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[–] rockettaco37@feddit.nu 1 points 4 days ago

Instead they’re renaming lakes instead of focusing on the trade war that’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border.

As somebody originally from a border city in the US, it just pisses me off to no end.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 247 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This has gotta be the dumbest administration in American history.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 182 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Hey, silver lining. I don't believe this one!

I think if our president were any dumber, they couldn't get elected. He's damn near drooling on himself. There has to be something left to sway that many people. And even most idiots wouldn't appoint this many fellow idiots.

It seems really, really hard to have an administration this dumb. I think this is the dumbest possible point.

Now, things can get worse. See Stalin. See this surveillance tech. But I don't think the admin itself can get any dumber than this.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I remember when we thought things couldn't get dumber than George W...

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I had a teacher in HS with one of those tear away day calendars where each day was a stupid quote of his.

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[–] clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You don't have to fear a dumber president. Fear a smarter one. One that's as fascist as Dumpy. But one who actually knows how things work in Washington and can remember things for more than 5 minutes. They'll actually achieve what Dumbdumb has failed at.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think some of them say stupid stuff as a weird power move - "yeah I said bullshit what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Because you're weak"

This is a factor in why fascists only really respond to power. It's all they understand, and even that understanding is limited.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have brought up "cruelty signalling" and "vice signalling" a number of times as a conservative counterpart to "virtue signalling"...

But MAGA seems to have progressed it to "ignorance signalling", to show your allegiance to Dear Leader, you must project your idiocy in his likeness.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is pretty close to the 1984 doublethink stuff

"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."

They're expected to believe conflicting ideas and internalize that the State is right even when you're provided with two conflicting facts.

We are the greatest nation ever, and everyone wants to be us! ... But also the damn Democrats destroyed America, and that's why no one can afford groceries! Gas prices are lower than ever before! But they're not because Biden!

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

The point where literally 1984 IS literally 1984. That happened years ago though but we were called crazy. Well, guess who was right.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Technically it's still a form of virtue signalling since they really do consider ignorance a virtue.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s if you believe they’re not simply malicious

They can be and indeed ARE both.

When you're part of an untethered kakistocracy, being an incompetent moron isn't the impediment to getting things done that it should be.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wars Canada has been on the losing side of:

End of list.

[–] bumblefumble@mander.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (10 children)

That's more of a geopolitical paradox being played out for profit than an ACTUAL war, though..

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They do this so often it's amazing. They like villains but forget that villains most often lose

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The villains lose because history is written by victors. Pretty sure Amalek would describe their genocide different from the biblical version

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It's just that American Christian Republicans only know their bible 6th hand thru memes. Like this dumbass who is talking to who he thinks are people that know it 12th hand because his ego is over-inflatedx

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Fun fact: almost everybody are dead wrong about David vs Goliath.

David was a seasoned soldier armed with the bronze age equivalent of a 9mm pistol, while Goliath was a huge dude with a club.

The only way Goliath could have had any chance would be if David started the fight in the Goldilocks zone of "within melee range but not so close that the relative size of Goliath and his weapon becomes a disadvantage"

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To the extent he is an historical figure, it wasn’t even David who killed him, as I understand it. Rather it was an appropriation of a the valor of one of David’s own soldiers by David’s biographer/Propagandist/Deuteronomist since seemingly their own sources say that Elhanan killed him:

IN ANOTHER BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AT GOB, ELHANAN SON OF JAIR THE BETHLEHEMITE KILLED GOLIATH THE GITTITE, WHO HAD A SPEAR WITH A SHAFT LIKE A WEAVER’S ROD

2 Samuel 21:19

It seems unlikely that any scribe in a Davidic regime would get away with the reverse; attributing one of King David’s most heralded victories to a lowly son of Jair.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago

I always imagine goliath just being a huge dude. But not like hafthor, but more like a disabled guy that has gigantism and everything hurts. But hey, tall guy

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does he even know Goliath was the bad guy?

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[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It sounds like Canada needs to burn down the White House again.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

No like, actually to any American who feels that way, shut up, quit voting, and let those of us with brains and hearts run the country. Canada has done nothing to hurt or offend us unril we started it. They were in fact the best neighbor and ally a country could ask for. Far better neighbors than we were and especially than dipshits like this are

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago

And here we have an example of the American education system on full display.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Blue check says enough

A giant, blustering and bragging in his hubris, only to get his ass handed to him by a rock wielding shepherd. In a match he should easily have won.

Not a situation the US would be familiar with at all. /s

[–] jownz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Canada will find the one card that brings down the whole house.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

There's a reason we call it the Geveva Suggestions

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

That's how god damn fucking stupid these mother fuckers are. They don't understand a single fucking thing beyond the most absolute surface level of everything they fucking see and hear. They repeat shit they heard from people they think are smarter than them and they think they're being clever for it.

Fuck dude pisses me right the fuck off, im so fucking over this epidemic of idiocracy. Felt good to vent on a Friday morning tho. Didnt want to hold onto it all day.

[–] churrodestroyer@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

They don't give a fuck about the Bible past how they can abuse it to give themselves more power

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Jack Miladin is a terrorist collaborator.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Goliath down, you looketh tired.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's even funnier that scripture wise Goliath was like 6'6" to 6'9" most professional basketball players are as tall as or taller than he was said to have been. I'm taller than Goliath for what that is worth.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Motherfuckers out here doing anything to not measure in cubits

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, but that was a long time ago, average height was 3ft max

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Who negotiated the USMCA again? Who couldn't even beat an Iran that has been heavily sanctioned for decades again?

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