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  1. 11-12-2019, 01:38 AM #1
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    Come on, man, there is a difference between slowly removing your military presence from a region and ducking the fuck out in the blink of an eye leaving your allies to burn. If you can't see that and want to just handwave it away as "librul hipokrasy" then you are very much part of the problem.

    I mean, lets say my wife wanted me to change jobs from teaching at a uni to becoming a freelance editor so I can work from home full-time. I resist for a while, and then decide, fine, and quit my job halfway through the semester, leaving all my students in limbo and fucking over my school, are you saying that my wife raising objections to this plan would be "freaking the fuck out" because she wanted me to change jobs? No, right? So why can't you understand the exact same thing in the context of what Trump did?
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    OK kiwi
    Well, can't argue with that. Good to see political discourse in your country is so nuanced and thoughtful. You get the President you deserve, I guess.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    Well, can't argue with that. Good to see political discourse in your country is so nuanced and thoughtful. You get the President you deserve, I guess.
    Im...embarrassed.
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    Kinda fascinated by how if that meme hasn't happened since, there might not ever be a comeback?
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    Well, can't argue with that. Good to see political discourse in your country is so nuanced and thoughtful. You get the President you deserve, I guess.
    I know you and I have had our differences but I would never post anything like that. Yeah I'm going to report his post.
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    OK kiwi
    This is gross, and I'm irritated you would shift my delight at the "ok boomer" fuck-off to now I cant even enjoy that anymore without thinking of this.
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    This is gross, and I'm irritated you would shift my delight at the "ok boomer" fuck-off to now I cant even enjoy that anymore without thinking of this.
    Ok boomer is aimed at a generation that is largely responsible for why things are so fucked right now. Btw I refuse to let Gen X off the hook for their jaded "Who cares?" silly response to politics, too. And my generation could take more of a lead in fixing shit, also.
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    Ok boomer is aimed at a generation that is largely responsible for why things are so fucked right now. Btw I refuse to let Gen X off the hook for their jaded "Who cares?" silly response to politics, too. And my generation could take more of a lead in fixing shit, also.
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    Quote Quoting MadMan (view post)
    Ok boomer is aimed at a generation that is largely responsible for why things are so fucked right now. Btw I refuse to let Gen X off the hook for their jaded "Who cares?" silly response to politics, too. And my generation could take more of a lead in fixing shit, also.
    Not to split hairs, but "who cares" was an epitaph assigned to Gen-Xers from the babyboomers when we weren't responding to their attempts to sell us stupid shit like OK Soda and Extreme Nachos.
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    Not to split hairs, but "who cares" was an epitaph assigned to Gen-Xers from the babyboomers when we weren't responding to their attempts to sell us stupid shit like OK Soda and Extreme Nachos.
    I'm aware of that, but that era gave us awful neoliberal politics that led to Dubya and later Trump.
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    I'm aware of that, but that era gave us awful neoliberal politics that led to Dubya and later Trump.
    Oh yeah, well ya know what else it brought us?

    YOUR FACE.

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    Oh yeah, well ya know what else it brought us?

    YOUR FACE.

    **sticks tongue out and prances away**
    This is also true.
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    Not to split hairs, but "who cares" was an epitaph assigned to Gen-Xers from the babyboomers when we weren't responding to their attempts to sell us stupid shit like OK Soda and Extreme Nachos.
    OK Bommer is the same thing as calling someone a snowflake. It's just dismissing someone for something different.
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    OK kiwi
    Oh yey racism.
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    Oh yey racism.
    I never took it as anything racist, to be fair. Just another example of shitty political “discourse”. I was trying to see what principles he was upholding in criticizing liberals for criticizing Trump on Syria, and it turns out - funnily enough - he had none.
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    I never took it as anything racist, to be fair. Just another example of shitty political “discourse”. I was trying to see what principles he was upholding in criticizing liberals for criticizing Trump on Syria, and it turns out - funnily enough - he had none.
    Well you're a better man than I am. Anyways I've seen enough of his posts to know he's kind of a joke. Where as I'm 100% all joke.
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    Oh yey racism.
    "Kiwi" is now racist. This is the future Democrats want.
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    "Kiwi" is now racist. This is the future Democrats want.
    Um ok.
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    Oh yey racism.
    I don't really know of any New Zealander who would consider the term Kiwi to be racist as it's usually a term of endearment like friend, buddy, pal.
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    I don't really know of any New Zealander who would consider the term Kiwi to be racist as it's usually a term of endearment like friend, buddy, pal.
    Sorry I thought it was.
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    Sorry I thought it was.
    Nah, it's something we happily call ourselves. Has no negative connotations at all.
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    Nah, it's something we happily call ourselves. Has no negative connotations at all.
    My apologies to you and to Pop Trash. I can't even blame it on the beer this time.
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    My apologies to you and to Pop Trash. I can't even blame it on the beer this time.
    No worries!
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    My apologies to you and to Pop Trash. I can't even blame it on the beer this time.
    Don't you know beer propagates the western white cis male political, economic, and cultural hegemony, you fucking fascist?
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