American Politics XI: No Moe Roe(Likely, Anyway)

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

fucking

cruz’s first question is about the 1619 project and If KBJ thinks one of the primary reasons the colonists sought independence was to protect the institution of slavery

What does this have to do with the judicial process?

absolutely nothing

[American Legionaries]

Well you could say none of what Harry Truman or Roosevelt did would be anywhere close to socialism. It’s just capitalism with a fluffy tail.

Yes. And Biden is considerably more right wing than both of them were.
And yet people believe the communism scareword.

Who believes it though?

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Yes. And Biden is considerably more right wing than both of them were.
And yet people believe the communism scareword.

Who believes it though?

the part of the right wing who don’t know what socialism is and support trump and his ideology. you have to remember that most people don’t actually know what socialism is and just picture the USSR. if nobody believed it, they would use different smears.

[American Legionaries]

Who believes it though?

the part of the right wing who don’t know what socialism is and support trump and his ideology. you have to remember that most people don’t actually know what socialism is and just picture the USSR. if nobody believed it, they would use different smears.

Why would they use different smears? An insult doesn't need to be literally correct.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

the part of the right wing who don’t know what socialism is and support trump and his ideology. you have to remember that most people don’t actually know what socialism is and just picture the USSR. if nobody believed it, they would use different smears.

Why would they use different smears? An insult doesn't need to be literally correct.

but it loses a bit of weight when everyone knows it’s nonsensical. I’m sure they could find something more effective to replace it.

[American Legionaries]

Why would they use different smears? An insult doesn't need to be literally correct.

but it loses a bit of weight when everyone knows it’s nonsensical. I’m sure they could find something more effective to replace it.

Few if any words we use insultingly are literally true, and they function as insults well enough.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

but it loses a bit of weight when everyone knows it’s nonsensical. I’m sure they could find something more effective to replace it.

Few if any words we use insultingly are literally true, and they function as insults well enough.

yet we understand what they mean and if we know those meanings don’t apply, they loose strength.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

but it loses a bit of weight when everyone knows it’s nonsensical. I’m sure they could find something more effective to replace it.

Few if any words we use insultingly are literally true, and they function as insults well enough.

If I call you a reindeer when everybody knows that to be false I have made a complete fool of myself.

[American Legionaries]

Few if any words we use insultingly are literally true, and they function as insults well enough.

If I call you a reindeer when everybody knows that to be false I have made a complete fool of myself.

And if I call a bad driver a shithead, nobody freaks out about my ignorance of human anatomy.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

If I call you a reindeer when everybody knows that to be false I have made a complete fool of myself.

And if I call a bad driver a shithead, nobody freaks out about my ignorance of human anatomy.

If he wasn’t bad and everyone knew he was good, then they wouldn’t agree with you.

[American Legionaries]

And if I call a bad driver a shithead, nobody freaks out about my ignorance of human anatomy.

If he wasn’t bad and everyone knew he was good, then they wouldn’t agree with you.

Rather they agree is irrelevant.

[Skelly Man Dan]

If I call you a reindeer when everybody knows that to be false I have made a complete fool of myself.

And if I call a bad driver a shithead, nobody freaks out about my ignorance of human anatomy.

Because shithead has no other use. There's no situation that I was call someone an asshole that'd imply I was literally designating an entire person as an anatomical part.

"Communist", however, has a role that could be used in the same situation. I'd be like me calling everyone a monarchist and then getting annoyed when everyone refuses to dump a definition just to meet my own (supposed) purpose for the word.

[The Jamesian Republic]

Well you could say none of what Harry Truman or Roosevelt did would be anywhere close to socialism. It’s just capitalism with a fluffy tail.

I'll make sure to tell the millions of people who were lifted out of poverty because of the New Deal that their livelihoods amount to a fluffy tail.

I know that the New Deal helped millions of people. It’s just not socialism that helped them. It was the government addressing issues instead of either downplaying it or just naively thinking it just will go away or get better just like that.

[Hamidiye]

America has a rising tide of people who are so stupid they should not be allowed to vote. I mean, people who believe in QAnon should be in a mental asylum.

It's not stupidity, it's decades of coordinated manipulation starting during the Cold War by corporate media to prevent critical thinking and is aimed primarily at the largest demographic in America: the working class. This is by design meant to prevent a worker revolution so as to ensure the security of the assets of capitalists by turning those to whom socialist ideals would most appeal to (the proletariat and the peasantry) against those very ideals by creating misinformation of those ideals and what they represent as well as creating an environment which promotes pursuit of success at the expense of others that banks on the inherent selfish ideology of an individualist society. The idea is to prevent class consciousness by keeping the only people with the power to change anything from realizing that the system doesn't work for them and never did, thus ensuring they will never rise up against their oppressors and the status quo will be maintained until the inevitable point in which late stage capitalism collapses from it's own decrepit nature and the corporate bandits flee the country en masse to other capitalist countries so they can pick up where they left off: exploiting the workers for personal profit. America, meanwhile, will crumble and the poor--as always--will be the ones who suffer.

But...really, how far gone would your reasoning skills have to be to believe in something that absurd? The general lack of class-consciousness is a whole other kettle, but this? Lizardmen? LIZARDMEN? This is... I'd have people like this certified insane, unable to make basic rational decisions. This is way beyond capitalism vs socialism, beyond workers rights and even creationism, it's so utterly absurd. It's a bona fide paranoid delusion, it is just bloody insane. I bet Trump, even as stupidly insane as he is, is laughing is ass off on qanons calling him and Kim Jong Un heroes fighting against the deep state and the lizardmen, it's on a whole other level to the usual absurd insanity that is US politics from a european perspective.

We germans are biased. We like our politicians businesslike and bland, to the point that colourlessness and absence of charisma are selling points, as our current chancellor exemplifies- Personally I saw some videos of that british fellow, the "Order, order!"-dude, and was horrified: politics as a circus. I realize my perspective might not be universal of course, but that whole Q-nonsense? This is 3 steps beyond creationism and candidates challenging each other on who's the most christian, it's just too absurd to contemplate.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

If you told me five years ago that five years from now a significant portion of the US population would trust an unknown user on an obscure internet forum more than the president of the US, I would think you were crazy. I would also wonder how you got in my house, but still

[Prima Scriptura]

Who believes it though?

the part of the right wing who don’t know what socialism is and support trump and his ideology. you have to remember that most people don’t actually know what socialism is and just picture the USSR. if nobody believed it, they would use different smears.

You can like certain socialist-like polices, like a comprehensive and efficient welfare state, and oppose Communism simultaneously.

[The Alma Mater]

It's not stupidity, it's decades of coordinated manipulation starting during the Cold War by corporate media to prevent critical thinking and is aimed primarily at the largest demographic in America: the working class. This is by design meant to prevent a worker revolution so as to ensure the security of the assets of capitalists by turning those to whom socialist ideals would most appeal to (the proletariat and the peasantry) against those very ideals by creating misinformation of those ideals and what they represent as well as creating an environment which promotes pursuit of success at the expense of others that banks on the inherent selfish ideology of an individualist society. The idea is to prevent class consciousness by keeping the only people with the power to change anything from realizing that the system doesn't work for them and never did, thus ensuring they will never rise up against their oppressors and the status quo will be maintained until the inevitable point in which late stage capitalism collapses from it's own decrepit nature and the corporate bandits flee the country en masse to other capitalist countries so they can pick up where they left off: exploiting the workers for personal profit. America, meanwhile, will crumble and the poor--as always--will be the ones who suffer.

But...really, how far gone would your reasoning skills have to be to believe in something that absurd? The general lack of class-consciousness is a whole other kettle, but this? Lizardmen? LIZARDMEN? This is... I'd have people like this certified insane, unable to make basic rational decisions. This is way beyond capitalism vs socialism, beyond workers rights and even creationism, it's so utterly absurd. It's a bona fide paranoid delusion, it is just bloody insane. I bet Trump, even as stupidly insane as he is, is laughing is ass off on qanons calling him and Kim Jong Un heroes fighting against the deep state and the lizardmen, it's on a whole other level to the usual absurd insanity that is US politics from a european perspective.

We germans are biased. We like our politicians businesslike and bland, to the point that colourlessness and absence of charisma are selling points, as our current chancellor exemplifies- Personally I saw some videos of that british fellow, the "Order, order!"-dude, and was horrified: politics as a circus. I realize my perspective might not be universal of course, but that whole Q-nonsense? This is 3 steps beyond creationism and candidates challenging each other on who's the most christian, it's just too absurd to contemplate.

Small nitpick - you realise that the whole lizardman thing started in Britain, not the USA ?
Though the USA truly ran with it.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

the part of the right wing who don’t know what socialism is and support trump and his ideology. you have to remember that most people don’t actually know what socialism is and just picture the USSR. if nobody believed it, they would use different smears.

You can like certain socialist-like polices, like a comprehensive and efficient welfare state, and oppose Communism simultaneously.

social democracy is not socialist. also, this isn’t super relavent.

[Hamidiye]

But...really, how far gone would your reasoning skills have to be to believe in something that absurd? The general lack of class-consciousness is a whole other kettle, but this? Lizardmen? LIZARDMEN? This is... I'd have people like this certified insane, unable to make basic rational decisions. This is way beyond capitalism vs socialism, beyond workers rights and even creationism, it's so utterly absurd. It's a bona fide paranoid delusion, it is just bloody insane. I bet Trump, even as stupidly insane as he is, is laughing is ass off on qanons calling him and Kim Jong Un heroes fighting against the deep state and the lizardmen, it's on a whole other level to the usual absurd insanity that is US politics from a european perspective.

We germans are biased. We like our politicians businesslike and bland, to the point that colourlessness and absence of charisma are selling points, as our current chancellor exemplifies- Personally I saw some videos of that british fellow, the "Order, order!"-dude, and was horrified: politics as a circus. I realize my perspective might not be universal of course, but that whole Q-nonsense? This is 3 steps beyond creationism and candidates challenging each other on who's the most christian, it's just too absurd to contemplate.

Small nitpick - you realise that the whole lizardman thing started in Britain, not the USA ?
Though the USA truly ran with it.

No, I don't. Don't know how a Nazi-ufo is powered either... it was just the most absurd Q-fact I could remember.

[American Legionaries]

If you told me five years ago that five years from now a significant portion of the US population would trust an unknown user on an obscure internet forum more than the president of the US, I would think you were crazy. I would also wonder how you got in my house, but still

What if I told you five years ago that five years prior a significant portion of the US population would trust an unknown user on an obscure internet forum more than the president?

[Hamidiye]

If you told me five years ago that five years from now a significant portion of the US population would trust an unknown user on an obscure internet forum more than the president of the US, I would think you were crazy. I would also wonder how you got in my house, but still

What if I told you five years ago that five years prior a significant portion of the US population would trust an unknown user on an obscure internet forum more than the president?

...or that an armed mod would try to storm your parliament.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Small nitpick - you realise that the whole lizardman thing started in Britain, not the USA ?
Though the USA truly ran with it.

No, I don't. Don't know how a Nazi-ufo is powered either... it was just the most absurd Q-fact I could remember.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anderson ... e2f5bfb487

[Hamidiye]

No, I don't. Don't know how a Nazi-ufo is powered either... it was just the most absurd Q-fact I could remember.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anderson ... e2f5bfb487

or in short:

[Prima Scriptura]

No, I don't. Don't know how a Nazi-ufo is powered either... it was just the most absurd Q-fact I could remember.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anderson ... e2f5bfb487

I member reading that Qanon followers claiming have seen a video of Hillary Clinton cutting of a infants face and then wearing it as a mask. These folks need significant mental health support

[American Legionaries]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anderson ... e2f5bfb487

or in short:

Beavis and Butt-Head were never as dumb as q-anon people.