its all projection. if it were them in that situation it would be the purge.
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I have a right wing co-worker. We were on a business trip to Hollywood a few years ago after some riots. He had seen hour after hour of coverage about how it was all destroyed and ruined. As we were getting lunch we walked around the area just to see the specific areas he was watching on the news. All we saw was a single broken store window waiting to be replaced for the 2-3 or so square blocks we walked.
There is a whole alternate reality they live in.
In the movies, the purge is a psyop by the ruling class to purge the nation of undesirable poor people using paramilitary troops.
I haven't heard this, but I don't take in dumb people news so that may be why.
“My famous actor neighbor came by today after the looting gangs freaked him out,” he posted, “and whispered in my ear, ‘I guess I am a conservative now.’”
Ah we're back to the "[obvious fake story] now I'm a raging MAGA!"
"I used to be a progressive but then a random liberal online was gently critical of me and now I believe immigrants are poisoning the blood of our race!"
Not: "Hipster coffee shop"
Hot: "Famous LA actor neighbor"
You wouldnt know them, they go to a different Hollywood.
Funnily enough there are different Hollywoods: Hollywood (obviously), East Hollywood, West Hollywood, North Hollywood, Hollywood Hills (this is the one near Hollywood that was on fire, but it was very small compared to the other 2 burning now), and Hollywood Hills West. There is no South Hollywood, but I might be missing some others. One of them is independent of the city of LA (WeHo) and another isn’t even bordering Hollywood (NoHo).
This has been your unscheduled autistic info dump about cities in LA County with Hollywood in the name.
Yep. I lived in North Hollywood. As I used to tell people, there is a mountain range between it and Hollywood. The name was essentially a real estate scam. They changed it from Lankershim (still the main road) after the movie industry became an L.A. success story.
And the two are connected by Cahuenga, which has one of LA's best blues clubs.
But comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla proclaimed on January 13 that the National Guard had been called in to deal with widespread looting, claiming that “We live in Sodom and Gomorrah times here in Los Angeles.”
Since so many of these scumbags seem enamoured about Sodom and Gomorrah, can we just find an uninhabited place in the desert, name it S&G, and send all of them there?
The funny thing is that the actual sin the people of those cities were supposedly punished for was being unkind to strangers from a foreign land (in that case, angels).
How many foreigners do you think Adam Carolla would let in his house- other than his domestic staff, obviously.
A lot, he has a background in construction. He’s racist but not that specific kind of racist.
I haven't heard anything about Los Angeles
If you have any interest in finding out what MAGA is raging on about, may I recommend The Righting. Their blurb is, "Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from The Right".
It's an awesome source.
It is genuinely difficult to tell if the stories they link to are real or just hyperbolic parody. Even just skimming them I can feel the incoherent rage and desperate glee for vengeance billowing off of them. Anyone actually reading them seriously would inevitably end up getting swept along, and it makes a lot of what we've seen make a lot more sense.
Oh god. It's horrible.
Thanks, I guess?
Lol.
It's an aquired taste. I get their daily emails. That's about all I can handle.
The creator is center-left, and some of his commentary is pretty good.
I joke. It's important to stay informed. I've just read most of those headlines already and having them all laid out like that is...kind of disgusting to see.
They're literally making fun of people being worried that they're going to end up in concentration camps....
Well The Washington Times should be happy to know that this (former) Hollywood (still) leftie is fleeing the country on Monday. And yet, at least until Trump decides to change things, I'll still retain my citizenship and can both come back whenever I want and stay as long as I want and vote in elections from overseas. So fuck you, Washington Times.
I admire people like the creator because I could never EVER do that for funzies.
Shit, it took me weeks to get over the fact America elected Trump again.
Wow. This is a really great way to see how bad that side is, thanks for sharing this source.
What? I heard police and private firefighters were attacking people.