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Originally Posted by slidey1
Can anyone shed some light on the "plastic button Hilary 20% uranium reset" bull****?
Back in '09, there was an attempt to renormalize relations between the US and Russia after a couple of crises. Sec'ry of State Hillary Clinton famously gave her Russian counterpart a little plastic "reset" button as a photo-op (it had "reset" written on it in Russian).
Things got worse between US/Russia after that, so the reset button sort of lives on symbolically as a missed opportunity/failure for the Obama administration. It has pretty much jack all to do with any uranium, which --without looking-- I'm going to assume is just raw Breitbart bull****.
ofc, the real answer here is that logic of tribal identifiers operates in a kind of word association fashion, so simply invoking Hillary + Rest Button + Russia is enough to rile up your base. There's no meaningful policy critique involved. It's like if I log on to chiefsplanet and say "Obama, teleprompters, community organizer! FOUR DEAD AMERICANS!!!" --I haven't expressed anything other than the fact that I'm signaling that I'm on your team as a Republican.
Last edited by Trolly McTrollson; 02-17-2017 at 01:05 AM.