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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean… unironicly, is this where horseshoe theory comes from?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Other way around - stethoscope theory was made in response to horseshoe theory.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is surprisingly funny for satire, which I hope it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

One hopes, but the depths of mankind's stupidity never ceases to amaze...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I remind you that InfraHaz and his schtick exist. At least TheYankeeTankie is now an unironic fash.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's gotta be a prank, right? Right??

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I’m going to choose to believe that, my brain refuses to compute this as real without an aneurysm

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Too articulated to be real. If this were written like a Trump tweet* it would be more realistic. *more: SAD! ALL CAPS! misspelings and run on rambling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

idk, tankies are generally pretty capable of being verbose. I wouldn't count it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For real, every time they post something it feels like they're trying to hit a word count for a paper they are over-due for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's like they pull up ChatCCP at 11:38pm the night it's due and tell it to write them a 2000-word essay about "how the didactic materialism of imperial hegemony irrevocably leads to bourgeois exploitation of the Global South".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Sherman? We have a task for you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I blame this on Ulysses Grant. As a general and then as a president, Grant should have spat on Lee's face and decimated the south, not gone easy on them. The South and anyone with this poster's views should have been stamped out and executed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The Northern bankers

Why do I get the feeling he's using bankers to stand in for a different group...