George W Bush, former D tier president, you know, did wars and was just generally bad? I'm drawing the distinction between him and the modern fascist GOP in that if he'd had the power to do whatever he wanted with the global south, he'd have just made them peaceful and prosperous like the west.
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Accomplished parallel parker. Stood far back when the gravitas was handed out.
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but it fell into the same trap that every utopian ideology falls for: if you really believe perfection is attainable, that excuses literally anything to achieve it, no matter how monstrous.
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the difference between those guys (both groups) and the fascist ghouls in Washington today is their goals were laudable. If Bush were omnipotent, he wouldn't have hurt a soul, he'd have simply turned Iraq into Nebraska.
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W era neocons were a lot like the revolutionaries of the first French republic; they both thought they were hot shit and could end history by waging war on everyone who wasn't like them until they could remake the world in their own image. Peace through ideological alignment.
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you must be too young to remember the early 2000's decade, this shit was extremely normal back then
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to be fair, W era neocons did a lot of harm to US soft power, mostly due to their extreme aversion to anything resembling multilateralism
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Bill Kristol please...you're our only hope...I know you have one more regime change in you
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Don’t put in the paper that they are mad. They are definitely not mad.
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
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What DC needs most right now is some Roof Koreans
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Fascism has never been well executed or well led, it's what we should expect from fascists!
