• Ech@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Don’t play into their “Party of Lincoln” shit. They constantly fly and defend the flag of his enemies. It’s just virtue signaling banking on people’s ignorance of history.

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      I think it’s fine to do like this meme to show how low they’ve fallen. Obviously they really aren’t the same party in anything but name, but they could be.

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    2 months ago

    party that incessantly whines about “cancel culture” continues to cancel things for dumber and dumber reasons

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      1 month ago

      Yep. GOP are the most snowflakes I’ve ever seen. Also remember the Budweiser rebranding? Who thought the tiniest colour change would upset the manliest manly men?

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    Are we taking into account the period of time between 1872 and 1936 when the Republicans and Democrats did a big flippy floppy? Wibbly-wobbly even. Maybe some timey-whimey stuff to boot.

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    2 months ago

    Semi relevant video on cracker barrel trying to rebrand it self under new leadership: https://youtu.be/qTliS-Givk4

    I think their gripes are probably about more than the sausage. Having never once stepped foot in a Cracker Barrel, I assume this is part of wider backlash at trying to follow industry trends.

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      I have a Cracker Barrel near me that I go to with my mother every now and again. It’s the same as it was when I first went there in the early 2000s.

      I think their gripes are probably about more than the sausage.

      Maybe in other scnearios, but in this case? No, I remember this controversy. It was the usual “LETTUCE IS FOR RABBITS” style crowd of lunatics. The kind of people who buy massive pickup trucks and never actually use the bed.

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    2 months ago

    Grand Old Party as a term wasn’t used until the 1870s, according to wikipedia. GOP wasn’t used until the 1880s.

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    2 months ago

    This tracks, it’s something that doesn’t impact them and they could easily ignore. So of course they are outraged.