• BakerBagel
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      10 months ago

      George Washington was the only sitting US president to lead combat troops in the field, which he did against a group of farmers which consisted of mostly pissed off revolutionary war veterans upset about paying taxes on whiskey.

      Fucking over veterans goes all the way back to the start of this great nation. It’s literally what the founding father’s intended.

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      10 months ago

      Been that way since at least the Bonus Army, which sounds cool on paper, but the more you look into them, they suck too

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      10 months ago

      The older guy in my town whose daughter got murdered, which he used to gain enough sympathy from the community to build several frisbee golf courses for some reason, loved them.

      His dead daughter didn’t give a shit about frisbee golf, and he took over some land in my parents neighborhood that was supposed to be for everyone so he could build a course that went through the whole area. He also painted a giant “Trump” sign as decoration for the course.

      • LeninsBeard [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        I really like the song Brian Wilson and for some reason I always thought it was a DMB song but apparently it’s the bare naked ladies so I’ll chalk that up as a W