• IninewCrow
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    -326 months ago

    The correspondents dinner is not as hopeful or bright as it used to be.

    They’re trying to prop up an old man to look young and treat him as the last hope against a decrepit opponent.

    All while casually ignoring their responsibility to the world and encouraging one of the worst senseless and useless conflicts in living history.

    The world isn’t blind or ignorant. America can put on the biggest blinders they want but everyone will still see and understand America’s part in all this.

    • @Limonene
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      156 months ago

      The war in Gaza isn’t the only thing going on in the world, you know. It’s not even the deadliest war going on right now. Take a look at the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll#Wars_and_armed_conflicts

      The current era of the Israel-Palestine war (since October) has a death toll of around 30k. Look at how many other current and recent wars have death tolls of at least that much. Notably, the US-Afghanistan war (around 193k deaths) was ended by Biden.

      • @[email protected]
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        -16 months ago

        He also ended support for the genocides in Yemen, which had already claimed a whopping 380k lives under Obama and Trump

    • Optional
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      56 months ago

      Hopeful or bright?

      My good dude, the WHPCA dinner has always been a disaster. Whatever one-liners we get, or the occasional Colbert, we’ll take. But no one’s confused that it should exist - it shouldn’t.

    • @SkybreakerEngineer
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      36 months ago

      Why aren’t people serious at the annual comedy show dinner?

    • @RapidcreekOP
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      26 months ago

      I blame Obama. After you make fun of Trump to his face, then go back to the White House to watch bin Laden get capped, you can’t expect a better act.