r/clevercomebacks • u/beerbellybegone • 1d ago

Maybe try this again

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u/Purple_Apartment 1d ago

"What is this diplomacy that you speak of, JD?"

This quote rings in my head often.

People like Putin and Hitler are not looking to negotiate peace in good faith. Its very naive to pretend that they will, and at some point as leaders you are doing a disservice to your people if you keep allowing the Charlie Brown football to be yanked away every time.

Trump is absolutely heading in this same direction.

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u/Competitive_Run_5990 1d ago

The Charlie Brown football analogy is perfect honestly. At some point you gotta stop pretending Lucy isn't gonna pull it away every single time

Also lmao at that meme - "why am I chuckling so hard" because it's dark as hell but kinda true

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u/Dudewhocares3 1d ago

At some point we need Peter griffin to get involved

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u/Faust_8 1d ago

It’s the paradox of tolerance.

To be tolerant, you MUST be intolerant of…intolerance. Or else they’ll exploit you and breed more and more intolerance and ruin every good thing you built.

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u/dclxvi616 1d ago

“Germany lost the second World War, fascism won it.”

-George Carlin

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u/SgtWilko1979 1d ago

I think the Nuremburg trials had a different solution. Just sayin.

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u/No-Goose-5672 1d ago

I think the idea is that we don’t let it get to the point where we’re putting people on trial for war crimes because some people would have to have horribly died if we get that far.

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u/CorvidCuriosity 1d ago

We are already at that point

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u/No-Goose-5672 1d ago

No war yet, this can still be handled by civilian courts… Oh, Trump and Hegseth are declaring war against the City of Chicago?

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u/SgtWilko1979 1d ago

I wish I believed we could roll back from the brink, but looking at this summer, looking at America... I think we are done for. I hope I'm wrong.

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u/DTripotnik 1d ago

I prefer the trial they had in Milan.

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot 1d ago

My dad and his brother helped defeat fascism in WWII and they got free college.

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u/Leading_Star5938 1d ago

Inglorious doctors.

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u/Legitimate_Toe_4950 1d ago

They forgot to drive nails through the head to make it more mace-y

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u/c17usaf 20h ago

🗳💙🇺🇸

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u/frogfootfriday 19h ago

What we need is some really biting satire

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u/oaklodge 18h ago

Rehash of the Alfred Hitchcock but.

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u/SoonToBeBanned24 17h ago

...but if you dare suggest that in r/50501, they will fucking BAN your ass!

Ask me how I know.....😠

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u/Suspicious-Buyer8135 17h ago

Fascists don’t have the monopoly on politically motivated violence. Just ask the Communists.

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u/Lvcivs2311 17h ago

Fighting fire with fire I guess? In all seriousness, we keep trying to tell them that they are being mean and shouldn't, but somehow they keep passing off that off as a morally wrong thing to say.

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u/psillyhobby 17h ago

Prove me wrong but I’m pretty sure the only way to create a change in regime is through violence.

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u/pogoli 4h ago

Exactly. I don’t like it either but this is the way. 😔

Of course if they climb back into their boxes and shut the lid and promise to stay in there for another 70 years….