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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Petr posted:

So did John Brown. Good thing victory isn't predestined.

John Brown won

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn3NddwFQ

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RoboChrist 9000
Dec 14, 2006

Mater Dolorosa

Captain Invictus posted:

Or is it just a massive honeypot?

You're precious.

UCS Hellmaker
Mar 29, 2008
Toilet Rascal
It's a massive bot farm with probably a small core of real people

Ate My Balls Redux
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Captain Invictus posted:

at what point will they actually be forced to shut it down?

never. The bots (they are real people HONEST) make way too much money in ad revenue plus spez is a libertarian shithead

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Captain Invictus posted:

So the donald is just openly calling to arms now, seemingly en masse, I know reddit doesn't want to shut it down because TD denizens are truly the craziest of the crazy and they're scared reddit hq will get shot up or whatever, but at what point will they actually be forced to shut it down?

Or is it just a massive honeypot?

Jack Dorsey and Alex Jones revealed where the TechBro Third Rail lies, and yeah it’s coming after the TechBros directly and physically. It took Jones following Dorsey around Capitol Hill for 9 hours screaming into his ear every chance he got for Jack to finally ban him from Twitter. It will take one of these nut bars physically doing something against core Reddit employees before Spez goes “Oh, shiiiiit, maybe I should have done something about all those Nazis who love my website... Fuuuuuck, man.”

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

No, his battle still isn't done yet as slavery and racism still runs rampant in this country by other names.

paternity suitor
Aug 2, 2016

1glitch0 posted:

The sexism is a tasty flavoring for them, but they'll do it to anyone. They will vilify any prominent democrat. Bill Clinton was a fat white hillbilly-talking guy from Arkansas who loved McDonalds and the right-wingers went after him with everything they had. That's what needs to be recognized and why people like Avenatti are mistaken about needing a white guy to run for president. If Trump changed his affiliation to democrat for 2020 they'd go after him with both barrels. It doesn't matter. There's no appeasing them.

Ding ding ding

Womanizing and cheating were bad when Bill Clinton did it. That's a sign of being an alpha to chuds now.

Beyond that, the actual ideas and ideology don't matter either. Trump could turn around tomorrow and say that M4A and $15 national minimum wages are good and chuds would support it. They are literally supporting tariffs, something Bernie Sanders might have proposed in 2015. This is the party is allegedly the "free trade" party. Ideas don't matter.

My only hope with Trump, in the beginning, was that by all accounts he needs to be loved by everyone, so if he felt the tides turning against him, he might turn against Republicans and just pass poo poo that Democrats want because its popular. Not because he believes in it or cares; he's a nihilist he doesn't give a poo poo, but just to be liked. I'm still not willing to rule it out, and if he did heel turn on the GOP he'd get re-elected in a landslide in 2020.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Condiv posted:

only fake leftists would hate AOC so far. she's great

All her positions are ones for social democracy instead of actual socialism and that seems like that would be enough to get her branded a centrist by a "real leftist".

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

nine-gear crow posted:

Jack Dorsey and Alex Jones revealed where the TechBro Third Rail lies, and yeah it’s coming after the TechBros directly and physically. It took Jones following Dorsey around Capitol Hill for 9 hours screaming into his ear every chance he got for Jack to finally ban him from Twitter. It will take one of these nut bars physically doing something against core Reddit employees before Spez goes “Oh, shiiiiit, maybe I should have done something about all those Nazis who love my website... Fuuuuuck, man.”

How long did it take for pedo reddit to get killed?

Unrelated, why do they call themselves pedes?

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

CubanMissile posted:

Eh, right wingers turn Elizabeth Warren into Hillary incarnate whenever she makes headlines, but in here most people just complain that she's too old to be president.

Anyone who wants to change the status quo is the "enemy" but certainly helps if they a woman or minority.

Ice Phisherman
Apr 12, 2007

Swimming upstream
into the sunset



paternity suitor posted:

If he did heel turn on the GOP he'd get re-elected in a landslide in 2020.

No, he wouldn't. Dems would use him while he was useful and then run someone else against him. Dems have a higher threshold for bullshit and Trump is going to want a cult to follow him. He'll go back to his shrinking cult the second that dems don't give him the attention he wants. Trump is one of the most hated politicians of our time and the only thing bolstering him is an economy which is chugging along despite his efforts to tear it down.

If he wants to work on some leftist stuff to get attention? That's great! But it won't last. Flatter him, soothe him, use him because he's a dumbshit, but eventually he's going to go back into his right wing, racist, authoritarian roots and he's not smooth enough to pull that off as a normal republican.

Both Hillary and Trump were going to be single term presidents no matter who won. They're just too hated.

Mustached Demon posted:

Unrelated, why do they call themselves pedes?

They call themselves pedes for the word centipede or millipede, something like that. It has something to do with them being able to cleverly step around problems or some poo poo. My personal headcannon is that they're gross bug people.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

All her positions are ones for social democracy instead of actual socialism and that seems like that would be enough to get her branded a centrist by a "real leftist".

Whoa it's almost like the image in your head of your political enemies is a ridiculous strawman

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Mustached Demon posted:

Unrelated, why do they call themselves pedes?

Google got ya covered,

Alt-right glossery posted:

Nimble navigator

A nimble navigator (or centipede) is a Trump supporter. They are not to be confused with actual centipedes, which are decidedly less racist and possibly more intelligent.

Originated from the YouTube series Can't Stump the Trump mid 2015, where the track Centipede by Knife Party plays as the intro. The intro to the track contains audio from a BBC nature documentary in which a centipede is described as a "predator" and "nimble navigator", likening it to Trump himself in the context of the video.

It was quickly picked up as a meme by Trump supporters (especially /r/the_donald) and centipede became synonymous with Trump and his supporters, to the chagrin of entomologists everywhere. We're still waiting for them to realize that when abbreviated to "Pedes" it sounds like they're calling each other paedophiles, it's been over three years...

Tibalt
May 14, 2017

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee

Man, Cant Stump The Trump. Remember that? When Irony wasn't completely dead?

Verus
Jun 3, 2011

AUT INVENIAM VIAM AUT FACIAM

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

All her positions are ones for social democracy instead of actual socialism and that seems like that would be enough to get her branded a centrist by a "real leftist".

do you think that we've spent all these years just pretending to be opposed to center-right politicians? what possible reason could we have to not be overjoyed at finally having some non- old white conservatives serving as democrats?

edit: the second sentence is obviously exaggeration, there has always been some minority of decent-to-good democrats

canepazzo
May 29, 2006



Skippy McPants posted:

We're still waiting for them to realize that when abbreviated to "Pedes" it sounds like they're calling each other paedophiles, it's been over three years...

Ackshually the correct term is "Ephebes" :smugdon:

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/muhmentions/status/1062677735909265408

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

He never understood that the caravan wasn't a real thing. He earnestly believes there is a Mad Max-style road army bearing down on the southern border.

It will never cease to amaze me how unwilling some people are to comprehend or believe that Trump really is your crazy old racist grandpa. Like, do people not have relatives?

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

paternity suitor posted:

Ding ding ding

Womanizing and cheating were bad when Bill Clinton did it. That's a sign of being an alpha to chuds now.

Beyond that, the actual ideas and ideology don't matter either. Trump could turn around tomorrow and say that M4A and $15 national minimum wages are good and chuds would support it. They are literally supporting tariffs, something Bernie Sanders might have proposed in 2015. This is the party is allegedly the "free trade" party. Ideas don't matter.

My only hope with Trump, in the beginning, was that by all accounts he needs to be loved by everyone, so if he felt the tides turning against him, he might turn against Republicans and just pass poo poo that Democrats want because its popular. Not because he believes in it or cares; he's a nihilist he doesn't give a poo poo, but just to be liked. I'm still not willing to rule it out, and if he did heel turn on the GOP he'd get re-elected in a landslide in 2020.

Except he's also a narcissist and wants people to slobber his toadstool constantly, which his aides and nazi circle does at any opportunity, while also pointing out at all the dissident lefts and minorities he could trample on to feel good about himself. They would never let him consider the idea of passing left wing poo poo to look good for a moment because their entire party is trained to smell and scream socialism at the mere whiff of social progress. Well not unless the dems also got a majority in the senate and he truly became lame duck, but he'd already be dreading impeachment at that stage.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Skippy McPants posted:

He never understood that the caravan wasn't a real thing. He earnestly believes there is a Mad Max-style road army bearing down on the southern border.

It will never cease to amaze me how unwilling some people are to comprehend or believe that Trump really is your crazy old racist grandpa. Like, do people not have relatives?

quote:

Trump is reportedly aware that his claims about the caravan are false. An administration official told the Daily Beast simply, 'It doesn’t matter if it’s 100 percent accurate … this is the play.' The 'play' was to demonize vulnerable people with falsehoods in order to frighten Trump’s base to the polls.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/caravan-lie-sparked-massacre-american-jews/

Crain
Jun 27, 2007

I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

1glitch0 posted:

Well, that looks like a gigantic lawsuit waiting to happen.

Interestingly it's not even the building bricks that are the problem here. Lego lost their exclusive trademark to that style of interlocking brick back in the 80s or so because they literally forgot to renew it (at least in America), which is why things like Mega Bloks exist at all. However the minifigure didn't lapse. If you look at knock-off lego systems you'll see they make janky, legally distinct, figures for their stuff. This set just goes whole hog for copying lego though so yeah, ripe for a lawsuit since Lego has gone super hard on making Mini-figs a major item in their own right in the last few years by turning them into a sort of collectible.

Slugworth
Feb 18, 2001

If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

The_Donald: county zoop

"Let's be very clear about this. If people do not go to prison for election fraud and the voting laws aren't TIGHTENED, there is NO loving REASON to ever vote for anything again. "


C'mon, The_Donald, embrace this thought.

Ate My Balls Redux
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Crain posted:

Interestingly it's not even the building bricks that are the problem here. Lego lost their exclusive trademark to that style of interlocking brick back in the 80s or so because they literally forgot to renew it (at least in America), which is why things like Mega Bloks exist at all. However the minifigure didn't lapse. If you look at knock-off lego systems you'll see they make janky, legally distinct, figures for their stuff. This set just goes whole hog for copying lego though so yeah, ripe for a lawsuit since Lego has gone super hard on making Mini-figs a major item in their own right in the last few years by turning them into a sort of collectible.

I'd argue the way they constructed the logo is also close enough to infinge

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Smeef posted:

As well as another addition to the veritable industry of products sucking money away from moronic MAGA types. $30 for a bunch of grey blocks, a single base plate, and a Lego man with a face that looks like what would have happened in the real-world version of Face/Off.

And you can bet that they haven't really made any money off of it, despite the mountains of litigation about to drown them. It's going to be like one of those Charlottesville marchers who wrote a "Pepe and Pede" racist children's book, dude didn't even make $1000 bucks off of it when he lost against Matt Furie's lawsuit.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


https://twitter.com/OccupyTheDems/status/1062473467243704322

sinema's a real piece of work

she voted with republicans to support ICE right in the middle of the child seperation poo poo blowing up. what a monstrous shitbag. and for some reason, we have to pretend this woman should count as a democrat?

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

All her positions are ones for social democracy instead of actual socialism and that seems like that would be enough to get her branded a centrist by a "real leftist".

uh huh

Ate My Balls Redux
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Condiv posted:

https://twitter.com/OccupyTheDems/status/1062473467243704322

sinema's a real piece of work

she voted with republicans to support ICE right in the middle of the child seperation poo poo blowing up. what a monstrous shitbag. and for some reason, we have to pretend this woman should count as a democrat?


uh huh

Uh she is bisexual, it is impossible for her not to be a leftist poop pee fart

Dwanyelle
Jan 13, 2008

ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE CIVILIANS THEY'RE ALL VALID TARGETS
I'm a huge dickbag ignore me

Petr posted:

Noted, still not off my list of people our politicians should emulate.



Harvey Milk outed a closeted Vietnam vet who stopped an assassination attempt against Ford, against the dudes wishes. It destroyed his family relationship and the dudes life went down the tubes.

Harvey Milk was an rear end in a top hat.

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



Condiv posted:

sinema's a real piece of work

she voted with republicans to support ICE right in the middle of the child seperation poo poo blowing up. what a monstrous shitbag. and for some reason, we have to pretend this woman should count as a democrat?

uh huh

hmm a meaningless, nonbinding resolution introduced by republicans in July solely to create division within the democratic party? why yes we definitely should exile her for that vote

or did you forget the part about how it was a purely symbolic political stunt meant to be fodder for the election

lemonadesweetheart
May 27, 2010

Thalantos posted:

Harvey Milk outed a closeted Vietnam vet who stopped an assassination attempt against Ford, against the dudes wishes. It destroyed his family relationship and the dudes life went down the tubes.

Harvey Milk was an rear end in a top hat.

Why would Ford want to be assassinated?

delfin
Dec 5, 2003

SNATTER'S ALIVE?!?!

GoutPatrol posted:

Other famous people that she has commented on in the past:

Edward James Olmos: the nicest man in the world
Jonathan Banks: great guy!
Meatloaf: real shithead

Well, two out of three ain't bad.

Dwanyelle
Jan 13, 2008

ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE CIVILIANS THEY'RE ALL VALID TARGETS
I'm a huge dickbag ignore me

lemonadesweetheart posted:

Why would Ford want to be assassinated?

Maybe ford was really really embarrassed by Chevy chase making fun of him all the time?

Lol, outing the dude against the dudes wishes.

Not the assassination attempt.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


eke out posted:

hmm a meaningless, nonbinding resolution introduced by republicans in July solely to create division within the democratic party? why yes we definitely should exile her for that vote

or did you forget the part about how it was a purely symbolic political stunt meant to be fodder for the election

Yes we should treat her like poo poo for paying lip service to fascism. Why do you think “it’s ok, she’s just pretending to approve of fascism” is a good counter argument?

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


moral stances matter.

Ate My Balls Redux
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Thalantos posted:

Harvey Milk outed a closeted Vietnam vet who stopped an assassination attempt against Ford, against the dudes wishes. It destroyed his family relationship and the dudes life went down the tubes.

Harvey Milk was an rear end in a top hat.

He was also buddies with Jim Jones

eke out posted:

hmm a meaningless, nonbinding resolution introduced by republicans in July solely to create division within the democratic party? why yes we definitely should exile her for that vote

or did you forget the part about how it was a purely symbolic political stunt meant to be fodder for the election

~*pragmatism*~

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

lemonadesweetheart posted:

Why would Ford want to be assassinated?

It was a bunch of Manson family groupies that thought if they made a big showy attack, they could get someone to spring Charlie out of prison.

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp
What even is marxism really? I mean what does the right wing idiot comic man mean when AOC demands marxism now? She demands a paradigmal shift in the analysis of economic and social theory from the materialist perspective of primarily german egalitarian philosophy?

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction
A candidate doesn’t have to be perfect to support them. Demanding you can only support someone if they’re perfect on all things is a really silly stance to take, nobody has perfect politics (except me of course)

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



Condiv posted:

Yes we should treat her like poo poo for paying lip service to fascism. Why do you think “it’s ok, she’s just pretending to approve of fascism” is a good counter argument?

only reason the bill was put forward was to give red state democrats two bad options with their own party to say "Don't come out and vote for her, she [supports/won't vote against] ICE" and one even worse option with their states' conservative majority, "She supports abolishing ICE!!"

you're apparently so loving naive you'll do the work for republicans

Ate My Balls Redux
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Fans posted:

A candidate doesn’t have to be perfect to support them. Demanding you can only support someone if they’re perfect on all things is a really silly stance to take, nobody has perfect politics (except me of course)

It's a good thing no one demands perfection and it's actually a stupid line people use against those insisting on "good" as a minimum

Nice piece of fish posted:

What even is marxism really? I mean what does the right wing idiot comic man mean when AOC demands marxism now? She demands a paradigmal shift in the analysis of economic and social theory from the materialist perspective of primarily german egalitarian philosophy?

The Conservative definition of Marxism is "anything that takes money from the wealthy and distributes some to the good of all, whether through public works or direct wealth transfer"

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Agent Burt Macklin
Jul 3, 2003

Macklin, you son of a bitch

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

Hilary Clinton’s Twitter game can be surprisingly nuanced, because politics aside she’s a huge loving dork.

If nothing else, her emails taught me she used to worry about DVRing the Good Wife and Parks and Rec...just like me!

Her social media team does a good job, but I highly doubt she is involved very much. It used to be 'her' tweets were signed with an '-H' - can't recall seeing much of that lately.

Fans posted:

A candidate doesn’t have to be perfect to support them. Demanding you can only support someone if they’re perfect on all things is a really silly stance to take, nobody has perfect politics (except me of course)

Politicians are people, and people do stupid things - even the good ones. And you are exactly right - no one will pass the test if we look at it like that. It's about judging everyone against one another, not against some perfect ideal that does not really exist.

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