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- Comment on Trump Adviser Collapses On Stage At New York Young Republican Gala 6 days ago:
I love that you think tone policing is the play here.
Just hilarious. Never change.
- Comment on Trump wins 15 million 6 days ago:
You can always tell when Neuromancer is trying to cover up for something stupid he said because he removes comments that show how vapid and irredeemable fascists are.
It makes him uncomfortable.
- Comment on Trump wins 15 million 6 days ago:
They don’t care about truth, they care about power. Pissing you off is the goal.
He knows he’s lying, fascists get off on not being bound by truth.
- Comment on San Diego Sheriff 'Will Not' Comply With New 'Super Sanctuary' Protections For Illegals 1 week ago:
Reactionaries pretending to be anarchists is so funny. It’s cargo cult political philosophy: they have no idea what it means, they just like the aesthetic.
It’s like them pretending to want to overturn the status quo while simping for billionaires and cops. It’s obvious to anyone that they just want to share in established power while oppressing anyone who doesn’t do the same.
Watch the replies now: ‘and yet you live in a society! How curious.’
Just empty talking points handed to them by people who want them to shut down their critical thinking with thought-terminating cliches and disgust for the people they hate.
- Comment on Lt. Gov. Patrick vows to ban all THC in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense, conservatives pretend to hate the “nanny state,” but they LOVE telling other people what to do.
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 2 weeks ago:
IDGAF about your fascist apologetics.
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 2 weeks ago:
In Nazi Germany, transgender people were prosecuted, barred from public life, forcibly detransitioned, and imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. Though some factors, such as whether they were considered “Aryan”, heterosexual with regard to their birth sex, or capable of useful work had the potential to mitigate their circumstances, transgender people were largely stripped of legal status by the Nazi state.
The GOP court will be following reactionary tradition.
This is what Make America Great Again means: persecution of the people they hate.
- Comment on Judge sentences Ohio woman who "embarrassed this nation" by eating cat 2 weeks ago:
No, you see they were right to spread racist rumors about Hatian immigrants because this unaffiliated black lady may have some something similar to the allegations.
Now watch the usual Very Smart People demand an explanation about how those rumors were racist. Like the guy who demanded that Obama was born in Africa despite all evidence to the contrary could never spread racist rumors…
This rage-bait “article” makes it even worse, but OP will insist otherwise because he thinks “I’m not a racist, so I don’t do racist things.” They’ll say “Democrats think everything is racist,” without even a thought to whether the accusation is valid or not, because they’ve accepted the tautology as inherently true.
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘Not a Thing That Comes to Mind’: Harris Says She Wouldn’t Do Anything Differently from Biden over Past Four Years | National Review 2 months ago:
You do realize that the Onion is joking about something he actually, verifiably said?
Because he’s so shitty that even a parody of reactionary talking points can’t match the reality of how racist and vile they are?
So you’re the one who “ate the onion.” As usual, you’ve got it exactly backwards in the most hilarious way possible. God damn it’s funny how reactionaries always post a source that contradicts what they believe. Also, apparently satire has to be spelled out like a Ben Garrison cartoon for it to pierce the thick protective layer around their brains.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 2 months ago:
You need to start the pan hotter. They only stick for me if I cook them without preheating the pan.
- Comment on NTEU (The IRS Union) Endorses Harris for President 2 months ago:
That’s what they were all there for.
To cause havoc and disrupt the vote count to keep Diaper Don in office.
He went to prison for it. You can pretend otherwise, but the only people who play along are other reactionaries who are allied with this guy but are embarrassed that he took the mask off.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 2 months ago:
I started playing Satisfactory with a friend a couple weeks ago.
I realized yesterday that it’s basically my job if it was fun.
- Comment on NTEU (The IRS Union) Endorses Harris for President 2 months ago:
It’s so cute when conservatives think we’re all as gullible as they are.
- Comment on NTEU (The IRS Union) Endorses Harris for President 2 months ago:
Let’s take a look at the people who endorse Trump:
- Comment on NTEU (The IRS Union) Endorses Harris for President 2 months ago:
Let’s take a look at the people who endorse Trump:
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 2 months ago:
Reactionaries are anti-intillectuals.
They think their assumptions and propaganda drip-feed are as good as your expertise.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 2 months ago:
- Comment on MUST WATCH: Kamala's Disqualifying Comment About Going Into Homes to Check Guns 2 months ago:
Kind of makes you wonder why everyone on his golf course isn’t open carrying since it’ll make the whole situation safer? They should issue one at the front if you’re not strapped.
When have more guns ever been a bad thing?
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 3 months ago:
So you’re saying that Lincoln was wrong when he said slavers identified as Conservatives?
Wow, we’re so lucky to have such an intellectual giant on Lemmy!
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 3 months ago:
He also used other pronouns.
He’s pointing out that conservatism as an ideology is only about preserving ones status in relation to others by systematic oppression.
It’s pretty rich for you to act like you’re correcting me when you’re wrong in your face.
But, like Lincoln’s speech shows, conservatism lies about what it really is: reactionary bullshit. Hey, just like you’re doing now!
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 3 months ago:
Conservatives did not consider Lincoln a conservative. They considered a revolutionary. You’re lying.
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by “our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;” while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the “gur-reat pur-rinciple” that “if one man would enslave another, no third man should object,” fantastically called “Popular Sovereignty;” but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of “our fathers who framed the Government under which we live.” Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge or destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations.
Again, you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was. We deny it. We admit that it is more prominent, but we deny that we made it so. It was not we, but you, who discarded the old policy of the fathers. We resisted, and still resist, your innovation; and thence comes the greater prominence of the question. Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions? Go back to that old policy. What has been will be again, under the same conditions. If you would have the peace of the old times, readopt the precepts and policy of the old times.
You charge that we stir up insurrections among your slaves. We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper’s Ferry! John Brown!! John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper’s Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact. If you do not know it, you are inexcusable for asserting it, and especially for persisting in the assertion after you have tried and failed to make the proof. You need to be told that persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander.
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 3 months ago:
We’ve been over this, remember?
Abraham Lincoln himself said the slavers called themselves Conservatives. You want to pretend like the great realignment didn’t happen, because facts are inconvenient to the narrative you find useful.
I know reactionaries are anti-intillectuals, but the reading assignment was pretty short.
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 3 months ago:
They also thought slaves should count as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes.
So maybe we shouldn’t hold up their anti-democratic streak as an ideal.
But reactionaries are gonna reactionary.
- Comment on 'Maybe We Took A Wrong Turn Somewhere,' Thinks Party Whose Candidate Just Got Endorsed By Dick Cheney And Vladimir Putin 3 months ago:
And Donald Trump endored Putin.
Anyone who thinks Putin would prefer Harris over his cockpuppet is either lying or a useful idiot.
- Comment on Shock & Awe Dick Slithers Out Of His Neocon Lair To Endorse Kamala Over 'Depraved' Trump 3 months ago:
Same as it always was for reactionaries:
Far from yielding a knee-jerk defense of an unchanging old regime or a thoughtful traditionalism, the reactionary imperative presses conservatism in two rather different directions: first, to a critique and reconfiguration of the old regime; and second, to an absorption of the ideas and tactics of the very revolution or reform it opposes. What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses. A new old regime, one could say, which brings the energy and dynamism of the street to the antique inequalities of a dilapidated estate. Over the last two decades, various writers and journalists have claimed that conservatism went into decline when Trump, or Palin, or Bush, or Reagan, or Goldwater, or Buckley, or someone took it off the rails. Originally, the argument goes, conservatism was a responsible discipline of the governing classes, but somewhere between Joseph de Maistre and Joe the Plumber, it got carried away with itself. It became adventurous, fanatical, populist, ideological. What this story of decline overlooks—whether it emanates from the right or the left—is that all of these supposed vices of contemporary conservatism were present at the beginning, in the writings of Burke and Maistre, only they weren’t viewed as vices. They were seen as virtues. Conservatism has always been a wilder and more extravagant movement than many realize—and it is precisely this wildness and extravagance that has been one of the sources of its continuing appeal.
Corey Robin- The Reactionary Mind
- Comment on Putin claims support for Kamala Harris, jokes about "infectious laugh" 3 months ago:
Imagine simping for Vladimir Fucking Putin.
- Comment on Why Kamala Harris Will Not Bring Prices Down. Her Plan Needs Inflation | dlacalle.com 3 months ago:
The police don’t pick someone up without a reason.
Back the blue! 💙
- Comment on Why Kamala Harris Will Not Bring Prices Down. Her Plan Needs Inflation | dlacalle.com 3 months ago:
Oh, I see.
Why do you go to them? The scenery?
- Comment on Why Kamala Harris Will Not Bring Prices Down. Her Plan Needs Inflation | dlacalle.com 3 months ago:
Trump’s Dad was arrested at a KKK march.
As long as we’re comparing.
