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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Why do we allow Trump supporters (Republican party, most democrats) to exist? because they agree with their rival political party on all of the issues important to rich people but crucially disagree on a few social issues
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Why do we allow Trump supporters (Republican party, most democrats) to exist?
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Aug 25, 2020 18:51
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americans are extremely averse to any form of introspection, so in order to avoid that, we keep a blatantly and comically evil group in power so we can continue to ignore our own implicitness
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Aug 25, 2020 19:51
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Cup Runneth Over posted:bUt THaT's ClAsSiC cUlT bEhAViOr the cult behavior of trying to not get caught in a death cycle that will destroy everyone close to the person doing it.
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Aug 25, 2020 23:09
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ElGroucho posted:If she was stupid enough to stay married to some loving chud, death was too good for her lol as if any of us deserve the mercy of death taking a firm stand is cool, but there are people so immersed in this that its going full blast from everyone they know and lots of strangers and lol if you arent dumb as gently caress, so....
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Yeah, my hardcore MAGA CHUD boss is STILL going on and on about The Government as if DJT weren't president and Desantis weren't governor. Not even sure who the gently caress he's blaming anymore for the lovely way he runs his printing and graphics business or who exactly he thinks is in charge that's keeping him down but he's mad. Mad at the nebulous Government.
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Aug 25, 2020 23:20
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah, my hardcore MAGA CHUD boss is STILL going on and on about The Government as if DJT weren't president and Desantis weren't governor. Not even sure who the gently caress he's blaming anymore for the lovely way he runs his printing and graphics business or who exactly he thinks is in charge that's keeping him down but he's mad. I'm not saying that he's specifically being anti-semetic, but "the Government" is just "the Jews" in terms of its rhetorical function here.
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Aug 25, 2020 23:23
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These people are incredibly loving stupid. Hth Oh, and they think they're mega brain Einsteins. It's a fun mix! *I can barely spell and haven't read a book since grade 4 but I know better than those filthy experts!!*
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InsertPotPun posted:because they're either stupid or assholes, we can't figure out which, and calling a stupid person an rear end in a top hat or an rear end in a top hat a stupid person is forbidden. As a child I grew up attending a church wherein the Iraq War was none-too-subtly supported in 2002 on the basis that it would surely open up the country to missionary work. Years later, long after I left religion behind, I struggled with trying to understand the motive behind such cheerleading. Was it sheer ignorance, or maliciousness? Some kind of inherent pleasure from spreading error and hate? Recently I've come to the very middle-brow epiphany of not caring what the ratio of stupidity and evil is. I do think that grown adults burying their heads in the sand and on principle suspending their critical faculties is more of a moral failing than an intellectual one, however. Part of the problem I feel is people reserving the critical point of view to their image of an outsider group while fortifying their blind spots. If you exhaustively investigate something critically from a narrow frame of reference, you get to feel the reassurance of having done thorough intellectual work without having to consider other perspectives like, for example, ones that might clash with your Just World point of view. I think in most versions of the Emperor's New Clothes it's at least implied that there's some coercive threat at work to make people praise an absurdity, which makes our current reality all the more tragic where there's no halberd hanging over our necks; the threats the Facebook Yokels seem to care about are not climate change or a world-wide pandemic, but approval from their little online tribes. Even the more intellectual types of religious people from my childhood, the type who'd exhaustively read Dostoevsky and entertain non-literal interpretations of the Bible or whatever are now spending their twilight years posting anti-vaccine (in general, not just COVID) conspiracy stuff on Facebook. I don't know if bitter vindication or smirking nihilism are the the healthiest emotions or outlooks, but they're about the only ones I've really been able to take refuge in during the last few years. Ceramic Shot has issued a correction as of 02:10 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Aug 26, 2020 02:08
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Maybe people believing in some made-up bullshit from 2000 years ago are also susceptible to believing current made-up bullshit.
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Aug 26, 2020 02:15
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Nothus posted:Facebook murdered his wife and likely bankrupted him with medical bills. I know it owns lol Hodgepodge posted:I'm not saying that he's specifically being anti-semetic, but "the Government" is just "the Jews" in terms of its rhetorical function here. it’s this but also whatever other groups they might hate even if they aren’t anti semetic
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Aug 26, 2020 06:34
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Fame Douglas posted:Maybe people believing in some made-up bullshit from 2000 years ago are also susceptible to believing current made-up bullshit. This is the correct answer
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Aug 26, 2020 12:03
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Cocaine Bear posted:These people are incredibly loving stupid. Hth unfortunately the bulk of their opposition are liberals, who are so stupid they believe that anyone on the right believes in anything but violence and also that they are themselves incredibly smart
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Aug 26, 2020 12:08
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Shear Modulus posted:"the government" is everything bad about the government I know they say it but that's very stupid. You can't argue the guy running the government isn't a part of it unless you're admitting he's there to destabilize the government
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Aug 26, 2020 12:12
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:I know they say it but that's very stupid. You can't argue the guy running the government isn't a part of it unless you're admitting he's there to destabilize the government fortunately, the right has spent about two hundred years mastering the art of equivocation between their stated principles, which are a rhetorical defense against people with beliefs, and what they actually mean, which is a shared understanding based on group identity and capacity for violence on everything from grand and literal to incredibly petty and often metaphorical scale.
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:I know they say it but that's very stupid. You can't argue the guy running the government isn't a part of it unless you're admitting he's there to destabilize the government Admit? This is explicitly why most of them voted for him.
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Aug 26, 2020 12:32
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Penguissimo posted:Admit? This is explicitly why most of them voted for him. This. They wanted a government 'small enough to drown in the bath-tub' and don't give a gently caress that they are smaller than that and will also drown. It's hard to find sympathy for people who deliberately kneecap themselves.
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Aug 26, 2020 14:04
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J.A.B.C. posted:This. They wanted a government 'small enough to drown in the bath-tub' and don't give a gently caress that they are smaller than that and will also drown. the 2a guys that shot themselves in the dick are the perfect example of this.
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Aug 26, 2020 14:10
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Well, speaking of drowning, I just got let go from my job for nebulous, made up reasons by a cabal of Republican know it alls and "The Two Bobs" newcomers who know how to kiss the right asses. Yay me.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:29
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, speaking of drowning, I just got let go from my job for nebulous, made up reasons by a cabal of Republican know it alls and "The Two Bobs" newcomers who know how to kiss the right asses. Judging by your posts about your job this may be a blessing in disguise. Now see if you can be exiled from Florida.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:35
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, speaking of drowning, I just got let go from my job for nebulous, made up reasons by a cabal of Republican know it alls and "The Two Bobs" newcomers who know how to kiss the right asses. Leave Florida immediately.
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One door closing is just another door opening to get out of florida
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, speaking of drowning, I just got let go from my job for nebulous, made up reasons by a cabal of Republican know it alls and "The Two Bobs" newcomers who know how to kiss the right asses. Escape from Florida.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:09
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, speaking of drowning, I just got let go from my job for nebulous, made up reasons by a cabal of Republican know it alls and "The Two Bobs" newcomers who know how to kiss the right asses. I hope you can find a small, obnoxious sneeze-free silver lining in this.
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My son lives in Florida and I own a house outright here. BUt i appreciate the advice and you're not wrong. Where should I flee to though? Where to run in a world built of assholes?
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Aug 27, 2020 01:53
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BiggerBoat posted:My son lives in Florida and I own a house outright here. BUt i appreciate the advice and you're not wrong. All the good answers are not America and thanks to your idiot government you can't do that. Stay strong and look for the positives.
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BiggerBoat posted:My son lives in Florida and I own a house outright here. BUt i appreciate the advice and you're not wrong. Cleveland
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Cocaine Bear posted:All the good answers are not America and thanks to your idiot government you can't do that. Stay strong and look for the positives. A critical mass of people could refuse the coronavirus vaccine meaning no country would allow Americans in. Lol.
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Aug 27, 2020 02:05
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BiggerBoat posted:My son lives in Florida and I own a house outright here. BUt i appreciate the advice and you're not wrong. hawaii
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BeefThief posted:Cleveland Normally, I'd agree. The Forest City is cheap and the people are friendly.
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miniscule12 posted:A critical mass of people could refuse the coronavirus vaccine meaning no country would allow Americans in. Could? Americapox gonna be with us till the end of humanity.
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Aug 27, 2020 02:24
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BeefThief posted:Cleveland Lol
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Cocaine Bear posted:Could? Americapox gonna be with us till the end of humanity. America will end well before the end of humanity.
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Aug 27, 2020 02:48
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BeefThief posted:Cleveland Multiple Presidents of the United States of America agree: it rocks.
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BiggerBoat posted:My son lives in Florida and I own a house outright here. BUt i appreciate the advice and you're not wrong. North and/or West until it stops getting worse.
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BiggerBoat posted:My son lives in Florida and I own a house outright here. BUt i appreciate the advice and you're not wrong. The winters aren't great but Minnesota's a pretty nice place.
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BiggerBoat posted:Where should I flee to though? Where to run in a world built of assholes?
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upstate NY is pretty nice
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Zeroisanumber posted:The winters aren't great but Minnesota's a pretty nice place. Summers really aren't that much better tbh Last few weeks of August through to Halloween are generally pretty muggy and buggy
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