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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

This is what a brain damaged Republican sounds like when he tries to wax poetic about his strawmen.

[–] DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Haven't we all just been living under constant nuclear threat since we were basically born? It's kind of hard to be anxious about it since it's basically the background radiation we've been told not to prioritize or think too much about since we were kids but I would wager each one of us has a nebulous and ill defined "in case of bomb" plan.

[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

Im pretty sure we still ARE under nuclear threat now that Russia decided to go invading again and that the US has a fascist dictatorship rolling up.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Dictionary knows only the meaning of isolated words. They have no ground to stand on.

They could have asked why there are nuclear threats. At some point OP would have to admit that the sky is not woke enough and that more non-binary fuss is needed.

[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Spends youth doing duck and cover drills from fear of Russian nuke launches. Now, licks the boots of....checks notes....Russia.

We were not ready for the internet and 24 hour news.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Nanomachines, son!

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 122 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who needs ChatGPT to make slop when we've got right wing clowns?

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

ChatGOP is coming to take your job, senator

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

You [adjective] [plural noun] who never lived one day under [adjective] threat can now [verb] upon your [adjective] [noun].

You made quite the [adjective] fuss to save the world from [adjective] [adjective] [noun].


There, now we can all play Mad Libs!

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[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 week ago

Also who the hell is he referring to? Pakistan has had nukes since like ‘98

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a leftist GenX whose served aboard 3 nuclear submarines, over a 20 year career. Ive slept between ballistic nuclear missiles, on top of torpedoes, mines, and tomahawk missiles early in my career, but later, switched to a standard bed (rack) on the boats..can I reflect and make a fuss?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. You can be thanked for your service but you cannot protest when your benefits are reduced.

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Darth Vader, "I'm altering the deal. Pray that I don't alter it any further."

[–] Gismonda@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

You nailed it

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

as long as it's non-binary

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, did I miss a mass disarmament event? It may not be as novel as it used to be, but the dull threat of nuclear war has been a constant backdrop in our lives.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

like a lot of us of a certain age lived through fucken CHERNOBYL.

[–] don@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago

Weird how those who try to use the word “woke” as a pejorative usually reveal themselves to be infected with the broke mind virus.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The duality of republicans. Be scared of Russia nuking us over Ukraine to lick their boot, but also belittle gen z for not living through the cold war, while also starting a cold war with China.

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 32 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm just waiting for them to start calling oxygen and water woke so they either stop breathing or shrivel up like a sun dried dog turd.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we get him on technicalities? 'Cos millenials start in '81 and there was very much nuclear threatening

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Nuclear threats never went away. There's a proxy war between nuclear powers happening right now. India and Pakistan just had a spat. Seems like some American elites want to fight China.

Sometimes I wonder if nuclear winter will cancel out climate change.

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[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago

millennials haven't lived a single day without nuclear threats, the fuck is he moping on about?

[–] dunidane 25 points 1 week ago

There aren't 2 nuclear armed empires facing each other down and fighting proxy wars in poorer parts of the world. Instead there are multiple smaller nuclear armed empires facing off and fighting real wars with the crumbling husks of NATO and the soviets acting like they still have spheres of total control and ideological backing while their citizens struggle to get by.

Sounds like a great upgrade history definitely ended in 1991.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let me help the dictionary out. It means old man yells at the cloud.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just know he thought this sounded so fucking cool in his heads before he typed it out.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

"Oh yeah, this is going to piss off so many Liberal Snowflakes. -post-"

-Gets ratio'd to hell and back by the fucking dictionary-

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

On the bright side, this word vomit will by itself probably set AI language models back a year.

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Every day is a day lived under nuclear threat as long as pricks like this exist.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My reaction to the rep's post in screenshot:

billy madison animation GIF where billy gets told his speech was incoherent rambling

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We traded nuclear threat for school shooting threat.

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're putting woke in the sky and turnin' the birds gay!

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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's weird how the people that have always been against drugs are the people on drugs.

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

But... Russia makes nuclear threats every other week!

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why worry about nuclear war when the corpations are choking the planet. In fact, nuclear war would be prefer at this point.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

slow death from corporate hubris < quick-ish death from nuclear self annihilation

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

i long to see the woke sky...

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Said by a member of the Legislative Branch of the government that started the nuclear arms race...on Twitter. Forget self-awareness tests. This person probably couldn't pass the mirror test.

[–] Gronk@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think what he's trying to say is that what the "woke" have fought for pales in comparison to living through the cold war?

I don't fucking know, my brother in crust the ocean absorbs the energy of 5 small yield nuclear weapons a second because your generation didn't want the gravy train to end, don't harp on about a nuclear sword of damacles you fucking parasite

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This guy is a band naming genius

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