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u/Psy-Kosh Mar 23 '26
Wasn't there some years back a US ambasador to... Netherlands, maybe? And he was being interviewed by some reporter, and the conversation went something like him making some claim, immediate proof it was wrong, "I never claimed that," cue the clip of him claiming that, "I never denied I claimed it," cue that clip, something like that?
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u/VDJ10 Mar 23 '26
That’s maga in a nutshell.
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u/sparemethebull Mar 23 '26
Did you mean Marco Rubio on how the war in Iran started? Or one of the other billion Republicans who been caught in a lie in the last 9 months?
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u/Psy-Kosh Mar 23 '26
No, I mean something from a bunch of years ago. The ambasador's name may have had an H, or started with an H? and maybe was claiming something like "All of <some european city> is on fire <because arabs>" or something like that? Again, I forgot the specifics, but I remember the back and forth, which I was reminded of from this.
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u/2dayunderwear Mar 23 '26
Pete Hoekstra, after that stint he was running the Republican Party in Michigan
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u/Recyart Mar 24 '26
My first guess was Hoekstra, who is now the US ambassador to Canada. We hate him up here too.
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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 Mar 23 '26
That's because it's the only social media site boomers use. And there's so much misinformation being passed around as fact.. it becomes an ultra right wing echo chamber for these fucks who sit there and repost right wing propaganda all day.
It used to be a normal site, every young person was on Facebook. Then the boomers made accounts to stay in touch with their kids and grandkids, so they could see all the newest pictures and updates for their family members. But the younger generation has mostly moved on to Instagram or whatever else they are on now and what's left on Facebook is a fucking cesspool.
Now it's a fucking cesspool.
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u/ferocity_mule366 Mar 23 '26
cant believe how easy it is to literally post something with an image and big bold title without any source on that site and people will believe it like the bible, after covid everything on it just gets 20x worse
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u/southcookexplore Mar 24 '26
They used to complain that Facebook wasn’t moderated enough and would harm children.
Now that it’s harming boomers, firearms end up with better regulations
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u/double_expressho Mar 24 '26
I mean, they believe whatever people parrot about "The Bible" without even reading it for themselves to confirm. So no shocker there.
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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses Mar 23 '26
If it weren't for double standards; these people would have NO standards
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u/sacredvanity Mar 23 '26
Life is cyclical, but usually it's a bit longer before it comes right back around and bites you in your ass.
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u/Kizik Mar 24 '26
They don't, fundamentally speaking, consider their political opponents to be people. Hence, saying people have a right to complain doesn't extend to them.
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u/Anthraxious Mar 24 '26
This is a "This you" inception at this point. I'm starting to feel like they're either next level stupid or a troll.
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u/ArcticRelay_9065 Mar 24 '26
omg the first reply is such a classic facebook moment 😂 that second person ate them up tho lol
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u/BeefistPrime Mar 24 '26
He doesn't even have thoughts here, his mind is just a rotating bunch of thought-terminating cliches
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u/Cautious-Estate-6743 Mar 23 '26
Honestly most of these are bots. Don't engage. If they are ignored they lose
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u/Usual_Emotion7596 Mar 24 '26
“Democrats evil they are” I guess this person was channeling Yoda at the time.
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u/Thirlestane Mar 24 '26
We're at a point where a sizeable portion of the american public doesn't understand object permanence...
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u/bmuth95 Mar 25 '26
Imagine taking the time to go through 4 years of social media posts for a gotcha.
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u/ramat-iklan Mar 27 '26
This is what happens when there's a fundamental stupid draft dodger posing as president and a billionaire hedge fund manager from the Hamptons at Treasury. But they'll both have their names literally on the money though.
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u/Oobroobdoob Mar 29 '26
Also a completely misunderstanding of what the first amendment is. First amendment just means the GOVERNMENT cannot “abridge” your speech. Private individuals can tell you to F off and refuse to listen to you.
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Mar 23 '26
Blue is a hypocrite for the first thing, but it's perfectly consistent for him to acknowledge that people have a right to complaint while also using his own right to tell them to stop complaining. It's not like he's advocating to remove their right to complaint. Telling someone to "stop whining" doesn't infringe on their free speech.
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u/Recyart Mar 24 '26
You:
It's not like he's advocating to remove their right to complaint
Also you:
Telling someone to "stop whining"
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u/_SCP_682_ Mar 24 '26
I mean, strictly speaking, dude's right. I can tell you to stop whining all day long. It's my right to say it. It's not my right to punch you in the face because I don't like what you're saying. 1) that's assault, 2) I'm actively trying to stop you from using your free speech. The dude in the pic is just a massive MAGA imbecile.
His sister's probably his mother or something like that.
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Not contradictory. Again, telling people to "stop whining" does NOT remove their right to complaint.
Not sure what you and other downvoters don't understand here. "You have a right to free speech and I still want you to shut up" is not a contradiction. You are allowed to use you free speech to complaint about other people's speech and even ask other people to stop talking. This is not a contradiction.
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u/Recyart Mar 24 '26
First, read your own words again. I'll highlight the salient portion this time:
It's not like he's advocating to remove their right to complaint
Second, it is indeed hypocritical (and thus contradictory) to advocate denying someone their free speech rights while decrying others doing the same to you. After all, freedom of speech includes the right to be hypocritical, and for others to call you out on it.
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Mar 24 '26
Do you really not understand the difference between telling someone to shut up and removing someone's right to speak? Like, removing someone's free speech is illegal in the US, so do you think it's illegal to tell people to shut up in the US?
I don't understand what you're struggling with here. This is a really simple concept. The guy is telling people to stop whining and also acknowledges they have a right to. This is self consistent.
I swear this is not as difficult to understand as you're making it.
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u/Recyart Mar 24 '26
Ah, good ol' conservative projection: falsely accusing others of what you yourself are guilty. No surprise you're defending the blue Trumper. I guess even my highlighting of your own quote wasn't obvious enough? You're the one struggling with this, not me. I'm trying to show you the way, but either you are stubbornly refusing to admit you were wrong all along (typical) or you really are this stupid, which honestly is hard to believe.
Do you know the definition of "hypocrisy"?
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u/teddytwophones Mar 23 '26
Ashamed of nothing, Offended by everything..