#StillWithHer #DealWithIt Quaff, oh QUAFF this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore I shall be on twitter nevermore
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I’m ‘opposed’ to it b/c the idea that the governor of California ‘hasn’t had conversations with LGBT people’ is so fucking stupid I can’t tell if you are a human child, chatGPT, or a troll who is paid for every American he can encourage to abstain from voting. What planet are you operating from?
‘How many podcasts do you have to do before I consider you the same as a maga republican? 4.’
Option 1: trumpism Option 2: he did podcasts with right wingers Guys I almost can’t even tell the difference, also please listen to my political takes cause they are oh so thoughtful
“In an interview he said something that was pro-trans but capitulated enough as to not be able to be taken totally out of context by Fox News, ergo he’s a literal nazi”
Cause it’s the only factoid this person knows, so low and behold, it’s the only factoid on the entire topic that matters.
you're allowed to say 'no more white men as candidates' i feel like bernie 'identity politics is bad because my identities don't line up with what's in vogue' sanders ruined leftists ability to recognize diversity in politics is the same fucking thing as it is in target's HR dept
'my entire identity is X, and yet my understanding of X is limited to what i saw on social media last week. why doesn't the DNC take my opinion on how to win a presidential election more seriously!!' i don't love newsom but ffs i don't have to make stuff up in order to not want another white dude
it is really weird how people who are supposedly so attuned to politics and to LGBT issues have a 30 second understanding of someone's career based entirely on a second hand account of what he said in a single interview. it's hard to believe these folks are not foreign actors or trolls
'i read social media posts all day long that say the dems are running centrists, therefore any factoid i read is thru this lens. it's called political analysis' would be funny if it didn't bring us trump not once but twice. fucking twice.
'they are lesser than my imagination' yeah we get that. but this is the real world & trump is president for the 2nd time, w/ congressional majorities and a right wing supreme court. i don't love newsom either, but if your first thought right now is 'damn the dems' you are why trump has a majority
'the lesser of two evils' is one of the stupidest framings imaginable to apply to a 2 party democratic system. stop using memes to understand how the real world works.
if you wanna help elect another round of republicans because newsom didn't use the right language to talk about this issue, cool story. just admit it though, stop acting like you're helping republicans win out of some moral obligation to progressivism you poser
'i've been calling for someone as popular as obama to run again but it just won't happen' lmao. seriously, this sounds like it was written by a 16 year old. i'm sorry that no celebrity politician has emerged to entertain you the way you feel entitled to but grow the fuck up, cause trumpism is here
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If you have 100k and wanna buy Clarence Thomas an RV
...the supreme court being bias towards trump was one of the biggest 2024 presidential campaign themes, my dude. you feigning anger at jefferies because you haven't seen him give enough interviews about court cases that please you makes me think you might be a north korean tween...
it's funny cause it's true...
the global financial and industrial world doesn't change quite as fast as the political one, but it sure looks like the ice is melting
i don't get what any of that has to do with 'but alas we only have the dems', especially if your point that other judges are getting annoyed with him. just random cynicism for some fun?
'the system is rigged against the white men that i like'
'he is exciting, and as someone who conflates being entertained with political progress, him being exciting to me means he'll win, for i am engaging in political analysis'
'this story that validates my emotional bias is evidence to me that my emotional biases feel Objectively Correct'
'if this factoid doesn't validate my emotional bias it's evidence that i am correct and others are wrong' - every 16 year old boy i've ever met
'can't distribute condoms because that will encourage sex; also can't allow kids to watch porn because that will discourage sex' sounds about right for republican ideological consistency to me
i still think decent regulations and high taxes are a better solution than murdering rich people cause of vibes
exact same strategy got us W Bush, got us Trump 1, and then got us Trump 2. i bet we can get someone even worse if we try one more time
'akshully he didn't vote in congress therefore your point that he's not anti-GLBT is invalid' north korean tween, that's my guess
he gave an interview where he phrased something poorly, and now all of 'pay attention to me or i'll destory the planet' twitter is convinced he's a nazi i can't tell who is real and stupid and who is a north korean boy pretending to be a real and stupid american anymore...
the idea that newsom would 'do harm' to LGBT people in the context of trump as president and another republican winning is twisted. the idea that he'd 'do harm' to LGBT people because you heard him say something about trans medical practice is pretty stupid too, while we're at it
what's the tl;dr??
the start of the collapse. the whole thing will take years, if not decades
with self driving capabilities that are notorious for not working i fear driving near these things with my kids
'did you remember to put the car in 'it might get wet' mode'?
everything i read about tesla makes me want to short it more
'first bernie sanders' my ass without sanders' lifetime of feeding cynicism to kids to get them to stay home and punish democrats, RFK would still be driving around nantucket in his carcass mobile
i do not find the hanged man. fear death by water. i see crowds of people walking round in a ring.
turns out that line was in the original constitution
'you see the akshual problem with justice kavanaugh is democrats not entertaining me with a performance of anger' - an actual voter, presumably?
'but i am objectively correct, therefore my opinion is the one that counts'
'republicans in 2025 shocked to find out trump is a bad person. more at 11'
every time he opens his mouth i short more tesla stock
You only see ‘glom’ with ‘onto.’ If you see ‘fro,’ there’s probably a ‘to’ before it. If you’re ‘wreaking,’ 99% of the time it’s ‘havoc.’ If you want to ‘ebb,’ you will probably ‘flow’ immediately after. You only see ‘lop’ with ‘off.’ You only see ‘beck,’ with ‘and call.’
Military flyover in the middle of the survivor’s news conference is shades of Trump stalking Hillary at the debate, standing directly behind her and glaring at her. Trying to exert dominance in a menacing way. Another example of his sick behavior patterns towards women.
honest to god i can't follow what you're even talking about. my point is that gun control is a good thing and the 'poor people need access to guns' argument is silly. take care
not interested in arguing about what my politics might look like in a hypothetical militarization of america, but i can't imagine under any circumstance i'd be pro-gun...unless maybe if your imagination takes us back to the 18th century
i dunno man, i hope the crystal ball you are using to predict this is wrong but maybe we get gun control via republican martial law... guess we'll see
...this is not how logic works, my dude.
i'll take that bet. come back in 3 years and pay up. the NRA has a multi-decade history of fighting any gun legislation of any kind.
A society with less guns is better off. Saying ‘we shouldn’t have less guns because it’s unfair to poor people’ doesn’t make sense to me. We tax cigarettes to reduce consumption, is that unfair to poor people too?
Decreasing access to guns is a positive - statistically guns do not make people safer. There’s no class argument to be made here.
We spent the last 100 years regulating cars so that they are like 500x safer than they were in the 1920s. Absolutely let’s do the same for guns
the three different types of takes my algo sends me
you're never gonna convince this 17 year old dude that the way he feels isn't the sum total of all knowledge that's ever existed in the universe
'probably true, and even though it undermines the entire point i just made, it's immaterial to how i feel' it's the exact same take on every single topic
'this is inconsistent with the memes i've seen, so therefore you're wrong'
i also think that as infant mortality rates decrease the need to have more offspring goes down, and you can make more rational choices about doing it later in life, having fewer, doing it under the right conditions, etc.
simulacra and simulation...
this meme account is right, i'm never letting you back into my life mitch
republicans were the ones that did this, btw. they've been doing it behind the scenes for 50 years thru court battles and very carefully won legislative races. they have a multi decade strategy to keep you mad at democrats for not having health insurance
muting this thread b/c we reached the point of 'i'll take any contrary position to prove i'm edgy' peek online 4chanism
at least you're honest. god i fear the future of this plant.
i said memes aren't politics, and the honest to god response is 'i prefer that to being told i have to vote' this, folks, is why china's most valuable company isn't publicly traded. china would rather trade a trillion dollars for the exact right memes to dupe idiot american consumers
omg i loooove eggplant parm
lol it was around 2.4, but nobody cares about your GPA after you graduate high school fitting analogy i guess for this whole high school lunchroom thread i guess
'i'm like rllly vapid, but it's like in a progressive way so it's so cool. it's honestly edgy af' is like 80% of what leftist online twitter has become
if you think being in a thread under a take like this isn't the mental equivalent of 'taking a walk' the way you meant it, lmao we used to teach logic and rhetoric in public schools. republicans stripped it out. the result is this 👇
'he says what i like and therefore he's correct and i'm correct and everyone else is morally inferior, just like maga says about trump, but with a different marginal tax rate' typing that out, i honestly see why they think he'd have won the presidency 🫣
'they aren't critical thinkers like me. they probably think blog posts aren't the best framing to understand how politics works in 2025, but i do cause i'm not on script like they are' i have 50 bucks says this is a fake account.
hey guys, here's my evidence. it's a blog post from joewrote dot com. he gives his opinion, which validates mine, therefore it's evidence. 👍 thank you sir. appreciate the schooling i just received
baudrillard said in the 80s that americans were gonna get so confused watching tv that they'd start to think television was reality. fast forward to 2025 when memes are political identities and look who are president is. the boomer's tv star.
not real 50s factory worker style progressivism like they pretend, cause that economy hasn't existed in a couple of decades. now it's consumer progressivism. the 'lol boomer bumpersticker' is how you know i'm communist.
my feed is 50% news articles by serious journalists documenting all these ways democrats are desperately trying to save these fucking idiots from themselves and 50% a bunch of meme accounts saying lol boomer everyone's corrupt. that is what trumpism in america looks like, it's a progressive mvmt
yup. any number of republicans could have ended trumpism at various points all along this path. they all, each and every fucking one of them, looked the other way. a few later on were like hey wait a minute, and then got pushed off the moving train lol. spineless.
well...i'm not expert enough in this area to say most, but yeah consumerism is, at its heart, just a different form of propaganda, so you could be right
Yeah, like I said. In the back of the classroom posting memes and listening for a buzz word that you can catch onto to perform anger about. Take care, and remember if your mom calls the deans office to complain that you got a bad grade, we all make fun of you.
‘She lost therefore she’s bad’ is how memes work, not election analysis. She lost bc of about a thousand structural reasons including a global rise in social media driven populism and a media that blamed the inflation narrative on democrats rather than on who started it.
You’re doing that thing again. It would be great if there were some character who emerged that everyone on the left loved, but that’s not how reality works living in a system where Fox News controls 90% of the public narrative.
Fascism won in 2016 by 70k votes out of 135m cast (.005%) A literal handful of people could have stopped this at each injunction point.
The media megaphone normalizes voter suppression thru flooding the zone with shit, misdirecting anger at the wrong people, and selling cynicism. ‘Both sides!’ Is a Fox News marketing strategy, not political analysis.
They win elections with ~33% of the vote by a combination of gerrymandering, outright cheating, voter suppression, fear mongering, and most of all, amplifying their message with a coordinated, trillion dollar media megaphone.
I don’t care if it ‘hits hard’ - your comment that the party is the root of your dissatisfaction - makes you sound like a freshman, whereas I teach in this area. If you want to engage around politics, cool. Try using your words. Otherwise go try and troll someone more your speed.
Surprised you didn’t respond with a.jpeg tbh Anyway rote cynicism helps republicans win elections. When you get to sophomore year you’ll start being assigned articles about them. I hope you read them instead of sitting in the back of the room posting memes about how you think your communism.
You used a ghost writer to copy and paste a line about disliking both sides? Consumerism isn’t democracy. Conflate the two and destroy both.
‘Akshully my political research based on 3 years being allowed on the internet showed me that stupidity isn’t important when it’s done by voters, the only thing that matters is ‘the party’’ I look forward to reading your white paper
They also pilfered trillion dollars from the federal government, which sent asset prices and costs skyrocketing, which they then blamed on government services
The rage is the product that Fox News is selling. It’s a big money maker
Fox News sells ‘Dems bad’ as a product. They sell reverse mortgages, gold repurchases, heart care meds, and Dems bad.
I have a self identified ‘independent’ friend who has this exact take. I used it to remind him for the 10000th time that his ‘independent’ takes are really just repackaged memes from Fox News that have been softened enough not to sound insane to someone not already immersed in their meme world.
Voters are fed a constant stream of either disinformation or banal consumerism. I obviously wish people took their responsibility more seriously but the medias literal business model is one of passive consumption, something that’s dangerous for, if not antithetical to, democracy
The CEOs of almost every news org are on record bragging about how trump increased their bottom lines. Thinking that there are no incentives to normalizing him, or not understanding what normalizing him looks like, is fucking embarrassing for someone who works in the industry.
I’m just here for the beginnings of what will be an epic ratio
Yet another reminder that the people who work in media have absolutely no idea how media works.
‘Trump may be bad for the country, but he’s sure good for business’ - Jeff Zucker
Irony has been dead for decades - now it’s elusive, twisting of meaning
Are Republican writers really THIS desperate for something to write about in the year of our lord 2025? Surely John could have found something else to have a stupid opinion about. Culture and heritage from a LOGO? For a chain restaurant? What in the corporate America? 🙄
For the exact reason you’d expect - the Wall Street journal staff wants tax cuts
Whatever I’d eat the whole bag and have a great night
30 cases of voter fraud annually, and the GOP passes 104 voter suppression laws. 47,000 gun deaths a year, and the GOP does absolutely NOTHING.