DrugsMcChrist

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"keep digging"

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

States' Rights is a euphemism for the reactionary cause du jour. You can call them out for a contradiction, but at best they will just ignore you because they know and we know they're not talking about or concerned with the rights of states vs. federal mandate. Then there's always the threat that they will drop the euphemism and say that they want to punish promiscuous women and trans deviants. Trump has largely proven that the right doesn't have to watch its mouth near as much as they used to think. Rather than abandon their political identity, the majority of the "moderate" right will go along with the new framing. The only ones who lose out in this shift in rhetoric are women and trans people, who are now directly and publicly targeted not just by the reactionary fringes but by the right as a whole.

If you're wondering, yes, I absolutely lifted most of this from the Alt-Right Playbook, "The Death of a Euphemism"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

oh no, why did they turn him into Jared Leto Joker

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

they were betting hard that it would be Cillian, weren't they? there's got to be like 5 of them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

oh we're plenty angry, it's more that the corporate media has made a concerted effort to remind us that collective action results in a high risk of skull crushing by our militarized police

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Legacy media is dying, and the hangers on are old corporate types with a "conservative" bias and agenda. The same shit happened at CNN a couple of years ago, right? Hyper polarization is not going away. It's the new normal.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (8 children)

2024 is going great, and I can't wait for things to get even better in October!

oh shit we're all going to die, aren't we

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that horrible jackass. He might have good ideas on paper, but he was a miserable "candidate" whose only potential was to muddy up a shit show, and he couldn't even manage that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (28 children)

can't afford to get my old man back fixed, but rich people dogs gonna live forever

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (8 children)

what a wild ride

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