• @[email protected]
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    473 months ago

    Declaring war on a concept has never gone well for the states, has it? Drugs, terror, women, the list goes on.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      Seems like it has worked pretty well:

      1. Vietnam/Korea/etc - most people hate communism
      2. War on Drugs - police get to arrest minorities, and felons don’t get to vote (suppress minority vote)
      3. War on Terror - PATRIOT Act is still alive and well, it just has different names now

      With the right perspective, they seem pretty successful to me, you just need to peek behind the curtain.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Declaring war on anything. They need the Europeans to invite them to the final hours of one to chalk a W.

    • Zagorath
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      143 months ago

      Declaring war on a concept has never gone well for the states, has it?

      Ftfy.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    Gonna be honest, the idiom/meme “had one job” is almost never correct or appropriate and the role of president is certainly a situation where it does not apply. I find it irksome, most of the time, when people say/type it, without actually thinking things through and applying it appropriately. Don’t care if it is an unpopular opinion because it is a fact that it is used incorrectly the vast majority of the time and haters gonna hate, only true appreciators gonna appreciate.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      Mate, I was traumatised when Dragonball z and Pokémon were interrupted before school and this dude was on all the TV stations.

      Nothing has been any good sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      It’s not that far back at all. Most events we know about, everyone who remembers it are dead. This idiot lives in many people’s memories today, and we’re still dealing with some of the consequences.

  • @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    What is anon complaining about he did his job. He declared the war. Then he kicked the can down the road for someone else to get the job of winning it.

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    First they funded, supported, and grew the terrorism, and THEN, they fought the terrorism. Then they funded other terrorists. But it’s always in countries with natural resources they want.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    When you wage a war on an enemy, you win when the enemy is dead. When you wage a war on an idea, there’s no final end point.

  • Diplomjodler
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    243 months ago

    Just like the “war on drugs” was never about stopping drugs, this was never about stopping terrorism.