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  • I mean, if someone wants to call themselves socialist, maybe it’s fine, but I think most of their discussion should be about the policies they are for, how they would work, etc., and what that would mean for everyday Americans.

    Once the qons throw out that tar baby Red Scare stuff, and the target(s) start engaging with them on this, tacitly accepting the framings and the definitions that the qons have chosen? Game over. Now the target(s) are on the back foot, trying to prove they aren’t the demons a lot of normies and qons have been trained to think anyone with those labels really are, and they get to wrestle the tar baby endlessly.

    Instead of doing that, I suggest these people make the qons justify THEIR positions. How is it morally defensible that the likes of Taco and fElon got out their chainsaw and have already murdered hundreds of thousands of children and jeopardizes millions more in the future? As an example on the national stage.

    If progressives waste tons of time defending themselves, arguing over the absurd framing and definitions and terms that the qons have spent decades sharpening, they are already losing. Their narrative should be about painting a brighter future for every American, while demanding the qons defend THEIR reprehensible actions and political platforms.


  • Nearly 20 years. I guess his butthurt goes back to 2006 when it comes to Rosie. She told the truth about him and he hates that. She called into question his bullshit image, and of course, he threatened to sue her for making “false statements”.

    Which of course were true statements, and nearly anyone that even looked into Taco back in the 80s would know…I’m sure most Americans that only knew Taco from his stupid game show believed his image of being a self-made bigly successful bidness man.

    Of course, her being an overweight, outspoken lesbian makes him even more angry…lol.




  • But the left are so fucking grating and have their heads so far up there own asses that they never actually problem their views effectively.

    I would not say all, or even most of them. But some of the most vocal and the ones with some of the most influence on some platforms certainly are. Endless lecturing and gatekeeping. Struggle sessions, Oppression Olympics, and a cloying sense of superiority about ticking off certain identity boxes. [1]

    No wonder some people peel off and start getting red-pilled by the likes of Rogan, FFS. The left has got to get back to the basics - and honestly, some of these most strident cases should be marginalized. I think many are afraid to do so or else the entire circus will be pointed at them next.

    The fact that Zohran Mamdani resonates with a whole lot of people has little to do with him being who he is (male, Muslim, Asian, I’m supposing cishet, etc.) and more about his ideas. Same goes with Bernie [2] and AOC. The left should keep this in mind at all times, IMHO.

    [1] As always, I point to the former comment section (BBS) of BoingBoing as an example of this. It was cartoonish-level. Xitter is really fucking bad whenever I dip into it, but on BoingBoing, the moderators were completely in the tank for this nonsense. Some of the BB subreddit threads cover the clusterfuck that was the BBS…








  • It bears repeating, even places like this one. I’ve run into shocking amounts of innumeracy and utter lack of critical thinking - in addition to illiteracy. In the United States, as least.

    I remember kids in school dunking on “book learning” and that they valued “street smarts”. These are exactly the types that are now “doing their own research” on things, but completely without any of the fundamental building blocks to separate the wheat from the chaff, other than by vibes.

    If our education systems was beyond the reach of conservative/Republican monsters, children would be well-served by teachers that hand out something like this as an essay-type question to explain why the claim is suspect - and have them show their work. You’d get to cover critical thinking, media literacy as well as some basic math all in one fell swoop. I’m sure lots more instances could be found over the years, plucked straight from news articles…

    In our current education landscape, all it would take is one snowflake to tell mommy and/or daddy that are infected with fauxbrain, and that teacher would be fired for “indoctrinating” their children with intelligence, I guess…