losthighway wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:16 pm

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losthighway wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:27 am
One of the most enlightening things I took from that book Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, I was talking about over on the book thread is this:

The alt-right/MAGA right sweeps up issues neglected by the popular left in America. Steve Bannon is very sharp at this. They take important things establishment Dems ignore and then warp them. Take for example the lack of pushback on Pfizer taking public money to roll out a vaccine, but then treating it like private property. Or look at the severe side effects in a tiny minority of recipients of any vaccine. While the popular left didn't want to dwell on those things because we just needed to get as many people vaccinated as possible, the psychos were able to take those little shadows and turn them into big gremlins. Unchecked problems become the opposition's opportunity.

I think there's a similar dynamic with a lot of right wing populist concerns. There was such a horrible Neo-liberal drag on the democratic party's foreign policy platform that all it takes is some opportunistic asshole to rightfully point their finger and say "look at what they've spent billions of dollars and hundreds of American lives doing" and then it's the Pied Piper saying "You see it, follow me into the MAGA army!".

that's what happens when EVERYTHING is political. steve bannon wants it that way. he's more than happy to see you waste your breath on drag queen story hour, face masks, and women's sports. it'll just lead to another trump presidency.

That's not a shadow into a gremlin, it's common sense to controversy. Watch Sanders on this stuff. He's a pro at calling bullshit when someone's being oppressive without turning his platform into 90% virtue signaling. The bed wetting about trans rights costing an election is pure Bill Maher boomer politics. I fully reject it.

i think trump is about to find out that america is still not ready to discuss a national gender policy.

most people are not oppressors.

The whole scenario reminds me of that time when Texas conservatives tried to ban books containing explicit sexual content, and ended up inadvertently banning The Bible.

They're so headstrong and incapable of nuance, they can't even get out of their own way.

JohnAlbert wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:20 am The whole scenario reminds me of that time when Texas conservatives tried to ban books containing explicit sexual content, and ended up inadvertently banning The Bible.

They're so headstrong and incapable of nuance, they can't even get out of their own way.

Using a sledgehammer to hit in a nail. Goblins gunna goblin.

The pathogenisation (new word) of people in the trans community is the continuation of the right’s attempt to split reasonable people with issues they can still get away with pushing the panic button on. Before it was gay men as potential risks to children - a disgusting slur considering the facts say the opposite - then solo mothers, civil rights advocates etc etc. as a podcast I listen to say “it’s all the same book”. They can’t get away with pushing the panic button on gay people anymore so they look for another issue. In ten years when society bends, as it will, to acceptance or just not letting goblins get them angry about it, they’ll find something else. The compound tragedy is it not actually about - insert minority here - it about picking a team then lining up issues as right/left and picking at the acceptable scab.

A move to renewables, what consenting adults do, how someone wants to live their life if it doesn’t harm anyone else… it’s all the same bullshit and shouldn’t be a left/right discussion. But the right are determined to create these differences to drive wedges between people.

Anyway. I have a mountain of thoughts on this but am about to get a cocktail of immunotherapy drugs to stop me from being dead…

jfv wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:39 am

DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?

My guess would be Elon and/or Vivek. The rich will eat the rich.

Probably won't be regular commentators though.

I’d like to change my answer to RFK Jr. in light of what’s currently going on with the avian flu, plus the dude ran as a democrat recently.

With the full and complete pardons of the cops that killed and tried to cover up the murder of Karon Hylton-Brown the trump administration has signaled to america that they will be hostile to the black community and use law enforcement in that effort. donald trump didn't even know of the case citing that the cops were going after an "illegal." Karon Hylton-Brown was a black american. he is just signing whatever pardons the white supremacists in his cabinet place in front of him.

Whatever incremental progress this country has gained in the past 60 years has been destroyed within the past 3 days.

jfv wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:20 am

jfv wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:39 am

DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?

My guess would be Elon and/or Vivek. The rich will eat the rich.

Probably won't be regular commentators though.

I’d like to change my answer to RFK Jr. in light of what’s currently going on with the avian flu, plus the dude ran as a democrat recently.

Dude ran as a ratfucker, and they all knew it.

This is the Stephen Miller presidency, straight up.

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 8:09 am With the full and complete pardons of the cops that killed and tried to cover up the murder of Karon Hylton-Brown the trump administration has signaled to america that they will be hostile to the black community and use law enforcement in that effort. donald trump didn't even know of the case citing that the cops were going after an "illegal." Karon Hylton-Brown was a black american. he is just signing whatever pardons the white supremacists in his cabinet place in front of him.

Whatever incremental progress this country has gained in the past 60 years has been destroyed within the past 3 days.

The eat-the-rich energy in the US is at the highest it's been in a century. This is our dog-whistle. Words 'billionaire' and 'rich' - they should make your stomach turn. It's time to dehumanize The Broligarchy and shun them from society like they do to countless groups they've disenfranchised.

But they're the job makers! Fuck that. Listen to Trump talk about what a 'career' is and what a 'job' is - careers are for rich white people. "Black jobs." He consistently uses the phrase "black jobs". I can't think of a single time he used the phrase "black careers".

If you don't want to take part, working a 'job' with no future, you are worthless and should be shunned by society at large. If you don't want to take part, and you aren't white, you get God's love.

There are more of us than there are of them. Maga are class-traitors as well as racists. We are neither.

With regard to Karon Hylton-Brown specifically: Trump is using these pardons as political sleight-of-hand. When a question comes up about pardoning violent Jan 6ers, he responds by evading the question. He responds by saying he's the best President ever for cops, and then he sites these pardons. Race-war level shit.

AttackChimp wrote: There are more of us than there are of them.

HELL YES and thank you for stating this.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:30 pm

AttackChimp wrote: There are more of us than there are of them.

HELL YES and thank you for stating this.

Under the umbrella of 'being oppressed by the rich', most people have reason to openly loathe them. Maga class-traitors will eventually, a little at a time, realize they voted on the wrong side of history. My hope is that the watershed moment is the 2026 midterms...