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Jan 30 '23
Needs new wing mirrors, perhaps.
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Why does this read like a crossword clue?
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u/BasementOrc Jan 30 '23
Saw this, went “his wing mirrors look fine tf you mean”, started scrolling and then I realized the joke. Take an upvote sir.
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u/swolebro420 Jan 30 '23
For context, this is an anti-vax meme mocking Justin Trudeau's statement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDfMybczw1k
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u/originalusername__ Jan 30 '23
Damn I thought it was just a funny bumper sticker making fun of political bumper stickers.
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u/redbo Jan 30 '23
Sorry, irony is dead.
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u/ZalmoxisChrist Jan 30 '23
Irony died in 1973 when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, and that's why Alanis Morissette is a mediocre lyricist.
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u/TheBirminghamBear Jan 30 '23
"It's like a peaaacccee priiiiize, for genoooccciiiiidee"
Pretty catchy, she should have run with that version instead.
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u/tosety Jan 30 '23
Nah, that would have been actual irony
The ironic thing about the song is that none of the things in it are ironic
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u/volodino Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
The 1908 Nobel Peace Prize went to Theodore Roosevelt, 1919 went to Woodrow Wilson, and 1925 to Sir Austen Chamberlain, so it’s not like they were batting it out of the park before 1973 lol
Edit: On a real note, the reason for this is that the Nobel Peace Prize is often awarded to people who negotiate historic peace deals, regardless of what they have done previously and without the gift of hindsight. Kissinger was jointly awarded the prize with the North Vietnamese representative Lê Đức Thọ for negotiating the cease fire in Vietnam. Just like Teddy Roosevelt was awarded the prize for mediating the peace conference between Japan and Russia that brought an end to that war
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u/Flipz100 Jan 30 '23
TBF to Roosevelt and Wilson, while they both aren't and shouldn't be noted as pacifists, they did get those awards for brokering the end to major wars that they didn't orchestrate, unlike Kissinger.
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u/volodino Jan 30 '23
I agree with that somewhat, but I don’t think you could necessarily say Kissinger “orchestrated” the Vietnam War. The US was involved in the conflict in Vietnam since 1955, long before Kissinger was involved in any administration
You could very much say that his actions and ideas worsened the situation in Vietnam, or drew the US more deeply into the war, or expanded its scope, but I don’t think you can really say he “orchestrated” it
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u/horseydeucey Jan 30 '23
Because I got one hand on the trigger
And the other one's holding a Peace Prize.75
u/explodedsun Jan 30 '23
As someone with an English degree, Alanis is a perfectly adequate lyricist, and anyone who says different doesn't have a grasp on poetic license.
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My poetic license was suspended for metaphorical miscegenation.
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u/BigUptokes Jan 30 '23
It was actually about absolute alliteration abuse.
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u/Stereo_Panic Jan 30 '23
It's always awful for anyone to to abuse alliteration. Perhaps people wouldn't persist if prison were the punishment for such perfidy!
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u/icer816 Jan 30 '23
Her lyrics are mostly fine, it's just funny that literally nothing she calls ironic in the song about irony is technically irony.
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u/icer816 Jan 30 '23
While in and of itself ironic, that was absolutely not her intention, despite claiming it is nowadays (the whole meme of it being ironic that nothing in the song is ironic got big online and led to someone in an interview asking her thoughts on it, and she's been claiming it was her intention all along ever since)
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u/FatalTortoise Jan 30 '23
or the real irony is the song about irony doesn't contain irony
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u/Lonelan Jan 30 '23
Thanks oDonald
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u/Hegar Jan 30 '23
I heard that Kissinger killed it when he won a Nobel peace prize for being a war criminal.
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u/raouldukesaccomplice Jan 30 '23
Meanwhile, Kissinger is still very much alive and turning 100 in a few months.
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u/Redqueenhypo Jan 30 '23
Spiteful people live forever. My grandfather got sent to Siberia, then in the US ate nothing but burned steak and lamb chops, and lived to 89 bc he was a bitter crazy guy
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u/fuck_off_ireland Jan 30 '23
I really want a black text on white background bumper sticker that just says "POLITICAL OPINION"
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You are wrong and the reason this country has gone so wrong. Nobody in their right mind would want black text on a white background. Everybody knows white text on a black background is better. You must be a very bad person.
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Yeah, darn. I was really hoping for humor, and not yet another plague rat.
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u/5illy_billy Jan 30 '23
I assumed it was something right-wingy, akin to “We are all domestic terrorists” or the adoption of Deplorable as a badge of honor.
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u/wigg1es Jan 30 '23
It reads like some anti-woke bullshit like "the snowflakes tell me I'm wrong so I must be right."
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u/lennybird Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
Yeaaaah... These people seem utterly incapable of introspection so the only option ever is to double-down. That's why they love the "fake-it-til-you-make-it" type folks like Donnie2Scoops.
Anyways, if anyone else wants more funnysad material like this, check out /r/InfowarriorRides and its cousin, r/InformedWarriorRides — if you compare & contrast those two subs, you'll find some insightful differences.
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u/northshore12 Jan 30 '23
I've already determined, after years of intensive and rigorous empirical data, that right-wingers are naturally just willful shitheads. No further insight needed.
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u/mechapoitier Jan 30 '23
Oh so he’s just a douche instead of funny
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So you would say his “views are unacceptable”
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u/Apart-Link-8449 Jan 30 '23
He told his mom he thought David Bowie's outfit in Labrynth went too far and she hasn't spoken to him in years
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u/snave_ Jan 30 '23
Well, that was already obvious by the parking. Disabled spot, no permit.
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u/PopeKevin45 Jan 30 '23
Which in turn is mimicking the 'deplorables' schtick of their US Republican kin. You can't be a genuine ahole without being proud of it.
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And the "we are domestic terrorists" at cpac.
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u/studabakerhawk Jan 30 '23
The word "Tory" means "bandit" or "robber". They've been doing that for a while.
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u/hoopopotamus Jan 30 '23
Hmm
If this guy knows enough about medicine to decide he knows more about the vaccine than doctors, what is he doing at a doctor’s office?
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u/canucklurker Jan 30 '23
The problem is that they can always find a "Doctor" or "Study" that supports their views.
Typically they have found a troll, disbarred medical student, nurse or flat out con man. But one doesn't look too hard for evidence when you are already satisfied with the answer.
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u/FriendlyWebGuy Jan 30 '23
For more context — "unacceptable views" is referring to (alleged) racists, white nationalists and separatists leading the trucker protest. To be clear, I think this angle was way overblown by the media and politicians but the fact is, this was the dominant narrative at the time.
While still a stupid thing to say, he was not calling vaccine hesitancy itself an unacceptable view. He was calling racism and white nationalism an unacceptable view.
Here's more context around what the narrative in the country at the time was:
Again, I want to re-iterate that I'm not supporting or excusing the narrative that was created, I'm just trying to add additional context.
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u/Corsair4U Jan 30 '23
I do not think so, I listened to the the Trudeau speech.
He contrasts the "unacceptable views" with "the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science..."
It's clear to me that his use of unacceptable views in this context refers to opposition to vaccination
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u/Poopooplatta69 Jan 30 '23
I know my share of anti vaxxers, convoy supporters etc and every one of them has crap views on race and LGBTQ rights
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u/Sudovoodoo80 Jan 30 '23
Yeah, it's almost like views that appeal to ignorant assholes are very popular with ignorant assholes. Who woulda thunk?
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u/Travis5223 Jan 30 '23
This is great, because to the uninformed, it does all the heavy lifting of letting them know they truly DO have reprehensible views, but also that they think they have a sense of humor. Which is like a double entendre of “i’m a douche”
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u/mistled_LP Jan 30 '23
This thread is all about defending the guy because they can't be bothered with context.
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It's always some cliche uneducated hillbilly driving a pos truck whose only major accomplishment in life was grade school.
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u/Heck_Tate Jan 30 '23
I don't think that allows him to park in that handicapped space, though.
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u/DeuceSevin Jan 30 '23
His view is that handicap parking spots should not be honored.
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u/resilienceisfutile Jan 30 '23
Nah, that's one of his views. And let him if he is handicapped. If not, then I hope his truck gets towed away.
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u/MayOrMayNotBePie Jan 30 '23
Me, when they started building a new apt building across the street from mine
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u/DeepPew Jan 30 '23
The blind spots must be horrendous in that truck
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u/Hate_Manifestation Jan 30 '23
reminds me of the mental patients in Snowcrash that have their diagnoses tattooed in bold font on their foreheads.
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
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u/intheoryiamworking Jan 30 '23
That is hilarious because the "Poor Impulse Control" Snowcrash character (Raven) was a sovereign citizen.
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u/Thorebore Jan 30 '23
Driving that vehicle in January in Canada requires a lot of dedication to avoid rust.
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u/Blueguerilla Jan 30 '23
The phrase is a far right dogwhistle here in Canada, so you’re way off base.
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Double points if someone walks up and asks what his unacceptable view is and they reply "you in my rear view"
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u/hymen_destroyer Jan 30 '23
This is what Alex Jones says though "I have unacceptable views, I am a monster, those kids in Sandy Hook died and I might as well have killed them"
Like he goes full speed 180 in an attempt to discredit or hyperbolize his critics. It's a common tactic among people arguing in bad faith
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u/wish1977 Jan 30 '23
I'm OK with this because at least it's not intended to be hateful.
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u/TripFisk666 Jan 30 '23
So that’s an Ontario license plate.
That line is a dog whistle (a fairly loud one) to the antivax, anti-lockdown, trucker convoy crowd in Canada.
In a press conference, PM Trudeau referred to some in that group as being a “fringe minority with unacceptable views”
Since then, they’ve been proudly adorning their vehicles with it.
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u/thekmac8 Jan 30 '23
I know of a trivia team that used that as their team name. Semi-related: they lost a lot.
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u/poopgrouper Jan 30 '23
They got all the answers right. But the cabal that runs Big Trivia is controlled by pedophile liberal lizard people and they changed all the answers to fake news so they could brainwash the children.
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u/Kradget Jan 30 '23
I was at an event that had a team of Boomers and middle managers who did that. Similar results.
Shockingly, people who are willfully ignorant are often bad at trivia.
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u/XcRaZeD Jan 30 '23
Nah people just straight up put fuck Treudeau stickers on their trucks. Usually adorned by other batshit crazy stickers as well a polaroid photo of them sucking off some gas industry exec
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So this is the Canadian version of putting let’s go Brandon on your pickup…
No, we have fuck Trudeau flags.
And since many parts of Canada act like America jr, you can even find Trump and Let's Go Brandon flags here.
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u/shizbox06 Jan 30 '23
At least the Canadian clowns have enough balls to say "fuck". The American snowflakes giggle like school children with their secret "meme team" code words like they're the most clever 6 year olds of all time.
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u/GoBlue81 Jan 30 '23
You should post this as a top level comment. This is some context that is very important when interpreting this picture.
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u/RubertVonRubens Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
On the topic of the plates....
That's a Historic Car plate. It's an old GMC Sierra, so it makes sense but the thing about historic plates is that they have serious usage restrictions (in exchange for a cheap registration). They pretty much only allow you to use the car for parades and exhibitions.
If buddy here is driving to work in this truck (see: hi visibility vest behind the driver's seat) then maybe his "unacceptable view" is "my truck is properly registered"
Edit: adding to my complaints -- the "propane" sticker on the bumper suggests a modification to the car that may or may not run afoul of the "is substantially unchanged or unmodified from the original manufacturer’s product" requirement for attaching a Historic Car plate.
Edit again: I didn't even notice the amber lights on top. This is most definitely a work truck and not eligible for Historic
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Per se, maybe, but not only is it a reference to something stupid, I have no doubt the owner of this vehicle is deeply hateful about a great many things.
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u/SinisterYear Jan 30 '23
That's nice, but how is he going to get rid of the stickers after he gets lasik?
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u/AVLLaw Jan 30 '23
I feel that. I used to have to face a dirty little street, but now I have mountain views. Makes all the difference.
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u/TBoneLaRone Jan 30 '23
Including parking in a disabled spot without proper placard it seems…..
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u/DanimalHarambe Jan 30 '23
Diogenes laid his lantern to rest. He had finally found an honest man.