Phoenicianpirate

joined 3 months ago
[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

More like conservatives who like weed.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Mongoose! Even better!

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Fuck, the cat grabbing the snake is just perfect!

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't get it. Can someone explain it to me?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Which is his intention.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago (7 children)

For most of my life I blissfully had no idea who Trump was, as I grew up in the Middle East and not North America. While I did hear his name a few times I had no idea who he was or what he did or anything about him.

But the first time I heard him was back in 2010 when I saw YouTube interviews with Trump I wasn't initially sure of what to make of his proposed tariffs with China (and he was talking about them back then), but after just some thinking (I had just graduated with a Bachelors in business at the time) and more reading I concluded that his idea was bonkers.

Then cracked.com made an entire series of articles that were wildly successful that documented just what a horrific businessman and human being he was. You know on how comments sections anywhere are often highly toxic and conflict ridden? The comments on the Trump articles were actually quite unanimous on how much everyone hated Trump!

I still can't believe that he won and I cannot believe that his presidency was real.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I remember in the very early 2000s online when people were talking about the superiority of the west and how the west had problems, but due to the west's unique ability to debate and have introspection (no joke, some believed that no other culture does that) they solved those issues forever.

And those were not just wrong. They were wrong in the most embarrassing ways imaginable, and also probably Trump voters now.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

As the old adage goes, a fool and his money are soon parted.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Askhistorians is king.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Also trolls and propagandists employ bad faith tactics specifically to make their opposition do the bulk of the world, which they either ignore after or they just laugh at for some bullshit reason they claim is a gotcha.

There is an Islamophobic author who has been employing shit like in his books since the 90s. It isn't new at all.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

And the sources they claim to have heavily researched often never say what they claim they say or are utterly full of shit.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And their own sources are so heavily butchered or even lied about. I cannot count the amount of times people provided me with 'sources' that they claim were ironclad in their favor only for them to completely debunk their shit...

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