1y ago

We’re literally the dictionary.

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This is one of those situations where "ok boomer" is an acceptable response.

Buzz-word salad. His constituents are like, "That's right! Got 'em!"
- "Boy I bet those leftist, communist, socialist, liberals are triggered."

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.
- Children today do active shooter drills. I would argue that’s more stressful than nuclear drills as a concept.
- 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.
  
  Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are notorious for that garbage too.

"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.
- Does Clay Higgings believe in improving the world for anyone who isn’t a rich, straight, white, able bodied, “Christian”, republican man?

The threat of nuclear war has never gone away
- Kids do active shooter drills today
  
  Children crave the bomb not the bullet.

GOP just needs to play word Bingo. As long as they say those buzz words their base eats it up

uh if you're a millennial you have ALWAYS lived under the nuclear threat dude
- all nuclear weapons were famously disarmed and destroyed once the Cold War ended right?
  ...right?
  
  Only in Ukraine.
- anyone who spent any time at all alive in the last 78 years in fact

Millennials were born after nukes were invented and while the cold war ended (supposedly), nukes weren't exactly removed from existence.

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.

Now reflect upon your woke sky
It sounds like something a MGS villain would say

"Sir, this is a dictionary."

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.
- Yup. I remember that there was definitely the fear of the USSR losing control of nukes during it's dissolution in the early 90s.

It means Rep. Clay Higgins took money from Putin's lackeys.

ChatGPT to the rescue
If you don't wanna open the link:
You millennials on the left who haven't experienced the fear of nuclear threats can now think about your woke perspective.
You made a big fuss to save the world from online posts that could cross continents.
- fucking AI - my posts span galaxies
  
  Why are you guys to salty about such an useful tool?

finally, conservative comedy. I never believed this was possible.

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 thought the post was funny
  
  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.
- As a fellow hexbear, i find this harmless at worst.
- Um, what about the "owning" of the left in the screenshot as well? That's fine?

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 🤤🤤
- Don't worry, we also fought a war no one needed. No one is getting left out.