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[–] 46 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Mel Brooks did an absurdist spy show back in the 1960s. Austin Powers owes a lot to 'Get Smart.' The show had ridiculous gimmicks like The Cone Of Silence, designed to prevent anyone from hearing conversations, including the participants. There were rotary dial shoe phones.

Never once did the comedy genius Mel Brooks come up with something as ridiculous as a combination ballroom/military complex.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    But Hitler did, the Nazis literally built the bunker under a giant ballroom project. Wonder where old orange douche canoe got the idea.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    Ugh, you libs are all the same. Just because he’s invading other countries and rounding up minorities and silencing press and trying to persecute his political enemies and threatening citizens for their political views and he’s renaming everything after him while tearing down the things that made our nation good and building a bunker under a ballroom and appointing people who use Nazi rhetoric from official US Twitter accounts and in speeches and talking like we already own the whole world and they’re all being TDS when the don’t behave in such a way doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Funny how rarely you hear about Godwin's Law these days...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Godwin's Law literally gave cover to Nazis when people were trying to point them out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Godwin himself said that it was okay to call MAGA Nazis.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sure.

    But I remember in the 1990s being one of the people who was calling theses same people Nazis.

    It feels like Godwin owes the world an apology, because it sure would have been good to get to call those people out and not have everyone say they lost the argument, since it turns out that they literally were Nazis.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Nope.

    It isn't like Trump was hiding anything.

    People saw Trump for what he was and gleefully voted for him twice.

    Don't try to point a finger at anyone except his voters.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Except he tried to falsify vote totals in 2020, and we know this for a fact.

    And he tried to overthrow the government in 2021, and we all literally saw this on television.

    And he's trying to falsify vote totals in 2026.

    And people are pretending that it's perfectly reasonable to know all of those things and to still claim that we know with certainty that in 2024 he just sat by and didn't try to do anything to falsify the data.

    In the middle of multiple documented instances of him doing so.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Add it to the teardown list

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    And to the Trump reimbursement list. Demolition and rebuilding costs will be coming out of his end, and he will reimburse the taxpayers for what he spent. Same with all of his nonsense, like the reflecting pool, etc. He should also have to pay for the Iran War.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I’m not kidding when I say, I’m not voting for a Democrat for president that doesn’t have teardown and prosecute policies in their campaign platform. There are more important issues, but these are the easy things. If a candidate can’t get these right, they cannot be trusted with the more complex issues.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, it's a military complex now. Sure will be interesting to learn everything they're building into this "ballroom".

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    It's all coming down with a wrecking ball when the regime falls.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Soooo fuckin' stoopid.

    The next Democratic admin should completely revamp it and point out they are doing it legally.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    No, they should tear it down immediately. Don't pretend like an authoritarian monument needs proper review before its destruction. They can take their time and submit plans for the rebuild, but the ballroom needs to come down without pussy footing around giving the Court time to decide that now it's not ok.

    The only better result would be letting them say no before giving them the finger and doing it anyway because their whole lot is corrupt and illegitimate.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    $800 million ballroom.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Yeah but Harris didn’t do enough for the proletariat.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    If we Americans had any sense we'd see this pedo spending all this money on this while living expenses go up and up and kick out anyone even slightly associated with him.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Please let him die before it's finished

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Hunt them down

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