whatis posted:

The talk on the previous pages of right-wing dads ruining holidays has me nervous about this upcoming Thanksgiving. I'm headed down south to spend the holiday with my girlfriend's folks, and her father is a psychopath when it comes to this stuff. I talk to him on the phone every once in a while and he always twists it into something about Obama being a communist/muslim/friend of the family. Now that I've recently started working at a university, I get frequent warnings about all my socialist co-workers and how they're trying to brainwash me. I've been very good about just sort of smiling and nodding through the bullshit the last few years, but the guy is really aggressive and persistent. I want nothing more than to tell him how wrong and crazy he is, but the man is on all sorts of painkillers and meds and has literally threatened complete strangers with the gun he keeps in his glovebox on more than one occasion.

The worst part about it is that the guy's life has been broken by all the same poo poo that he trusts and dedicates himself to so absolutely. His back was irreparably damaged by a chiropractor, and when it took too long for him to recover, his job fired him. He lost his prescription plan, so all the chronic pain from his back led him to self-medicate. He hasn't been able to get the treatment he needs to remain a functioning member of society, so he's completely out of work and pissing away all of his retirement money just so he can continue to pay his mortgage, which is completely unsustainable.

But affordable healthcare? Socialist bullshit. Unions and workers rights? Corrupt goons putting excess strain on job creators

It's so frustrating because I know if the man had any critical thinking skills whatsoever, he would see that the very ideology he worships and aspires to is the same thing that has destroyed him. But I also don't want to get shot

Leofish posted:

You're right in that there is a chance someone may have something to say on a government policy that, through its influence, may have caused the suffering of a loved one, or prevented them from getting the care they needed. There is a place for those sentiments in the public discourse, too. But I don't see it in this tweet, especially given what Crowder has been known to tweet in the past. It just looks like such an afterthought. "My aunt has lost her battle with cancer _{and also Obamacare} #RIP."

mojo1701a posted:

I'd also like to know what the hell Seinfeld was doing on a college campus. Dude has a LOT of money. Why leave that cocoon?

toanoradian posted:

Oh, I thought Chelsea=Bugs Bunny is a meme thing, like maybe Bugs is a hated figure or something, or maybe it's a slang, or some form of insider joke for alt-rights.

Turns out it's just mocking a woman's looks. Cool cool cool cool

My Face When posted:

I was about to post the explanation. Thank you for beating me to it. The Clinton Conspiracies are just straight up laughable, but unfortunately are very real to some. My family has been affected. I heard the Seth Rich conspiracy from my little brother, who's 16. My step-dad is a full blown tea partier. Our family vacation was definitely....strained, this year.

BiggerBoat posted:

Except I don't know all that much about Trevor Noah either. Now what the gently caress am i supposed to do?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Any given story on NPR is content neutral but their story selection has some left-wing preferences. You're more likely to hear a story about cool immigrant taco trucks on NPR. On the other hand they have some shakey funding and sometimes mount stuff that's farther right than Fox would because it's funded by a private donor.

I'm still salty about that attack on social security disability benefits a few years back.

bird food bathtub posted:

Let's say it's not legal. Say it's hilariously illegal in hideously specific laws that call him out by name and say 'you, personally and specifically can't do exactly, to the letter, what you are doing right now with the force of law'

So what?

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

its not a secret or anything, the Times views itself as the paper of record; the editorial page is supposed to reflect a broad spectrum of views (except those of dirty hippies). It's also not a secret who's driving it; it's privately held by the Sulzbergers.

Bag of Sun Chips posted:

You don't think the college protesters support banning right-leaning people from speaking on campus? Okay then.

Slutitution posted:

I always knew Bernie Sanders was working for Putin to derail Hillary's campaign.

BarbarianElephant posted:

I dunno why you’d want to be on the left wing side if you want to be as awful as the right. Go join the Nazis, you’ll have more fun. And they’ll all agree with you about journalists.

OwlFancier posted:

What makes you think they would push back against that... What incentive is there?

You're looking for a free market solution to the basis of effective democracy: Information provision and assimilation. That's absolutely insane in this day and age when faced with all the evidence you must surely have observed in the recent past. It's the profit seeking motive of all the media outlets that produced your drat president!

Niwrad posted:

I still think he's overplaying the importance of the media here. Trump got coverage because it's what people wanted to see. And as long as the media is a business, they'll continue to operate that way. Nolan of all people should know this since he advanced his career working for a clickbait operation.

Was the media supposed to cover a Jeb Bush rally for the 4 people interested in seeing that? Back in 2008, was the media supposed to give equal coverage to Chris Dodd as they did Barack Obama? You cover what the people want and certain candidates hit a chord with the public. No one cared when Obama's every bowel movement was breaking news during the election.

Trump didn't win because someone turned on the TV and saw him on CNN and decided that's the man they needed to vote for. He won because a large segment of the population are terrible and his message of hating minorities and women was right in their wheelhouse. And instead of tip-toeing around that line, he went full steam ahead into those issues and catered directly toward his base. A bunch of white racists who are losing influence in the world were told by another white racist that he would stop that from happening.

turnip kid posted:

PJOmega posted:

Was the attack perpetuated because the intended victim was a member of a protected class? No.

They shouldn't have broken in but there is no loving way it qualifies as a hate crime.

pookel posted:

wait what?

pookel posted:

OK, it's pretty gross to call him a "concentration camp guard" for that without clarifying that you're not talking about the loving Holocaust.

Not a fan of the IDF either, but this right here is some bullshit.

Iron Crowned posted:

trump has money?

pookel posted:

As a working person, I think it is deeply hosed up that someone like Trump can wield the kind of power and influence he does by scamming people into believing he is a billionaire, even though it is all built on fraud and lies.

Also, considering that he continually points to his "wealth" as a measure of his intelligence & business skills, it seems relevant that it's fraud rather than actual wealth.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

"He's a Jew" and "He's Jewish" would both not raise eyebrows with me (and could mean subtly different things, but that's a long story). "He's a Jewish banker" would raise one eyebrow (because why does it matter that he's a Jewish banker rather than a Christian one or whatnot?), "He's a Jew banker" would have me put up the "yep, antisemitism" flag.

predicto posted:

In some ways it's just basic disrespect. Like the way old racist sportwriters used to refuse to call Muhammad Ali by his name, and instead insisted on continuing to call him Cassius Clay. Denying him his own name is just a chippy little effort at dehumanization.

3 Tablets Daily posted:

If you need further proof of Western superiority just look at how many people are desperately trying to immigrate Western countries while almost nobody (by comparison) is trying to get into African, Middle-Eastern countries, or even the economically booming jewel of the East--China.

HootTheOwl posted:

Podcast on bad books, I Don't Even Own a Television did an episode on an installment of the Rush Revere series.
Remember: His in-house iced tea is called "Two if by Tea". The dude really thinks himself a modern day Paul Revere.

friendbot2000 posted:

I hate you so much for this and I love you too...I am so confused.

BardoTheConsumer posted:

"He went to Harvard and willfully learned nothing"

Twelve by Pies posted:

So the newest right wing conspiracy theory is that Ilhan Omar married her brother for immigration purposes and to cheat on her taxes.

bird food bathtub posted:

Because she's a SCARY SCARY MUSLIM and it's more racist birther poo poo all over again. Stop engaging them with reality like the actual law, fascists don't care.

She's not white, therefore not American. That's it.

Groovelord Neato posted:

this has been the line since she first rose to prominence with making GBS threads on elliott abrams.


i've done this and they just ignore you. it's really cool the president is saying it now!

Angry_Ed posted:

Also the site's just a Mastodon fork apparently

Casimir Radon posted:

You can certainly buy a cheap towel that doesn’t absorb worth a poo poo or falls to pieces the first time you wash it if not sooner. But I don’t trust Mikey to make a better one.