Clown Car III: Who's Laughing Now

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In fairness, the shirt actually says "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat."

If they don't have to be Democrat to be an American (which they don't) then we can presume they're telling the truth.

Edit: although whether Russia would even take them is a separate question.
 
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In fairness, the shirt actually says "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat."
If they don't have to be Democrat to be an American (which they don't) then we can presume they're telling the truth.

Over analyzing the whole shirt thing
Its just meant as a joke to mock the Russia collusion investigation

If Republicans wanted the Truth they wouldnt have elected Trump
 
Not that I support the man, but I'm not sure what you mean. Please elaborate.
 
Just think of the many joke / snark shirts / bumper stickers that were created during the Eight years of G.W.Bush Presidency by the more educated Liberal

They saw this cool shirt mocking Liberals and brought it without thinking through its message. Its just like that dont overthink it
Like that Republican with the Bush Cheney bummer sticker whom was targeted by US Army recruiters and then sued them. Because being a Republican and supporting the Iraq war wouldnt possibly be more inclined to enlist
 
My guess is being Canadian, he knows he can leave. Being a foreign correspondent gives one a certain detachment from the society and government one is reporting on.
 
I feel bad for anyone who has to talk to Trump every day.
This is probably why Melania tweets support for the NBA's blackest and finest.
 
So would I. Russia has a pretty great culture.
What is great about Russian culture? Can you name anything that is newer than 1917? they have extended some 19th C cultural traditions into the 20th C in music, dance and literature, but what have they added culturally in the past 100 years that is actually new? Dash cam videos?
 
What happened ?
Whats with all these republicans taking trips to Moscow.

Rand Paul has suddenly emerged as one of Trump's biggest allies on Russia

Republican Sen. Rand Paul was once one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest critics, particularly during the 2016 presidential election. But in recent months he’s become one of his biggest allies on issues relating to what has been a constant thorn in the president’s side: Russia.

In the latest example, during a trip to Moscow on Monday, Paul invited Russian lawmakers to visit Washington, DC, expanding on Trump’s efforts to improve US-Russia relations.

In the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Paul called for the US to isolate Russia if it continued to act like a “rogue nation.”

“It is important that Russia become economically isolated until all its forces are removed from Crimea and Putin pledges to act in accordance with the international standards of behaviour that respect the rights of free people everywhere,” Paul wrote in March 2014.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/rand-paul-trump-russia-ally-2018-8
 
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Pretty much every major corporation (certainly including Google) has taken your side in the culture war? Are you not aware of this?
Because there's no war. Being at least nominally pro-LGBT, pro-feminist, pro-"diversity", are the common sense of the times. Even most conservatives agree, they just add certain caveats about "traditional family values" and what have you. Some conservatives dissent, but they're a minority, and one that is being gradually aged out of relevance. The user-base for companies like Google and Facebook skews young, so it makes sense that they would appear to be ahead of the curve.
 
What is great about Russian culture? Can you name anything that is newer than 1917? they have extended some 19th C cultural traditions into the 20th C in music, dance and literature, but what have they added culturally in the past 100 years that is actually new? Dash cam videos?

Culture isn't about number of years of it being prominent, though. Eg the US has been around for something like 1/2 of the time the ancient greek golden era lasted, but you obviously don't see a 2-1 ratio of ancient greek to US cultural creations in media or general awareness.
The 19th century russian literature is enough, still, to make it one of the great global literatures. Individually it isn't unlikely that it presented more important writers than (say) the US, which also had its rise to literary importance in the same era.
Gogol, Chechov, Tolstoy, and even the dreaded and -to a significant degree rightly- fallen from grace Dostoevsky, are more than likely more notable than the also rather few important (globally/in the history of literature) US authors.

In classical music it would be quite ridiculous to even try to compare the two.

Btw, in film-making and animation, USSR had been quite prominent.
 
Moderator Action: The diversion into literature has been moved here.
 
edit: actually, is an acronym technically a word? idk? @Owen Glyndwr ?

LGBT is an initialism, because you don't pronounce the letters as a discrete word. An acronym, e.g. LASER or SCUBA, would be.
 
Because there's no war. Being at least nominally pro-LGBT, pro-feminist, pro-"diversity", are the common sense of the times. Even most conservatives agree, they just add certain caveats about "traditional family values" and what have you. Some conservatives dissent, but they're a minority, and one that is being gradually aged out of relevance. The user-base for companies like Google and Facebook skews young, so it makes sense that they would appear to be ahead of the curve.

Yeah, has it occurred to you that these people are just invisible to you? Only sympathy for LGBT people has increased across the board.
 
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