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      And the people yelling “come and take it” while waving “don’t tread on me” flags voted the tyrants in.

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      There’s a DLC for Assassin’s Creed III called The Tyranny of King Washington, exploring an alternate reality with a corrupt president. Not so wild a theory now

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          Trump is still an anomaly. It’s been bad, but this is something else entirely. He is simultaneously the dumbest, most evil, and most corrupt President, and it’s not even close.

          He commits new acts worse than Watergate multiple times a week.

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    One thing that, uh, amuses(?) me is that apparently there’s still a national emergency from 9/11: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/03/2025-16941/continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-certain-terrorist-attacks

    You know how Hitler rose to power by abusing a national emergency regulation? You know how there was worry of Trump doing a fascism, back when Obama handed over to the guy? You know how Trump literally announced beforehand that he’ll do a fascism, when Biden handed over to him?

    Both could’ve chosen to terminate the national emergency. Neither did so.

    https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-extends-9-11-state-of-emergency-by-a-year/

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    we show you a price, then charge more at checkout

    it’s easier to get a gun than a doctor’s appointment

    tipping

    pharmaceutical commercials

    casually having the largest prison population in the world and pretending it’s normal

    violence on tv is okay, but no cussing or sexuality

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    I have a co-worker who fought in Vietnam. I showed him the thing about the Pentagon straight up admitting that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was bullshit, but he refused to accept it. Still feels that we had to fight that war because if we had allowed the communists to win, it would have meant that communism would have taken over the world … even though we actually did lose that war.

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    The Epstein Files will be released in 2126 to ensure that all guilty parties cannot face justice.

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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    My favorite weird thing about American culture is that it is so aggressive. Aggressive food (PopTarts, Big Gulps, etc), aggressive games (football), aggressive national anthem (literally about war), and so on. We are an oddly aggressive people.

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      Pop tarts are aggressive…?

      Regarding the national anthem, you should look up a translation of the French national anthem. And it probably isn’t the most metal/aggressive national anthem out there, since it’s one of the very few I even know.

      Edit: I couldn’t help but add this snippet

      Grab your weapons, citizens! Form your battalions! Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood Water our fields!

      Full lyric translation: https://www.thoughtco.com/la-marseillaise-frances-national-anthem-4080565

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    Theoretically that’s what the 2A guns are meant to be for…

    But doesn’t really work out that way when the adversary is your own Government, who has access to very arguably the best armed police force and military in the world, and is more than willing to turn those on you.