• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Aahh, that other time amongst all the time when US politician show how sad they are

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Every day for the last few decades, I’d bet.

      Actually probably since 1776. There’s always some KKK-adjacent southerner elect screaming mentally ill shit, whom that locale considered the best option, because they are no better.

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    2 days ago

    Interesting that the list of “politically motivated food name changes” does not mention “home fries”, formerly “German fries”. IIRC this was in the context of WWI.

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    The political renaming occurred in context of France’s opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq.

    Jeez, I understand that self-reflection isn’t the strong suit of these people, but you’d think at some point they would consider whether branding the bombing of a country as “freedom” really makes sense.

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    This could have been easily avoided by calling them “chips” like a sensible person, and also by not occupying and destabilising the Middle East to maintain imperial control of crude oil production.