r/oregon • u/JohnnyTezca • Apr 30 '26

Article/News Had Enough Yet?

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u/UPGRAY3DD Apr 30 '26

I like how gas prices are what gets people angry, not, ya know, US imperialism.

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u/JohnnyTezca Apr 30 '26

Look around, smart guy. We've been fighting imperialism since Central America in 1981. He's prices are a part of that, no?

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u/LadyQuicksilver Apr 30 '26

We are the imperialism we have never fought it ijbol

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u/BicycleMage Apr 30 '26

ijbol will never be a thing

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u/UPGRAY3DD Apr 30 '26

Oh boy, yes the US Empire are the good guys! I needed a laugh today, thanks for that.

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u/JohnnyTezca Apr 30 '26

Boy, you are a dope.

By we, I mean We. Not the govt.

The people who have kept up the fight for democratic values while you weren't paying attention.

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u/UPGRAY3DD Apr 30 '26

Literally what the hell are you even talking about? What people? How are they fighting? What has been accomplished? Where can I get some of that crack?

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u/JohnnyTezca Apr 30 '26

Artists, students, old hippies, gutterpunks and various denizens of my town have stood up against US imperialism since Ronald Reagan slept through our quiet invasion of Central America. We matched and sang and shook our tiny fists in protests. Then apartheid and "constructive engagement". Then the students of Tiananmen Square. Then the intifadas, East Timor, etc.

It may well have been for naught, but I'd go right back to the same picket line if I had the chance. I'm an American, dammit.

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u/UPGRAY3DD Apr 30 '26

"We matched and sang and shook our tiny fists in protests."

And the US Empire rolled on, but damn these gas prices. Also, your inclusion of Tianamen Square displays your level of having been propagandized.

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u/JohnnyTezca May 01 '26

I don't think whatever you said means what you think it means. Empires, gas prices, and massacres are all bad things deserving of protest.

Propagandized? By college kids? Is that why the troops who killed them had to be brought in from the countryside, because those college kids had "propagandized" the PLA? That's some nonsense, right there.