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    My personal one

    IIRC Pushback against “Unsafe at any speed” was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?

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      It was always Ralph Nader’s fault.

      (To the down voter: Ralph Nader fought to bring regulations for mandatory seat belts, among other life saving consumer safety issues he had a hand in. Man’s a hero. Also, this is a joke. Ffs)

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          That was Chad’s fault.

          (And roger stone, and john Bolton, and the supreme court. And Pat Buchannon who was another 3rd party spoiler whom many ballots were accidentally cast. 20% of his votes came from that single county. Nothing strange at all.)

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        Which part’s a joke? I can’t tell which of you think you’re being funny.

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          Seat belts> Ralph Nader, ah fuckit, you’re boring and humorless.

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            I think you overestimate your ability to communicate irony in text-only media.

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              Oh damn. I didn’t realise just how ahead of his time (by Anglosphere standards) Nader was. We’re 50 years on and just now are the evils of motornormativity starting to be more widely understood.

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        Since everyone else is being mean and just in case you didn’t figure out where you went wrong here: You are replying to a comment that is stating that the GOP/modern right wing party in the US had its origins as a movement to protest against mandatory seat belts being made into a law in the US.

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        I like that it reads left to right! Yes, it’s also pretty uncanny haha

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          Personally the original also reads left to right, the punch line being the starting domino being something that’s seeming unrelated to the big final domino but both works, really

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        Have you ever noticed how they often shake left hands in a lot of shows and movies? It’s probably something about shot composition or something but…

        You ever wonder if everything that comes out of Hollywood is mirrored?

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        I don’t know bout y’all but my rarest pepe was forged in the physical world with a pencil and a sheet of paper. It was so rare and powerful that I had to split it into 7 pieces and scatter them across the land.

        I’m not sure where the pieces are now exactly. Last I heard, there were two competing search teams hunting for them, one being a ragtag team of inexperienced heart-of-gold types and the other being some sort of evil empire.

        I figured it’d be best not to get involved.

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    Sorry I’m OOTL. I presume this is the much wow shiba in memes but I didn’t know this caused anything to america? Can someone fill me in about some of the dominos in-between please?

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    IIRC Pushback against “Unsafe at any speed” was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?

    Meant to post this as a response to my picture

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    It’s probably turtles all the way down, but I think “A[n] British animators’s email segment co-star mispronounces misspells 90s greeting” might be an even smaller domino.

    Edited to replace failing memory.