

      What I'm hearing is that the left should start demanding to double the population with exclusively trans people, effectively a -100% murder rate. Then the middle ground will be 0% and centrists can finally agree.

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      especially since chuds have been laying into him lately on twitter on account of a close associate of his having come out as trans recently (or something like that, I only read that briefly)

      so yeah, both sides, huh?

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    every single guy who thinks that politics is solved by listening to the left and the right and then coming up with a solution that integrates both viewpoints so everyone is happy actually thinks they are the ubermensch and has a terminal case of solipsism if they don't immediately go "no wait that's fucking stupid that's probably been tried before"

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      what a fucking novel solution. did you come up with that on your own. i bet you thought long and hard about that. i bet you did a lot of research to synthesize that

    • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      The left wants healthcare, and the right wants genocide, lets meet in the middle and commit genocide without providing healthcare 👍

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    For problems I'm ignorant in I'd have experts from the left and the right advise me on them and try to find a middle ground that's best for America.

    Didn't Obama try to do something like that in his first term? I think he called it his "Cabinet of Rivals" or some shit. It sucked.

    Wouldn't be buyable

    Aren't there interviews with this guy where he practically presents himself as a machine that shuts down when it isn't doing something profitable? Like aren't there quotes from him where he talks about struggling with motivation and purpose if it isn't tied to making money? He seems almost exclusively driven by money, so I'm not sure I buy that he's not buyable.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Didn't Obama try to do something like that in his first term? I think he called it his "Cabinet of Rivals" or some shit. It sucked.

      It was a "team of rivals" and he snagged the idea from Lincoln lmao. I'm not smart enough to know for sure, but it probably sucked way back then, too

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Yes it's pure liberalism. The "team of rivals" only worked because Lincoln held them together and they (the rivals) had a mutual enemy in the confederacy. It's basically that centrist meme about planes with both wings on one side of the fuselage "YoU nEeD bOTh WiNgS tO fLy!" horseshit. Meme level analysis and solution. Shallow as some pithy Reagan retort.

  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Experts on the left: Climate scientists. Experts on the right: Some deranged person shouting about HAARP on YouTube.

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    1 month ago

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    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      5 months ago

      my exact reaction, but also his math is wrong, you have to be 35 to be president and that's only 9 years for him, he's 26 apparently

      still shocked me how young he is

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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        5 months ago

        This has made me go down a rabbit hole, resulting in me reading the current date in a wikipedia article which has never happened to me before and was confusing at first, apparently this mfer hit 300 MILLION subscribers today

        what the fuck

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    5 months ago

    mr-beast I GIVE 10 000 DOLLARS IF YOU ENROLL IN THE MILITARY 🪖🎖️

  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    expert from the left and right

    What fucking expert are on the right these days? All their ideological leaders are just random assholes who spout angry vibes.

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