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She's 100% right and it hurts. Also my cousin moved there and is one of those angry white men and Jacinda being PM boils his piss on a daily basis.
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Apr 4, 2022 10:38
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Mellow Seas posted:Life is really hard. I'm not going to give anybody poo poo over buying pretty much anything. Blaming global corporate exploitation on people buying the wrong clothing brand or candy bar is like blaming climate change on individuals not separating their plastics and composting. Pretty much this. Also, it doesn't take much to try and help. Like, just cut down a bit. If all things being equal you would hit up CFA once every couple of week just make a decision to moderate it down to once a month. All these modern companies are usually vastly over-leveraged by trying to build out into every market they can get to so that small deviations in their sales can tank them or at least make them take notice. Especially if it's simple actions they can take to remedy something, like stopping funding for unliked causes. Some MBA will have a chart at the corporate level saying "We lost X millions last quarter we attribute to news of us funding a shithead senator got out. We value the support that the senator gives us a $Y, so uh, we should stop funding him." For example AT&T dropped funding OAN and forced DirectTV to drop them. Everyone didn't have to stop using AT&T altogether to make it happen, just enough trending/supporting data and AT&T thought it was in their best interest.
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Apr 4, 2022 18:12
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https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1511139101705129990 So it looks like things aren't going so hot over at Truther. I think Devin Nunes is about to get fired...
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Apr 5, 2022 05:58
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Guess he'll be mooving on then.
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Apr 5, 2022 07:03
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nine-gear crow posted:https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1511139101705129990 Every bit of the article is gold but here's two samples: quote:Truth Social has been beset by issues since its launch. CEO Devin Nunes, the former congressman who left Washington to run the app, said that the platform would be fully operation in the United States by the end of March. This didn’t happen, though, as the app has been overrun with technical glitches, and prospective users continue to be stuck on a wait list to join. The special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that took Truth Social public has been under scrutiny from federal regulators, and last Thursday it missed a key filing deadline. Shares in the SPAC have been plummeting, according to Axios. quote:Trump posted on the platform shortly after it launched in February. “Get ready!” he wrote. “Your favorite President will see you soon!” lmao
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Apr 5, 2022 11:29
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That ‘post’ of Trump looks like a photoshopped Tweet too
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Apr 5, 2022 11:40
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Maybe at some point voters will notice that "Conservative version of [thing]" means "terrible, non-functional version of [thing]" and realize that the same principle applies to, you know, politicians. Fingers crossed for "Conservative Disney" being the tipping point.
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Apr 5, 2022 13:28
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Mellow Seas posted:Maybe at some point voters will notice that "Conservative version of [thing]" means "terrible, non-functional version of [thing]" and realize that the same principle applies to, you know, politicians. I think they kind of have this. Or at least I assume that the religious themed amusement parks are close.
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Apr 5, 2022 14:14
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Mellow Seas posted:Maybe at some point voters will notice that "Conservative version of [thing]" means "terrible, non-functional version of [thing]" and realize that the same principle applies to, you know, politicians. My dude that is the point. "The government is terrible and can't do anything right" is the foundation of their political view. Having politicians that actually accomplished something would be anathema.
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Apr 5, 2022 14:21
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My favorite recent Trump thing is that last week Trump wrote six paragraphs about a hole in one he got on the golf course and that a bunch of other professional golfers he was golfing with couldn't, but he didn't want to say who won the match because he's a modest individual and doesn't like people who brag.
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Apr 5, 2022 14:35
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Mellow Seas posted:Maybe at some point voters will notice that "Conservative version of [thing]" means "terrible, non-functional version of [thing]" and realize that the same principle applies to, you know, politicians. Makes me remember the Conservative answer to The Squad who Fox News signal boosted only for them to all lose.
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Apr 5, 2022 15:38
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They didn’t even have their own name for themselves. They just called themselves “the conservative squad” with all the imagination of a 2010s porn parody title. They could have been the wine moms or something, highlighting how the youngest conservatives out there are 40+ and breeders, unlike the perverse democrats who are young and don’t have kids.
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Apr 5, 2022 15:42
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Twelve by Pies posted:My favorite recent Trump thing is that last week Trump wrote six paragraphs about a hole in one he got on the golf course and that a bunch of other professional golfers he was golfing with couldn't, but he didn't want to say who won the match because he's a modest individual and doesn't like people who brag. Some member of congress from Minnesota just said this weekend that Trump captured Bin Laden. Today while I was driving around, I flipped on my local WGOP radio station and TWICE the first words I heard were "the Democrat Party". The other time it was "Omar" They could probably just get a CPU algorithm to write this poo poo.
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Apr 5, 2022 16:44
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BiggerBoat posted:Some member of congress from Minnesota just said this weekend that Trump captured Bin Laden. Today while I was driving around, I flipped on my local WGOP radio station and TWICE the first words I heard were "the Democrat Party". The other time it was "Omar" How do you know they aren't doing that already. The computers just pay the meat sacks to flap their meat together to make the right meat sounds. https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ Heck Yes! Loam! fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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Apr 5, 2022 16:57
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:How do you know they aren't doing that already? I don't. I was just saying it sounds like they might as well be.
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Apr 5, 2022 21:14
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BiggerBoat posted:Some member of congress from Minnesota just said this weekend that Trump captured Bin Laden. Imagining a universe where this happened and it's just the staged photo of J. Edgar Hoover "arresting" Alvin Karpis but with Trump and OBL's heads photoshopped on. Badly.
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Apr 5, 2022 23:18
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Dietrich posted:My dude that is the point. "The government is terrible and can't do anything right" is the foundation of their political view. Having politicians that actually accomplished something would be anathema. a friend once described conservatism as "a computer that recognizes responsible governance as damage and routes around it"
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Apr 5, 2022 23:46
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OgNar posted:Guess he'll be mooving on then. Put out to pasture. Edit: Also, LOL that Truth Social just straight ripped off twitters look but made the little check mark red. I want to read the cease and desist twitter slaps on them the moment they launch. Murgos fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Apr 6, 2022 02:07
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BiggerBoat posted:Some member of congress from Minnesota just said this weekend that Trump captured Bin Laden. Today while I was driving around, I flipped on my local WGOP radio station and TWICE the first words I heard were "the Democrat Party". The other time it was "Omar" I still find it crazy that we as a society just let Fox News get away with say "Obama got kill, oh oppsie daisy our bad, we mean Osama, theyre both O-names wink wink." like jesus loving christ.
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Apr 6, 2022 03:35
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I find it insane that we allow Fox News to exist at all.
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Apr 6, 2022 03:54
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Rupert Murdoch is an interdimensional parasite that feeds on diseased societies.
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Apr 6, 2022 04:26
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I didn't know Jay Sekulow had a radio show, anyway the big topic is that three states are suing the CDC for rescinding Title 42 (I think that's the right number, too lazy to check) that allowed border patrol to turn away immigrants because of covid. The show started out very blatant which was weirdly refreshing. Like for the first fifteen minutes it was just a bunch of talk about "This will cause more people to come into the US, and that's bad." No fearmongering about gang members or drug dealers or super covid, just straight up "We don't want non-whites to be able to come here." Then after a while they did start concern trolling about "But there's all these dangerous covid variants out there and allowing in more immigrants could cause another pandemic!" To which I wish I could have just magically appeared and said "Oh so then if you're concerned about covid variants, you probably want to go back to mask mandates and forced social distancing, and are going to support vaccine mandates, right?" and just have them flounder. But yeah I imagine that if it isn't already, the CDC not allowing border patrol to just turn away immigrants is going to be a huge topic in right wing media coming up as they all pretend to be super concerned about spreading covid.
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Apr 6, 2022 13:06
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They very, very clearly don't give a flying sideways gently caress about spreading covid. They only care in a revoltingly superficial way in this instance because it lets them target foreign people as diseased and dirty while sidelining anyone based in observable reality with linear time into arguing with them about covid instead of their rampant bigotry Hatred camouflage basically.
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Apr 6, 2022 16:56
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Angry_Ed posted:Imagining a universe where this happened and it's just the staged photo of J. Edgar Hoover "arresting" Alvin Karpis but with Trump and OBL's heads photoshopped on. Badly. Now I'm remembering that Trump tried to do his own "Obama in the War Room" picture when they murked some ISIS bigwig and I'm laughing.
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Apr 6, 2022 20:14
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Jagged Jim posted:Now I'm remembering that Trump tried to do his own "Obama in the War Room" picture when they murked some ISIS bigwig and I'm laughing.
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Apr 6, 2022 20:17
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What is it about RWM that makes PhD level professionals take "in 2030, the government will own all private property" at face value? Can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to hear crazy right wing talking points while I'm fixing a professor's keyboard. Though I suppose they're technically correct in that America will be ruled by an oligarchy by that time, if not already.
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Apr 6, 2022 20:43
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Vargatron posted:What is it about RWM that makes PhD level professionals take "in 2030, the government will own all private property" at face value? Can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to hear crazy right wing talking points while I'm fixing a professor's keyboard. Though I suppose they're technically correct in that America will be ruled by an oligarchy by that time, if not already.
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Apr 6, 2022 21:11
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Vargatron posted:What is it about RWM that makes PhD level professionals take "in 2030, the government will own all private property" at face value? Can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to hear crazy right wing talking points while I'm fixing a professor's keyboard. Though I suppose they're technically correct in that America will be ruled by an oligarchy by that time, if not already. Perhaps the most sane way (for you) to think of it is that the words exist only--literally only--as a signal for tribal ownership. This is why they can still get shocked when somebody can actually listen to the words and go murder someone. They haven't processed any of the steps to get there.
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Apr 6, 2022 21:24
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tracecomplete posted:Perhaps the most sane way (for you) to think of it is that the words exist only--literally only--as a signal for tribal ownership. People make all kinds of "predictions" out loud, but what they do with their money will show you what they really believe. Like, that professor probably has retirement accounts, which would very odd if he truly believed that they were going to be seized by the government in a few years.
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Apr 6, 2022 22:28
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tracecomplete posted:Perhaps the most sane way (for you) to think of it is that the words exist only--literally only--as a signal for tribal ownership. Hey now. They can also exist to inspire stochastic terror by presenting an existentially distressing problem but offering no solution.
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Apr 6, 2022 22:29
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Mellow Seas posted:People make all kinds of "predictions" out loud, but what they do with their money will show you what they really believe. Like, that professor probably has retirement accounts, which would very odd if he truly believed that they were going to be seized by the government in a few years. My favorite example of this is still the gold sellers that advertise constantly on right wing radio. The dollar is going to crash. Buy gold! It will protect you when the dollars tanks! We're just a bunch of really generous guys who are willingly giving you our extremely valuable gold for your soon to be worthless dollars because we just care about you that much, it's definitely not because we're trying to get rich off your fear!
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Apr 6, 2022 22:59
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It's because Danish politician Ida Auken wrote an article titled "By 2030 you'll own nothing and like it" The actual content of the article is about post-scarcity and how it interacts with capitalism. I own none of the last 10 books, movies or video games I have enjoyed and who knows if someone might find a way to apply the Netflix or Steam business model to home cooking or car ownership. Also she doesn't paint this as a good thing, but she doesn't think it's the end of the world either. Naturally the professional outrage machine has found a way to turn this into a promise by the globalists to make us all into gay communists.
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Apr 7, 2022 01:00
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgm9vd/republicans-democrats-pedophiles-poll Almost half of Republicans and more than half of Trump 2020 voters think top Democrats are involved in pedophilia cabals, a recent YouGov poll found. While just 14 percent of respondents of all parties said that they have a somewhat or very favorable view of QAnon, including 16 percent of Republicans, the core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy theory has thoroughly infiltrated the GOP. The survey found that 30% of respondents said it’s true that “top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings,” and that the more conservative respondents were, the more likely they were to believe that. Forty-nine percent of Republicans and 52% of people who voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election said Democrats are involved in the child-sex trafficking rings. And voters who consumed right-wing media were even more likely to believe it, such as people who get their news from conservative websites (58%) and those who trust Newsmax (56%) and One America News Network (54%).
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Apr 7, 2022 13:16
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It's interesting to see the patterns in right wing boogeymen and how they jump around. Recently it occurred to me that a lot of the scare mongering about CRT and "indoctrinating/grooming children into various sexualitites" really kicked off after schools opened back up. Which makes sense, but it's funny how they never really reflected on the situation. Because if schools are doing remote learning then it gives conservative reactionaries everything they want. They can monitor exactly what their kids are learning and pull the plug if they find any of it unacceptable. I constantly hear about how teachers should have to work under a panopticon and online learning would make it easier for these control freaks. But no, they act like kids are depressed and killing themselves because they weren't forced to go to school unmuzzled, you know, the same schools that are teaching CRT and Queer Commust Theory right under the parents' noses  And along those lines, why doesn't all this hysteria drive conservatives to pursue teaching so that they can "correct" this alleged liberal bias? Where's all the wannabe Dennis Pragers getting their Masters in Education to make sure future generations aren't being 'brainwashed' by leftism?
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Apr 7, 2022 15:08
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Panfilo posted:
That would require going to college and possibly being indoctrinated with Marxist-Leninist thought. As told to them by Harvard and UCLA-educated Ben Shapiro.
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Panfilo posted:It's interesting to see the patterns in right wing boogeymen and how they jump around. Recently it occurred to me that a lot of the scare mongering about CRT and "indoctrinating/grooming children into various sexualitites" really kicked off after schools opened back up. Which makes sense, but it's funny how they never really reflected on the situation. Because getting the proper certifications would mean sumbitting themselves to the machine of liberalism. In their mind the best goal is just straight up homeschooling forever, like what the drunk duck comic guy thinks.
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Panfilo posted:Because if schools are doing remote learning then it gives conservative reactionaries everything they want. It doesn't because it means they have to actually monitor their children while they're doing remote learning instead of just dropping them off for eight hours a day. Panfilo posted:And along those lines, why doesn't all this hysteria drive conservatives to pursue teaching so that they can "correct" this alleged liberal bias? Where's all the wannabe Dennis Pragers getting their Masters in Education to make sure future generations aren't being 'brainwashed' by leftism? As Neito said, they are getting involved in teaching. They just do it by homeschooling rather than get certified and go to a public school. Homeschooling is much more useful for ensuring your kids never get exposed to anything you disapprove of.
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Angry_Ed posted:That would require going to college and possibly being indoctrinated with Marxist-Leninist thought. As told to them by Harvard and UCLA-educated Ben Shapiro. Neito posted:Because getting the proper certifications would mean sumbitting themselves to the machine of liberalism. In their mind the best goal is just straight up homeschooling forever, like what the drunk duck comic guy thinks. As Angry Ed mentioned, going to the Liberal Bastion that is Harvard University didn't turn Ben Shapiro into a screeching liberal. In fact, we could argue that his success should come as reassuring to reactionaries. He didn't flunk or get kicked out of there in spite of being conservative, so what's their excuse? Twelve by Pies posted:It doesn't because it means they have to actually monitor their children while they're doing remote learning instead of just dropping them off for eight hours a day. I can't help but wonder if it's all just an intersection between anti intellectualism and slacktivism. They want something to be done about it but don't want to be the one to volunteer. They think kids are getting brainwashed but they are paralyzed by their strong+weak fascist boogeyman.
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BiggerBoat posted:https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgm9vd/republicans-democrats-pedophiles-poll
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