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[–] [email protected] 182 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You can tell calling them weird is getting under their skin with them attempting to label everything as weird, their hope is to dilute it.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's how they deal with everything. After Jan 6, everything was an insurrection. After the GOP pedos are labeled as groomers, everyone's a groomer. After they get called weird, everything is weird.

It's rule #1 in the conservative playbook.

[–] kautau 43 points 2 months ago

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s how they co-opted “fake news.”

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why I think using a word that isn't as strong like "weird" is so good, it's more effective against this tactic.

Democrats have slowed the flow of dishing out "weird", at the DNC they basically reserved that word just for Tim Walz and maybe one or two other speakers. However, Republicans keep calling themselves out as weird when trying to label totally normal things as that. They effectively are keeping that representation alive to their own detriment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"Republican is confused! It hurt itself in its confusion!"

[–] ChocoboRocket 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which is perfect, because they are weird and don't actually understand what normal people think is weird.

So now they are weird and desperate, desperately claiming everything is weird - except it's only weird to them, which confirms that they are weird, which makes them even more desperate to not be perceived as weird, and continues to push them into even weirder territory.

A normal response to being called weird when doing something relatively normal is generally indifference/acceptance - but aggressively pushing back (their only play) simply confirms the accusation has merits.

Drown these weirdos in their weird behaviour, weird understanding of relationships, and their weird perception of the world.

The party of "Us VS Them" is slipping into "them" territory because the "Us" group will never own that label, and there is nothing they can do about it, because it's objectively true.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Labeling this weird is the weirdest fucking thing I can think of right now.

I kind of feel bad for them... They likely have zero idea what a healthy relationship looks like. They see innocent expressions of love, and they think "that's not right".

Coulter probably watched "The Green Mile" and cheered when John Coffey was executed.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon 15 points 2 months ago

It is totally hitting them where they live, because that's what conservatives are, weird.

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[–] BrokenGlepnir 102 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I guess it's weird for a son to live his father.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 91 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's clear that since conservatives don't have children that love them because they treat them like garbage,they are completely unfamiliar with a positive emotion towards a parent and thus think it's a communist plot.

[–] cybervseas 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My mom said the same thing. Now, in my adult life, I still have all my original Pokemon cards and game cartridges, but I don't talk to that cunt any more.

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[–] Diplomjodler3 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For "conservatives" it definitely is. They only know hate and resentment.

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[–] FlyingSquid 88 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I honestly had no idea he had a disability until he started being bullied for it. When I first saw the photo, I thought it was a natural human reaction. If my dad was accepting the VP nomination, I probably wouldn’t be able to stop crying either.

These weirdos don’t understand what being human is.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My dad won a local town council seat and I got a little choked up with pride. It's a totally normal reaction for people who love their parents.

[–] FlyingSquid 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, these are the same people who used to idolize this guy:

Dude cried every other show.

[–] BigBenis 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] BonesOfTheMoon 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree. They're so weird, conservatives. Like that's what you have to complain about, a kid getting emotional?

[–] xantoxis 17 points 2 months ago

Getting emotional about literally his own father? Meanwhile you can take photos like this at any Trump event, except it's some random Trump cultist who's just happy to bathe in the orange aura.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea who Tim Walz was before this. I'm over in the UK, so that's no wonder, but it seems like many Americans didn't know of him either. He seems like a pretty cool dude who was beloved locally, but not well known on the wider stage. Now people all across the US and the rest of the world are learning of him and are genuinely feeling a bit more hopeful about the US. You're God damn right I'd be crying.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anne Coulter publically cyber-bullies neurodivergent minors among her many other instances of blatant racism, homophobia and other bigotries and yet still has a job and a national platform. Can we cancel this bitch already?

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 26 points 2 months ago

Please let's cancel her.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago

Ann Coulter hasn't dried up and blown away yet? Good for her, beating the odds like that.

[–] ikidd 56 points 2 months ago

Yah, make fun of the handicapped kid, Anne. That's a great look for you.

[–] FilthyShrooms 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it weird to have emotions?

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 17 points 2 months ago

Emotions are for commies.

[–] pyre 40 points 2 months ago

looks at totally normal thing: "isn't this weird?"

nah. it's still you. you're weird.

[–] vaxhax 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I would be so proud to see this if he was my son. I think most normal dad's would. I can really relate to his emotional response, so to see this wicked cunt say such a thing is crossing thresholds in me.

What is it going to take to get rid of these evil, mean, talking heads that have risen up in the whirls of their leaders' stench? A switch has flipped in me, and my anger is leaking.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior the guillotine?

[–] vaxhax 12 points 2 months ago

I just put a pot of coffee on, don't stand outside all day.

[–] feddylemmy 6 points 2 months ago

A lot of them are telling on themselves. They don't know what it's like to have someone be proud of them.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's funny because the only thing I know about this lady is from her appearance on one of the comedy central roasts and pretty much everyone just ripped her apart mercilessly.

It might as well have been her roast with how much you could tell no one else was really joking.

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[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh man she got ANNHILATED. Deleted the post, people are still destroying her. Good.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 11 points 2 months ago

I will go on every social media post she makes and tell her she's trash.

[–] answersplease77 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ann countler is a catless child lady

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

One criticism I have of Tim is that he needs to stop cutting his son's hair like that

[–] SidewaysHighways 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's sometimes really hard to get our neurodivergent youngin to sit down and let us cut his hair. Maybe they have similar struggles

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

And they can be more sensitive if the hair moves or tickles the forehead or ears

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

A loner Cunt

[–] TheDemonBuer 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here's a picture of Middle Age Riot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Teenage Riot would be so disappointed in what we've become

[–] Snapz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just add this to the end of every statement she makes, "...She said, sitting in the bathtub, as the stranger very forcefully pissed on her face"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“I have two friends, who both — well, one is Ann Coulter. She started dating her security guard probably ten years ago because she couldn’t see anybody else,” Conway said.

So weird that she has to date her staff. She is just jealous that no one wants her crazy ass.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170320193646/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html

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[–] Missmuffet 6 points 2 months ago

What a miserable woman

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ah, old Bachem Macuno's timeless screed.

The link seems to not work for me, though, when direct-linked (or, didn't work on my phone, worked on my computer for some reason). If it doesn't work, try following the first one: https://worldofvalues.wordpress.com/2006/09/16/bachem-macuno-the-greatest-adult-fanfic-writer-ever/

Second part: https://web.archive.org/web/20220419040328/https://backinanncoultersasssaddleagain.blogspot.com/

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[–] Korne127 6 points 2 months ago

But I mean this is also just what they mean when they call them weird. Making fun of emotions, etc.

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