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2d ago

Anon gives a former president some feedback

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War on drugs - drugs won
War on terror - terror won
War on woke - 🤞
- It's never been about defeating those things, it's about expanding power using them as an excuse.
  
  Exactly.
  War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government
  War on Terror - PATRIOT Act, or whatever its current incarnation is
  War on Woke - probably government access to medical records and/or privacy generally, but I guess we'll see
- War on poverty 😬
- War on drugs - excuse to further oppress blacks and mexicans (successful)
  War on terror - excuse to violently expand influence in the middle east (mission accomplished)
  War on woke - 😟
  
  War on Woke - war on privacy and access to undesirable (to the state) 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.
- Considering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.
- interesting

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.

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.

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.
  
  Saddam and his family were genuinely awful, to be fair.
  
  That's a nice side effect.

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

Declaring war on a concept has never gone well for the states, has it? Drugs, terror, women, the list goes on.
- The war against woman is sadly going strong right now. More than drugs and etc ever has.
- Seems like it has worked pretty well:
  Vietnam/Korea/etc - most people hate communism
  War on Drugs - police get to arrest minorities, and felons don't get to vote (suppress minority vote)
  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.
- The US isn't known for winning wars historically.
- Vietnam
- Declaring war on a concept has never gone well ~~for the states~~, has it?
  Ftfy.
  
  Matter of perspective. Ask halliburton how's it going...
- I'm holding out hope that we can still turn it around and defeat Santa Claus
- Declaring war on anything. They need the Europeans to invite them to the final hours of one to chalk a W.

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.

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.

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

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

Are we really going back this far, right at this moment?
- 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.
- 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.
  
  And his brother was even the establishment favorite to win until Trump took over everything.

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