• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Reminds me of the Iraq War era, when angry conservatives were buying expensive French wine (or had already bought it) just to make a spectacle of pouring it down a drain (in protest at France refusing to send troops into Iraq).

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      20 hours ago

      “Freedom fries”

      Man, i was in my extremely stupid 20’s and thought that was the most toddler level shit i’d ever seen

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      Or buying cases of Bud Light so they could shoot them, to protest the fact that Bud thanked a trans person who liked their beer.

      “I hate you! I’m giving you money to insult you and prove it!”

      “Okay, I guess?”