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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

War on drugs - drugs won

War on terror - terror won

War on woke - 🤞

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

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

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months 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
[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government

And increase incarceration of certain people to expand legal slavery under the 13th amendment.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

expand legal slavery

Maybe in some states, but in many (most?), they just become a burden on taxpayers.

[-] AllHailZorglub@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

interesting

[-] smol_beans@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

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

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

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

That's a nice side effect.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

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

[-] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months 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.

[-] tkmtlmike@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

No, man! He said war OF Terror...

[-] Patrik@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago
[-] rImITywR@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[-] Stepskippin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Meep@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Kurroth@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months 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.

[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 months 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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