Kind of like what happened to Bush after Trump came around.
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Seriously. I was at the right age to be much more politically intense back then and absolutely despised Bush.
Now, I almost feel bad about it after witnessing the last 20 years of politics.
We can have room in our hearts to hate more than one monstrous US president.
But only almost.
Yeah, I still think the criticisms of Bush were valid, but I'm so much more cool-headed as a person now that the difference in my response feels incongruent. Political news doesn't take an emotional toll on me like it used to, even though I objectively disagree with modern politicians more.
I think you're wrong that it doesn't take an emotional toll on you like before. However, it's such a toll that you just have to start ignoring it. Back then it felt useful to constantly pay attention. Now it's all so bad that if you paid attention to all of it you'd go insane, so we have to be more relaxed and only let the big things get to us.
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Nah don’t, bush was a horrible monster.
That's called "The Memory Hole".
We take all the illegality and corruption and horrific violence and torture and wars and media manipulation/intimidation and petty dictator shit and stuff it down the Memory Hole. Then we get to pretend
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This shit
Wasn't such a big deal after all.
That spoiler tag did NOT work what the fuck dude
It follows lemmy spoiler format. Your ui is not compliant
America has been the bad guys for close to a century at this point the difference maker is their marketing game was on point.
Now? They no longer with Saatchi and Saatchi lol
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That's right! The war crimes go into... The memory hole!
Jesus Christ.
I very well remember seeing the censored version of that image... this is the first time I've seen it uncensored.
I've seen uncensored pics from the highway of death, other graphic shit that made it onto the early days of liveleak... but there ya go, memory hole in action.
Yeah but at least it was a scandal. That asshole, and a bunch of others, went to jail, even if it wasn't long enough. If it happened today they'd either never be charged or pardoned and that asshole would be the Secretary of Defense.
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I was telling my Zillennial partner about Bush this morning. About the extraordinary renditions. About kidnapping and torturing a fellow Canadian citizen for no fucking reason. About prosecuting child soldiers and holding them with adult mercenaries for a decade or more. About sanctioned torture, unsanctioned mass abuses, and complete abandonment of due process. And "y'all" are shocked today to find you live in a fascist country. Like, how the fuck are you surprised.
They’re not surprised. Lots of Americans wanted this. Stupid as fuck population.
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Jesse and James were always effective, they just suck at villainy. They are good at dressing up, making rube-goldberg devices, and many other things, they just aren't evil enough to elevate that potential. If they were, Giovanni would be sleeping with the magi-karp, and Ash would be eaten by their Arbok.
good at dressing up
Ah yes, I still remember questioning my sexuality over James when I watched pokemon as a teenager. Good times
Was that with or without his massive tits?
Haha they were crazy, totally forgot this episode existed
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and then you have the venture bros, where the monarch starts off as goofy and ineffectual but becomes more menacing as the series goes on and the stakes get higher
Villain Cay
Alternate name for Epstein Island
They did fucking stellar work with the character growth. I normally hate the "you need to give it a couple seasons" kind of thing, but Venture Bros did so well to have a moment where you feel the tone start to change, and somehow, the goofier start ends up working in the shows favor.
I will never look at a Homies the same way again.
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If anyone is a victim of "Villain Decay" in the Venture Bros its Brock Sampson. The Swedish Murder Machine is practically a teddy bear by the final arc.
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that is a constant in Dragon Ball.
enemies get defeated, surpasseda and then they become entourage
It was hilarious watching Dragon Ball after growing up on Dragon Ball Z. When Yamcha shows up and is a threat I lost it.
The list of opponents Goku agrees need to be eliminated is much shorter than the list of ones he wants to fight again when they are stronger. Despite most of them after the start of DBZ being existential threats.
Though he goes back and forth on Frieza lol.
Frankly speaking Frieza has somewhat mellowed out, probably the end result of being killed and sent to hell a couple times. He went from let's genocide the filthy monkeys to let's torture the filthy monkeys, which is progress I guess.
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Piccolo noooooooooooooo!
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This same process is why u stop watching cop/detective dramas as soon as a protagonist gets kidnapped.
- This happens 100% of the time, usually 3 season in
- You know they’ve gone from procedural to full on drama at this point
- The quality always drops off a cliff here
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Reminds me of D&D in a high level party and you run into a couple giant spiders. Aww... how cute!
damn you, Kakarot!
Villainflation
I heard that something like this happened in an old superman villain. It took one season to defeat him. But later they defeat two by throwing a table at them
"Supernatural" in a word
But not the Joker.
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