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    1 day ago

    Random tangent but I rewatched Dr. Strangelove today and was struck by how much General Turgidson sounds exactly like liberals on here.

    It is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two, admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable postwar environments: one, where you got 20 million people killed, and another, where you got 150 million people killed!

    You’re talking about mass murder, General, not war… I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Adolf Hitler.

    Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people, than with your image in the history books!

    It’s the exact same lesser-evilist logic combined with the exact same condescension towards anyone who’s not a psychopath.

    Even if you want to go full on, “Actually, Turgidson was right,” you still can’t make it your platform and expect it to be popular.