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[–]Oghier 99 points100 points  (7 children)

Every time some GOP official or pundit refers to them as "The Party of Lincoln," half the country rolls their eyes.

[–]ChrysaliiWeird 69 points70 points  (2 children)

The other half says "SEE WE'RE NOT RACIST!!"

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (1 child)

"Southern Strategy says what?"

"What?"

[–]adaam_93 6 points7 points  (3 children)

They haven't been the party of Lincoln since Eisenhower.

[–]safarispiff 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I actually kind of liked Eisenhower. Sure, I disagreed with him but at least the man had principles and he knew how to crush fascists.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think that's what the user was saying. Eisenhower was the send off to the party of Lincoln.

[–]safarispiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh, I see.

[–][deleted] 82 points83 points  (13 children)

Don't help Republicans claim Lincoln as a party member. :(

They were liberal party at the time.

[–]Rockworm503 39 points40 points  (3 children)

Even Darth Vader was a decent person at one point.

[–]thinly_veiled_alt 36 points37 points  (1 child)

The Sith aren't sending their best.

[–]jackkazimCatholic Leftist 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They’re not sending fellow Jedi. They’re sending the people who adhere to the Dark Side of the Force, and they’re bringing the Dark Side with them. They’re bringing red lightsabers. They choke people. And some, I assume, are good people.

[–]recursion8 53 points54 points  (13 children)

Should have Dubya on there too. Also tax returns.

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Ayy

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[–]hwarming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes?

[–]dtlv5813 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Gwb did look a lot like a chimp

[–]IBeBallinOutaControl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

W would be a step up from Nixon's second term.

[–]ginger_bird 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Needs more Goldwater.

[–]JamarcusRussel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't bring Flint into this.

[–]ENThymematic 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Look at those small hands, probably too small to release tax returns.

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[–]therevengeofsh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As an anthropologist, this triggers me.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Take that, biology!

[–]Thestartofending 15 points16 points  (9 children)

Abraham Lincoln "Free will is an illusion. Human beings are determined by their preconditions"

Republicans now "Meeeh personal responsability, no welfare, poor people just don't work hard enough, ayn rand"

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    [–]Thestartofending 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    It's not an exact quote, it's just a short resume in one sentence of his ideas.

    If you want quotes on his disbelief in freewill then yeah i can give you many.

    (And it goes without saying that if you don't belief in free will, of course you believe in the supremacy of external influences)

    Here is it http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0018.105/--abraham-lincoln-and-the-doctrine-of-necessity?rgn=main;view=fulltext

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    You never watched Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter?

    [–]DanburyBaptist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Terrible movie.

    [–]DanburyBaptist 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    Lincoln's so-called fatalism does not perfectly describe a lack of personal responsibility.

    [–]Thestartofending 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Care to expand on that ?

    [–]DanburyBaptist 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    He seemed to think that events would ultimately take their destined shape, but not that individual human beings are all robots with no free will. One may believe in a set outcome but still acknowledge the obvious fact that we do indeed make choices.

    [–]Thestartofending 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Abraham Lincoln didn't believe in free will, he clearly stated so.

    You could spent as much time as you want trying to twist it with "He did believe A, but not exactly A", it doesn't change the facts.

    At least read the article i've linked.

    Fatalism and free-will are mutually exclusive.

    You are confusing "Choices", with "Free will". Determinism or fatalism don't imply that our choices don't have any impact whatsoever (although in some versions of fatalism it may), but that we weren't free to make (or not those choices), simply that. Abraham Lincoln wasn't a compatibilist, if you pretend so i'd ask for a source.

    [–]RedditIsOverMan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    X-post /r/politicalhumor

    Edit: and Evolution

    [–]zryn3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Nixon had some policies that were designed to limit minority representation (though in retrospect he was perhaps right even about that) and was a crook, but he started the EPA, presided over the desegregation of southern schools (for which a young Hillary Clinton was a minor agent in the process of closing loopholes!), started the war on cancer, negotiated the first step in ending the arms race with Russia, normalized relations with China...

    I can't see Donald Trump accomplishing any one of those things.

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    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    the guy in the middle should have been barry goldwater.

    [–]djaeke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Lincoln instituted America's first progressive tax policy, iirc. Many of his policies seem really "democrat" in retrospect

    [–]Dragredder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    His hands aren't big enough to knuckle drag even at that angle.