• MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Schrödingers president. He’s a senile moron who shits himself and can’t form coherent sentences, but he’s also an evil mastermind that is masterfully installing a fascist regime right under our noses!

    /s

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      Schrodinger’s immigrant for the Trump era: they’re all criminals and have no criminal records… clearly because they’re such good criminals.

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    Schrödingers free speech: You can tweet everything unless it’s against Muskrats opinion.

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    This is actually how Russians do their propaganda. NATO is weak but also the greatest threat to our nation. Sending Abrams to Ukraine is pointless as they are useless tanks and Ukraine has already lost, but also sending Abrams is crossing a line and a declaration of war.

    Gee, wonder where Trump learned it from?

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      The greatest threat to a nation being weak technically isnt a contradiction. If all your enemies are weak, even the most powerful is weak

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      You don’t need to learn it from anywhere. Look at the stereotype of cats who love affection when they want it even if you’re busy but who get mad when you initiate when all they’re doing is lying there. All these people have really “done” is not grow out of being whiny, bitch-ass toddlers. They’re just deeply insecure, immature assholes with zero compassion or self-awareness.

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          To stealman it, I’d say it’s in how China has a large navy that’s also incapable, or has extensive R&D that copies the west’s homework and only makes cheap parts. Russia is both incapable of taking on Ukraine and justifies the need for much greater EU military expenditure.

          There’s some nuance to this. China’s navy is large, but it’s mostly built as a green water navy (close to their shores), and not a blue water navy. Russia can’t take Ukraine, but it’s because both the EU and US have been feeding them, and US support is drying up.

          China’s R&D, however, is something I think we should take more seriously. They’ve done most of the practical applications of new battery tech and have spun up an EV industry from scratch.

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          Taken very seriously while it’s economy is in shambles and it’s military is depleted to the point of relying on Soviet era relics?

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            Why can’t both of those be true? Should Europe ignore Russia until they CAN march into Amsterdam? There are far too many corpses in Ukraine not to take them seriously, regardless of economics.

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      the followers [of fascism] must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
      – Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

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        The loser’s flag, the confederate’s is flown today in my neighborhood, and they are determined to make us all losers.

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    Classic fascist doublethink. Straight out of the book. The enemy is both strong/dangerous enough to be a serious threat, but the fascist is still somehow very superior to them. 🤷

  • glimse@lemmy.world
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    Err does anyone on the right actually think we have secure borders?

    Like wasn’t “securing the borders” part of Trump’s pitch? As in “there’s an invasion taking place and we need to secure the borders”?

    The trans one is spot on though

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    This is a mixed metaphor. Women are kept out of frontline combat much like they’re sidelined to the WNBA: segregated under the guise of inclusion.

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    Schrodinger’s energy crisis:

    We need to sell public lands for oil extraction since we have an energy crisis!

    We need to cancel wind energy and solar facility construction!

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    Schrodinger’s Canada: we don’t need anything from them, but we’d love to own them anyway.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.world
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    Schrodinger’s racism: All non-whites must be deported, but South-African white people must be brought over, granted asylum and protection from “genocide”.

    I am white, so there’s no confusion. And no, I’m not saying they don’t deserve help, as the situation in South Africa is pretty bad for them - it’s really just the double standard.

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    True story. Back in 2008 there were two op-ed pieces on the smae page of the Murdoch owned New York Post.

    One said that voting for Obama was a waste of time, because he was a centrist neoliberal who’d only serve up milder versions of GOP programs, so you’d be better off with an actual Republican.

    The other screamed that he was a radical Socialist who would destroy America.

    Same newspaper, same page, no irony

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        So, you read what I wrote and concluded that in life I’d only seen one Op-Ed page?

        You funny, in a sad way.

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          Apparently so. You seem surprised that there were two people who had different opinions on the same page in the Op Eds. That’s what Op Eds are.

          Again, I ask, are you familiar with the concept of an Op Ed? Or are you just confused that people might have different opinions?

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            Both opinions agree that you should not vote for Obama, that is the editorial strategy, the different motivations are to capture the whole range of voters.

            Nowadays it is even easier to do this, thank to personalized news. They can tell unemployed people that immigrants are stealing all the jobs, while they can tell taxpayers that immigrants are leaving off grants. They can even tell cat lovers that immigrants are eating all the cats.

            The idea you are pushing that Op-Eds are a whiteboard for diverse opinions is either innocent or malicious.

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              Op Eds are obviously influenced by the bias of the newspaper that runs them. But, there’s no need to veer into conspiracy theories just because two of them happen to be anti-Obama for different reasons.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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            You get funnier and funnier.

            Please keep telling me about how much smarter you are than I am.

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        Not only is it what Op Eds are for, it’s also extremely common practice to have two contrasting views on the same page to give voice to a variety of different opinions.

        Complaining about two Op Eds on the same page with different opinions is like complaining that a dictionary has two definitions of two different words on the same page.

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      Brace yourself for all the “gotcha!” comments from enlightened centrists that don’t understand the core concept of controlled opposition or propaganda.

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    Now that we’re solidly in the era of alternative facts, all that seems to register is what a politician says in the moment. It’s really depressing to watch both political parties and 99% of voters just shrug their shoulders and go along with the utter stupidity of our political culture, even in full knowledge of its deleterious effects on their own lives.