• @mriormro
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    -261 year ago

    How about we stop celebrity worshipping in our politics? Reagan was an actor.

      • @mriormro
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        211 year ago

        Absolutely and fully agreed. She’s a phenomenal person and one of the few figures I’m proud of as an American.

        That still doesn’t mean I’d consider her for president. The role, I’d say, asks for entirely different skill sets.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          371 year ago

          Maybe, but based on the two options we’re going to have in 2024, I’d take Dolly over either of them.

          • @Sparlock
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            41 year ago

            Over the last few decades i have noticed a 100% correlation between a person’s dislike of Dolly and them being a shithead.

            Anyone who doesn’t like her is simply wrong. That is not an opinion just a statement of fact IMO.

        • @zeppo
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          231 year ago

          Argh

          YouTuber Logan Paul announced that he plans to run for president in 11 years when he turns 35

          Can’t wait for the 2036 matchup of Mr Beast vs. Logan Paul!

          • @Emerald
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            61 year ago

            If it comes down to that, I think Beast would be a no brainer.

            • @zeppo
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              -11 year ago

              The literal no brain would be JAKE PAUL YEAh he can punch people, but yeah.

              • @Emerald
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                11 year ago

                Is there an ihadastroke community for lemmy?

                I’m sorry but I can’t tell what you are trying to say.

                • @zeppo
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                  21 year ago

                  Okay, let me diagram the sentence for you.

                  The

                  • literal no-brain (adjective)
                    – would (verb modifier)
                    — be (verb)
                    — JAKE PAUL (noun, subject)
                    then, as a run-on sentence, and exclamation

                  • Yeah (exclamation

                  • he (pronoun, subject)

                  • can (affirmative)

                  • punch (verb)

                  • people (noun)

                  Since you don’t seem to understand American English as commonly spoken, I’ll try to explain. If you’ve had a stroke recently, I understand.

                  “The literal no brain” means “the action that would be done by someone who has no brains”, as in, very unintelligent or not thinking.

                  “would be”

                  “JAKE PAUL YEAh” : to cheer for Jake Paul.

                  “he can punch people” : in context, someone with no brains would cheer for Jake Paul due to his physical fighting prowess.

                  Hope that helps.

                  • @Emerald
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                    1 year ago

                    That does not help

                    Funny way to explain all that though so I must approve of the effort

        • twelve20two
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          -21 year ago

          I also recently learned that Mr. Beast has shady connections that lead back to Russian oligarchs and South African real estate money from the apartheid days

            • twelve20two
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              111 months ago

              I mean, I saw it in a video and did absolutely zero fact checking myself, so your response and the down votes for me aren’t exactly unwarranted

    • @surewhynotlem
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      211 year ago

      My children have a stack of free age-approptiate books, and I will whack you with them until you read more about the good that Dolly has done.

      Don’t worry, kids books are light.

        • @misophist
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          101 year ago

          I do not recognize that title as anything my children have received from Dolly’s Imagination Library.

          • Flying SquidOP
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            31 year ago

            I thought you meant kids’ books in general.

    • @Venat0r
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      1 year ago

      It’s unavoidable: politics is a popularity contest, and celebrities are popular…

      Also being an actor doesn’t automatically mean they’re not fit for the role, Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, was an actor.

      • @dellish
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        141 year ago

        He was an actor with a degree in politics. It’s not like he didn’t at least have some knowledge of what was involved.