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Guardian: Donald Trump’s UFC stunt is more than a circus. It’s authoritarian theatre (archive.ph)
posted 5 days ago by Ahaus667 5 days ago by Ahaus667 +37 / -0
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– Mpetey123 31 points 5 days ago +31 / -0

Yes, the august White House with JFK's whore tunnels, LBJ public urination, Clinton's hidden intern games, and Biden's house of tranny visitors and cocaine will be brought low by a UFC event.

It's not going to happen but if it did who cares? The left seems particularly perturbed that rural and suburban fans seem to enjoy the sport. It offends their urban snobbery that the White House will feature common Americans.

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– ModsAreAIDS 18 points 5 days ago +18 / -0

The most important part of the article was buried at the bottom:

At the moment, just 2.4% of our regular readers help fund our work. If you want to protect independent journalism, please consider joining them today.

Come on Brits, you can get that number lower. You're almost there, just 2.4% to go.

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– altmehere 4 points 5 days ago +4 / -0

They have several different versions of that ebegging that I've seen. This one might be my favorite:

When the military is deployed to quell overwhelmingly peaceful protest, when elected officials of the opposing party are arrested or handcuffed, when student activists are jailed and deported, and when a wide range of civic institutions – non-profits, law firms, universities, news outlets, the arts, the civil service, scientists – are targeted and penalized by the federal government, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our core freedoms are disappearing before our eyes – and democracy itself is slipping away.

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– ailurus 15 points 5 days ago +15 / -0

They got tired of calling him Hitler, so now they're calling him Mussolini? Come on, Guardian, you can go lower than that, can't you? Only Mussolini?

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– Skywise 8 points 5 days ago +8 / -0

I heard a theory elsewhere which I agree with - They've had to stop using Hitler/Nazi phraseology because Hitler and Nazis were anti-semites which hits a little too close to home for the pro-palestinian/muslim Democrats. So they've switched their NPC coding to use the terms "Fascist", "Authoritarian" and "Mussolini" because that doesn't make people make the obvious association that the pro-palestinian/muslim communists are the same.

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– ParadigmShift2070 15 points 4 days ago +15 / -0

Haha don't want people to consider maybe...just maybe... Hitler was right

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– Benevolentdictator 2 points 4 days ago +2 / -0

I thought it was simply because of the alliteration of "Mango Mussolini" as a spin-off of Orange Man Bad.

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– Adamrises 3 points 4 days ago +3 / -0

That's honestly not one of their worst, if they hadn't overplayed the names so hard that would probably be a solid hitting one.

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– BeefyBelisarius 1 point 4 days ago +1 / -0

Maybe next they'll remember Franco existed and and start calling him Fanta Franco.

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– tralbolh 7 points 4 days ago +7 / -0

So he just attended some and floated the idea of a bout at the White House lawn?

Are they going to start bashing him for throwing out first pitches at baseball?

"Trump has frequently attended UFC events, basking in the admiration of the young, predominantly male crowd."

Almost any sport has a predominantly male crowd.

"UFC champion Kayla Harrison embraced him, planted a kiss on his cheek, and wrapped her championship belt around his waist as his family and supporters looked on in delight. It was a spectacle befitting the strongman Trump imagines himself to be"

A women's championship belt is befitting a strongman?

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– Kienan 7 points 5 days ago +7 / -0

It’s authoritarian theatre

What isn't, according to these weirdos?

Orange Man is doing it, of course it's authoritarian theatre.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 15 points 5 days ago +15 / -0

What isn't, according to these weirdos?

Oh, all sorts of things. Internment camps for people who don't trust untested injections. Sending people to prison for saying mean things. Outlawing political parties you don't agree with. Taking people's children from them.

Remember, it's only "authoritarian" if I don't agree with it. If I do, it's simply being a decent human being. And an empath. And on the right side of history.

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– Kienan 5 points 5 days ago +5 / -0

Oh, all sorts of things. Internment camps for people who don't trust untested injections. Sending people to prison for saying mean things. Outlawing political parties you don't agree with. Taking people's children from them.

That was different! That wasn't Orange Man! REEEEEE!

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 2 points 4 days ago +2 / -0

When they order us into house arrest (but let race riots and unlimited mass migration continue unabated) during flu season. That's trusting science.

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– MegoThor 6 points 5 days ago +6 / -0

Throw the Guardian to the lions.

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– SocraticMethod1 7 points 5 days ago +7 / -0

Oi! Quit trying to poison the lions with rotten, chemical laced meat! /s

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– Adamrises 5 points 4 days ago +5 / -0

I'm fairly certain Trump was a common sight at UFC events long before he was elected the first time. Its clearly something he legitimately likes.

They are so used to Politicians being soulless husks that they cannot understand one being human with humans hobbies and desires, like Diet Coke. It has to be golfing only (granted one he shares) and then nothing but pandering nonsense they never mention again after the photo op.

I 'member when Obama being seen drinking a beer made him so relatable and great, and Bill Clinton liking fries, women and cigars was just so quirky. But its (D)ifferent of course.

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– Mpetey123 4 points 5 days ago +4 / -0

We should do an over/under for the weeks it will take the MSM to mention Mandingo fighting?

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– Smith1980 4 points 5 days ago +4 / -0

Guardian proves itself to be garbage on a daily basis

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– realerfunction 1 point 4 days ago +1 / -0

literally drink bleach, guardian journo.

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– el_hoovy 1 point 4 days ago +1 / -0

they're right in the first half, it's more than a circus - it's also the bread, to go along with the circus, and also to round out the entire agitprop psyop which this article also takes part in.

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