I still question if that chilling effect was actually the movement or the fascist/conservative spin put on it to radicalize young men. It’s practically identical to the anti-feminist propaganda that conservative political groups have been using for decades.

One could also downvote this because they disagree with your characterization of the movement. Even if the movement did result in what you claimed, it was never the intent nor the primary result, so it’s a pretty obvious mischaracterization.

Your comment seems akin to “DEI exists to disenfranchise whites”. Have DEI policies led to a more qualified white person being passed over for a job? Absolutely, but that’s not the intent, so it’s not indicative of DEI policies, but instead their misapplication.

The same logic applies to #MeToo. If people misinterpreted or misused the movement, that’s not the fault of the movement itself but instead those people.

They just don’t care. They know the administration is going to back them, so they say anything that isn’t totally self-incriminating. I expect they’ll eventually stop caring about that too.

They just cycled a key figure out of public view. This is PR strategy - when criticism against a particular organization or any of its key figure(s) reaches a certain point, replace some key figures.

Tr;dr: the frogs in the pot all cheer as the cook is replaced and their replacement turns down the hob a touch.

People tend to see key figures as representative of entire organizations, e.g., there are so many people who see removing Trump as being a solution despite him being a clear symptom of the problem. Letting some take a fall is a PR win grab bag: many people interpret the “punishment” of a few people as being applied to the whole organization and it suggests reform and atonement without actually changing anything substantial. Then the new figures start and optionally say they’re changing strategies for future improvement - “it’ll work but it takes time, just trust me bro.”

As long as this round of musical chairs tells a story that enough critics want to hear, enough mounting critical pressure is reduced for the cycle to continue a bit longer.

I really hope you’re high as fuck right now.

though Russia is still worse

Barely.

I’m certain Stephen Miller has already assumed other wifely duties for Trump, so this wouldn’t be a stretch.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated, so keep yapping!

He’s everyone’s favorite stupid commie, thank you very much.

You’re also not stupid at all. I often wonder if you’re actually four people. If you’re not, props for being that good.

Any they police? Are these American children with toy guns? If yes to either, then daycare is out. Forever.

A stew that makes you blind for one day.

Most moral society now!

I’d say it all started in the late 1960s with Nixon’s implementation of the southern strategy. What we’re seeing today is the resultant avalanche of American fascism, appropriately composed of fragile white snowflakes.

It’s an opinion piece. It’s not uncommon for newspapers to run conflicting opinion pieces.

According to Hakeem Jeffries, absolutely nothing.

I think the mistake is assuming they actually hold all of those beliefs.

Have you even argued with someone whose standards constantly shift so they’re always in the right, even when they soon back a position they were criticizing you for earlier in that conversation? That’s because they’re frantically defending another belief, sometimes one they aren’t even aware of themselves, and are either oblivious or unscrupulous enough to not notice or care how they’re doing it.

Far-right movements like the US Republicans are made of the frauds, fascists, and con artists running the show, the low-level grifters and bigots who aspire to one day be them, and the idiots too stupid to see they’re being deceived and swindled.

Big Balls is gonna get neutered.

Squeal, Piggy, squeal!

I couldn’t bring myself to attach the related scene screenshot.

If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.

Word is President Piggy has no problem giving or taking.

Sex pests of a feather molest chicks together.