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I think it's a cutesy - maybe American - rendition of an older Greek or Roman philosophy.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I think pretty much all centrism is just people not understanding the issues, but having an ego big enough that they can't accept they don't understand. So they act like they're oh-so-wise and above all the partisan sheeple. I suspect this to be true as well. Also you can often replace "but having an ego big enough that they can't accept they don't understand" with "not caring enough to inform themselves properly to be able to understand but having an ego big enough that they want to pretend they have an informed opinion anyway". Seriously, how often do you have a political discussion with someone about something and they tell you "hey, I just don't actually know enough about this to have an informed opinion"? That poo poo virtually never happens. Somehow everyone has an opinion about everything, even though it's not possible to actually know enough about everything to be able to do that.
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This was an ad someone spent money to make I'm hoping it was designed by his ten year old son, because any adult that thought "yes, this is how I want to present myself to people so they vote for me" should not be within 100 yards of a courtroom unless they're in handcuffs, much less in charge of one
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Help me out, because I'm not hearing the dog whistle: Posted by a not-that-religious elderly relative. He's the prime demographic to be harmed by this, so taking this at face value doesn't make sense. Is it racism, assuming other cultures will be hit harder?
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Mar 9, 2020 12:26
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Katt posted:gently caress you, we have no oil! Only pickled fish. Go liberate Norway. Ah so you have fish oil? Our boomers demand it.
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Bobulus posted:Help me out, because I'm not hearing the dog whistle: I'm just seeing fatalism combined with religious devotion which I take to mean he feels more religious than you ascribe to him from the outside. Why are you trying to see racism here?
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Mar 9, 2020 12:48
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jojoinnit posted:I'm just seeing fatalism combined with religious devotion which I take to mean he feels more religious than you ascribe to him from the outside. Why are you trying to see racism here? Well, his posting making up is like: 20% "I like fast car" 10% Boomer "I hate my wife" humor 30% "You'll never take my guns!!!!!!" 40% "We should close all borders and shoot at anyone who tries to enter the country" level racism. The only time he brings up god is when he's posting about abortion. So my knee-jerk reaction to this isn't fatalism, it's assuming I'm missing some obvious bit of xenophobia or similar. Or, considering how hard he bites into Trump talking points, I'd expect him to assume the virus will never spread in the U.S. And the post is getting likes from his friends, so I feel like I'm missing something.
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Mar 9, 2020 12:56
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 I love his courage!
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Mar 9, 2020 13:08
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Are Mexican Catholics allowed to pass that on?
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Mar 9, 2020 13:23
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No.
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Mar 9, 2020 18:45
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Bobulus posted:Help me out, because I'm not hearing the dog whistle: "If you're a murderer and don't get caught, God approves". "If you don't drink any water and the paramedics rescue you, the Loch Ness Monster wanted you to be safe". "If bananas are yellow, elephants are purple". "A => B" can just be invalid (T=>F). What he's really saying is "If I try to stay safe but still get injured/disease, I won't be able to mentally cope without blaming 'God' ". Or in other words, "Nothing requires the universe to be fair and I can't deal with that". Often coupled with a failure to understand statistics or probability, these are the people you want in your casino. Kinda like my 60+ friend who is convinced of having covid19 early in January or late December despite zero travel or contact with travelers? In a location where the first reported case was January 21.
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Mar 10, 2020 00:27
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Bobulus posted:Help me out, because I'm not hearing the dog whistle: I mean he could be saying the "impure" will catch it no matter what because god wills it but it could just be religious nihilism trying to sound smart.
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Mar 10, 2020 10:08
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 That's it, that's the whole meme
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borkencode posted:
Not sure about her grades in history, but this is fun because, IIRC, she graduated cum laude from Boston University in both International Relations and Economics.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:27
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Yeah, but she doesn't have real world experience! Also, being a bartender is an unacceptable job for a congresswoman!
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Mar 11, 2020 10:40
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And thus by a shifting of rhetorical focus, AOC is both a liberal ivory tower elite and a naive teenager. Didn't we used to have an Eco smilie a few years ago for this very purpose?
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Mar 11, 2020 11:49
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Forceholy posted:Yeah, but she doesn't have real world experience! Also, being a bartender is an unacceptable job for a congresswoman! Anyone have any good boomer responses to the whole "Anyone can grow up to be president (or congresswoman)...wait not like that!" dichotomy? I sadly didn't save this one before I got blocked, but I got a multiple paragraph rant from a friend-of-a-family-member about "maintaining the dignity of office", how "nobody in my generation will ever be qualified because their older and more respectable opponents will just bring up leaked nudes", "elected officials should be professionals in all aspects of their lives". I think what got me the block was saying "So...what if a reality gameshow host ran for president?"
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Mar 11, 2020 14:49
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He worked hard for that game show position, not like kids these days expecting host positions just handed to them
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jivjov posted:Anyone have any good boomer responses to the whole "Anyone can grow up to be president (or congresswoman)...wait not like that!" dichotomy? I sadly didn't save this one before I got blocked, but I got a multiple paragraph rant from a friend-of-a-family-member about "maintaining the dignity of office", how "nobody in my generation will ever be qualified because their older and more respectable opponents will just bring up leaked nudes", "elected officials should be professionals in all aspects of their lives". I think what got me the block was saying "So...what if a reality gameshow host ran for president?" Call it for what it is. These people aren't operating in good faith and you shouldn't spend the cognitive energy to do so either. They don't hate them because they're "unqualified", they hate them because theyre poor (or at least lower income), young and have different values.
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Props to those of you that still have the energy to battle your family. I decided it just wasn't worth it.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:39
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Medullah posted:Props to those of you that still have the energy to battle your family. I decided it just wasn't worth it. It did a lot for my mental health to accept I wouldn't be able to convince them with the best arguments in the world so just shitposting saved me a lot of time and made them mad.
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Medullah posted:Props to those of you that still have the energy to battle your family. I decided it just wasn't worth it. I gave up and now just make snarky twitteresque comments which I know my mom recognizes but isn't quick-witted enough to conjure a rejoinder to unless she's got infinite time with a keyboard and google
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 This is third of this type my dad has posted in the last two days.
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Medullah posted:
So you're saying the flu kills one in one thousand people, and the Coronavirus killed one in twenty? Wow, the Coronavirus is fifty times deadlier! That's a lot deadlier, I sure hope people work together to make sure it doesn't spread as much as the flu does!
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Medullah posted:
that's the thing with these fucks. "it's ONLY [blank] deaths" they say but, like, how many deaths before it's no longer ok? because you can say "it's ONLY [blank] deaths" until you run out of people. tell me exactly how many deaths you find acceptable.
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Mar 11, 2020 18:42
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Copied and pasted from a share from a boomer friend on Facebook:quote:TRUMP DOES THE UNTHINKABLE. by Liz Crokin
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Mar 11, 2020 21:56
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Well, we better not fact check any if that. She already did and it's all true. You can believe it because she said so.
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They left out one of my family's favorites, that Trump himself was at ground zero on 911 with workers he paid out of his own pocket clearing rubble. Same family members who share that he saw Muslims cheering from his penthouse.
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also I don't really give a gently caress if it's all true. A rapist billionaire neofascist did the bare minimum to appear human for the cameras, across decades, and it cost him the equivalent of me giving a panhandler a toonie. Great, but he's still Donald Trump doing what he does now. Same goes for Michael Bloomberg, for Elon Musk, for Jeff Bezos, for all these fuckers. central park looks sweeter by the day
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People are loving morons about large numbers, or at least they choose to be when it benefits their political stance. They see someone with multiple billions of dollars donating a few million here and there and go "Oh wowee! That's so much money! They are quite the humanitarian! I guess all that bad stuff people said about the rich isn't true after all!" Obviously it's to a much smaller scale with Trump because he's not a billionaire, but all that poo poo is still drop-in-the-bucket levels of "being a good dude."
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Medullah posted:
Or, "90% of people over age 55 that have been diagnosed with covid19 have died". (I do not know the actual number)
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Colander Crotch posted:Well, we better not fact check any if that. She already did and it's all true. You can believe it because she said so. Honestly even if it was all true it's a list showing the fact that on rare occasions once every few years (with an 8 year gap at one point) Trump has been sufficiently moved by the plight of the downtrodden to shuffle off his throne and dole out a few coins with no real proportional expense or sacrifice on his end. The Neal! fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:He worked hard for that game show position, not like kids these days expecting host positions just handed to them Twitch has democratized TV hosting. CMM.
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jojoinnit posted:Copied and pasted from a share from a boomer friend on Facebook: I'm glad that that sort of stuff wouldn't get much traction if it was written about Boris Johnson, if only because of the journalist that he personally threw under the bus and is now suffering from the coronavirus in an Iranian prison.
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The Neal! posted:Honestly even if it was all true it's a list showing the fact that on rare occasions once every few years Trump has been sufficiently moved by the plight of the downtrodden to shuffle off his throne and dole out a few coins with no real proportional expense or sacrifice on his end. I think this is even giving him too much benefit of the doubt. Anything Trump has ever done that might look vaguely philanthropic probably has more to do with his PR people setting it all up as a publicity stunt, or it's some one-off occasion where someone close to him influenced him to do good for their own personal cause, rather than something within Trump that might have caused him to feel anything for his fellow human beings.
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Isn't there some old adage about how even Hitler was nice to his dog? Like "yeah, ok, he may have done some really nice things for people, but he's still a racist piece of poo poo"
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it's probably all bullshit from one of his books. like the time trump saved a dog from an oncoming truck and only charged it the cost of the dry cleaning!* also if you want me to think trump is a philanthropist you better do the math for me and prove he's given more than he's admitted to stealing from cancer charities. *"trump art of the deal"
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