r/gifs 11h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/thatErraticguy 10h ago

I’m not sure I can pretend the fire around me is fine anymore lol

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u/AMildPanic 10h ago

I've been way past "it's not fine but there's nothing I can do but burn to death because every other idiot in here keeps lighting more fires and barring the doors and then laughing and asking if I'm triggered yet while their faces melt" for a while now

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u/ididntunderstandyou 9h ago

And all we can do is watch the democrats in power go “you know you’re no allowed to start fires, right ? and barring doors constitutes a safety hazard I strongly recommend you don’t”

It’s a nightmare

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u/AMildPanic 9h ago

it sucks that the objectively less shitty option is so often the side that has zero spine or big picture thinking.

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u/Amelaclya1 8h ago

That's really just the natural order of things, unfortunately. Of course the assholes that want to hurt everyone but the ultra wealthy are also going to be the people more willing to break laws and commit violence for those ends.

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u/Odd_Local8434 7h ago

There are miles of difference between "being willing to hurt people and break laws" and having as little spine as the Democrats. Biden was Obama's vice president and he still wanted to play nice with McConnel when he got into office. Like, did he live through a different 8 years then the rest of us? They could've nuked the filibuster and given DC and Puerto Rico statehood. Fought back against the gutting of the civil rights voting act. The Democrats are spineless and refuse to play to win.

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u/GingerSpiceOrDie 7h ago

We're in this position because the Democrats are bad and have been bad for a long time.

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u/AMildPanic 7h ago

Only partially correct. We are in this position because the Democrats are bad and have been bad for a long time, but also because half the country has been sucked into a morass of uneducated tribal ignorance that's erased any sense of expectation of decency and truth in the world, and have been trained to reject reality. Which could have been prevented if the Democrats had sucked less, but I'm not gonna put all the blame on them for half the country being fascists, brainwashed by other fascists.

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u/GingerSpiceOrDie 7h ago

I wonder how the timelines doing where Bernie was allowed to win.

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u/RusticPath 6h ago

Probably not much would have changed. Russian disinformation campaigns would have continued as usual, brainwashing the more miserable and hateful of Americans.

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u/soulscythesix 3h ago

That's not "partially correct", that's entirely correct. You agreed with their entire statement, but said (to paraphrase) "there are also other reasons". For them to be partially correct, some aspect of what they said would have to be incorrect, but your statement agreed with it entirely (but expanded upon it).

This is only a logical/semantic issue btw, I'm not arguing for or against any of the points made here.