22 points

Reagan and Kissinger are safe targets for liberals to hate. They’re on the whitelist. It’s the equivalent of saying “thanks Obama” for liberals

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8 points

Unless you bring up how Hillary considered Kissinger “a good friend and mentor”.

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12 points

why does this keep being posted, who fucking cares that a person who guaranteed our agonized pointless deaths has been dead for a long time

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18 points

Wait until he says tankie

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John Oliver is doing communist edging. The point is to get as near as possible to understanding the underlying systemic issues that are the actual cause of everything he looks at, without ever actually getting there.

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7 points

Just like Achilles and the turtle

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16 points

He would be filtered out if he said something that anti-capital. It’s similar to the Manufacturing Consent model, except John Oliver and that type is the furthest left the system can tolerate. Jon Stewart getting kicked off Apple comes to mind.

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Jon Stewart wanted to do “investigative” and critical pieces on both China and artificial intelligence. I dunno if it would have been left-wing.

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16 points

Deification can work both ways.

The fact the Dems are to the right of Reagan and well to the right of Nixon is obscured by the fact that Reagan and Nixon were republicans.

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14 points

watched a clip from him circa 2015 and mf been aging like milk looks like a presidential before and after

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25 points

It’s called being Anglo.

He’s a few months younger than Shakira, Psy and Richard Ayoade, who all appear younger than him by a lot.

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17 points

Being Anglo means you got a 95% chance to age like milk, 5% chance to age into wizard. It’s a rough trade.

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10 points

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14 points

WTF, he’s still in his 40s? I thought he was closer to 60.

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