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Tibalt posted:Edit: I considered making a "Anyway Tinder is where my wife finds her playmates" joke but I couldn't figure out a way to do it so that it was both tasteful and clearly a joke so fill it in yourself
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Lightning Knight posted:That’s not nearly as widespread or accepted as birtherism was on the right tho. That's kind of a big part of it.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:38 |
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InsertPotPun posted:Also birtherism was based on racism. And insisting the Jewish candidate must be secretly wealthy and have foreign ties isn't?
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:40 |
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It’s amazing that the right couldn’t take a victory for one day without just going full-bore demented fascist in plain sight. https://twitter.com/thedweck/status/1110727132156563456?s=21
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:43 |
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A member of the GOP congress quoted Hitler and hypocrites go to hell according to Jesus.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:44 |
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Otteration posted:Please don't tred tax:
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:45 |
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At this point anyone who legit believes AOC is a flavor of the month should just shut the gently caress up and sit the gently caress down. This is exactly what I want from the people that represent me.
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Confounding Factor posted:Attempted Russian meddling may very well have happened but if it did, it had no provable effect on the outcome of election. Meanwhile the Saudis, Qataris, Israelis, etc. pour millions upon millions into our political system and everyone pretends that's completely acceptable. That anyone thinks twitterbots and stupid memes can compete with that kind of influence is a reflection of the incurable stupidity of American politics. you can't prove any of this and, frankly, the mere implication is a distraction from the important issues
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Yeah, a more apt comparison is Benghazi. Yeah except the convictions, seized assets, lack of dead people and 1 investigation instead of 10 it's basically exactly the same. Complaining about Mueller is the leftist equivalent of anti-vaxxing(way too many leftists are also anti-vax)
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:51 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:very true but i was listning to I don't speak german tonight and it was about the alt right and trump and many of them are abandoning him now because of the state of the union and blinking during the shutdown. bullshit. who else are they gonna vote for?
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 05:45 |
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Jaxyon posted:(way too many leftists are also anti-vax)
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 05:58 |
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LeeMajors posted:It’s amazing that the right couldn’t take a victory for one day without just going full-bore demented fascist in plain sight.
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Confounding Factor posted:Pardon? I mean the birthers were generally ridiculed by the American media, the Russiagate conspiracy was blared from the rooftops with deadly seriousness, and skeptics were ignored or accused of being Kremlin dupes. Seems like you're having a hard time understanding that he's calling you a moron because the two things are very obviously nothing alike.
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FactsAreUseless posted:It's real depressing how many people are totally on board with discriminating against the disabled because they'd prefer not to ever interact with them. It’s even more depressing how many people are willing to vote for a party whose entire existence is designed around greed and performative cruelty. I don’t remember who wrote The Cruelty is the Point article about the Trump admin, but it’s super good.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 06:20 |
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So are the Dems gonna be dumb enough to not give AOC a speech at the 2020 DNC? She feels like a shoe in at this point
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 06:51 |
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The Glumslinger posted:So are the Dems gonna be dumb enough to not give AOC a speech at the 2020 DNC? She feels like a shoe in at this point The dems are dumber than you can possibly think so the answer is probably no.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Show me some. I think you're just projecting a label you hate onto another label you hate. One leftist having anti-vaxx opinions is too many. Sadly though anti-vaxx does somewhat exist outside of normal political belief circles.
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Otteration posted:Please don't tred tax: Aww, lil snek is cute. Boop or no boop? Dapper_Swindler posted:aww, its a garter. it will poo poo and musk everywhere. Oh! It is boopable then. SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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loving hell that's awesome
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Confounding Factor posted:Attempted Russian meddling may very well have happened but if it did, it had no provable effect on the outcome of election. Meanwhile the Saudis, Qataris, Israelis, etc. pour millions upon millions into our political system and everyone pretends that's completely acceptable. That anyone thinks twitterbots and stupid memes can compete with that kind of influence is a reflection of the incurable stupidity of American politics. Lol welcome to politics big guy. Good luck, it's a tricky world out there! Some people even walk and chew gum at the same time!
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The Glumslinger posted:So are the Dems gonna be dumb enough to not give AOC a speech at the 2020 DNC? She feels like a shoe in at this point <AOC put on a beret and raises one hand in a fist> "Fully automated luxury space communism now !" <AOC becomes a committee co-chair, Omar keeps getting death threats/>
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FactsAreUseless posted:Show me some. I think you're just projecting a label you hate onto another label you hate. Left wing people who are antivax? Ummm.... well in the USA it's more a right wing nutjob thing but say here in Australia, left wing activists up around Ballina and Byron Bay (NSW North Cost) are the core AntiVaxxers. Australian Vaccination Network is a prime example (They were forced to swtich to a name that clearly id'ed their AntiVaxxer stupidity so not sure what they are called now). The Greens Party was endemic with anti vax and anti flouride BS. Animal Justice Party are a also a group of left wing activits who hide their Antivaxx views behind animal welfare. quote:Sadly though anti-vaxx does somewhat exist outside of normal political belief circles. Pretty muc this. Antivaxx is very much spread across all political outlooks and also different core "reasoning".
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 09:59 |
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In the US antivaxx is very heavily associated with heavily left wing leaning areas. Ironically it overlaps pretty heavily with the conspiracy/infowars crowd which has, as a whole, gone from far left to far right. Still, the parts of Oregon and Washington where it was by far the most popular (there are schools in Eugene with an over 70% non-vax rate) are predominately liberal af.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Yeah, a more apt comparison is Benghazi. Don Jr. literally released an email that proved collusion. You are gaslighting folks. Barr and the WH are gaslighting folks.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:In the US antivaxx is very heavily associated with heavily left wing leaning areas. Ironically it overlaps pretty heavily with the conspiracy/infowars crowd which has, as a whole, gone from far left to far right. antivax, anti nuclear, anti-gmo are all more hippie commune things than right wing, until more recently.
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mllaneza posted:<AOC put on a beret and raises one hand in a fist> I feel rather confident in assuming that AOC is getting death threats as well.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:antivax, anti nuclear, anti-gmo are all more hippie commune things than right wing, until more recently. Anti-vax has also been a thing for super religious evangelical homeschooling types and Christian Scientists (not to be confused with scientists who are Christians) for quite a while. PresterJane might be able to give some insight on the former if the folks she was forced to deal with were anti-vax but I believe the ultra-evangelicals were super against the MMR vaccine in general because it was researched and derived using cell lines originally sourced from fetal tissue (yes it is actually true that the research used aborted-fetal-tissue derived cell cultures, but iirc evangelicals would hype it up and make it sound like each dose was blended-baby). Christian Scientists are actually a kinda funny case - they don't believe in disease as we know it and hold that prayer can heal anything so they didn't really see a need for vaccination. BUT their belief that prayer heals all extends to any ill effects caused by vaccines so the church is officially not anti-vax and its members are relatively immune to anti-vax propaganda as they believe you can just pray away any negative effects.
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Cabbit posted:What do you recommend? Legitimate question. Lycus posted:Is there a Twitter app that isn't poo poo? TweetBot or Twitterific. Both have iOS and Mac apps. Not sure about windows/android.
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Shifty Pony posted:Anti-vax has also been a thing for super religious evangelical homeschooling types and Christian Scientists (not to be confused with scientists who are Christians) for quite a while. PresterJane might be able to give some insight on the former if the folks she was forced to deal with were anti-vax but I believe the ultra-evangelicals were super against the MMR vaccine in general because it was researched and derived using cell lines originally sourced from fetal tissue (yes it is actually true that the research used aborted-fetal-tissue derived cell cultures, but iirc evangelicals would hype it up and make it sound like each dose was blended-baby). The "MAH FREE SPEECH" case in Kentucky regarding an anti-vaxxer is based upon the fetal tissue claim. The kid is attending a private school in an area that has a sliiiight bit of an outbreak going on.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 12:26 |
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Anti-vac mostly goes into an orthogonal dimension of 'kook' whose political beliefs can be essentially a crapshoot, though I have a feeling they tend to fall in with the wingnut right as they age. The loudest demographics so far seem to be the wealthy and suburban housewives gone stir-crazy from Facebook.
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The kids might just be alright: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1110712560465166341 quote:One male classmate, seeing the name of his good friend Nicky Schmidt on the list, told her about it, and within 24 hours, dozens of girls had heard about the list. Admin tried to sweep it under the rug and the kids said gently caress that and forced the issue. Now the seniors are giving speeches to lower grades about toxic masculinity to keep it from happening again.
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Shifty Pony posted:The kids might just be alright: Good for these kids. poo poo, a decade ago my high school wouldn't even allow a gay-straight alliance to form. I wonder how that lawsuit turned out...
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Shifty Pony posted:The kids might just be alright: I'm sure what they learned is "Next time don't get caught." This seems like yet another misapplication of 'toxic masculinity' when just plain old misogyny will do. It's supposed to be acts and statements that reinforce harmful, counter-productive and unrealistic ideals of masculinity, but 90% of the time seems to be used for just anything misogynistic, or worst case 'a male does a thing I don't like'. (and about 70% of the time either is or is shortly accompanied with reinforcing toxic masculinity with 'man up and get over it' and so forth) That said, 'don't do this poo poo' is a good place to start. The rest of the speeches are almost certainly going to be tuned out, but actual consequences speak louder.
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Taerkar posted:I feel rather confident in assuming that AOC is getting death threats as well. She, unsurprisingly, has been, to the point that her staff has been getting training in risk assessment. It's absolutely heinous, and I'm glad she hasn't given them much ammunition or attention other than tweeting about how she's been forwarding threatening calls to the proper authorities.
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LeeMajors posted:It’s even more depressing how many people are willing to vote for a party whose entire existence is designed around greed and performative cruelty. David Roth posted:He believes the bit about the smugglers and the duct tape because he believes it, and because he believes it now he will never stop believing it. In the last days of the shutdown, Trump and members of his cabinet explained, with the blithe confidence God gives only to people who have never considered the possibility that they might be wrong, that furloughed government employees could simply “work something out” with their local grocers and debt-collection agencies. When he says something confusing or stupid or glaringly wrong—something that can’t be explained by any existing set of facts or system of beliefs, something that even the embalmed-looking juche vendors on his favorite television channels haven’t dared put up for sale—it’s because he believes it. Alex Pareene posted:If you want to understand intra-GOP warfare, the decision-making process of our president, the implosion of the Republican healthcare plan, and the rest of the politics of the Trump era, you don’t need to know about Russian espionage tactics, the state of the white working class, or even the beliefs of the “alt-right.” You pretty much just need to be in semi-regular contact with a white, reasonably comfortable, male retiree. We are now ruled by men who think and act very much like that ordinary man you might know, and if you want to know why they believe so many strange and terrible things, you can basically blame the fact that a large and lucrative industry is dedicated to lying to them.
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https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1110757777557860354
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HobbitGrease posted:It was Adam Serwer in the Atlantic. Between it, David Roth's excellent January 2019 article "You Can't Get There From Here" in Deadspin, and Alex Pareene's "The Long, Lucrative Right-Wing Grift Is Blowing Up In Its Face", you have the how and why we got here, how Trump operates, how his base works, and why it's near-impossible to fix things through Exactly how much longer do we have to deal with the Fox News Grandpas before they all die off, at least in statistical terms?
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 13:09 |
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If I'm remembering correctly the average age of their viewership is late 60's to early 70's. Granted they tend to be the ones that live longer because the early deaths are mostly weeded out by that point but... another 10 years? Assuming they don't get replaced by the late 50's to early 60's crowd.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Exactly how much longer do we have to deal with the Fox News Grandpas before they all die off, at least in statistical terms? I'd spitball it at another decade or so.
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Dammerung posted:I'd spitball it at another decade or so. They’re being replaced by those Covington kids. Conservatism isn’t going anywhere. Privilege will always feast on classism and racism.
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