I love how they assume that we're all a bunch of young kids, I'm in my 40's and I remember doing nuke drills in elementary school and getting shown where the fallout shelters were, my stepdad is just as Left as I am and is twenty years older and his schools also had fallout shelters and nuke drills.
I'd say they need to stop generalizing people, but if they understood nuance and context they probably wouldn't be republicans, however there are plenty of Republicans that do know the differences but just aren't arguing in good faith, now I'm definitely also generalizing them as well by saying that. The people who aren't aware of their generalizations need to realize that old people can be lefties, and young people can be righties, there is no age limit for becoming a fascist asshole and there's no age limit for realizing that capitalism only benefits the wealthy.
Or how about the last few years? Iran threatening nukes, North Korea with ballistic missile threats, Russia threatening to nuke everyone every other day, china building relations with Cuba, drills happening off of Alaska.
I mean, do we face these threats today, no? No idea what that tweet is saying.
Good points, and don't bother trying to decipher it, at best Clay is just being an ornery old cuntnugget, at worst he's purposely saying this for political clout, I just ignore him, he's not saying anything smarter than any other Republican right now.
Higher up Republicans are also known to fake their opinions for clout/money. Just look at the Tucker Carlson court reveals. Or Trump vastly changing his views to meet what the base wants.
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States
Sounds like Clay Higgins doesn't believe in making the world better for his children.
I feel like he asked an intern to come up with a tweet, who then just made a chat bot vomit out some word salad and they posted it without reading it or anything.
I'm a millennial and we had bomb drills in my school growing up, so this guy is not only an idiot, but he's completely full of shit.
Any other millennials here vividly remember the nuclear duck-and-cover drills? Because I do. This boomer clown is so out of touch that he doesn't realize that millennials are in their 40s and grew up during the end of the cold war.
im pretty sure living in a nato country next to russia with them giving actual nuclear threats like every other week could be considered living under nuclear threat
Have we not got to the point where we all agree this kind of owning of the right is a pointless distraction that redirects energy away from countering power?
This is a humorous community based on savage comebacks. While you’re welcome to discuss any topic in the comments, the majority of us are here for a chuckle, not political discourse. Plus we’re not all American. In the UK our “right wing” government is arguably* closer to your democrats than republicans.
*not my argument. And I’m not interested in arguing about any topic, particularly politics.
In the UK our “right wing” government is arguably* closer to your democrats than republicans.
Just so you know, republicans and democrats and tories are all far more similar to each other than they are to the political views of even a moderate hexbear user.
We've got widely varied opinions on the best ways to dunk on people though. We tend to just bring them all and see what happens
I'm all for dunking on fash don't get me wrong, I'm talking about this specific "actually sir you are actually incorrect actually?" brand of liberal dunk that has demonstrated itself to just be a tepid fart that completely misses the point that the right doesn't actually care about ideological consistency.
And I'm not sure what the UK political spectrum has to do with anything. I also don't live in the US, but Clay Higgins does.
People may find jokes unfunny (or just mediocre) for all sorts of reasons. Impotenly owning Republicans on twitter while they outlaw abortion and string razor wire across the Rio Grande has just run its course for a lot of people.
isn’t under active nuclear threat
actively working towards making life better for more people so long as they adhere to the same standards of not infringing on other peoples QoL
Republicans: “haha look at all this stupid shit you HAVENT accomplished. When I was a kid we were getting lead poisoning and ptsd fighting a war nobody needed 🤤🤤