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[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Being on Twitter must be exhausting

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Id rather slam my penis in the door of a luxury sedan than ever go back on twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

it very much is

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People are still using that dumpster of a platform?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People who have a large following and magic emojis next to their name will keep using it because it gives them their validation. Twitter celebs are really in a sad state of existence

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago (5 children)

it's such an unfunny joke I had to read it three times to even understand what she was trying to say

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Some people are unfamiliar with Obama's drones.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (5 children)

or the genocide in Yemen, or his role as the deporter in chief, or that he engineered the largest transfer of wealth from the Black community to capital interests, or, or, or

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Some people are. This particular people has absolutely no excuse for such ignorance lol

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn’t post it because her joke was funny lol

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I figured, it just had me jesse-wtf

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s a common liberal take on Obama.

Cheeto man = loud, uncouth, vulgar.

Your Excellency, Barack The Obama: classy, polite, trivial controversies, last ‘boring’ president

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have an issue when the same people who were cheering during the Bush years, gave grudging acceptance at drone strikes during Obama, and were silent during the Trump years, pipe up and say drone strikes are bad now.
Progressives have been saying this the whole time.

Also, a reminder that Obama tried to write regs limiting the use of drone strikes at the end of his presidency. Trump promptly threw them out on entering.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As always, when a Republican does something, it's good and just. When a Democrat does literally the same thing, they're the devil incarnate.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Drone strikes are the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. They are cheap to run meaning that the air force doesn't have to give them a huge budget yet consume precision bombs and missiles at a steady rate meaning that the weapon industry get a secure revenue stream. And they can be scaled up almost infinitely since there is no bad news coverage of wounded veterans or crying widows on us television.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Remember when Obama saw the largest transfer of wealth away from black US citizens to the wealthy in the history of the United States?

Remember when he set the precedent that it us cool to assassinate US citizens in the open (as opposed to covertly) without trial?

Honestly I get being mad at "Obama's biggest controversy was the mustard"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Obama’s biggest controversy was the mustard

That's not what she said lol. Sorry as a neurodivergent person I get that this tweet might be hard to read possibly, but she's being sarcastic here. Maybe in poor taste, but it's a joke. She's well-aware of the shit Obama's done and isn't a fan of him.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

She says that Obama was bad. Everyone understands she was being sarcastic. Since she was being sarcastic it means that she is trying to say that Obama wasn't bad (because that's how sarcasm works).

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Since she was being sarcastic it means that she is trying to say that Obama wasn't bad (because that's how sarcasm works).

I mean… no? Sarcasm works in multiple ways lol. This is like a children’s picture book-level of understanding of sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ok, this has gone over my head. can you explain what she meant? her "joke" reads like a retreading of stale reddit-logo memes from /r/politics.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

twitter is really good at making words and phrases meaningless through extreme hyperbole rule

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Such an annoying reckless behavior to publicly Call Out a community you're supposedly part of like this. Every time someone does this, I get a clear mental image of a dog licking its own ass. Just shut up, having random slapfights and compulsive arguing are childish zoomer traits

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Time for her to make another 4 hour video about how she was 1984'd into deleting a tweet.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that joke is so overused i don't even think the libs over at r/politics finds it funny anymore

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I used to think it was funny just because it WAS absurd that Hannity (it was Hannity right?) made a big deal out of Obama ordering "fancy mustard" and therefor being unAmerican. I thought it was a good commentary on conservative media's weird tics. But once I noticed that libs were using it (and tan suit jokes) just as much to absolve Obama of having "real controversies" and not just making fun of Fox News, it lost its edge for me.

ETA: Also its really corny of Contra to engage in such an overused joke, beyond how lib she's being its also just really gauche.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

She's actively regressing into a chud.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (21 children)

She's always been lib, sadly. I still love her content tho! But her political takes are def a little ehh

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Yeah, I like have a soft spot for her because she helped show me that there was actually a left beyond voting for labour every now and again, and like she was the only trans rep young me really had, but like her politics are cringe af - abby-exasperation is way cooler imo

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

contra's godawful takes on NB people / gender in general + her tendency to triple down when criticized really soured me on her content. it took all the fun out of the theater for me.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

She went fully lib like two or three years ago and has not had even a trace of being a socialist since.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Again? I imagine you don’t recover after hanging out with Hillary Clinton. Maybe unless you’re chairman-daou

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

High off the fumes of patreon dosh she had a podcast episode with planet-hillary

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its great that the Obama post got her dunked on by Ethereal Bisexual

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Obama punching the air right now and cursing Marx

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

can someone please explain why the word rule appears in titles so often ohnoes

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (38 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

/r/196's thing is its a "rule" that you have to post something whenever you visit the sub. And most people post "rule" when they do so.

This comm is just reusing the tic.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people really need to fucking log off and find a lesbian to marry

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

What an absolute dumpsterfire of a comment section

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