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FMguru posted:It's the other way around - the more they tie themselves to right-wing ideologies and political causes, the more people (especially young people) walk away from them. This. I should, demographically speaking, be a conservative Christian. If I were born 20-30 years earlier, I probably would be. But the thing is, Christianity has tied itself so much into hating things that I enjoy (the Satanic Panic bullshit was one of my first experiences with how stupid the whole thing was), and people that I respect, that I don't identify as Christian anymore. A lot of the teachings of Christianity are fantastic, especially those about loving thy neighbor and keeping your religion private, but American Protestants just poo poo all over them at every single loving turn by siding with right-wing ideologues. There's a quote that floats around, something to the effect of "I like your Christ, but not your Christianity." It or things like it are attributed to Gandhi, but apparently there's no good source for that. I found an article that "rebukes" the quote and it encapsulates every single thing wrong with Christianity: https://www.christianity.com/bible/gandhi-doesnt-like-us-11668745.html. It's hilarious just how badly the author misses the point.
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mllaneza posted:The first presidential ad has dropped. This aired only in Iowa (GOP is still planning to have their first primary here), and everyone at my Super Bowl party was going “what the gently caress is this” when this aired. Also check out the slope of his forehead, real early hominid angles. 
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He must be a paleoconservative.
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as an american i identify with the fat guys talking about pie and not the caveman talking about numbers
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1625205016268050456?t=k-OWbzAiIy4HfzjhUjdfBA&s=19 Goddamn, if ever there was a person who needed to jump up his own rear end in a top hat and disappear, it's Ted Cruz.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1625205016268050456?t=k-OWbzAiIy4HfzjhUjdfBA&s=19 Why is he trying to dunk on an article from 3 years ago
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Xand_Man posted:Why is he trying to dunk on an article from 3 years ago Here's the full image he was reacting to:  He was using the 3 year old article to try and dunk on an article written today. But as per his usual ailment of "being Ted Cruz", he missed the mark and splattered himself all over the basketball court floor without coming anywhere near the net at all.
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nine-gear crow posted:Here's the full image he was reacting to:
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nine-gear crow posted:Here's the full image he was reacting to: Unfortunately for all of us, his base is dumb enough that "different people at different times had different perspectives  " works on them.Dude knows drat well what he's doing.
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slitherchicken spoogistic https://twitter.com/larryschweikart/status/1625183198690017281?s=46&t=m3-IvzwvaAvQ38_CtrwO6g
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selec posted:slitherchicken spoogistic Found my new screen name
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1625475801842954240?t=kyYF5c0CW-MxghUPbXFz0g&s=19 Twitter handle checks out.
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Decon posted:Unfortunately for all of us, his base is dumb enough that "different people at different times had different perspectives Also the first headline and the second headline are not mutually exclusive gotchas like Rafael seems to think they are. Experts were saying at the time the lockdowns went into effect and schools were transitioned to remote learning, "this is probably going to lead to delayed academic development in a lot of kids, but it's better than the alternative which is going to be a fuckton of dead children, teachers, and family members of those children and teachers, so what do you want to do about it?" Then again, we already know Ted Cruz's stance on piles of dead children and it's "Yes, more please!  "
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shoeberto posted:Found my new screen name
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FlamingLiberal posted:Wait, NOW they care about the environment??? Nope. Just think it's an opportunity to dunk but didn't even bother checking Greta's Twitter
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1625475801842954240?t=kyYF5c0CW-MxghUPbXFz0g&s=19 I guess Newsmax, OAN, and Fox are part of the "climate cult" because NOBODY has been speaking on the train derailment. Spoiler alert, they also aren't talking about the SECOND one that just happened in Texas.
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This “no one is talking about the train derailment” gaslighting amazing. Like, it’s being talked about everyone knows it happened and it’s all over news media.
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I can see why Jen Psaki quit now. That would be the point where she would just push the podium over, walk into the press pit and just beat this guy's face in till it was the composition of raw hamburger meat.
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Thats a Newsmax reporter asking the questions that matter. Sadly she didnt just say yes and explain what being woke was and gave a long winded explanation. They would have just manipulated it to just Yes.
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Murgos posted:This “no one is talking about the train derailment” gaslighting amazing. Like, it’s being talked about everyone knows it happened and it’s all over news media. yeah i was just about to ask about this. why exactly do they think the libs don't want to talk about this story?
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Mr Interweb posted:yeah i was just about to ask about this. why exactly do they think the libs don't want to talk about this story? They don't care/actually wanted it to happen because it happened to a red state. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Feb 15, 2023 |
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Dr Christmas posted:They don't care/actually wanted it to happen because it to a red state. okay, there's like a teeny kernel of logic to that, but...wouldn't it make it EASIER for the 'climate cult' to try to wrangle support from red staters and thus increase their influence?
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Twitter is not representative of the population at large and there are definitely weirdos on Twitter who only represent their own weird and bizarre viewpoints. That said, there have definitely been people on Twitter saying "Hey these idiot hicks say that deregulation is good and that the EPA shouldn't exist so they're just getting what they deserve! We should ignore them and not do a thing to help them because this is just the consequences of their desires!"
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Here's a right wing media outlet making a joke that doesn't involve pronouns (but the actual article is unfunny-and-trying and starts with a trigger warning joke like it's 2014  )https://mobile.twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1625617133542449156
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Mr Interweb posted:okay, there's like a teeny kernel of logic to that, but...wouldn't it make it EASIER for the 'climate cult' to try to wrangle support from red staters and thus increase their influence? There is no climate change. The climate cult exists not to save the planet, but to increase the control of the government, and specifically to increase the control of the government to allow the mass slaughter of white people so that the globalists can better rule the docile, insect-eating remnants. Through that lens, the fact that there is ‘pollution’ or ‘environmental dangers’ in this is a meaningless lie, and the important part is that thousands, tens of thousands, maybe even millions of white rural Americans are dead in this test run attack that the liberal media won’t talk about.
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Mr Interweb posted:yeah i was just about to ask about this. why exactly do they think the libs don't want to talk about this story? Just pop over to USCE and see for yourself
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Mr Interweb posted:yeah i was just about to ask about this. why exactly do they think the libs don't want to talk about this story? According the radio yesterday, because Joe Biden is president and the media has an agenda or something. I'm serious.
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It's because right wingers need to feel like the scrappy underdogs, so "the mainstream media doesn't want you to know about this" is catnip for them, regardless of how immediately disprovable it is.
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It would be cool if there was some program or bot that could scrape news reports about the subject whenever they make this claim.
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Dubar posted:It's because right wingers need to feel like the scrappy underdogs, so "the mainstream media doesn't want you to know about this" is catnip for them, regardless of how immediately disprovable it is. there's also this https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1625675988309868546?s=20&t=uiUew4r1WDaa5jAMrCV9rA Which immediately reminded me of RWM poo pooing the idea that Hurricane Katrina victims were being ignored in New Orleans because they were black and poor.
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OgNar posted:Thats a new low even for Tucker. I mean...is it? New that is. It's been Tucker's White Power Hour for years now.
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BiggerBoat posted:there's also this From what I understand there is no big FEMA response because Dewine has refused to allow FEMA to get involved.
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This is an example of pre emptive well poisoning by the right. Say "why don't climate activists care about this?" and everyone has to run defense to correct that statement. A similar tactic gets used during mass shootings with the race of the attacker. They'll initially state "watch the left just assume this was done by a white guy" and when that happens they'll get all smug that the left was wrong about it (they did this when the recent college shooting happened and it turned out the shooter was a black guy with a previous felony).
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Panfilo posted:This is an example of pre emptive well poisoning by the right. Say "why don't climate activists care about this?" and everyone has to run defense to correct that statement. A similar tactic gets used during mass shootings with the race of the attacker. They'll initially state "watch the left just assume this was done by a white guy" and when that happens they'll get all smug that the left was wrong about it (they did this when the recent college shooting happened and it turned out the shooter was a black guy with a previous felony). Also all five cops being black in the murder of Tyre Nichols
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