• crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      the dictatorship of the proletariate is oppressing him.

      we control everything in the world and only through supreme cunning have the fash taken the reigns of power and enabled their self defense against our unjust mob rule.

      if not for the brave brave heroic right wing stopping us from instituting the degenerate socialist policies of the left, by denying us representation and outright murdering us, we wouldve brought about the fall of western civilization long ago, killing all those innocent right wingers in a politically motivated genocide by demanding equality.

      truly the right wing are the underdogs

      ... :gui-trans: :gui-trans: :gui-trans:

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Chuddenhouse

      I'm picturing Milhouse dropping slurs before he shoots three people.

    • CuminAndSalt [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      TYRANNY? FROM FUCKING WHO? WHAT STATE IS OPPRESSING HIM?

      Cancel Culture and uppity protesters who won't lick the boot that's kicking them. The boot isn't tyranny tho

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    In a jokerified way, it is funny that this is exactly what history will say if the fash win. 200 years down the line, if the world even exists and we aren't in some primitive hellhole, I'm sure some libs will start to confront the past again. The American spin cycle will continue.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "you have to judge Rittenhouse by the standards of his time, which I will now arbitrarily define in a way to make him seem good"

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Wasn’t the shot heard around the world the one that killed Franz Ferdinand?

        • p_sharikov [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, apparently it's from an 1837 Emerson poem about the battle.

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            oh im not disagreeing with the historical usage, im just saying its fucking idiotic american exceptionalist nonsense

            • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Yeh, I mean in context in 1776 was a revolt in one of Britain’s colonies really on the same level as “oh shit this dude got assassinated and now all the imperial world powers declared war on each other”

              • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                no, because all the world powers didnt declare war on each other over it.

                obviously it was an important part of history, but im pretty sure it wasnt "heard around the world" unless the entire world consists of the colony, the british, and the french.

                which uh... seems a bit less impactful than might have been otherwise thought

                • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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                  That’s what I’m saying lol. I’m saying the two aren’t comparable at all, at least not in their own context. Obviously the American rev had huge consequences in world history, but the immediate event wasn’t really “a shot heard around the world” in the same way as Princeps

                  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    hah, kinda misread you as saying it was, due to the fallout of british empire collapse and surge of constitutional reforms internationally that modeled themselves in part after the u.s

                    :heart-sickle:

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    What worries me is the language of "a second american revolution", as it seems to be something along the lines a lot of chuds speak of and want to happen (yeah, its not just the lefties that want to revolut things). The implications of this being even a semi-widespread sentiment is kinda scary

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      idk what is gonna happen but I truly believe if we did have a civil war it would look more like The Troubles and/or insurgency in certain areas. Could see chuds doing things like checkpoints and whatever, but more than half this country is pretty indifferent to politics as a whole and I find it hard to believe it would look anything like what a lot of the chuds think would happen.

      idk and when you add in the US military and police into the equation it would require some serious organizing on the other side, which would require something really big to happen.

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If he'd gotten domed we'd be hearing these dogshit takes from the DA or something lol

  • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Well considering the state of the judicial system and the work done by the fascist adjacent conservatives in obtaining a near monopoly over elected/appointed key positions, I'm sure this is a perfect strategy for acquittal. God damn it's just all too much sometimes 😣

  • russianattack [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lol one of the attorneys on Rittenhouse's defense team is Lin Wood the guy who defended Richard Jewell, also basically the hero of the Clint Eastwood movie that chapos love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Lin_Wood Although, not the guy who said this dumb shit about the American Revolution

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      4 years ago

      theres a clint eastwood movie that isnt about a white boy murdering dirty bumbling mexicans so he can steal obtain a mass of sweet sweet lucre?

      • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Eh, Eastwood’s cowboy movies are ok. It’s his directorial fare that is godawful. The bad guy in G,B+U is lee van cleef, who is white as hell.

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          eh, theyre kinda all rip offs of kurosawa movies tho, and toshiro mifune is hot.

          and yeah obviously not all the adversaries were bumbling mexican tropes, but a goodly number of them were

  • DalaiLamarxist [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Rittenhouse is what re-radicalized me. They'll shoot us and be made into heroes. We're not safe anymore.