• @[email protected]
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    It’s going to be 4 years of memes at the expense of the yanks, lads!

    Sorry US friends, just going to have to suck it up this time around. Maybe don’t elect a Nazi next time?

    • @PugJesus
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      5113 days ago

      Maybe don’t elect a Nazi next time?

      Next time?

      We should be so lucky.

      • MathiasTCK
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        1112 days ago

        They have proposed a plan where a president who has served two non consecutive terms could then serve a 3rd.

        They still fear an Obama comeback.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      3712 days ago

      Joke’s on you: Americans are memeing about it too. Because at this point, our only two options are basically “meme about it to stay sane” or “overthrow the entire fucking government.”

      Hi fed bois.

    • @SkunkWorkz
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      212 days ago

      Trumplon’s greed knows no bounds. Unfortunately their actions will affect the rest of the planet as well.

  • Destide
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    3813 days ago

    Peep show is like TV XKCD, there’s at least one scene for every situation

    • @ummthatguy
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      1613 days ago

      For more info, search BBC peep show.

        • @GraniteM
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          812 days ago

          “I cannot help but feel that your ability to summon a horde of celestial angels to do your bidding has somewhat overshadowed my awesome BMX skills.”

          • Ben Hur Horse Race
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            512 days ago

            I actually love the BMX Bandit film. It was Nicole Kidman’s debut role.

            I also enjoy the homeless guys (I smell sausage rolls!!) and the repulsive snooker commentators (that was a bad miss)

            • @Apeman42
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              312 days ago

              I also enjoy the homeless guys (I smell sausage rolls!!)

              dun dun dun, dun da-dun-da-dun dun dun, dun da-dun-da-dun-da-dun dun dun, dun dun dun da-dun da-dun da-daaaaaaaa

              “On a lonely planet spinning its way to damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is there to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it’s the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.”

      • Final Remix
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        312 days ago

        “I know, John… I do know…”

  • @[email protected]
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    2612 days ago

    Could also apply to Trump openly admitting Elon rigged the election for him and Elon coming up afterwards nervous 😭

    • OptionalOP
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      812 days ago

      Probably shouldn’t have taken all that speed before speaking.

    • @[email protected]
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      812 days ago

      Ah fuck at inauguration? I know of one comment earlier with just enough plausible deniability. But if there’s more, I may just have to watch some of that slogfest 😶

        • @gzerod200
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          112 days ago

          There’s no fucking way this is real… is this actually the full quote? I really wanna believe it but I don’t wanna go around talking about this unless I’m sure it’s not just taken out of context… somehow.

    • OptionalOP
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      713 days ago

      Hey Ronna Romney McDaniel is probably really annoyed they’re giving nazi salutes behind the presidential podium

      Like, so tacky you guys OMG.

  • @Lauchs
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    It’s almost like it’s a perfect distraction for an easily angered Left. Anything to help deflect from the exec orders and pardons and damned if it doesn’t work painfully well.

    With the added bonus of making the Left sound hysterical so as to make persuadable centrist/moderates less likely to listen when there are real actual harms.

    Dude played us like a fiddle.

    • @BradleyUffner
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      2713 days ago

      Right, let’s distract from Nazis in the Whitehouse by having a Nazi in the Whitehouse do a Nazi salute.

      • @Lauchs
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        Did you notice how more than half of voters voted for trump?

        Mainstream America doesn’t agree with us on the fascist accusations. Screaming about things with which the majority of voters disagree with us on isn’t a recipe for success and makes them less likely to believe us in future.

        • @DarkFuture
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          812 days ago

          So, by this godawful trash logic, you’re saying 1930s era Germans shouldn’t have spoken up, because the majority of Germans were onboard with fascism?

          Please seek a better education.

          • @Lauchs
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            No… You are absolutely missing the point.

            Calling the Republicans nazis is going to convince zero people they are nazis. What it will do is make all those Biden-Trump voters, or reluctant republican voters discount what we say when it matters.

            If we scream nazi when Elon trolls us, people are much less likely to care when we scream it again about detention centres.

            Unlike you, I understand the danger this administration poses and the importance of addressing it in a meaningful way. Letting Musk troll us into throwing temper tantrums ain’t helping.

            • @[email protected]
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              No it convinced me when he did their salute. The one they used as callsign when massacring people by race. Nobody needs convincing. You need action

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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          712 days ago

          A wrong answer is not a meaningless one.

          Whether or not people are duped into believing something wrong doesn’t make it more right.

          It’s still wrong, it’s still a lie, it’s still incorrect.

          The truth of our world will always find its way back to the light, because the people who strive for truth have a will and ambition like no other, regardless of whether they’re wrong at the moment. A few may keep themselves in perpetual darkness, but they know in their heart of hearts that reality. It’s why they so fervently clutch for the phantom of a truth before pulling a Luigi.

          • @Lauchs
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            -412 days ago

            Did you mean to comment on something else?

            Just want to make sure you’ve got the right post.

        • @[email protected]
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          More than half of voters did not vote at all this election. Of those who did, both republicans and democrats got less total votes compared to last time.

          It’s not that American voters don’t believe that republicans are fascist, I think many are aware of that. They also see the fascist tendencies of Dems, and recognize that for 50 years now, Dems haven’t really done much to improve their material living conditions either. If Dems ever have a chance to do so, there’s always several corpo dems ready to torpedo bills over some nonsense, or the senate parliamentarian won’t let them, or some other bs.

          Trump at least said things to his base indicating he recognizes the pain points and promised to address them - even if those more discerning among us realize he will do the opposite, the important political aspect is that he had the right optics by addressing the real issues for the working class. Dems could not be bothered to do this, and instead insisted they wouldn’t change anything, again. And further, made it a point to team up with neocons like Liz Cheney, and kiss billionaire asses like Mark Cuban’s.

          So, if you have 2 fash candidates, both courting their rich donors, and one is saying more of the same, while the other is campaigning on fixing your issues and is positioned as a political outsider…why not vote for possible change? Don’t try to blame the voters - the blame for this outcome rests solely with the DNC, and the corruption endemic to politics via legalized bribery.

          Lastly, look what happened on day one. A mile long list of executive orders, many of which targeted the issues Trump’s base wanted. Sure, some might not stick, but he actually delivered on those campaign promises on day 1 just like he said he would. When was the last time a democrat ever did something like that for their voters?

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            112 days ago

            Of them, the only one that does anyone any good is recognizing the Lumbees (Why wasn’t that already a thing? Literally two of my best friends are Lumbee brothers, one sells me weed and the other geeks out about Sonic with me)

          • @Lauchs
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            About 60% of eligible voters, votes in the 2024 elections (slightly more or less depending on methodology.)

            But I think your larger conclusions about voters deciding both parties are fascist is unsupported by reality or evidence.

            I’d agree they’ve grown disenchanted but that’s very different. Unless, we’re just in this new stage where anything we don’t like is labelled as fascist.

    • @DarkFuture
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      912 days ago

      If the richest human in existence, who will have an official position in the White House, performs multiple Nazi salutes while standing behind the presidential seal at a presidential inauguration, on national television, we HAVE to talk about it.

      Not sure why that’s difficult for you to understand.

      • @Lauchs
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        I guess that’s why the internet advice is “DO feed trolls.”

        The whole point is to make us scream nazi so that everyone else goes “oh the fucking left, they spent 4 years screaming fascist and then we had another election. Now those idiots are screaming nazi…”

        It’s really not complicated and my God are we taking the bait hard. It hurts to watch, we shouldn’t be this stupid and gullible but here we are.

    • @ikidd
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      612 days ago

      Oh, yah, Elon “special-K” Musk is just playing 16D chess, huh?

      • @Lauchs
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        No, it’s checkers. The same checkers I played when I bullied my sister as a kid.

        1. Get her angry about something.
        2. she flips out.
        3. mom and dad get mad at her.
        4. success!

        Elon:

        1. Do something you could interpret as a nazi salute.
        2. The Left flips out.
        3. Oxegyn/attention goes to that instead of the evil shit in the executive orders. Plus, most Americans do not seem to think trump is actually going to pull nazi shit (gas chambers, attack the world, remove elections.) So we just look like the same whiners who screamed fascism from 2016-2020 until there was another election (not typically a fascist move.)
        4. Success!

        It’s not complicated, not brilliant but goddamn are we taking the bait like my 10 year old sister did.

        • OptionalOP
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          512 days ago

          Do something you could interpret as a nazi salute.

          Wut

          • @Lauchs
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            Well, frankly he’s pretty fucking uncoordinated if he was trying to do a sieg heil. Like, getting shot by the SS bad at it.

            Which is the point. By making it close but passable, we freak out, moderates roll their eyes and the Left gets discredited.

            I really thought we’d matured beyond falling for stupid shit lile that but I guess I had too much faith in people.

            • OptionalOP
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              Look. He did “do a sieg heil”.

              He did.

              No “maybe”, no “tried”, no “looks like” - NONE of that.

              Ya boi straight up did a nazi salute. Because he’s a massive racist. If you can’t get there, we can’t go any further.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ah, you’re an expert in nazi salutes, perfect, we need you now. Can you explain to the people how exactly like a nazi salute this was…? Wait what are you saying