• PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Idk how much of this actually matters to real people

      Media overfocuses on tankie or Obamna mustard incident or above but does anyone actually care that much outside of civility lib/right-wing TV ghoul optics media circles? It's funny I guess

      It's mostly manufactured imo, people think tankie is cringe cuz the media/electioneering people said it was cringe but is it actually any more nationalistic or military-death-cult-pilled or "trying too hard" in substance than what any other president/president candidate does? freedom-and-democracy

      Examining actual material factors like circumstances of class rule and how the capitalist class decides which guy gets to represent them is out of the question, so at best we get OBJECTIVE REASONABLE POLICY DISCUSSION jagoff or at worst completely vibes based politics like Gerald Ford lost Texas cuz he ate a tamale the wrong way :) (these not necessarily mutually exclusive ofc) to justify what happens after the fact while obscuring the class power behind it

      • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        yeah it's a political dog and pony show to obscure the bipartisan death merchants and racketeer imperial and neocolonial monopolists behind the state structures. And how shallow it is says a lot about society SOCIETY

        Maybe this comment will be clearer: https://hexbear.net/comment/5466284

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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          2 months ago

          https://hexbear.net/comment/5466284

          GOOOOD post

          Uhhhh, it's spectacle or something blob-no-thoughts

          SO SIGH IT E!!!!!!

  • culpritus [any]
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    2 months ago

    I was always told it's that he pardoned Nixon, but this probably didn't help at all.

  • UlyssesT
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    15 days ago

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    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      It's funny but back then (if this story is true) the voters chose not to vote for Ford because of a goof, and today the people voting for Trump are loud, vehement and outspoken in defense of his goofs; both are opposites and yet both are also really, really stupid.

  • utopologist [any]
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    2 months ago

    I dunno how much we should trust Mike Huckabee's understanding of politics

  • SadArtemis [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    There's also a brave pretzel, that tragically failed to assassinate Dubya (by choking)

  • CrowTankieRobot [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    So many cultural minefields to cross...anyone remember the George HW Bush incident with the grocery scanner? That was blamed in part for his loss to Clinton.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      During a visit to Tokyo in 1992, George H.W. Bush became violently ill while dining at the home of then Japanese PM Kiichi Miyazawa, vomitting on his host's lap before fainting in his chair.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 months ago

    just biting onto the husk and slurping it out that's cuisine right there chefs-kiss

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    If i ever do this i'm going to make sure i wear a white shirt, get sauce on my shirt, wipe stuff off my face at least twice, and order takeout for my entire bodyguard detail, in front of the cameras.