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[-] julianh@lemm.ee 121 points 1 year ago

He got real close to an actual thought provoking comic here but just couldn't resist drawing that arrow just in case we're too dumb to get the message.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 24 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the vaccine syringe because???

[-] AEsheron@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

And is that a.... Lego brick?

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[-] julianh@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't notice that lol. Congrats to him on the subtlety I guess.

[-] xxxSexMan69xxx 23 points 1 year ago

Ehh, I am not sure I'd call something virtually everyone would agree with thought provoking.

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[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

Garrison’s gone so far right he’s starting to raise left talking points.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not how that works lol, horseshoe theory is bullshit

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[-] seliaste 11 points 1 year ago

Overton window overflow

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[-] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago

Brought to you by the same people that cheered like baboons for the Patriot Act. 9/11. Murica.

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

The Patriot act that passed with a ton of bipartisan support? That Patriot act? The one Obama promised to rescind while he was campaigning and then renewed after he won?

Don't make the mistake of believing any of these assholes are on your side. The worst of the worst legislation is always bipartisan. We've got faces and heels and at the end of the day they're working towards the same goals.

[-] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 30 points 1 year ago

This is a reminder that Democrats, in large, are not leftists. They are capitalists. They pass capitalistic legislation that benefits largely the rich and status-quo, which makes them conservatives.

[-] xxxSexMan69xxx 13 points 1 year ago

There is no leftist party. There is Batshit Insane Party and Everyone Else Party.

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Everyone Else Party implies they're on our side. There's the Mask Off Authoritarian Party and the Still Pretending They're Not Authoritarians Party.

[-] MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz 26 points 1 year ago

America has two authoritarian right-wing parties to pick from. One is less right wing than the other, but they're still both to the right of the major right wing party in my country (New Zealand)

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

People aren't political parties though. The OP is referring to followers of a specific belief system, not somebody registered as a D or an R.

[-] xxxSexMan69xxx 4 points 1 year ago

Idk, Ben might be an idiot but he was pretty libertarian before he went all in on Trumpism.

[-] TheActualDevil 10 points 1 year ago

He was a raging narcissist who perpetually thought he was smarter and more special than everyone around him. I'd say that fits pretty well with most libertarians I've met.

[-] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked the image, saw the author, unliked it, then realized that is cringe and shitty people can also have decent takes every now and then. I then reliked the image.

Edit: fuck the antivax shit though

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago

Except Ben's biggest issue with those is that they stopped a fascist coup...

[-] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago
[-] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They didn't see it through, anyway.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought when it was when he was creepily showing Greta getting “spanked.” 😮

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 49 points 1 year ago

Aren’t all of those part of the executive branch

[-] germanatlas 45 points 1 year ago
[-] Tedrow@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Why is there a syringe and a Lego?

[-] ylensankiapriha@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

The syringe is there because Ben's an antivaxxer

[-] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 68 points 1 year ago

The Lego is there because he stepped on a lego once and it was clearly the government's fault.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I KNEW IT!!

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

But seriously, I'm dying to know what insane shit they've come up with about legos and the CIA.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lego released a pride set.

That's it, that's the tweet. They're big mad that Lego offered the tiniest but of token support to queer and trans kids, and they think that - like anything that upsets them - it's all part of the "Deep State Conspiracy."

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The decades long TSA infiltration of the Danes finally bears fruit.

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[-] hungryphrog 7 points 1 year ago

The FBI makes innocent people step on LEGO bricks every day!

[-] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Both hurt to step on.

[-] Lux 37 points 1 year ago

How am i supposed to understand with no cum

[-] uriel238 28 points 1 year ago

So in 2001 when the PATRIOT Act was signed, that created the Department of Homeland Security (or DHS) under which the FBI, CIA and NSA were placed. If we give the US the benefit of the doubt (for a moment) the notion was that some government departments that didn't like each other very much would consolidate data for common concerns, which might help stop further terror attacks.

Spoiler: It didn't stop further terror attacks. The DHS was so concerned about Islamist terror from the Middle East (so much so it was abducting Americans for being slightly too Arab and too Muslim) for the CIA Extrajudicial Detention and Enhanced Interrogation program. That is to say, they were being taken to foreign black sites to be tortured until their mind was scrambled.

One the other things I noticed at the time (I'm old) is how the DHS was beholden specifically to the executive branch of the US federal government, where before the FBI and law enforcement were kept at respectable distance so the president wouldn't misuse police officers as goons or hit squads. In the 1930s, part of the point of the Waffen SS (or the SS in general) was to have a police / military force that was loyal not to Germany but to The Führer, himself In fact, it was a big deal in the NSDAP party doctrine to create chains of command and loyalty not through national structures but through structures of the party organization. So when George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, I was even then getting are we the baddies? vibes.

Anyway, so it's a bit weird to me that the DHS isn't mentioned here as the name of that giant thorny branch. Other than the TSA the other three were their own separate things until that happened.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Because the dhs isn't investigating the republican God emperor. Nothing more complex than that.

[-] xHoudek@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Does he know that all of those agencies are part of the executive branch?

[-] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

"Judicial" should be some kind of engorged, tumorously enlarged branch.

[-] anolemmi@lemmi.social 20 points 1 year ago

I always knew Legos were just another tool to keep us in line!

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That alt-right dipshit lifted the idea from "The Gang of Four" lore from the 1980's Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG. He just replaced DEA with TSA, which in itself is asinine. Why not ATF? The TSA is a joke.

[-] Aldehyde@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Because the tsa is responsible for enforcing the no fly list Jan 6ers are on

[-] UpperBroccoli@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Best guess: they made him drop his pants at the airport to do a cavity search.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's not just the American people these days. Edward Snowden's book goes into some detail about how the NSA has access to many counties internet infrastructure etc.

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