Remembering the first time I knowingly encountered the befuddling thing I would eventually know as MAGA.
It was 2008, on Facebook.
It was my old college buddy, Stove Minivan.
(Names have been changed to mock the guilty.)
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@RobRobbins33044@ProjectLincoln Yeah? That's 20-30 years in prison. Maybe just stop before you embarrass yourself further, since you now REALLY sound like a violent rapist. MAGA really is the Asshole Mafia.
Look, I get it. I used to work on Apaches. They're cool as hell, and I promise the pilots were just as amped as the crowd.
However, safety regulations are written in blood. There's a reason they weren't supposed to fly over crowds at such a low altitude. At that altitude at that speed, if anything had gone wrong, we wouldn't be seeing people crying about how unfair it is to the pilots. We wouldn't be seeing Kegsbreath saying "we'll fix this." We'd be seeing people demanding answers about why they were flying like that. We'd be seeing crying and angry families on the news demanding justice. And we'd be seeing the Secretary of "War" throwing these pilots under the boss so fucking fast there wouldn't even be skid marks.
@BillKristol@jefftimmer Or a socialism (state ownership of the means of production) connected with a singular focus on the needs of the nation over individual rights and protections. You know, a National Socialist kind of government.
โWhen socialism finally came to America it wasnโt the lefty, Scandinavian version with universal health care and free college. Oh no. Instead, we got a command economy ร la Chinese communism and it was ushered in by the right.โ https://t.co/dpMaT5DP7N