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    One thing I will always take pleasure in knowing is that due to him refusing to put anyone over and finishing every match with a leg drop has lead him to be almost entirely crippled

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    A right-wing shitbag pretending to be the good guy who is now circling the drain is indeed a good methaphor for the US.

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        with a skin of a hotdog, and hair of blonde girl. Also the VINCES Union buster attack dog, which JESSe ventura was critical of, by chickened out he pratically said your on your own after he couldnt convince wrestlers to stand up to hogan and vince.

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    Should have used a picture from WCW when he was hollywood hogan as the after photo. Where he’s just spray painting NWO on Miss Elizabeths back.

    Because thats what modern day America is trying to do. Establish a new world order.

    Or you could have went a different route, and made the before picture hogan smiling with trump back in 1990 at wrestlemania. And then had the after photo be hogan posing with trump in modern day.

    Isn’t that wild? How nothing has really changed? The players are still the same. The issues are still the same. Money. Greed. Power. Control. Racism. It’s all the same.

    That’s why I’ll never understand why people say “I wonder what George Carlin would say about things now…”

    SAME SHIT HE SAID 30 FUCKING YEARS AGO BECAUSE NOTHINGS CHANGED, ASSHOLES!!! He already saw all this shit. He’s heard this song and dance, and made material about the core concept decades ago. The only thing different is now the volume is turned up, and everybody is saying the quiet part out loud.

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      everybody is saying the quiet part out loud

      But therein lies the difference. And it’s not just saying the quiet part out loud, it’s doing the quiet part out loud. Sure, it’s never been great, but 30 years ago the president wasn’t a cult leader openly trafficking people to offshore torture camps and proudly disobeying court orders while getting cheered on by his followers.

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        Someone tell this guy about Guantanamo, you know that thing a certain president from years ago was definitely going to close.
        Or the many black sites serving the same purpose.
        For the rest of the world it makes zero difference what president regime changes or bombs their country.
        The imperialist bullying hegemon policy is bipartisan and eternal.
        Same as supporting the MIC, banks, multinationals, oligarchs and the genocider state.
        That never bothered Americans but now they’re mad bcs they are getting a taste of what they do to the rest of the world.

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          Idk man. Gitmo is a thing yeah but don’t pretend everyone has the same attitude towards it.

          Under Bush and the war on terror, it had like 680 people. Then Obama tried closing it, got the population reduced to 41. Then Krasnov ordered it kept indefinitely open. Biden tried closing it. Now it’s at 15 prisoners, but Uncle Shitpants has just signed a memorandum for it to expanded to be able to house 30,000, run by the Gestap… uh, sorry, my English… I meant “ICE” .

          You are right in that its hypocritical, but two wrongs don’t make a right man.

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            Oh yes, the eternal “we tried but we are powerless” excuse.
            They are just as guilty and use it for anything.
            Bush made the draconian Patriot Act, Obama ‘gets rid’ of it and make an even worse Freedom Act.
            Trump makes an insane and incredibly dangerous decision to unilaterally break the missile treaties, what does Biden do? Fuck all.

            And IDC how many or little there are in Guantanamo.
            The US has plenty other torture sites, and whatever faction is in charge, fascists or fascist-lite, they mass murder constantly.
            Like Biden in Palestine and Jemen, or the drone king.
            I’m glad Trump is expediating the inevitable downfall of your country, it’s the best thing that could happen for the world.

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              They are just as guilty

              No they’re not. They might be guilty, but they’re clearly not equally guilty, when one side is trying to shut down the camp and one is trying to expand it to hold 30,000.

              You can’t be so naive as to think that presidents are automatically autocrats, and that Obama and Biden “didn’t really” want to close Gitmo?

              I wouldn’t be surprised if you equated Obama to Putin next. Which would give away your allegiance pretty efficiently.

              I’m glad Trump is expediating the inevitable downfall of your country,

              Oh no. I don’t live in the developing world like the US or Russia. Eww. Do you?

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                They were never trying to shut down the camp.
                I’ll reveal some shocking news: politicians lie!
                Oh remember how they were ‘tirelessly working on a ceasefire’ (in the genocide they are 100% complicit in BTW)?
                https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/04/29/biden-never-pushed-for-a-ceasefire-in-gaza/

                “I wouldn’t be surprised if you equated Obama to Putin next. Which would give away your allegiance pretty efficiently.”
                TF is that supposed to mean?
                Putin never had a 90% innocent civilian casualty rate from droning.
                He is a saint compared to that mass murderer.
                Or is this your way of deflecting?
                I know libs do that and get angry when confronted with how horrible their party is.
                Oh look, here’s another great human being:
                https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fhold-up-let-him-cook-v0-2y9jhfrg1eye1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Df70011d231371d198dbc974e9bf5de6238aac972

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                  He is a saint compared to that mass murderer.

                  Oh okay you’re a Russian troll.

                  You’re gonna argue that, obviously. Reality doesn’t matter and the fact that they got the prisoners reduced by ~98% doesn’t matter and you literally writing “Putin is a saint compared to Obama” won’t matter.

                  “Deflecting” from what, exactly? From me arguing that you’re equating all US leaders? That’s exactly what we’re doing.

                  Your argument is that “all US leaders are unemotional mass murderers and to be equated morally”, because Ruski propaganda at the moment wants Krasnov/Trump to not seem as the shitshow he and his government is.

                  I’m in the Finnish reserves and I’m laughing at GIFs of orcs getting deleted in Ukraine. I’m ready to see you at the border, buddy. Fucking bring it.

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      Scott Adams. I wasn’t a big fan of Dilbert but I liked it. I read one of his books and thought it was pretty good. Found him on Twitter and wow…

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        Oh man what a guy he is.

        He’s like JK Rollings for GenX.

        Every GenX person I knew had a dilbert comic or at least knew someone. Not today.

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    Totally. It was the greatest country I could think of in the 90s but now it feels much like a low quality, low opportunity, no future hellhole 😢

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      I felt like things were improving in the ‘90s heading into the 2000s. Let’s face it, things are never perfect, so this constant reminder that even though things were improving there was all this other shit that was still wrong gets kinda old. Overall, things did seem to be calming down after the Gulf War 1, 80’s interest rates, S&L scandals, etc. and you could still reasonably follow the “school to college to get a good job” path. Then 9/11 happened and it went downhill quickly.

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      I mean there were major race riots in the 90s.

      I think it’s more like there were places in the US where it was fine for some people, and those bubbles are getting cracked by the constant Trump bullshit.

      Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.

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        Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.

        The 50s and 60s was a peak time for middle class white men in the US.

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          I’m not saying that the 40s-60s was the best time to live in the US, I’m saying that the other way around, in the 40s-60s the US was the best place to live in.

          So yeah, for example Asian women might have had real problems, even get put into internment camps in the US, but at least they weren’t mass raped like on the Eastern European or Asian fronts.

          So that’s a load bearing comparatively.

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        Yeah it’s the bubbles we all live in. When I was a kid in the 80s everything felt great. Skateboarding was big, bmx. Years later I realized a field 2 miles from my house was s dumping ground for a serial killer at that time. The US was a fucking shit hole then… and all decades before that. It’s still a shithole but I feel like its peak was 2015. Gay marriage had just been legalized. Crime at a relative low. Previous shittyness getting exposed at a high rate. Trump was nearly a forgotten figure.

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        And massively profit from WW2 loans and rebuilding while their competition Japan and Europe got destroyed and reduced to vasals.