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3catwoman3

(28,902 posts)
6. Spouting cliches does not require any critical thinking skills.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:23 AM
Jan 22

He's like a Chatty Cathy doll - pull a string and get one of a very limited repertoire of canned phrases.

Redleg

(6,866 posts)
2. Yes- and irrelevant
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 08:09 AM
Jan 22

On edit: I am not implying that your comment was irrelevant.

Contemporary Americans seem to love using this schtick to beat on western Europeans. WWII ended 81 years ago and none of these fuckers had anything to do with it. Yes, the U.S. did contribute greatly to the fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. I am even more proud of what we attempted to do after the war, to create a more liberal world order to prevent that shit from happening again.

IbogaProject

(5,698 posts)
5. The GOP imported actual Nazis
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:08 AM
Jan 22

Nit figuratively but in early 1953 thr GOP brought in around 300,000 Germans to rebuild their party. I had a teacher who git to be a Senate Page at 16 in 1953. Interesting due to his being continential but an absolute selfish spoiled butt-hole of a man.

Prescot Bush got ~!750,000 the same time for protecting a Nazi supporter's hoard through the impoundment stage. The evil who supported Hitler have never stopped their attempts to take over.

PatSeg

(52,579 posts)
8. Kind of sad
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:34 AM
Jan 22

When I see a subject line like "Unfathomably stupid and imbecilic" and I immediately know who it is about.

dameatball

(7,660 posts)
12. And if France had not helped us win the Revolutionary War most of us would be speaking English. Huh?
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:53 AM
Jan 22

Which makes just about as much sense.

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