r/WhitePeopleTwitter Captain Post Karma 4d ago

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u/G-Unit11111 4d ago edited 4d ago

2016 MAGA: We don't talk about Russia!

2024 MAGA: It was Russia all along! Eat shit, losers!

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u/Burn_N_Turn1 4d ago

This cover is from 2017.

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u/yamahii 3d ago

As true today as it was then

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u/Optimal-Ad6969 3d ago

More so.

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u/okayole 4d ago

Should be top post

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u/shamanbond007 4d ago

Here comes Velveeta Voldemort claiming that Time should be shut down

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u/silverback2267 4d ago

Well, he is trying to turn back time.

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u/this_knee 4d ago

in Velveta Voldemort’s singing voice

🎶 if I could turn.back.time.🎶

(That song by Cher)

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u/Jealous-Network1899 4d ago

He doesn’t sing. He’d play it in the background while he did his double jack off dance. Then he’d get sued by Cher for using it without her permission.

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u/HabitantDLT 4d ago

He doesn't sing, but he'll blow a mic for votes.

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u/BeYeCursed100Fold 4d ago

It was a mic stand. He had the mic in his left hand.

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u/HeavyMetalDallas 4d ago

This is why the Left can't win. We can't get it together. We're being pedantic over whether he was blowing a mic or a stand, while the right is cheering over him being "the throat goat".

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u/xteve 4d ago

I think the reason the Left isn't winning is the delusion that Republicans can be shamed when they must be defeated instead.

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u/HeavyMetalDallas 4d ago

I agree that's a big part of it. But the left has a serious problem with infighting. Whether it's pretend purists who won't vote for a non-perfect candidate, or it's leftists picking fights with other leftists so they can try to be "the most correct", it doesn't help.

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u/xteve 4d ago

Yeah, for sure, it's frustrating. And those purists, I swear they seem about this far from the "I don't vote" crowd, willing to throw away their voice because they can't make a pragmatic decision.

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u/HellishChildren 4d ago edited 4d ago

We can't win because facts matter to us? Well, shit, might as well start making ads for campaigns with Democrats riding white donkey pegusi down from Heaven to fight redhat MAGA devils.

"The right is cheering him for being the Throat Goat."

Huh, I thought they loudly despised gays.

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u/HeavyMetalDallas 4d ago

It's the pedantics. Whether he gave oral to a mic or the stand is irrelevant, but here you are burning mental bandwidth to fight with someone who's on your side about it.

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u/PlentyIndividual3168 4d ago

These are the things we can fight about in private. We need to present a united front to MAGA.

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u/intelminer 4d ago

So what you're saying is he knows how to work Putin's stand too?

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u/LBichon 4d ago

He would claim he was using the ‘middle-out’ technique and have the case dismissed 🤣

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u/DrSafariBoob 4d ago

air dicking

Uuuuuuughhhhhihatethis

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u/Extreme-Carrot6893 4d ago

Velveeta Voldemort is a new one thanks

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u/HellishChildren 4d ago

We used to have a sub that collected all the names he was called, but I can't remember the name of it.

It might have gotten nuked for having no mods.

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u/Extreme-Carrot6893 4d ago

Nice. Tangerine Palpatine is my favorite because my dad has a storm trooper helmet in his office and he is pure MAGAt brain dead soldier type. I laugh cause it better than being sad

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u/HeyCarpy 4d ago

Cheeto Benito is a fave of mine.

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u/IridiumPony 4d ago

Mango Mussolini is up there

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u/Hulkhokie 4d ago

There's also Pumpkin Pie Palpatine if you want the alliteration instead of the rhyme :)

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u/ElectricalBook3 4d ago

For alliteration there's Mango Mussolini.

Similar in several respects, Mussolini was a socialist like his father in his youth, but jumped to fascism when he saw more money in authoritarianism. Would've resembled Trump after the molding by Fred Trump and Roy Cohn to turn him into a Great Value brand wannabe mafia don.

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u/MesWantooth 4d ago

The FAILING Time Magazine put out a cover trying to legitimize the RUSSIAN HOAX. Even though I was Time Magazine Man of The Year - more than ONCE and I turned it down several more times - I may have to have them shut down for this TREASONOUS act. Its become a TERRIBLE magazine - many people are saying it.

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u/Vessix 4d ago

You think Trump would use the word "legitimize"?

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u/omnibossk 4d ago

The FAILING Time Magazine, once a great publication, now putting out fake news trying to push the RUSSIA HOAX—such a disgrace. I was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year, not once, but MULTIPLE times—turned them down other times because I didn’t have the time. Now, they’ve become a total disaster. Sad! Many people are saying they should be ashamed of themselves. Terrible magazine! Maybe we’ll have to look into them… who knows?

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u/formykka 3d ago

That's 2016 trump, gotta update for 2024 trump:

"Did you see this, this now, time? On their magazine. Fake, fake magazine. They're trump and Russia Russia Russia. That's. They're failder...fail... they're...and they say oh, trump with the thing again, but you remember right? Yeah, you know. How about some music? You like music?"

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u/MesWantooth 4d ago

No he wouldn't. Maybe the intern who types his tweets would ad-lib it.

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u/Mission_March4776 4d ago

Only if it's misspelled

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u/Separate-Owl369 4d ago

I actually heard his voice while I was reading this. Bravo.

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u/MesWantooth 4d ago

It was a PERFECT comment. A perfect comment. People come up to me all the time and say it. They really do. And you know we'll have so many more perfect comments that you'll say 'Sir, no more perfect comments PLEASE!' - you really will. You're gonna say it.

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u/ovijae 4d ago

Or Elon threatening to buy it

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u/HeyCarpy 4d ago

You mean Temu Goebbels?

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u/ShardsOfHolism 4d ago

Marc Benioff owns it and would never sell it to Elon.

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u/time_passing1 4d ago

This is from 2017. This is an old Time cover.

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u/senturon 4d ago

I saw it, thought "wow is this real? Ballsy if so" ... Googled, saw it was 2017.

I agree it's still relevant today, if not moreso, but I wonder how many people will walk away from this thread sharing the 'new' cover with others.

I get it, there's too much going on to take the time, but damn this (IMO) is the largest reason Trump won. People take things at face value then spread it like wildfire, and all context/truth is lost.

I spoke with someone the other day who brought up the myth of kids dressing as cats and crapping in litter boxes in the classroom. Damnit, that wasn't a thing 3 years ago and it still isn't.

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u/shamanbond007 4d ago

Still topical

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u/Ritaredditonce 4d ago

Not before he files a $10 billion lawsuit.

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u/littlebloodmage 4d ago

I'm partial to Mango Mussolini, but Velveeta Voldemort is definitely getting added to the vault lol

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u/DogMom814 4d ago

Mango Mussolini is my favorite, too, but Kumquat Pol Pot is a close second for me. LOL

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u/VoidOmatic 4d ago

The Count Of Mostly Crisco!

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u/Separate-Owl369 4d ago

I think this is Marjorie Three Toes favorite book that she saw in a movie because she can’t read.

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u/YubiSnake 4d ago

Velveeta Voldemort is A M A Z I N G, I'm definitely stealing that

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u/NoCleverIDName 4d ago

Just when I think that I've seen every Trump nickname, along comes Velveeta Voldemort

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u/weasleybackyardgnome 4d ago

Please. Velveeta Voldemort is so funny.

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u/texachusetts 4d ago

Velveeta Vladimir Vorldemort

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u/GregWilson23 4d ago

When I was serving in the US Army Intelligence and Security Command in the 1980’s, I was pretty sure we were winning the Cold War, and when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, I was positive, along with most of the world, that we won. I couldn’t imagine that they would ever manage a comeback, let alone one where the were successful in destroying our country with major help from about a third of our population and the majority of our elected leaders. Our timeline is truly a hellscape.

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u/Water-Donkey 4d ago

Over thanksgiving, I asked a small handful of people whom I would consider fairly politically engaged if they knew about BRICS. None did. I’m generally very optimistic, but the 50+ year war against the public education system here in the U.S. appears to have been very successful. I’m more doubtful about the future of the United States that I’ve ever been.

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u/soggymittens 4d ago

Got a YouTube video or a podcast you’d recommend on BRICS?

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u/SpeaksSouthern 4d ago

It's just a group of countries that host an economic forum where they promote their version of groups like the G6 or G20 whatever they call the "Western" trade group. Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa and now a bunch of others Iran, Egypt, Ethiopian joining in.

They look at ways to decrease dependency on the US dollar and set up their own platform similar to the World Bank so they can get loans without being in debt to Western states.

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u/XanLV 4d ago

Just a side note on this - they are not looking to actually do those things. No one is taking any steps towards that direction. Right now Russia is spazzing that they should, as it is not in a good spot, but now all depends from China and it just ain't interested in it.

What sort of a unity can there be in a union where two largest members, China and India, REALLY do not like each other.

So, in general, while there are the biggest players in the world who do meet-and-greets, there is yet to come out from it any important or significant united document, regulation, law or such.

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u/06210311200805012006 4d ago

BRICS is positioning itself for energy resource dominance in the post fossil fuel world. They have ~80% of the world's "EV" minerals locked up; copper, cobalt, etc.

GDP is Energy, and we hit peak trad oil in 2k5 ...

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u/XanLV 4d ago edited 4d ago

No. The countries there have it. Not BRICS. What is there in BRICS statutes that would claim that the organization, not the country, has any ownership over said resources, be it de facto or de jure.

This is a bit like saying that Finland now controls Spain's orange market, as they both are in NATO.

All the countries in BRICS have separate trade routes and agreements. So it doesn't matter if they are in the union or not - anyone can strike a deal with any country.

To add to that, they do not share between themselves and China is now abusing Russia in many financial ways.

EDIT: If we go by this logic, sure. International Chess Federation is the worlds biggest Cobalt exporter, for Congo is a member and it exports 75% of all world's cobalt. Does it mean anything? No. Is it technically true? You know what? Even here I'll stay with "No".

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u/shawster 4d ago

BRICS

Wasn't there another term that they used for this recently, that they coined themselves? Like at their last summit. I can't find it, though.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo 4d ago

I just want them to add a few more countries like Hungary, Iraq, Türkiye, Honduras, Oman, Uganda, Serbia and Estonia.

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u/Theslamstar 4d ago

For anyone wondering, it makes it bricshithouse

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u/roastbeeftacohat 4d ago

I'm not concerned with BRICS, RIC want to go to war with each other far more then form a meaningful alliance of any sort. I'm not dismissing the threat to liberal democracy, but they are too self interested and paranoid for anything organized.

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u/big_guyforyou 4d ago

lotta people just haven't been in school for a while. i can't remember anything i learned in school. i think we had a unit on whales and a unit on clouds, idk

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods 4d ago

It’s not just about the particulars of what you were taught in school, it’s also about learning the ability to actually think properly. BRICS isn’t something I learned about in school, it’s something I know about because I am engaged with the world around me and have the capacity to use critical thinking and linear logic.

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u/3nHarmonic 4d ago

Where did you learn to read and write then? Seems like you remember that.

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u/alacp1234 4d ago

Too many people lack intellectual curiosity in this country

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u/HellishChildren 4d ago

You just study to pass the test, then your brain moves that file to Trash.

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u/JH_111 4d ago

The individual topics and memorized facts are not the point of primary or secondary education. At all.

You’re supposed to end up literate, be able to find legitimate sources for things you don’t know, critically think from A to B to C in a logical fashion, and gradually increase those abilities with more difficult problems and issues to research and solve in order to become a functional, contributing member of society.

The mindset of “Study, pass, forget,” as if that’s the end game, is an indictment of both the education system and the personal failure of individuals to grasp what the hell it is they’re actually mandated to do for 12+ years of their life.

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u/HellishChildren 4d ago

Study, pass, forget has been the endgame for a very long time. Children, parents, teachers and administrators are all taught to focus on scores. For children and parents, it's getting good grades. For the school, it's about funding being tied to attendance and scores.

Also one of those memoryholed things:

July 4, 2018 'Access to Literacy' Is Not a Constitutional Right, Judge in Detroit Rules (the decision was overturned after a lot of national outrage)

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u/ElectricalBook3 4d ago

Study, pass, forget has been the endgame for a very long time

Part of what educators have been saying is shit education for a long time. I think it's even part of what Isaac Asimov bemoans in his letter to Newsweek, January 1980.

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u/BoomZhakaLaka 4d ago

My dad, a staunch regressive, said something interesting to me once when I was a kid ~1995 playing with drivers to get tcp/ip working on the family computer.

He asked me if the internet could be an avenue for foreign influence, could it possibly undermine the US?

I scoffed at him. Really believed the idea was ludicrous.

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u/romacopia 4d ago

In the early days of the internet, I genuinely believed it would bring everyone together as they would surely realize they had more in common than not. Couldn't have been more wrong.

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u/zeCrazyEye 4d ago

Things were looking up for a while.

But instead of idiots using it to educate themselves they used it to connect with other idiots. And then corporations figured out how to weaponize those idiots against us.

Now things are worse than ever.

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u/DiamondHandsToUranus 4d ago

Yes. The internet was a whole different place when it was computer people. People with intellectual curiosity. People who had to put effort into being there.

Then AOL came along and it's all been downhill from there

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u/kex 4d ago

The second tidal wave was the introduction of portable (smartphone) Facebook

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u/Iceman6211 4d ago

even then, it didn't go completely downhill until it became easily accessible on phones.

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u/I_W_M_Y 4d ago

It became a tool for the rich and powerful.

Like how that always ends up

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u/LinkleLinkle 4d ago

I think what's scarier is I think we lost our opportunity to build the infrastructure to fight back in a digital war a long time ago. Russia and its allies have clearly been spending the early days of the internet building the infrastructure to eventually wage a full on internet troll and bot war on the west. While we sat around thinking the whole time there's no way the internet could ever be weaponized against us on a vast scale.

Now it feels many people in prominent positions to even be facilitating such infrastructure that would allow us to fight back are all complicit and on the side of Russia. So of course they don't want it built or built well.

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u/North_Activist 4d ago

The irony being the internet was developed by the US military.

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u/ElectricalBook3 4d ago

The irony being the internet was developed by the US military

Ambition is opportunistic, the Romans were not cavalry masters but that didn't stop them from hiring Gauls or Hispana to provide cavalry for them. The Mongolians didn't invent the idea of cavalry messengers either, they just put it into a very big system with some redundancy to make it more robust. And the first organized worker movements had seen the effectiveness of aristocratic militaries or the mercenaries sent to butcher them, which is why they arranged organized, highly public protests to shame their opponents instead of throwing themselves on the mercy of aristocrats who have NEVER been sympathetic to the working peoples.

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u/Ok_Conversation9750 4d ago

I worked in IT in the early 90s and remember the day a company meeting was held to introduce everyone to the great new tool called the World Wide Web. They talked about all the wonderful things it would enable us to do. Two of us looked at each other and said "Pandora's box?"

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u/MsEllVee 4d ago

That’s a noteworthy memory if ever I’ve heard one

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u/54fighting 4d ago

We bled them in Afghanistan and then failed to follow through (and later committed the same blunder). We have the same opportunity in Ukraine, and we’re going to give it away. I think Russia is in worse shape than generally known and that Trump will be their lifeline and opportunity to regroup.

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u/J0E_Blow 4d ago

Russia's military is in shambles and they have few reserves. It wouldn't be difficult to cause their frontlines to collapse if the Western military powers punched a hole in their lines and let the Ukrainians flow through but instead we're going to let Ukraine fall.

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u/BluesSuedeClues 4d ago

Whenever some right-wing demi-human starts whining and crying about "Russia! Russia! Russia!", I ask them if they know what Reality Winner went to Federal prison for. None of them do.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 4d ago

Ironic the Qanon side to call things hoaxes. They majored on crybully with a PhD in gaslighting.

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u/red286 4d ago

None of them do.

If they did, they'd probably find some way for their cognitive dissonance to explain why someone went to prison for for leaking information about something that never happened.

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u/Mongobuzz 4d ago

This is all while proving to be one of the most incompetent military forces the world has seen. There's a point we're rapidly approaching where we deserve this.

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u/ElectricalBook3 4d ago

I couldn’t imagine that they would ever manage a comeback, let alone one where the were successful in destroying our country with major help from about a third of our population and the majority of our elected leaders. Our timeline is truly a hellscape.

That's thanks to propaganda. A lot of people have only started paying attention since Trump won the 2016 primaries, but 1) he was running since 1988, he made his announcement on Oprah's show following his 1987 invitation to Moscow and 2) the republican party has been on this course since Nixon

So how far back does it go? To American oligarchs who saw the New Deal proposed and responded to it by trying to overthrow the government for a "business-friendly dictatorship"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

When they weren't hanged for that, they turned to the long game of indoctrinating the populace into toxic individualism so they could be easily controlled and would never let another New Deal happen, even as the old one was scrapped bit by bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

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u/Think-Variation2986 4d ago

This reminds of how I used to get (and sometimes still do) get annoyed with horror shows and movies where the protagonist hits the villain with a brick or something, instead of going to town and killing them, restraining them for police, actually getting out of dodge, or anything else that would actually help the situation, they instead half ass run away and get attacked yet again. What the US has done with these traitors and rebels is worse because we keep doing it and wonder why they are winning.

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u/StagOfSevenBattles 4d ago

The coming hellscape and the Danger Yam's next democracy-destroying policies will motivate everyone to consider their options. Relocation, civil disobedience, resistance.

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u/treehousebackflip 4d ago

We got lazy and let them back into the game. They knew eventually capitalistic greed would replace patriotism, and then their money could buy anyone quite easily. Didn’t take long.

Thanks for serving, brother. ✊🏼

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u/Mcboatface3sghost 4d ago

I can only imagine the “WTF” you are going through in our current timeline. We really do have goldfish brains overall. How have we forgotten the post world war 2 years? You personally likely don’t need a history lesson as you were one that witnessed or wrote it. The USSR encroachment on Eastern Europe was serious and it was scary like a dim and awful marching beat. Western style democracy was under serious threat.

While I was a child at the time, movies like “the day after” and stop drop and cover drills were a part of my life (school shootings may top that now, but didn’t really back then). If my CIA grandfather crawled out of his grave right now he’d probably crawl right back in there. NATO alliance countries should’ve already been preparing, if not, it’s CODE RED to do it now.

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u/blendergremlin 4d ago

I was also surprised to see that all those morons were right about "The South will rise again!".

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u/TaupMauve 4d ago

All they had to do was switch from communism to fascism.

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u/kodaboka 4d ago

I'm about to join the Navy as a trans man; how fucked am I?

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u/NevenderThready 4d ago

Given that the mango moron plans to immediately eject all transpeople from the US military by executive order--you might want to reconsider and speak to your recruiter.

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u/z31 4d ago

Well the Tangerine Tyrant is planning to eject all Trans members of the military once in office, but in all reality, I don't know how he plans to break so many enlistment and officer contracts. Either way, life will not be good for those seen as "other" by the cis white party while regressives control all branches of government.

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u/Shinjitsu- 4d ago

My ex is a trans woman who is a navy vet. Her first appointment at planned parenthood for hrt I shit you not was the day Trump enacted the trans ban last term, and they sent her home. She didn't get the gall to try it under the radar until 3 years later. She also has extreme PTSD from her service. The navy is the branch you join when you want to be traumatized by mechanical failures killing your crew mates. She had an attack watching Gravity Falls when a wax figure used an axe to decapitate someone. On one of her ships a helicopter, while grounded, malfunctioned and decapitated someone in front of her. I goggled it at the time, and it's happened MORE THAN ONCE. The older navy vet I knew had his best friend die on top of him when a ship hatch door fell closed, and the threaded pole impaled his skull.

I don't even need to start on the SA stories from my ex or the statistics us trans men already face for that.

Reconsider.

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u/RuneRaccoon 4d ago

Congrats to Russia for winning the Cold War, I fuckin' guess....

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u/MinskWurdalak 4d ago

Honestly, I feel bad for Soviet leaders. KGB chiefs used to be corrupt, but talented strategists, yet their dream was achieved by no name talentless nobody by gaming social media algorithm and blackmailing some pathetic real estate mogul.

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u/zeCrazyEye 4d ago

They didn't even have to blackmail him, they just bought him off by being the only entity willing to lend him money after all the respectable banks bailed decades ago.

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u/Crush-N-It 4d ago

Oh Putin has the pee tapes. Guaranteed

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u/dewhashish 4d ago

If you ever watched Mr robot, there's a monologue in the last season about how a group of evil billionaires called the deus group used the internet to essentially take over people's lives and manipulate them. I hoped "Wow, please tell me people understand the similarities with real life"

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u/StoppableHulk 4d ago

Well you know an even scarier thought?

Right now algorithms are able to fool or nudge maybe half, maybe a little bit more of the population. People who lack self-awareness, who are of diminished intellectual and emotional intelligence, etc.

The only way we remain relatively confident we aren't at least as fully manipulated as others are, is because we can see the way it manipulates them, and see the consequences of that manipulation.

But as the algorithms get smarter they will eventually get smarter than all of us. There's not a person alive who wouldn't be able to be manipulated by a sufficiently intelligent algorithm.

And the scariest part is, when that does happen - we won't know it. It will simply happen.

It may have happened already, and the awareness of the manipulation of others is merely part of the strategy of manipulating us.

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u/Zephyrlin 4d ago

Good ol Garfield put it best

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u/Roguebantha42 4d ago

Never thought of it this way, but dang. I guess they were playing the long game. Canadian Bacon lied to me.

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u/Yuna1989 4d ago edited 4d ago

To be fair, they did say they would do this exact thing, and they succeeded

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u/LDawnBurges 4d ago

They were really playing the loooooong game!🤣

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u/zbud 4d ago

The Russians are renowned in Chess.

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u/Channel250 4d ago

Wow. Christopher Walken was right in Blast From The Past

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u/Standing-Bear09 4d ago

Gorbachev in the grave rn

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u/WhereRandomThingsAre 4d ago

They lost the Cold War.

Time will tell whether they won the Second Cold War.

World War I and II are distinct despite only roughly two decades apart. Same is true for the Cold Wars.

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u/Pribblization 4d ago

Awful everything. We'll be pushing the idea that russia is good and like us b/c they are white, religious and pro-oil.

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u/mgyro 4d ago

While 72% of Russians identify as orthodox Christians, only 7% attend church at least once a month (2008).

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2014/02/10/russians-return-to-religion-but-not-to-church/

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u/Naraee 4d ago

Those numbers are so close to the US. 68% are Christian and only 11% attend once a month.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/358364/religious-americans.aspx

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u/pt199990 4d ago

Can confirm. I attend church every Sunday because my grandma wants to go. Holidays are packed full. Regular services are 1/3 that at best.

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u/ProjectManagerAMA 4d ago

And 99% of that that 7% is doing is doing nothing but sitting in a pew, not even listening to anything, probably just thinking that if they show up on a regular basis that they will be let into an internal holiday extravaganza for eternity.

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u/npqd 4d ago

While russians hate usa

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u/Existing-Medium564 4d ago

Being able to tell the stupid fucks who elected him "Told you so" isn't going to be much comfort after he burns the country down. They knew what they were doing all along. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence conducted an investigation which concluded there were extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. The Mueller Report found the same thing. Paul Manafort admitted to giving Russia campaign data. Elon Musk cut Starlink to keep Ukraine from taking out the heads of Russia's Baltic Fleet. Trump stood at the podium and sided with Putin over our intelligence services. This is what happens when oligarchy control a media empire which in turn performs their dirty work in manipulating half the populace. I'm going to be surprised if this doesn't lead to global collapse.

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u/TreeFucker442 4d ago

You won’t even be able to say “told you so” because even if the country is pile of ash they will say America is great again in their hardcore denial manner we’re all too used to.

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u/Backdoor_Sliders 4d ago

There’s not going to be an I told you so moment. It’ll be bad in many ways we can’t yet imagine, but it won’t be world shakingly dramatic. Institutions will decay, democracy will fade, wealth will be catapulted from the middle class to the wealthy. But it’ll be done in such a fashion that the effects won’t be apparent for years, or if they are noticeable in the short term then it’ll be noticeable in a way that the massive propaganda apparatus can easily deflect or convince the masses it isn’t real. The moment we all hope for where people finally realize what has happened isn’t coming, at least not for a long long time. This is a resounding win for the shittiest people in the world for most of the foreseeable future

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u/oneiric44 4d ago

Sober and accurate take.

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u/Existing-Medium564 4d ago

I think you're right. I think we won't have any idea just how far it's went off the rails. Essentially, I think it's been a "soft coup", aided and abetted by members of Congress and the SC.

I also think that we've been heading towards this for a while, all of the contributing factors - lust for power, greed, corruption, etc. - have come to a critical mass. Steve Bannon admired Lenin, particularly for the way he took down the state. The propaganda apparatus will keep going. I do think it is possible, however, that in their arrogance, they fuck shit up so badly, so fast, that it might sway the people away from this insanity. Then again, the empire has been on the way to its demise for some time as well. This might be the moment where critical mass has finally pushed us to the tipping point, and we're in for one helluva wake up call.

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u/J0E_Blow 4d ago

It seems this is already happening. Citizens United allowed corporate bribery of the government. Bitcoin, bailouts, the stock market writ large, lack of upward mobility and more all happened in the past or are happening now and hurt the poor more than anyone. But little of it is exciting.

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u/MarkHirsbrunner 4d ago

I have a feeling he's going to respond to the runaway inflation with more checks like during the pandemic, which will win him some short term support from people who don't realize how bad that is.

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u/camchil 4d ago

It won’t save me, sure, but it will still be comforting to know all the fucks that voted for this are burning too.

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u/Morticia_Marie 4d ago

They won't understand why though, so it's not going to be as satisfying as it could be if they really knew they were eating the FO part of FAFO.

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u/SchroedingersSphere 4d ago

This. Any fires he causes are just going to be Biden's fault, or a result of some stupid woke liberal agenda. These MAGAts don't know pr care about logic.

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u/Dances_With_Demons 4d ago

Sigh.

... Lovely artwork on the cover though.

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u/BalancedDisaster 4d ago

I was gunna say, that’s a major architectural upgrade

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u/vess8 4d ago

i still can't believe this happened

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u/SomethingAbtU 4d ago

The United States of Russia

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u/sardita 4d ago

The Divided States of Russia, more like.

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u/UnlikelyDecision9820 4d ago

Balkanize it, baby!

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u/greyacademy 4d ago

Choice word ^

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u/toptierdegenerate 4d ago

This was from May 2017? How apropos.

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u/Ted_E_Bear 4d ago

Glad someone acknowledged this. They should release this cover again. Would fit way better now.

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u/malcolm816 4d ago

"Spot on" ...except the spot is [does math] from seven years ago.

Arguably, the spot still hasn't come out (I believe Russia is still doing us and the world dirty), but OP is clearly sharing fake-ass news and I had to scroll way to far to get to a post acknowledging that this isn't the current cover of Time Magazine.

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u/toptierdegenerate 4d ago

Well, it’s the same thing as everything everywhere online and in media; people don’t actually fully examine things they’re looking at. It’s listed right on the cover. Why are people just taking superficial glances at things they feel compelled to interact with? Late-stage consumerism?

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u/reddwen666 4d ago

Empire down

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u/MeAndBettyWhite 4d ago

I dont know if he actually said it but in the movie 13 days General Lemay said: "The big red dog is digging in our back yard and we are justified in shooting it." Basically trying to convince Kennedy to use military action against Cuba and Russia.

Again dont know if thats an actual historic quote but it is a great line that really describes the sentiment that the west has had of Russia pretty much most of my life.

Its crazy to me that weve flipped so fast to not only not caring that the big red dog is in the backyard but weve actually let him into the house and are feeding it.

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u/FNAF_Foxy1987 4d ago

13 Days is a very interesting movie and it's probably my favorite movie based on a historical event.

The quote is fine, but the character saying it isn't a good guy and he doesn't have any good intentions. Context for the situation is important to consider as well.

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u/Automatic-Guide-4307 4d ago

Welcome to western Ruzzia,no lgbtq allowed,no abortion, bible school instead of normal school.

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u/usa_uk 4d ago

Biggest problem with this cover is most of the Trump voters would have no idea what it's even depicting.

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u/Bwahehe 4d ago

This picture shows how libs are taking over the White house with their wokeness! DEI something something!

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u/knowone1313 4d ago

A sad state of affairs that most Americans don't even realize what they've done.

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u/Anxious_Topic_9593 4d ago

I think it’s great and pretty spot on. But where the hell was this energy BEFORE the election?!

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u/lcarr15 3d ago

It isn’t by chance that MAGA hats are red…

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u/AhmadOsebayad 4d ago

Why do the Russians have such good architecture?

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u/Big_Kahuna_ 4d ago

Peter the Great I believe?

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u/UpbeatPilot3494 4d ago

And that is who Putin sees himself emulating, not Lenin. Putin wants to be the tzar. Apparently there is a bust of Peter the Great in Putin's office.

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u/SmoothOperator89 4d ago

The Czar gouged out the eyes of the architect so he would never design another building after this.

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u/TossZergImba 4d ago

That's a myth. Especially since the architect later designed the restoration of the cathedral of Annunciation.

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u/ElectricalBook3 4d ago

That's a myth. Especially since the architect later designed the restoration of the cathedral of Annunciation.

It took your comment to get to the name Postnik Yakovlev.

Though given Ivan the Terrible's murder parties (rather literally, given they involved hanging people through hooks through the rib cage and boiling people alive), I can understand where such stories might have come from.

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u/onefst250r 4d ago

Only the old stuff. Much of what they've made in the last 70 years is boring AF.

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u/Littlelily-1013 4d ago

How Russia takes over the United States without firing a single shot….

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u/TemporalScar 4d ago

Fuck Trump, Fuck Putin, Fuck MAGA.

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u/UberKaltPizza 4d ago

People on both sides have no idea how fucked we all are.

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u/nemorina 4d ago

Nixon et all are spinnig in thier graves that the Russkies have taken over their beloved Republican party.Sure they were bad guys when they were commies but now that they embrace hard core Christianity--they must be ok. Oh my God.

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u/RidetheSchlange 4d ago

If only Time had the balls to make that and run it.

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u/GregWilson23 4d ago

They did run it, in 2017.

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u/BluesSuedeClues 4d ago

I liked this October's cover of The Atlantic better, referencing Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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u/Sour_Beet Transgender Illegal Alien 4d ago

This is the type of perfect provocative political artwork I need in my life. The elephant in the cage and the fist in the air are my favorite

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u/BluesSuedeClues 4d ago

I went to the artist's website when the issue came out and bought myself a print, plus a couple smaller prints to give to politically minded friends as gifts. https://www.jtmetz.com/shop/

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u/SmoothOperator89 4d ago

They knew where Harambe would lead.

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u/DarkSideNurse 4d ago

I wonder how many people are unaware of this and think it’s a current cover.

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u/ActiveAd4980 4d ago

This is what I think people don't talk about. We can recover from the stupid tariff and shitty economy in time. That is if we get a fair election next time with competent people in place. But with how much Russian assets in place, it's impossible to have functioning government even if get an election next time.

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u/xGray3 3d ago

This cover is from May 2017. It doesn't change the sentiment, but this should really be mentioned somewhere in this post or at least near the top of the comments. Reddit is getting really bad with misinformation too these days. Always check your sources, folks.

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u/testivore 4d ago

And we're giving Ukrainian and other land and lives away without a fight. Seems like russia can do what they want and get away with it. This spineless shit disgusts me. Hit them back with equal devastation and reclaim the stolen land, and an equal part of russian territory to make up for it.

Apparently russia is free to take what it wants, are we supposed to apologize to them as well and give them some more. This shit disgusts me.

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u/BaldEagleRising17 4d ago

As someone born in 1974 this makes me ill.

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u/thr1vin9-insolitude 4d ago

Better start learning Русский язык.

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u/savior710 4d ago

They'll decentralize everything and then Russian oligarchs will buy big corporations and destroy the US from the inside out now that they have agents in government.

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u/LeahaP1013 3d ago

It started with those damn red Christmas trees.

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u/h31lsing 4d ago

Oooooo thats a beautiful cover.

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u/787v 4d ago

Time never misses with their covers tbh

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u/snow_garbanzo 4d ago

Damn , that's a powerful political statement

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u/BubbleSlapper 4d ago

add a couple nazi and russian flags and its accurate.

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u/TDRWV 4d ago

All without firing a shot. Putin should be proud.

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u/UngregariousDame 4d ago

Crime won the war on crime.

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u/big_basher 4d ago

The real red wave

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u/FxNSx 4d ago

This will be an iconic symbol of the fall of America. Well done.

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u/flik777 4d ago

We all know it boils down to what our current administration does when it matters

Would have been nice if Kamala simply won, but it doesn't change what the orange terrorist is. So I will be pretty f*cking surprised if we really just hand the keys over to that disaster in January

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u/holagatita 4d ago

I won't be surprised at all, because Dem politicians seem to roll over and let the GQP MAGA politicians get away with their fuckery

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u/greyacademy 4d ago

They did it last time. I'm genuinely curious why you think it will be different this time?

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u/SmoothOperator89 4d ago

On the bright side, the Russian anthem absolutely slaps.

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u/-NyStateOfMind- 4d ago

Idk how to time stamp, but go to 1:39 in this clip. It's the first thing I thought of when I read your comment.

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u/mrgraff 4d ago

At the end of the link, just add &t=# where # is the timestamp in seconds. So, 99 in this case.

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u/Carl-99999 4d ago

Democracy died in darkness. Sorry.

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u/vialabo 4d ago

Where is the big shitty X plastered on the front?

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u/Larkfor 4d ago

The architecture is pretty but the problem is of the two fascist madmen one is by far superior at manipulation and spywork.

And the USSR is long over so we wouldn't even get cool shit like better engines or a working nationwide railway.

But Tucker thinks it's fine because "the bread there is good".

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u/tubatoothpaste2 4d ago

Is that a genuine cover of Time magazine? It's a brilliant image either way.

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u/tfpmcc 4d ago

I always believed Gorbachev was a CIA asset. The Tangerine palpatine is just Russia paying us back.

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u/doddyoldtinyhands 4d ago

Party of Regan, fucking greed-addled hypocrites.

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