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FFT posted:Hmm. Bolsonaro and Duterte, though
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BiggerBoat posted:Does anyone really think Putin doesn't do this if Trump is the president? Doesn't matter, we're post-truth. He just needs to say something that people can repeat to avoid conceding arguments People who want to vote for Trump anyway will say Russia would never have invaded if Trump were in charge, people who don't want to vote for Trump (the Lincoln Project Republicans or whoever) won't
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Star Man posted:I think Reagan himself would have absolutely no problem with Putin. Hell, I think he would have had no problem with Stalin so long as he wasn't a communist. I imagine it would be more like Reagan/Bush's attitude to Saddam. They loving loved him for being an authoritarian dictator who killed commies and caused problems for our enemies, but the second he hosed with America's geopolitical interests he became "Hitler reborn" and oh we've always hated that guy.
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VitalSigns posted:I imagine it would be more like Reagan/Bush's attitude to Saddam. They loving loved him for being an authoritarian dictator who killed commies and caused problems for our enemies, but the second he hosed with America's geopolitical interests he became "Hitler reborn" and oh we've always hated that guy. And Noriega, don't forget him
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FFT posted:Hmm. Bolsonaro and Duterte, though To the point that chuds even know pols outside of the US, they really like Bolsonaro. Duterte is a bit too brown to be loved, but he sure stopped being pounded in the western press for his (very real) terribleness as soon as he stopped getting cozy with China.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-russia-canceled/ Fox News Guest Sasy ‘Russia Is Now Being Canceled’ quote:This was a genuine statement made by Monica Crowley on the March 1, 2022, episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” a TV show on Fox News that airs on weeknights and is hosted by Jesse Watters. Crowley was the former assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department under U.S. President Donald Trump.
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BiggerBoat posted:I guess because I just grew up at the dawn of this whole right wing shift where Lord Godfather Reagan was all in on the Soviets as the biggest threat to everything ever and all the popular action movies were centered around beating the evil commies. Rocky was beating up Drago. Red Dawn. You had the Olympics rivalry and the boycotts and all that poo poo. It's just bizarre to me to see this entire movement or culture or whatever you call it, that thinks Reagan belongs on Mt Rushmore, actively and openly rooting for the world's second biggest military and nuclear power in a war of aggression when they used to want to nuke them. Just about all the Reagan Worshiping government representatives and talking heads who shill for Putin were alive for more of the Cold War than most of us here, too.
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It was never about the cause, it was always bullying and tribalism. Reagan worship and beating the evil empire is exactly equivalent to Trump talking about how he's got the biggest and bestest nuclear button. Bolsonaro gets a nod because game respects game.
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The big boys in the convoy are scared because girls in Hyundai's flipped them off https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1501772423905124354?s=20&t=yqkRi4PoReu6DrNEgGsjhQ
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CommieGIR posted:The big boys in the convoy are scared because girls in Hyundai's flipped them off Ah, yes, the normal relaxed middle finger, a thing notorious for existing.
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"gently caress! Let's get out of here!" "What, it's just the bird. We've all seen it." "No, man. Fuckin' DRIVE" "See? Look, they're just fli--OH gently caress" *the trucker's face turns to ash and flies off his skull; his companion screams and desperately grabs the wheel his dead friend still clutches*
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CommieGIR posted:The big boys in the convoy are scared because girls in Hyundai's flipped them off The thing that has to be kept in mind is that these people think that their POV is the in line with vast majority who are just too cowed by the oppressive regime to take action. They're heroes standing up for the little people at their own great risk and adversity. That people are just ignoring them or casually flipping them off is a big hole in that whole philosophy.
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Murgos posted:The thing that has to be kept in mind is that these people think that their POV is the in line with vast majority who are just too cowed by the oppressive regime to take action. Their entire worldview is just this dumb movie: Last Ounce of Courage on IMDB They think they are the tough, strong Patriot man sticking up for the little guy and repressed values, when in reality they are a bunch of petulant assholes that the majority of Americans don't want to deal with anymore. We've been through this nonsense for years now because of their selfishness, and people are tired of it.
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Except I don't even know what they're protesting anymore. Covid restrictions are lifted pretty much everywhere. These people just like to wave flags and yell "Mericuh".
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CommieGIR posted:The big boys in the convoy are scared because girls in Hyundai's flipped them off Sure am glad that only these super tough folks are defending our freedumbs. I hope he doesn't run into someone with a particularly severe RBF or something.
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BiggerBoat posted:Except I don't even know what they're protesting anymore. Covid restrictions are lifted pretty much everywhere. These people just like to wave flags and yell "Mericuh". Murgos posted:The thing that has to be kept in mind is that these people think that their POV is the in line with vast majority who are just too cowed by the oppressive regime to take action. A lot of history about everyday people rising up against their oppressors can seem inspiring to certain people. Unable to parse subtext or nuance they just see the central theme of "person is mad, person does thing, person gets what they want." I mean look at how the Revolutionary War gets mythologized to people on the right. They want to be that kind of hero in their own story. The whole world is changing, and them stubbornly resisting that change makes them feel like the only right ones. So they decide a way to fight back against it. But as mentioned above, the things they are fighting don't really exist. We're not in a 1984 hellscape in the way they think we are. Not only that, what's the endgame? What's the big victory they are going to get that will change things for the better and venerate them as heroes and patriots? That's pretty vague too.
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Panfilo posted:Not only that, what's the endgame? What's the big victory they are going to get that will change things for the better and venerate them as heroes and patriots? That's pretty vague too. I dunno either. Guess I'll have to fire up the old AM dial tomorrow and get it all explained to me. I'll report back with my findings.
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Laura Ingram did this today, so yeah, this bit of internet insanity is mainstream now. https://twitter.com/brainnotonyet/status/1501777093444702208
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BiggerBoat posted:I dunno either. Guess I'll have to fire up the old AM dial tomorrow and get it all explained to me. Don't hurt yourself like that.
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Dr Christmas posted:Laura Ingram did this today, so yeah, this bit of internet insanity is mainstream now. I think we should debate whether waves of political violence against American liberals would technically qualify as "genocide."
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Dr Christmas posted:Laura Ingram did this today, so yeah, this bit of internet insanity is mainstream now.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:I think we should debate whether waves of political violence against American liberals would technically qualify as "genocide." Let's not.
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For Fox News, "liberal" actually means "anyone who's not a straight white male devotee of Donald Trump specifically". Reagan himself would be a "liberal" nowadays for even giving a fig leaf towards the idea of fact-based governance.
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The world's most powerful hypnotist is once again on the market https://twitter.com/spurtmagoo/status/1502065429937893379
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greazeball posted:The world's most powerful hypnotist is once again on the market He's taking care of her kids? Is she writing a book on how to be a master persuader? Because that one I might read.
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She would certainly have the more successful video series about hypnotizing viewers into having satisfying orgasms on New Year’s Eve.
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greazeball posted:The world's most powerful hypnotist is once again on the market Honestly I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did, he was livestreaming the 2016 election and when Trump was declared the winner he was hooting and hollering and she was on the couch looking like her life was over. Fantastic burn by that one dude though. e: So what is ESG and why is Glenn Beck screaming that it's The Great Reset that will destroy the world? Twelve by Pies fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Someone is seriously going to get killed eventually I mean, yeah. That's generally the point in fascist regimes. Then when it happens the peddlers of this bullshit will run the Jan 6 playbook all over again because it's the same playbook all these regimes use. "You can't blame me I didn't pull the trigger. Stop making this political you are dividing the nation with your hateful rhetoric. We had no way of knowing this would happen. If you weren't causing these problems this wouldn't have happened. It wasn't that bad really. They deserved it anyway look how terrible the victims are. Stop making us the victims and things can get better. You won't stop attacking us we have to attack first to defend ourselves and the real patriots." Find an abused spouse and ask them about DARVO. Then scale it up to national political parties and the eventual genocide of undesirables.
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Twelve by Pies posted:e: So what is ESG and why is Glenn Beck screaming that it's The Great Reset that will destroy the world? Environmental, Social, and Governance: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/esg-investing He seems to have blue-skied from this, where non-financial factors like climate change and diverse representation are increasingly playing a role in investors' viewpoints, to the Chinese "social credit" system, and is pretending the whole thing means that the government itself is enforcing "wokeness" in investment.
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Ah okay, he was saying "You called us conspiracy theorists but this proves we were right, it's actually real!" and how all local businesses and banks were begging politicians to ban it because it would put them out of business. Also last night I was out super late and I happened to hear a bit from the Jesse Kelly Show, some guy I've never heard of before. It was one of the most irritating things I've ever heard. The guy is like the smuggest motherfucker imaginable, just his tone and the way he said things made it clear he thinks he's hot poo poo and the greatest guy alive, he also is one of those people who thinks they're extremely funny but isn't, constantly laughing at his own "jokes." I'd rather listen to literally any other right wing radio host for hours on end than listen to that guy for five minutes.
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bird food bathtub posted:I mean, yeah. That's generally the point in fascist regimes. Then when it happens the peddlers of this bullshit will run the Jan 6 playbook all over again because it's the same playbook all these regimes use. A bit of that, sure, but there's also the thing where ever loving time it happens, a large portion of the right starts claiming it was a false flag funded by Soros' Antifa operatives. Because all these assholes (that are well documented online and especially in the FREEP thread) clamoring to feed blood to the tree of liberty and calling for revolution that begins with things like assassinating Nancy Pelosi while they keep their powder dry and their guns oiled would NEVER do anything violent or any such a thing like storm the Capitol building at Lord Trump's behest, ever. That's absurd! These loving dumb dumbs have been clamoring for a violent uprising way back when Obama was a secret Muslim Kenyan terrorist that was gonna grab everyone's guns and put them in all FEMA camps. Where on earth would anyone EVER get the idea that they were capable of such heinous behavior?
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Twelve by Pies posted:So what is ESG and why is Glenn Beck screaming that it's The Great Reset that will destroy the world? Here's the neutral explanation, and here's the racist one.
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As Beck probably knows off camera, "ESG" doesn't even say much about how a fund is managed. It's a label that fund companies slap on because it attracts a certain kind of investor with more idealism than rigor.
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I found myself agreeing with Buck Sexton the other day (I know, it broke me a little) when he was trying to warn Fox viewers from spreading Russian disinformation and explaining why the MiG plane deal wasn't a good thing and that Biden was correct in stopping it (problems with where they would launch, being one of them). I wondered if he's been saying the same things on his Rush-replacement radio show, and if there's been any pushback on his reasoning? Are there any other RWM folks straying from the Putin Party line?
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VorpalBunny posted:I found myself agreeing with Buck Sexton the other day (I know, it broke me a little) when he was trying to warn Fox viewers from spreading Russian disinformation and explaining why the MiG plane deal wasn't a good thing and that Biden was correct in stopping it (problems with where they would launch, being one of them). I wondered if he's been saying the same things on his Rush-replacement radio show, and if there's been any pushback on his reasoning? Are there any other RWM folks straying from the Putin Party line? I think Mark Levin has been going with "RUSSIA IS ALL SOCIALISTS! BIDEN IS A MARXIST! HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP INVADED UKRAINE WITH MSLSD AND THE NEW YORK SLIMES!" azflyboy fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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"Have you ever wondered why this thing we keep insisting happens never actually happens? Well it's all because this one guy wants to destroy western civilization"
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