• IninewCrow
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        19 days ago

        The extreme of that logic is like saying you do eat your vegetables … because your food originally ate vegetables

    • qyron
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      19 days ago

      Not an american but, apparently, still as much confused as you are over the concept.

      • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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        19 days ago

        As an American I understand the concept of deep frying as a personal lifestyle choice.

        I suppose the best analogy would be the difference between knowing horses were a thing and actually getting on a buking bronco.

  • Yeah… Every time I mention the looming recession, this is the answer…

    “it’s just temporary”

    We are fucking temporary, you dumbasses!

  • @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    69 days ago

    Saw an idiot on social media say, “Sometimes you have to knock it down to rebuild”, in response to Trump killing the Department of Education. I asked him it he figures Trump has a concept of a plan to rebuild critical institutions.

  • stebo
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    49 days ago

    until it is about climate change policies and then they drop this rhetoric

  • @CM400@lemmy.world
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    38 days ago

    What’s the significance of the amputated leg?

    As a metaphor I get it, but it seems to be a reference that I’m not getting.

    • Not sure, probably meant to indicate the MAGA is someone in need of care, someone on disability or a veteran. Someone who was directly impacted by maga decisions but still drinks the Kool-aid

    • @scbasteve7@lemm.ee
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      Could be paying an arm and a leg. He already paid with his leg, doesn’t realize that the arms next. Also why he’s still optimistic. Doesn’t realize that the worst of it hasn’t even happened yet. (Also the artist might have just not known how to draw him chained up like the rest with just one arm)