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For all those confused, it's to make younger women into brood mares, and framing this as a "call", when it was one tweet from some deranged jerkoff, is disingenuous clickbait
I hate the frequent use of "call(s)" in journalism to paint this dishonest picture that there is a large group or important figures actively motioning to do shit, when it's almost always just as you've said here. One or two inconsequential dicks with a stupid opinion.
Welcome to most modern journalism! Remember when every news org started spending time going to Twitter to get the general population's reactions (instead of actually interviewing real people and figuring out how actually widespread a viewpoint is)? It's been downhill from there.
Combined with most people only reading headlines, news organizations almost never providing context for most actual facts, and wealth concentration like we've never seen, the current state of news media is pretty dire.
You can get people to assume almost any cynical worldview you want when you can chip away at their belief in humanity by repeatedly showing only the worst examples of it. This is what conservative news media has been so good at - getting them to believe a specific image of "liberal" and allowing that image to represent ALL liberals instead of just the most extreme side. Honestly, it feels like most people on the left are similarly starting to use dehumanizing language to describe conservatives. All this leads to people avoiding communication because they assume that everyone on "the other side" believes insane nonsense. Sometimes they do. A lot of times, they don't.
You're not wrong. I tend to think the worst of people when I learn they're conservative. I find it difficult to rationalize how they can observe the actions and behavior of conservative leadership and actually cheer them on. But, like my own mother has proven to me, many of them are just ignorant victims of propoganda who are oblivious to the whole picture.
I came in here ready to ask why someone's hot take gets to be legislation while my carefully thought out stuff is just thrown in the garbage. Turns out nobody's hot take is going anywhere.
But they even used the name "Conservative Party" so we can mentally connect this insanity to our own local conservatives in between bong hits, comfortably assured of our biases.
...there's a lot to unpack here
I have this guy tagged as "Religious Fruitcake", of the "Masturbation is evil" and "god put women here to serve man" types
You know, normally I just block trolls and idiots, but tagging them descriptively definitely sounds more interesting...
It's much better imo. I don't really block at all but I like to tag people so I know in the future when they come up to hold their comment with less weight
Do you know if we can tag using mobile apps, or is it using desktop only? I’m not seeing the option in my app (voyager), but that doesn’t mean that others won’t, obviously.
Boost for android has it.
Looks like Voyager just added it - we spoke it into existence!
I really need to check out if voyager has any plans for it because I'd use the hell out of it.
E: HOLY SHIT, literally an hour ago an update dropped with this implemented. What a timing. Also it supposedly needs some work BUT it is there! :D
Right!!!! I just saw, too!
I don’t believe Voyager has it yet but it’s coming soon, IIRC.
Oh, no, ours are much worse.
It's pretty easy to see that "conservatives" the entire world over are just absolutely evil human waste. Their actions prove that.
Probably should be noted that this is a tiny party in Japan....and also the dominant Liberal Democratic Party is not really what Americans would think of as liberal. It is a very conservative country.
So even further from what the rest of us might see as liberal?
Listen to how you talk. How are you not the bad guy here?
Man that's convenient.