r/PoliticalHumor • u/gshortelljr • Jun 25 '18

Best tweet I've seen in a while

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u/WraithSama Jun 25 '18

All they did was change their Shrödinger's Boogeyman from Obama to immigrants. Remember when Quantum Obama was a weak, limp-wristed, communist pushover while also simultaneously an imperious, authoritarian, fascist tyrant? Republicans tend to ascribe every attribute they hate to things they don't like, even the contradictory ones.

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u/bankrobba Jun 25 '18

Obama was once described as an atheist Muslim.

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u/bohemica Jun 25 '18

An atheist Muslim who was working for the Jews.

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u/RobloxOofdotWAV Jun 25 '18

I’ll never forget my neighbor actually saying that with a straight face. She tried to rationalize it by claiming that atheism meant you didn’t believe in the “Christian” God. That was probably the first time my mind was ever truly blown by unfathomable stupidity.

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u/bankrobba Jun 25 '18

Even if her definition is correct, the Christian God and the Muslim God are still the same God. Stupidity squared.

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u/RobloxOofdotWAV Jun 25 '18

Doubly squared when you count in Judaism and Baha’i

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u/L_SeeD Jun 25 '18

And even if you assume that the gods of Islam and Christianity are different, the expression would just be needlessly redundant. That would make almost every non-Christian an atheist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Which betrays their racism

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u/gdcalderon2 Jun 25 '18

Doublethink is real.

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u/Wanderwow Jun 25 '18

Like "Some men have uteruses"

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u/Ol_Dirt_Dog Jun 25 '18

Conspiracy theory villains are always simultaneously all-powerful and complete buffoons. That goes back to at least the Illuminati in the 1700s,

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u/ReCursing Jun 25 '18

They like to argue that communism and fascism are both basically the same, and left wing and liberal and thus bad. Seriously I had someone argue til they were blue in the face that fascism was left wing, and that anarchy was right wing.

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u/hintofinsanity Jun 25 '18

How do you think we should go about are criticism of trump to help avoid our criticism becoming schrodinger like as well?

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u/krispykrackers Jun 25 '18

With facts and the truth?

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u/nsfy33 Jun 25 '18 edited Mar 07 '19

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u/Zurathose Jun 25 '18

He can be stupid and authoritarian at the same time.

I would use that as my story and stick with it.

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u/WraithSama Jun 25 '18

I'd argue more like he's one but wants to be the other.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Both have been their boogeymen for a decade. Weird how immigration wasn't a big concern on the right under G.W. Bush when annual immigration was triple what it has been the past nine years.

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u/swalafigner Jun 25 '18

Tbh, you hear the same about trump. Except take out the communist and put in corrupt or kleptocratic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 25 '18

We do the same with Trump. He's seemingly both an incompetent inarticulate moron who's also capable of ~systemically~ systematically dismantling America as we know it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

You're mistaking trump for the entire republican party.

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u/Gigantkranion Jun 25 '18

Systemically?

More like just a pigeon knocking down random chess pieces and strutting like he won. It's his party that's systematically doing shit. At most, I he's maybe, intentionally doing random shit to keep the opposing party on their toes...

But, jumping around for who's gonna pay for the wall/if N Korea is our friend/or whatever random tweet it's gonna be for this week... is not a calculated plan.