SeanBrently
@SeanBrently@lemm.ee
- Comment on The Biden-Harris Administration Wasted Nearly One Billion on Misinformation ⋆ Brownstone Institute 2 weeks ago:
According to a 2000 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Tucker wrote for publications of the League of the South, a group the SPLC considers neo-Confederate and white supremacist. The SPLC report said Tucker was listed as a founding member on the league’s website
League of the South? Bad guys. These are bad guys and if he’s friends with or even only does business with them he is a bad guy.
- Comment on "I Was Wrong": CNN Panelist Retracts Trump-Cheney "Firing Squad" Propaganda 2 weeks ago:
Can you believe this guy? I never admit when I’m wrong, I just insist I’m right and say several things even more wrong than the first thing, but with confidence and conviction. This inspires respect and admiration from stupid people.
- Comment on National Climate, Polling Points to a Trump Victory 2 weeks ago:
Who is answering these polls though? I suspect it’s a lot of old people who have alienated their kids, and have plenty of time to answer their land lines, desperate to chat with someone about anything.
I could be wrong, but when I get these calls and texts asking me who I’ll vote for or did I know senator Jeff Merkley worships thr devil and wears pink underwear or whatever, I never answer, I delete em and I suspect most other people do too.
- Comment on National Climate, Polling Points to a Trump Victory 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny that many actual leftists are saying they hate Harris because she leans right and if the dems lose, they have only themselves to blame.
- Comment on Oversight Committee Releases Staff Report Finding FTC Chair Khan Abused Authority to Advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s Agenda - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, slaves of the corporate overlords are attacking her because she’s a new Brandeis.
- Comment on The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform 3 weeks ago:
Its funny that people say reddit is such a leftist hell hole, meanwhile more than one lemmy instance has actual leftists who seem to hate Harris so much they’d rather see Trump in the Whitehouse.
I mean not funny haha, but funny weird.
Well, a little bit funny haha.
- Comment on German police say a suspect has turned himself in over deadly festival knife attack 3 weeks ago:
Is PBS an acceptable news source around here?
Anyway it’s interesting that tougher knife laws have been passed in Germany following the attack. This is misguided in my opinion because when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives. How do people not recognize that the only way to stop a bad guy with a knife is with a good guy with a knife?
Thank God Americans have the right to carry our knives to festivals, playgrounds, kindergarten classes, and wherever Americans go, to keep our nation safe and free.
- Comment on Panic Politics: The Press and Pundits Face Devastating Polls on the Threat to Democracy 4 weeks ago:
Wait, is he saying
Yet that horrible day was the vindication, not the expiration, of our constitutional system. The system worked. The riot was put down. Congress, including Republicans, reassembled and certified Biden as the next president.
In the courts, many Trump-appointed judges ruled against challenges to the election.
Our system was put through a Cat 5 stress test
So let’s reward the ones responsible!
Seems like that’s the logic here. Tell the vice president to lie and subvert our system, Cause a riot in which someone is killed, and an estimated 1.5 million dollars of damage to the Capitol building, including literal shit smeared down the halls, people doing jailtime and a whole bunch of frivolous bullshit lawsuits - These are the actions of someone who will defend democracy and ought to be president!
This is one of the dumbest pro-trump arguments I have ever heard.
- Comment on CNN data reporter predicts Trump will win ‘historic’ number of Black and Hispanic voters 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on French Canadian bubble tea makers apologize after losing Dragon’s Den investor over being accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ by Marvel actor Simu Liu 4 weeks ago:
But Liu, who has attained success based on his identity and cultural background, feels that it is his job to gate-keep that Asian culture from anyone in Canadian and American markets who is not Asian themselves or not showing proper enough deference to Asian culture.
Really? Is he gate-keeping Asian culture? What about the fact that the concept of “asian culture” is in itself an ignorant and racist idea because there are many different Asian nations and ethnic groups and cultures.
More to the point: dude on a TV show is asked to give opinions on different business ventures and gives his opinion. Somehow this translates into gate-keeping Asian culture from Canadian and American markets? Bullshit.
That trendy sugary drink that you are never quite sure about it’s contents. Those days are over!
Here’s the issue for most people. The marketing here is that because this trendy drink is made by strsnge foreign ethnic people you don’t know what’s in it! You can’t trust those asian drinks! But those days are over because white people are making it now, and you can trust our simple ingredients. This has nothing to do with gate-keeping, and everything to do with trying to make a profit off racism and xenophobia. This might be perfectly legal in Canada, I don’t know, but trying to generate outrage about people not wanting to participate in that is bullshit.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 5 weeks ago:
Even if that were how it worked, which I don’t accept, it wouldn’t be months, it would be a week or two at most of difficult bathroom time.
The question I want answered is: do half of all the yogurt cups in the grocery store lose all of their culture, or do all of the yogurt cups lose half?
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 5 weeks ago:
I explained it better in my other comment. In the case of Neighbor Lady, I like her and want to maintain a connection with her, even if I don’t have any real intrest in her quilting obsession.
For other people I don’t already know and have a relationship with, it is the practice of developing good affinity with others that is important. The way we treat others is a reflection of the relationship we have with our self. Doesn’t it make sense to be kind and open to my own self? I think it does. It follows for me that I should also be kind and open with others. They are not just objects that move around and do things in my environment. My “self” and other “selves” are all fingers of the same hand, to make a funny metaphor. That’s the other reason.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, I get that, but it seems like for some people, possibly OP included, the socially acceptable thing to do is just an empty ritual, without meaning or purpose. That’s difficult for me to grasp, because it’s not meaningless empty ritual.
And also it’s the either/or aspect of it that I don’t like. When my Neighbor Lady starts talking to me about quilting, I really have no interest in quilting, but Neighbor Lady is important to me, I like her and I want to maintain a relationship with her. I don’t feign intrest in quilting, but because I care about Neighbor Lady i do want to hear what she has to say. So it’s not a binary thing like deep fascination with quilting / just being polite but not actually giving a shit.
I suppose I could have used less words to express that in my first post.
- Comment on California police agencies going green with Teslas complain they’re ‘nearly unusable’ as squad cars 5 weeks ago:
Wait, what’s the takeaway here? I assume conservatives like Elon Musk because he supports the republican guy, but at the same time, electric vehicles are weak, woke and soy-cuck. Also climate change isn’t real anyway, and even if it were, rolling coal in front of them dang ole libtards would be worth it.
And as for the police, do we support them because thin blue line and law and order, or do we mistrust them because ain’t they just a tool of government tyranny? I mean who was it killin God fearing Americans at Ruby Ridge and Waco? It was cops.
I’ve never drove a Tesla but they don’t sound so great based on this and other things I read about em.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 5 weeks ago:
The framing of this question is interesting. “…or are you just being nice?” Seems to assume that being nice is not a legitimate or authentic way of being, maybe unless it is a means of getting something you want.
A psychiatrist once told me “If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that people really do think differently from each other.” I can accept this as true but it really boggles my mind sometimes when I think I have caught a glimpse of someone’s fundamental assumptions that are so different from mine.
I have met a few people who have said things like “I don’t have time for small talk or chitchat, it is meaningless noise to me.” I thought to myself “OK, you’re not getting invited to my bar-b-que then.” Which was probably fine with them. Still, it’s hard for me to imagine having that mindset. Maybe when I was a teen it might have been said of me that I was self-absorbed and didn’t care about anyone else, but I certainly did care, more than I was able to express.
I occasionally encounter people -some way past their teen years- who have no interest in any of the things that I am into, but want to endlessly info-dump to me about My Little Pony or whatever their special interest is. I listen, not because I am particularly interested in My Little Pony, and not because I am “just being nice.” There is another reason, and I don’t think of it as transactional or “playing a social game.”
If there is any point to my rambling it is that I find the either/or thinking of the question reductionist and over simplified. I think this is one of the aspects of autism that makes it a disorder or disability for some people, because the very rigid black and white thinking can create a lot of frustration when reality doesn’t conform to their internal strict rules.
- Comment on Anon gets a pizza 1 month ago:
This got a genuine lol out of me. I’m imagining the patient explanation, “See, the actors can’t hear you…”
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 1 month ago:
Thank you for your service. I confess I did not read the article carefully. I see it is congress that holds a fair bit of responsibility for this situation. It is interesting to note that some of those who voted against extending funding to FEMA represent states that were hard hit by Helene.
- Comment on Joe Biden appears to forget about storm in new gaffe just hours after visiting impacted community 1 month ago:
September 2019
Mentioning states that would likely be impacted by the storm, he incorrectly included Alabama, which by then was known not to be under threat from the storm. Over the following week, the President repeatedly insisted his comment had been correct. On September 4, he showed reporters a weather map which had been altered with a black Sharpie marker to show the hurricane’s track threatening Alabama. He also reportedly ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction of the weather bureau’s comment that the storm was not headed for Alabama.
When asked by reporters how the Sharpie marker ended up on the printed map, Trump said: “I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.”
While I don’t disagree that Biden ought to retire and spend his time doing something else, any reasonable person should realize the other guy is not a better choice.
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 1 month ago:
Nypost says that? FEMA says something different.
- Comment on America Last: After Spending $640 Million On Migrants And Billions Abroad, FEMA Suddenly 'Broke' 1 month ago:
There’s an obvious two part solution to this that will fix everything perfectly: 1. Tax cuts for large corporations s and the wealthiest Americans, and 2. Make sure trans people don’t feel safe in their communities. I dont see how such a plan can fail.
- Comment on Women’s group to sue Secret Service over ‘discriminatory’ DEI quotas 1 month ago:
OK I see. Apparently the DEI hiring process is such that a male applicant with several degrees in administration of justice, a blackbelt in akido and holder of both rifle and pistol expert qualification badges would be passed over in favor of a female applicant whose qualifications include having “been to a laundromat a few times” and “knows all the words to Vanessa Carlton’s 2002 hit single A Thousand Miles”.
Well I’m not in favor of that but in the case where both male and female applicants are equally qualified, it makes more sense to hire the woman because you can pay them less.
- Comment on Women’s group to sue Secret Service over ‘discriminatory’ DEI quotas 1 month ago:
So this women’s group wants the secret service to hire less women because… why? I’m not getting how that fixes anything.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department doesn’t have a DEI hiring policy and uh…seems like that didn’t somehow automatically create competence and professionalism.
- Comment on Arizona Democrats fret about discovery that coud see rigged election 1 month ago:
In 2004, Arizona passed a law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship to vote
Prop 200, the 2004 Arizona law that started all this trouble, was pushed hard by republicans and in particular promoted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a nonprofit, anti-immigration organizationThe Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a nonprofit, anti-immigration organization in the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies FAIR as a HATE GROUP with ties to WHITE SUPREMACIST groups. FAIR was founded in 1979 by Michigan surgeon and white nationalist John Tanton.[13][14][15] …wikipedia.org/…/Federation_for_American_Immigrat…
So the strange story here is that republicans and white nationalists, in an effort to stop nonwhite people from voting, created this situation in which a large number of white republicans are in fact ineligible to vote, and have been voting illegally for years.
Now that democrats have discovered this issue, white nationalist republicans are trying to blame democrats for the problem that white nationalist republicans created.
- Comment on GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm On EU's New "Debilitating" Green Policy On US Firms 1 month ago:
Confronted by compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry, beginning in the 1950s, used sophisticated public relations approaches to undermine and distort the emerging science.
The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public health efforts and regulatory interventions designed to reduce the harms of smoking.
A number of industries have subsequently followed this approach to disrupting normative science. Claims of scientific uncertainty and lack of proof also lead to the assertion of individual responsibility for industrially produced health risks. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/
These climate alarmists are simply trying to disrupt our God-given prosperity and thwart the inevitable triumph of American commerce. Experts at the ExxonMobil Climate Research Institute assure me there is no actual evidence to suggest climate change is even real. So what’s the real reason they are trying to hurt American businesses?
- Comment on UK's National Grid Admits It Doesn't Have A Clue How To Reach Net Zero 1 month ago:
Over time, Zero Hedge expanded into non-financial political content,[b] including conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric[3][24] advancing radical right,[15][25] alt-right,[26][27][28] and pro-Russia positions.[1][29][30][31] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
- Comment on What to do with glassware that is impossible to clean 2 months ago:
Me, I’d put them in general waste. I might wrap them or put them in a sturdy paper bag if I had any, and put that in a plastic bag to contain the evil.