• Emopunker@feddit.org
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        23 hours ago

        I wouldn’t compare him to Churchill. Churchill was a racist prick who contributed to a famine causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in India.

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        I need ammo, not a ride

        russian warship, go fuck yourself

        They sure show the world pride, strength and resilience and teach us a couple of baddass one-liners while they are at it

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            Can you people just put somebody slightly serious in power? Seriously the fact that people now just accept that entertainment figures should be presidents is fucking horrifying. Why don’t you just vote for Barnie? After all he had some cool values like everybody doing their share while cleaning up.

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              56 minutes ago

              bernie is too old to grab attention on his own, outside of vermont. good as an fountain of experience/knowledge to pull from but as long as the DNC are controllsd opposition any progressive going through official channels will be neutered or sabotaged

              which is why (good) comedians are serious candidates, they cross the party divide easily. harder for the propagandized mainstream outlets to turn the crowd against em

              most have seen more of the country/world than pretty much anyone else. got to have empathy, general attachment to humanity, and class class consciousness to punch up consistently. also experience dealing with the whole media landscape, playing a crowd, getting attention/word out there without needing to pay for it etc. most also tend to start from working/bottom class families

              all most other politicians in the US have going for them is olde money connections and crony capitalism backing them

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                46 minutes ago

                I said Barnie not Bernie, as in the big fucking purple dinosaur. Or maybe Elmo?

                Idk who would poll better Barnie or Elmo.

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                  9 minutes ago

                  oh, i figured that was a typo.

                  they would obviously be on the same ticket, elmo president barnie vp

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                57 minutes ago

                BTW idk how many of those oh so ethical comedians have stolen jokes from other people. Loads of them are actually massive fucking dickheads, but you have your cool parasocial relationship with them so yeah they’re obviously qualified to be president. How about suggesting a labour organiser be president instead of a fucking clown a good labour organiser should have all the traits you just mentioned.

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                  10 minutes ago

                  the presidency is a popularity contest, comedians are a much more realistic choice in a center-collapse scenario like the US is having.

                  US labor is disorganized as fuck, it’s honestly kind of pathetic.

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                    Exactly the situation is bad, that’s why we should just submit to the bad situation and accept that from now on only celebrities can become president 🙄 you do realise that that thinking like that makes the situation worse not better.

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                59 minutes ago

                Jesus Christ 🤦 When a movie star became the president in the 1980s people were horrified, shit has gotten so ridiculous in the United States that the average voter thinks a clown would be competent.

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                  11 minutes ago

                  zelensky seems to be doing a fine job considering the circumstances. brains are not required to be a politician (probably a hindrance to most of em). they’re just nepo babies who would have amounted to nothing without their family name/connections

                  but you do actually kind of need brains to break into/stay successful in show business

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                    Yeah you don’t need brains if you’re just a puppet having your strings pulled by the wealthy that is true!

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              23 hours ago

              both would work, nobody sane wants the position

              Burr has that working-class esthetic popular with rural america, Stewart would probably come off as more “just another jewish liberal media personality” to the maga/racist/rural america crowd

              Bill Burr would be harder/impossible for the conservative propaganda machine to spin against

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                22 hours ago

                His black wife would be a start, as well as his long outspoken hatred of trump, and killing rich people. (Sinking cruise ships)

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                  1 hour ago

                  Ya he could also take millions from the Saudis and be a free speech crusader. All those guys are hacks.