slumlordthanatos

True, but it's not something you should completely shy away from, either.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" isn't just advice for international diplomacy.

When the sorry's end, the war crimes begin.

If he actually tried to follow through, there would actually probably be a military coup.

In America.

This vexes me.

Man, Smedley Butler underwent a hell of an arc. From being a proud soldier of American imperialism, to becoming the father of modern police forces, to foiling a fascist plot to overthrow the country and becoming an outspoken anti-war advocate. He went from one end of the political spectrum to the other.

Aaaaaaaaand you didn't just take the option to sabotage them from the inside?

There's plenty of options for that, you know.

Politics have become a team sport. All discourse has become a team sport. It’s binary.

I've started to notice that this particular brain rot is becoming more and more common among Democrats as well. To a distressing number of people I've encountered on the Internet, be it here, Reddit, or elsewhere, Democrats ran a perfect political campaign and their candidates and policy were flawless and above question, so it's entirely the fault of the voters that we got Trump again. Never mind that Democrats actively facilitated a genocide and largely ignored their base in favor of appealing to moderate Republicans who were never going to vote for them anyway.

The number of people in this country who are just incapable of seeing (much less understanding) any kind of nuance is dropping rapidly, even among demographics who should be aware of this trend.

It's definitely nostalgic for me, since one set of grandparents smoked when I was a kid. It never really bothered me...unless I was driving in their car, where it would give me motion sickness. I was never prone to it otherwise; only when driving on mountain roads in a car that reeked of cigarettes.

To their credit, they quit smoking when my older sister had her first kid, but the smell of cigarettes just throws me back to the summers spent helping Grandpa with whatever home improvement project he was working on.

Same energy as this Key and Peele bit.

Maybe so, but the last time this happened, it took both World Wars and the Great Depression to pull us out of the Gilded Age.

It's gonna get reeeeeeeeal fuckin' dicey over the next 30 years or so.

These people had no problem actively facilitating a genoside; what's a little fascism on top of that?