• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    It’s not just MAGA yelling that, it’s pretty much the entire political “establishment”.

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      16 minutes ago

      Schumer and Jeffries are the guy on the right too. Hopefully they get booted from leadership real soon now.

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    5 hours ago

    We were promised hoverboards! We didn’t even get hoverboards! Was all of Back to the Future just a lie? The future sucks.

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    Utopianism is a centuries-old pursuit. And, in its defense, the pursuit of a utopia has yielded a steady crop of genuinely beneficial human achievements.

    But I do think people mistake being young and naive with being on the cusp of a brighter future. As though US politics wasn’t a clown-car full of bigots, sex-pests, and greedy fuckwits under Bush or Reagan or Nixon.

    We are a nation that yearns for a New Deal but refuses to acknowledge the real possibility of a Great Depression past every horizon. We want another Lincoln to lead us, but are scared shitless of a new Civil War. We want to go at the Constitution with a Sharpie and an eye towards the 21st century, but we don’t want to endure the Revolution that comes with it.

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      As though US politics wasn’t a clown-car full of bigots, sex-pests, and greedy fuckwits under Bush or Reagan or Nixon.

      At least they had the decency to pretend to be better people.

      These days that clown car also has flashing lights and loud noises.

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        At least they had the decency to pretend to be better people

        When AIDS Was Funny

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        George Bush Jokes about WMD’s at White House Dinner

        A clip showing a White House Dinner event in which George Bush laughs and jokes about the US not finding weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) in Iraq.

        The “Nixon Jew count” of July 1971 is the name given to then-President of the United States Richard Nixon’s attempts to demote and remove Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics