Anon gives a former president some feedback

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  War on drugs - drugs won

  War on terror - terror won

  War on wokeness - 🤞

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s never been about defeating those things, it’s about expanding power using them as an excuse.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly.

      1. War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government
      2. War on Terror - PATRIOT Act, or whatever its current incarnation is
      3. War on Woke - probably government access to medical records and/or privacy generally, but I guess we’ll see

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    War on poverty 😬

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      • War on Woke - war on privacy and access to undesirable information

      As RATM says:

      Who controls the past now, controls the future.

      Who controls the present now, controls the past.

      It’s just Big Brother.

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  • AllHailZorglub@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Considering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    interesting

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• smol_beans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  His one job was to create profit for weapons manufacturers and he did that job very very well

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    His job was to do Israel’s bidding and remove Saddam.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Saddam and his family were genuinely awful, to be fair.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a nice side effect.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The war against woman is sadly going strong right now. More than drugs and etc ever has.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

    Ftfy.

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    • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Matter of perspective. Ask halliburton how’s it going…

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vietnam

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  • Kurroth@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The US isn’t known for winning wars historically.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Mniot@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m holding out hope that we can still turn it around and defeat Santa Claus

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• straightjorkin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• tkmtlmike@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, man! He said war OF Terror…

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  • Patrik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Borat fan?

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Explain this then

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  • Stepskippin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New skill unlocked: “Lie with energy and in a few years fact checking becomes diabolical.”

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• Meep@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are we really going back this far, right at this moment?

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  • Kurroth@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And his brother was even the establishment favorite to win until Trump took over everything.

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• GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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