• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          a shocking number of americans don’t know the first thing about the material conditions and systems failures that led to the second world war. i learned about horst wessel in a library book after i finished college

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    Those vets didn’t preach Jesus bullshit to millions of followers. Those vets can’t spin up millions of religious fanatics into a frenzy. The influence those vets have, just isn’t enough to advance the Republican agenda.

    Those MAGA eat it up. Because it’s easy to just stack on the hate and boy…does MAGA love to hate.

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      First time learning about the republicans, eh? Yes, that is one of their MOs.

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      We’re reaching levels of stupid that shouldn’t even be possible.

      Our education is mostly a childcare system masquerading as education and it shows.

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      In the mid-80’s a new newspaper was launched called “USA Today”. It was a national newspaper which was kind of novel, as most were regional, but the big thing was that it was very specifically written for a fifth-grade reading level. It was a big deal at the time - a lot of “doom and gloom” naysayers talking about how we were dumbing down the “populace” (that’s a fancy word meaning everybody) and so on.

      Around this time Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine so AM radio stations could blowtorch right-wing assholery 24/7 and not have to worry about pesky counterpoint arguments.

      In the mid-90s a bunch of Nixon sycophants started Fox News and actively attacked reason and logic.

      Somewhere around the Iraq War II: Geedubz Boogaloo, we got faceplant and twits, two “apps” that let everyone hold forth on their lifelong scholarly pursuits.

      And now, all of those things have been replicated around the world for - well, at least a decade or two now. So. Heads up!

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    I don’t give a shit how people honor thier friends, but I object to my tax dollars being used to honor friends of the executive branch. I mean if this was one of JD Vance’s college buddies that we all paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for that would be illegal right? How exactly is this different?

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    This is STUPID! We LOVE the Veterans! THATS why we DONT give them Military Honors and INSTEAD labeling them TERRORISTS for Fighting the Nazis!

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    Veterans? You mean people who went abroad to fight in wars? Against fascist regimes? You mean the anti-fascist soldiers? Antifa doesn’t deserve respect or even human rights really

    /s

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    In the event of actual war, he would be right behind you with his full support. There is speculation as to how far behind you and even on which continent, but he would be right behind every US soldier!

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    They are trying to make him a MAGA martyr. Stop challenging them, or else you will be canceled.

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    Maybe it’s less about DISrespecting the military, but MORE about respecting what Kirk actually did. Which means that people like Kirk do WAY more damage than we know.