• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    I’d do an ad that says: “We don’t pay the tariffs. You do” — Canada

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      14 hours ago

      Anybody that doesn’t already realize this absolutely will not give a shit what this says anyways lol.

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    16 hours ago

    Let’s see how committed they are to “Free Speech”. Bets on how long until Florida or D.C. bans these ads? (They’ll call it “foreign interference”).

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      9 hours ago

      The First Amendment is gone.

      Trump is openly retaliating against people who criticized him. Our constitution isn’t worth the crumbling paper it’s written on any more.

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        It never was, ignoring how it enshrined slavery, the system it built relied on people acting in good faith. The idea that elected officials would always work to preserve democracy.

        Now it’s evident that is not an appropriate system for checks and balances.

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          It has good parts and had a lot of bad parts. It was written centuries ago, so let’s take that framing into consideration. It was a worthwhile endeavor to pursue the good parts while amending the bad, directly or via modern courts. Unfortunately it’s been a backsliding battle against conservatives who selectively interpret it as “originalists”, like they selectively interpret their bible to enhance their power and pocketbook and ignore the parts that are inconvenient or get between them and money, and obstinately refuse change or would actively change it for the worse.

          The most ironic part is that the countries that the US fought with in WW2 that had some absolutely awful leadership and governance were outfitted with relatively excellent frameworks to govern with postwar, Germany and Japan, while the US has been crippled with resting on its laurels and mulish refusal to take the lessons learned those endeavors to heart.

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      They’ll call it “foreign interference”

      Honestly it kind of is. Though in this case I’m all for it.

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      We need to formulate an ideogram that even Florida man can understand.

      Sounds like lyrics to a Soul Coughing song. Is M. Doughty around here, somewhere?

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    19 hours ago

    How long until they spend more time and effort banning this while yelling about it constantly than ever saying one bad thing about how Russia is infiltrating our country by doing almost the exact same thing.

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    They should be more precise: “Trumps tariffs are a tax on your grocery bill”. Anyone elses would be, too, yes, but no-one else is that stupid.

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    I didn’t know foreign governments could buy ads in America for political purposes.

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      It’s the USA. Everything is for sale. From the wellbeing of your ordinary everyday citizen to the government that supposedly represents.

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      Yeah that’s what made it Mildly Interesting for me. I’ve seen a few tourism ads here and there but never something like this.