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Froghammer posted:Taibbi's been an antiauthority guy since forever, which leads directly to "there's no fundamental difference between these two political opinions", which leads to being a reactionary. He's forming the opinions Democrats tell him not to, same as QAnon. He didn't used to be like this. I just remembered I still have Griftopia Matt Taibbi posted:There are two reasons why Tea Party voters will probably never get wise to the Ponzi-scheme reality of bubble economics. One has to do with the sales pitch of Tea Party rhetoric, which cleverly exploits Main Street frustrations over genuinely intrusive state and local governments that are constantly in the pockets of small businesses for fees and fines and permits. The other reason is obvious: the bubble economy is hard as hell to understand. To even have a chance at grasping how it works, you need to commit large chunks of time to learning about things like securitization, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, etc., stuff that’s fiendishly complicated and that if ingested too quickly can feature a truly toxic boredom factor. So long as this stuff is not widely understood by the public, the Grifter class is going to skate on almost anything it does—because the tendency of most voters, in particular conservative voters, is to assume that Wall Street makes its money engaging in normal capitalist business and that any attempt to restrain that sector of the economy is thinly disguised socialism. He criticized Democrats plenty in that book, but like he understood what was going on and what the Tea Party was about and how they push anti-intellectualism and tribalism and resentment. So either he stared into the abyss too long and fell for it himself, or he just decided to go where the money is.
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The idea that blocking Facebook posts stifles medical research lmao
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Aug 29, 2021 06:39
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The stupidest people I know and the stupidest people you know can live thousands of miles from each other, but communicate and amplify each other’s dumb thoughts. Thanks to Facebook you can crowdsource your insanity.
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Aug 29, 2021 06:48
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Here's another dead local radio host https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1431841195517489153?s=20
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Aug 29, 2021 06:54
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I've heard of ideological collapse before, but this is like, ideological suicide or something
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Aug 29, 2021 09:05
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Man, that is a whole lot of dead radio hosts. I'm guessing 'Conservative radio host' checks all the co-morbidities for age, obesity, high blood pressure, cigar smoker, zero exercise etc etc.
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Aug 29, 2021 10:08
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Trazz posted:I've heard of ideological collapse before, but this is like, ideological suicide or something It's just mass suicide. It's not at all surprising or unusual. We've all been saying, rightly, for years that the GOP is simply a large-scale cult, particularly a death cult, and yeah. Also I mean performative suicide, for want of a better term, is historically a thing in certain cultures, an act of final defiance against an enemy. They are literally killing themselves to own the libs because, again, they are driven by spite and will gladly destroy themselves if they think it will harm their enemies.
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Aug 29, 2021 10:08
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Slow mo version of that scene in Der Untergang where half the SS officers shoot themselves immediately upon hearing of the surrender, and the other half look around in horror and bail. Except in this case the Führer is even yelling "don't shoot yourselves morons" and they're going "sad, even he is compromised by bolsheviks"
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Aug 29, 2021 11:38
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Lawdog69 posted:The idea that blocking Facebook posts stifles medical research lmao Ya I saw a post the other day that was like "how are we ever going to find truth if we're not allowed to discuss certain viewpoints on Reddit" LIke dawg the enterprise of humans discovering truth did not start with social media networks and does not require xxxsephiroth69xxx to post about their anecdotal experience with horse dewormer
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FMguru posted:A couple of years ago, as part of #MeToo, someone noticed that Taibbi's account of drinking/drugging/screwing his way across 1990s Russia was full of underage and non-consensual shenanigans and called him out for it - which led to unconvincing denials, meltdowns, and a conclusion that the REAL threat in the world in out-of-control wokeness. It happened right before his book tour began which I think it what really broke his brain.
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MrUnderbridge posted:So Milo Yanananapolis has posted that he's tested positive for covid and is treating himself with injected ivermectin. The injectable cattle and swine formula. 20 bucks says he isn't treating himself with it, but claiming he does to be part of the fad because he's a loving moron
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Deptfordx posted:Man, that is a whole lot of dead radio hosts. Some one has pointed this out before, but you can see where the memo 'secretly get the vaccine but tell no one' ended in right wing media communication chain. Seems local radio hosts just aren't republican enough for them to care.
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SocketWrench posted:20 bucks says he isn't treating himself with it, but claiming he does to be part of the fad because he's a loving moron He's doubling down already and saying he isn't afraid of death.
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CommieGIR posted:He's doubling down already and saying he isn't afraid of death. Oh yeah it's nbd 
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Groovelord Neato posted:It happened right before his book tour began which I think it what really broke his brain. I've been pointing that poo poo out for years before that and the reaction was "c'mon idiot, that was all fake stories to own the puritans".
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happyhippy posted:Some one has pointed this out before, but you can see where the memo 'secretly get the vaccine but tell no one' ended in right wing media communication chain. *Rich enough. You can bet if he was alive, Rush would have been vacced.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Here's another dead local radio host Isn't that like the third conservative radio host to die from COVID within a month?
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volts5000 posted:Isn't that like the third conservative radio host to
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Milo is a deliberate troll and a huge liar so I could see him getting the shot on the DL and pushing ivermectin for the grift, but a lot of these assholes end up falling for their own con eventually so who knows maybe he's really eating the horse paste
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volts5000 posted:Isn't that like the third conservative radio host to die from COVID within a month? I wonder how many total, and how many are forced to retire because post-Covid and yelling on a microphone for 8 hours a day straight don't mix well
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VitalSigns posted:Milo is a deliberate troll and a huge liar so I could see him getting the shot on the DL and pushing ivermectin for the grift, but a lot of these assholes end up falling for their own con eventually so who knows maybe he's really eating the horse paste I think a lot of it is that if it makes you money, that equals Just and RIght. Economic Success = Correct. Remember, being a "loser" or poor is the ultimate sin for this hive mind, even though they pay lip service to one Christ, Jesus H. It's kind of weird how they chew these guys and spit them out, the more I think on it. When was the last time any RWM shill mentioned Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan, Glenn Beck, Milo, Joe Arpaio, Herman Cain, Ann Coulter, Oliver North, and even really Ben Shapiro or Rush Limbaugh? They appear to be done with Gulliani. Also, their current weird fascination with some freak who apparently revolutionized Pillow technology but he'll be gone soon, replaced by another huckster. They just move on to the next used car salesman that will double down and say whatever they have to in order to make a sale and seem to have largely settled on Trump as their chosen and settled upon icon, for reasons that still kind of escape me. The saddest thing to me is that "the left" and the democratic party are running against the newer wave of BS artists and lunatics like MGT, Desantis and their ilk but can't slice them down in ways that seem and feel obvious and should be easy.
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I think Meelo's gonna need to snort, slurp and shoot up some more horse barbiturates to deal with THIS shocking development https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1432054872971661312
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happyhippy posted:Some one has pointed this out before, but you can see where the memo 'secretly get the vaccine but tell no one' ended in right wing media communication chain. I hadn't heard that yet buts it's so true.
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I don't know what's worse: the fact that this fascist is still allowed to hold office or the fact that nobody seems to care he's still agitating for a coup EDIT: also that thread just keeps going places. Between the above, the idea that masks don't work because "you can still smell Mexican food at a restaurant" and "the Democrats want to give the Taliban automatic weapons" you'd think Cawthorn was trying to win "dumbest congressperson of 2021" Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Angry_Ed posted:EDIT: also that thread just keeps going places. Between the above, the idea that masks don't work because "you can still smell Mexican food at a restaurant" and "the Democrats want to give the Taliban automatic weapons" you'd think Cawthorn was trying to win "dumbest congressperson of 2021" It used to be Gohmert was the obvious answer but now with Cawthorne, Greene, and Boebert it's not an easy pick.
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Black Is reporting from CNN Better go gently caress with him for some reason https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1432369554676752386
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Being from the south, seeing a white truck roll up and a white man come out and charge a black man... He showed amazing composure. My honest first thought seeing that here is "this MAGA has snapped and he's going to start shooting" e: like just seeing that truck pull up in the background like that irl I'd be telling people "we need to leave now" and fight-or-flighting Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Biloxi/Gulfport are a loving dump, and that’s the “nice” part of Mississippi.
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Hey everyone, it's bozo here I called into the Mike ghalligar show and got on the air. I lied though, I didn't vote for Biden but I pretended I did. I wanted to tell him I support doing everything to leave Afghanistan. HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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So the guy who sat outside the library of Congress with a bomb just got memory holed and I haven't seen a follow up on any of the major news networks about it. Paddock 2? Maybe that's a thought for the conspiracy thread, don't know.
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