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@Passerby

Ohio State House Republicans #fundie

@checkmate #19181

I think that might be the entire curriculum of schools specifically geared towards teaching the spawn of politically entrenched, old money douchebags the finer points of how to play fast and loose with the exact wording of the law, how to make vague but appealing promises while avoiding actually promising to do anything, and how to make very clear rules, indisputable facts, and damning statements caught on tape impenetrably murky to avoid accountability.

“Smart” like pretty much everything else including the lines between right and wrong tends to be a very relative term in that school of thought.

You know the next time I hear some dickhead equate calls for an examination of the race/sex wage/position gaps and criticism of the bell curve which can see multiple students who all got the same number of answers right on a math test receive different grades impacting how their education and by extension their work ethic and overall competence is perceived which often has a direct and dire effect on their academic and professional future - systemic allowances and normalization of unequal compensation for equal measurable accomplishment - with a participation award I’m just going to ask what they call it when you have to give an automatic passing grade to the kid that writes down that earthquakes and disease come from God when he’s mad at gay people requiring no further explanation and all of recorded history is unknowable save for the content of the Bible because you weren’t there on a test so they don’t feel discriminated against for being demonstrably and emphatically wrong or flat out refusing to take part in certain lessons like any biology relating to reproduction and thus hurting their feelings while marking any other student based on the content of their report applying penalties when information is technically accurate but insufficiently explained which might result in a poor grade despite having put considerably more work into their answers.

Well, actually participation award seems like the wrong turn of phrase because it doesn’t need to involve participation and the guaranteed reward might be better than it would be for somebody that actually tried.

Now that I think about it this gets me pondering a few choice words I would have for the people who keep trying to force mandatory prayers in school. “Oh they’re just words, if they don’t have any meaning to you then you shouldn’t have any problem repeating them just to comply with the rules.” Yeah? Well you can give the right goddamned answers on a standardized test if you think it’s all a big empty gesture instead of saying you won’t have other people’s beliefs - namely that observable process like evolution exists which is used in practical medicine such as developing countermeasures against constantly evolving viruses - forced upon you. Or being forced to read the Communist Manifesto aloud, since you don’t believe it and are under no obligation to adhere beyond daily recitation it shouldn’t hurt you, right?

I’m just in a grumbly mood tonight.

Eugene Delgaudio #homophobia

Protect the American Family Survey -- better known as Selective Constitutional Rights Elimination Equivocation and Denial.

Rand Paul #psycho #wingnut

Children are a parent’s responsibility but nobody’s property.

What say you about your next door neighbour purchasing an object that releases deadly radiation in all directions and wheeling it all around the block? Unlike a child it actually is their property and though the radiation spreads as far as the interior of your home and lingers everywhere it has been remaining dangerous for years to come it is not actually physically on your property. Your neighbour insists they are not at all concerned about the radiation and if you are then you can just buy yourself a radiation suit, line your home with lead, or move away to a strictly controlled environment but what he does is his own business and not your place to tell him otherwise.

What then of the “freedom” to infringe upon the health and safety of others for no other reason than “it’s my decision” Rand? Does radiation differ in your mind and to your libertarian views from transmissible viruses that put at risk those who cannot be vaccinated and whose lives depend on herd immunity? Those whose only other option would be to give up a normal life to live in controlled environments? Assuming of course as libertarians are strangely prone to assume that all people have an infinite amount of income that wouldn’t be impacted by completely cutting themselves off from the outside world for years.

What of the even more basic issue of the child having no say in the matter because their rights are determined by you, the parent who sees himself as the owner of another human being? How do you reconcile that with your demand that nobody can impose restrictions or requirements upon you even when your actions have consequences for others because it infringes on your rights which are absolute? Is you “knowing better” an appropriate excuse for determining whether they live or die? Does their living under your roof and being supported by your finances mean they must obey your rules with no right to object without facing ejection or punishment? You live under a much bigger roof and taxes pay for more than you would ever care to admit let alone be grateful for. The infrastructure of cities and even the intangible framework of law has a cost and no matter how self sufficient you think you are you benefit directly from them, and many other things you do not choose to interact directly with.

Jason Kenney and the Conservative Party of Alberta #fundie #sexist

@DarkPhoenix #19071

I don’t know enough to say if Russia is a common thread between every group you just named but a remarked-upon undercurrent of white nationalism definitely is.

I don’t know what scares me more, a ruthless and intelligent manipulator empowering dumb self-destructive racists to chip away at the strength of rivals who despite shared views would cease all cooperation and waste their efforts trying to establish rudimentary social dominance in front of the others that even the most territorial and aggressive pack animals would find mindless to consolidate a political advantage or a global surge in people suddenly pining for mentality of the Colonial Era willingly blotting out both horrific atrocity and ignorance from that time and the march of human progress since then (and the fact that it’s a collective, interconnected effort) all on their own because the increasingly ludicrous rose tint to their glasses makes them feel superior and they’re all as deluded into thinking they’d come out on top and that everyone else will cater to their preferences as Neo-Confederates who write fanfiction about winning the civil war.

@DarkPhoenix #19049

That’s the thing that really confuses me. The Republican party has absolutely demolished the standing of the United States in the eyes of the world and also in the eyes of many Americans who formerly voted for them. I can wrap my head around politicians in Canada wanting to cozy up to America for trade purposes since they’re our biggest market and closest military ally and taking bribes to let private interests basically run the country instead of you can be appealing to amoral workshy sellouts under the impression they’ll be long gone and comfortably retired where the riff-raff can’t touch them by the time the bell tolls but why specifically the Republicans? The Democrats aren’t really any less of a mouthpiece for corporate interests so why emulate the CRAZY people who even before Trump weren’t that shy about admitting they have zero respect for even their allies? And most of their own countrymen, for that matter. Especially now that they’re pretty much officially on the wrong side of history and so much of their party has been thrown under the bus it genuinely astonishes me that they don’t realize they all consider each other more expendable than a regenerating mana pool in a video game and the chance of any one of them getting ahead is nil even if they weren’t all sinking together.

@Anon-e-moose

You may have intended that to mean “don’t wait for the province to get it’s act together before you do what you need to do and just have it done elsewhere before continuing to lobby for them to get their act together” but you do realize that’s the exact thinking that allowed the various American “pro-life” states to close down the vast majority of their clinics and tell their citizens it’s reasonable to expect them to go on a cross country sojourn through multiple states that have one horrendously remote abortion clinic apiece to find one with a line shorter than the waiting period to have an immigration case heard, right?

Even capitulating so much as letting a doctor disregard the Hippocratic Oath and refuse treatment themselves but requiring them to write the referral so someone else can do their oathbound job for them while still collecting their own paycheque is giving too much ground in my eyes. If you want to be a doctor you don’t get to pick and choose what parts of the job you do just like if you work as a janitor you don’t get to say “I don’t sweep floors” to your boss and still have that job at the end of the day because you passed the broom to someone else.

As for Kenney and his government themselves?

“We’re not going to engage in debate” rather than acknowledging that “debate” is a closed issue legally speaking is not a comforting response to fears that you’re going allow rights to be curtailed indirectly at the ground level. It’s saying flat out you’re not going to allow that curtailment to be challenged legally. It’s also a pretty good indication you know your argument is so weak it wouldn’t hold up in a debate well enough to keep it open let alone convince the other side, which is a pretty safe bet when you’re asking someone to give up a right they already have and services they depend on.

George Rojas #racist #wingnut

I wonder how he can praise the overt invasion, slaughter, and population replacement of sovereign state while calling it’s people stateless and saying this is a great defense against non-white people he’s accusing of invading and replacing the population of his country but in a non-lethal, non-reductive, and completely arcane manner where they assimilate to their host culture but somehow also change that culture without having an aneurysm?

It’s about as jarring as calling an invasion and genocide “Peace Spring.” What the hell do they call a cease-fire? “Repeat the fire mission?” “Endless Bombardment?”

Cruor #psycho

People who run are guilty and should be shot.

Right so next time there’s a fire, a mass shooting, any sort of public panic, or a jogger with headphones, or police just tell people to clear the area and they actually try to leave to avoid getting caught in the danger zone they deserve what they get. Even if the police started shooting before they started running and it was being shot at that caused them to run.

Couple things: First off you’ve got the sequence of events out of whack. McCall had fled the scene long before police ever got there. You speak as if they had him in their sights and he turned tail. They didn’t have the opportunity to shoot him in the back like you’re saying they should have, he was already in hiding and the first they saw of him was when the dog found him. If he was waiting in ambush as it sounds a shoot on sight order wouldn’t matter because he saw them first. And they were already on the offensive rather than reacting. So that fucks your narrative right over.

Second it’s funny how siccing dogs trained to bite throats out on a guy doesn’t seem like basically the same thing as opening fire. Is it even normal to call out the K-9 unit on a domestic violence call? It’s an immediate and potentially fatal escalation. I’m going to give police the benefit of the doubt and assume they determined he was potentially armed and violent from the start and police were already prepared to use lethal force at the first twitch. Which is again a sledgehammer to your narrative about police going in too soft and does not involve uncertainty about a suspect.

You’re equating this scenario and an active manhunt to just anybody who shows fear of the police whether it’s a call with known suspects and risks or a random stop, which as @Swede pointed out is itself more than likely a deliberate mischaracterization of police confrontations that turn deadly where the police - and not the suspect - escalate a situation beyond all rational sense. You think this is appropriate force, you think this is too SOFT for situations like that? I’d like to know who you think would stand still if a snarling dog jumps up at them and starts biting. Whose instinct is it to stay still and let them chew through an artery instead of fighting for their life? I wonder how you would react to the police in some of the video I’ve seen? Would you accept it as your own stupid fault the moment you took one step backwards in surprise at deliberate hostility including being suddenly tackled without warning and wound up riddled with bullets?

If assholes like you had their way police work would be indistinguishable from a drive by shooting and legal rights would be a forgotten concept. If everyone expected police to simply shoot on sight anyone they don’t like the look of there’s no reason to ever comply with them, innocent or guilty and their only guarantee of safety would be to shoot first themselves and look at every cop as a potential executioner rather than a peacekeeper. It would be gang mentality writ large.

David J. Stewart #fundie #crackpot

If anything on that can reminds you of a penis Diddler I can only speculate what you’re using for reference. Just how weird is your junk, man? Is part of your obsession with jailbait that their screams of terror when you drop your drawers in front of them would be slightly less likely to include “Oh dear God that’s not what that’s supposed to look like at all! Not only are you a freaky pervert you’re a FREAK!” for not having any experience with someone who has a normal human libido and genitals that weren’t evocative of a collaboration between Hieronymus Bosch and M.C. Escher coming off the worst drug trip of their lives?

D.M.S. #fundie

Considering climate change and the fact that sneering villains who wouldn’t be out of place in the rogues gallery of Captain Planet and the Planeteers are currently the ones deciding policy on how to react to it the non-existence of all those people - indeed all human life - in that timeframe is in the realm of possibility.

You being judged among the righteous when this happens given what you’ve done to this world of ours and the evil you wish visited upon others? Not so much.

Faceception #crackpot #mammon

Wow, and I thought the initial premise was absurd. Their “classifications” that they’ve clearly pulled out of their asses are just laughable.

Some people really work hard to justify a bout of “I don’t like your face” being all they need to act like assholes to other people.

Faceception #crackpot #mammon

Ahem… Evil Twins.

Twins in general, actually. Same faces, same genes, and while the evil is optional twins having the same personality without deliberately imitating each other isn’t exactly a law of the universe.

Tinker B. #homophobia #wingnut

Who are you to "indefinitely ban" my DeviantArt account!?

The people who run the service and set out the terms for use of their service which you violated. That’s… not compelling at all.

That would be like me taking a shit on the floor of your kitchen and then acting outraged you would dare tell me where I can and cannot take a shit if the rules you set for me as a guest in your house were explicitly to wipe my feet before entry, not swear in front of your family, and quite specifically that I am only to void my bowels in your upstairs bathroom and not under any circumstances to do so in your kitchen. This isn’t even a cheeky technicality like leaving it in your bathroom sink or the toilet’s reservoir either, it’s very clearly exactly what you told me not to do.

YouTube does ban people for violating their Terms of Service… they’re just kind of inconsistent about it. And according to kuyohashi you’d have to have put some serious effort into crossing DeviantArt’s thresholds of “too far” to have gotten the ban hammer over the cornucopia of other assholes best described as… well… Deviants. Kind of in the name really.

Dirk Pohlmann #conspiracy

ionlycopenow #sexist #crackpot

You regularly discuss how to sabotage the lives of the people who have the misfortune of thinking themselves your friends and even in your wildest fantasies where everything goes your way and people believe the only purpose of their own lives is throw themselves at your feet willing to debase themselves just so you will look at them you forsake any notion of happiness to be petty, spiteful, monsters that bring only misery and despair to those you meet and make reserve plans to be shitheads to people you’ll never meet and lament that you won’t have the opportunity to revel in your own horribleness by inflicting yourself on them.

The percentage of the human body that is normally water is vitriol for incels, they need hate more than they need oxygen and with every breath exhale contempt, their entire emotional range is a twisted mix of self-imposed victimhood and god-complexes, their self-preservation instinct is replaced with a biological imperative to attack humanity both as a species and as an abstract concept, their perception of reality is warped beyond comprehension, every twisted thought they express is a flagrant lie so hostile to logic nearly every individual word is a stand in for it’s antonym, they are the best argument for the existence of an objective spiritual evil.

Hapacels #sexist #psycho

If you don’t say no to me reaching into your pocket, removing your wallet, and borrowing money then that’s a yes by default. That I don’t bother asking you beforehand is not going to be an issue is it? It’s your responsibility to notice and clearly state that you don’t want it and if I don’t take the hint that means you just weren’t clear enough. But if you actually try to physically stop me you’re a crazy bitch and I’ll do what I have to in order to defend myself from you so whether your fear of death scares you into compliance absolving me or you simply die trying to fend me off I am not accountable to anyone because you were unclear.

IEatzCookies #psycho #sexist

So your argument is that while they were both drunk that lessens his moral culpability but actually increases hers despite being additionally unconscious…

Doesn’t really get much more blatant than this, does it? Eat a dick. Preferably your own and deep fried before removal. And if you “regret” the castration and autocannibalism forced upon you then according to your logic that’s your problem. Doubly so since you’re no longer the one with the penis in the scenario removing the one variable that determines moral culpability in your mind.

JeffGoldblumInTheFly #sexist #psycho

So even in your own fantasies where you live in a parallel world where looks are all that matter and you’ve spontaneously become what you think is the physical ideal for a man you would be as repellent to women and self-sabotaging to your own sex life as you are currently. Your immediate fantasy isn’t that you’re going to have sex with supermodels and experience what you think will be happiness but to imagine that a woman you consider ugly and beneath you will instead be the only one to hit on you and you’ll have the opportunity to be cruel to her saying you’ve got your pick of beautiful women but even in your fantasy they are conspicuously absent and you send her off to fuck other men. To uh… cuckold you, basically. And then after sending her off to do what every incel insists women should be doing and what every man should be making women do call her a whore for doing it. Or alternatively a whore for not doing it.

Even in your fantasies you can’t be happy, just a spiteful prick who fucks himself over and somehow declares everyone else the bad guy making no effort to hide that you’re going to hate them regardless of what they do or don’t do and just want other people to be miserable. Which is more important than you being happy.

Scrod #sexist #psycho

Your sentence as a rapist would be 15 years maximum in theory, with actual time served averaging around 5 and a half. With a conviction rate in the single digits. A woman’s sentence as a victim is typically suffering PTSD the rest of her life never feeling safe again and the idea that she should even have an expectation of safety at any time is further beaten to death because she’ll undoubtedly be surrounded by assholes who treat her like damaged goods, a child who should stop crying, a liar, a trollop, or all of the above regardless of how her day in court goes. If she ever gets one. And in practice a convicted rapist’s employment options aren’t quite as limited as a rape victim who pursues her case and has the details of her personal life ripped open for the public to consume as she’s likely to be hounded by people threatening her with rape for daring to accuse a man of rape. Or threatening her family. Or just making trouble for anyone connected to her which affects her employment.

And really your argument of “didn’t think it was wrong at the time” just makes everything so very much worse. This isn’t double parking, taking a hit off a bong in an area that hasn’t legalized recreational use, or a punch up over who bought the last apple pie. It’s fundamentally disregarding the rights of another human being and not merely robbing them of any agency over their bodies and disregarding their free will for your own pleasure but scarring them for life long after you’re done standing in the corner and trying to normalize what you did in the first place so that other people won’t think it’s wrong either. If you can EVER think there’s nothing wrong with that you’re a danger to society as a whole and are likely incapable of seeing your punishment as anything but a personal inconvenience you deserve recompense for. The lighter that slap on the wrist is, the more you feel that way. Just look at every high-profile lawsuit against a powerful financial institution. They see fines as the cost of business, admit no wrongdoing, and just try to look for smarter ways to avoid paying even that much.

prince-riley #homophobia

You do realize the overt production they’re making of that part of the parade is specifically to tweak the noses of those who aggressively attempt to conflate sexuality with social norms and append anything that deviates from that norm to one’s sexuality as a way of scaring people who fear judgment into conforming to those norms as well as inventing from whole cloth more eccentric or flamboyant behaviours and similarly attributing them to the LGBT community to provoke hysterical reactions and make people abandon their common sense in favour of paranoid imaginings, don’t you?

Every other day of the week they’re the person bagging your groceries and giving you advice on your tax returns… And I’m sure the thought of that rather than clearly visible eccentrics you can give the evil eye to from across the street frightens you. Which is another reason people invented those stereotypes.

Mukhlis bin Muhammad #fundie

prince-riley #sexist

You tried to publicly humiliate a rape victim and turn a crowd of people against her but then she proceeded to clean your clock in front of those same people who felt no real need to intervene and help you?

By the standards of both decent men and the He Man Woman Haters Club you have lost all claim to manhood. Shred your man card, turn over your balls, and forfeit your right to barbeque.

Edit:

I appear to have misread that, she didn’t beat his ass senseless in front of all his friends she waited until he was walking home. And now he’s afraid to be alone and cautioning all men to travel in packs at all times and beware ambush by lone anti-rapists.

David J. Stewart #sexist #fundie

Because the horrors of the bloodiest war in American history with the evils of slavery and the truly vile things done to freedmen out of resentment happening in the background as family members were forced to kill each other on opposite ends of a battlefield for a cause so indefensibly stupid Southern supremacists have to lie about it in an era where even the previous peace-time where there weren’t shortages of goods from trade blockades death from disease was rampant and poverty among people who didn’t own slave plantations strangled the population and even those who could find and afford things like medicine would be taking cocaine for toothaches and feeding babies heroin for fever are all infinitely preferable to being told to keep it in your pants when a 14 year old walks past in jeans and a t-shirt. Not that forcing her to conform to your personal dress fetish would do anything to keep your “man’s mind” under control, especially as it just reinforces your need to foist your personal accountability and the weight of your sins onto her as you continue to usurp the position of an infallible God beyond the scope of human morality.

Maybe there is one particular relic of the past I’d like brought back. I’m sure a week in stocks to be ridiculed and shamed as a deviant in the public square would put a few things in perspective for the Diddler.

One Million Moms #fundie

While I’m not about to mobilize a hate movement over it I have to admit I find a commercial like that pretty mean spirited.

Although given the organization the reasons I find it inappropriate and the reasons they find it inappropriate probably differ. For me it’s the suggestion that children are a mistake that rob the happiness from the lives of their parents. For them it’s probably the reminder that condoms exist at all and they are morally opposed to them for religious and/or completely hypocritical reasons about “promoting” sex but also preventing reproduction which requires sex that women should not be refusing and so on.

A mild tweak of the line to “family and financial planning” would probably satisfy us both. It’s a little less blatant and doesn’t carry the same sense of resentment of being “held back” by children seen as a burden. It would also subtly reinforce the fact that despite the deliberate framing of it as such for the purposes of slander and fearmongering there’s more to the concept of family planning than abortion and the reason many people wait to have kids is to be able to provide for them including being able to take them on vacations and making happy memories as opposed to just making do.

SouthernStar @ exangryliberal #racist

One probable reason is that admitting his mother is Hawaiian undermines the purpose of the lie that he’s from Kenya.

Leg End #psycho

…Why are you not allowed to ask questions about the nature of his past? Why would you, the owner of the business, not have the option to set conditions for his employment and limit his interaction with the public or any time he has unmonitored?

Why are you framing the question only in the stupidest possible way where the answers can be easily twisted into a choice of either being uncompromisingly hostile towards those trying to reintegrate after serving time in prison or else just piling behind a giant fuck you to the entire concept of sex crimes because everything should be fair game to you?

… I think I answered my own question, actually. And now I kind of wish I hadn’t seen what your pals gave as answers to yours. It isn’t about right or wrong to you fucks, it’s about what you think you can talk your way out of.

Brian Matthews #fundie

It would hurt me personally about as much as revisiting apartheid, outlawing religion, or executing everybody with red hair. By being so morally repugnant as to make me physically ill and normalize applying moral relativism to human rights which would make it easier for someone in the future to justify something that actually would directly affect me, like rounding up everybody that hasn’t sworn fealty to radical Islam, for example.

Right and wrong aren’t subjective, you said so yourself but clearly meant jack shit by it.

Franklin Graham #wingnut

When someone says LAW AND ORDER they don’t mean laws should apply extremely selectively to brown people with no obligation to honor the rights they’re supposed to have whether they’re CITIZENS of this beautiful country - THE BEST COUNTRY - or not, they actually meant there are laws in this country and they apply to everyone, even people with money. And that these laws and the multiple branches of government are what keeps government from TYRANNY even if the President won the electoral college by the most votes since Reagan and had the biggest inaugural crowds instead of being able to wave a gun with NO REGULATIONS - even though the second amendment specifically mentions well-regulated militias - because that’s what low IQ people think. SAD!

UndertakerCel #magick #sexist

Daily Reminder: Your fellow “incels” are NOT your friends. They want you to suffer and die as much as they do everyone else, they just think they have a better chance of convincing you to off yourselves by playing false sympathy.

riceman10 #racist

Damn. If this asshole wasn’t a self-absorbed singularity of base urges unfettered by higher thought bearing witness to his parents essentially calling a do-over on his entire life and hoping to raise a different child right would be emotionally crushing. But he is, and what little pity I could possibly have for him was pissed away by the reminder that’s what he is.

JohnGaltsWife and her son #homophobia #conspiracy #wingnut

So this kid is openly racist and other students report him being violent and possibly making threats but the school sees no need for any official disciplinary measures and just calls his parents who are probably the entire reason he thinks the way he does.

Meanwhile in Florida if an 11 year old black boy gets lippy with a substitute teacher and refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, which he was not actually required to do, not only does he get told to get out of the country if he doesn’t like it and suspended for three days despite - and I feel I have to stress this - not breaking any actual school rules the police come and arrest him at his home during the suspension for disrupting the class.

That is not something I thought you could be arrested for without a physical altercation being involved. And frankly it was the teacher that made an issue of it disrupting the class to belittle the student instead of getting on with the day so if disrupting a classroom is an actual criminal offense that can punished beyond the scope of the school administering disciplinary measures they should be getting the same treatment.

And people sometimes question the reality of white privilege…

Leucosticte and Zesto #psycho #sexist #racist

You could die a hundred deaths each more hideous than the last and I would have no pity for you, for even in such torment you would not understand the horrors you so casually desire to inflict upon children for your own disgusting gratification nor the depth of the cruel treachery and abuse you would happily commit through institutions meant to bring hope into the lives of those who had it stolen from them. And then there’s the unforgivably perverse mockery you would make of the very name of a parent as a thin disguise for what you really are.

And you fucking DARE to try and throw in a sense of moral superiority to the very concept of government even as you discuss how to exploit and subvert those services it provides to better lives of its citizens for your own twisted ends? I would laugh at the fact that nobody despises governments and institutions of law more than those who would be rent limb from limb should they ever be subjected to mob rule for the actions - the mere thoughts of the actions they freely express without fear of reprisal - they desire to commit in the absence of that “tyranny” of law and the enshrinement of individual rights. I would laugh, if I weren’t so violently ill with rage and disgust.

And you’re a racist piece of garbage, to boot. True to the form and essence of one who thinks they get to decide the value of human life you exhibit no positive quality of humanity whatsoever. You don’t deserve to walk among humans you diseased, predatory animal. Yet you think to place yourself above us? To make humans your property to be degraded for your pleasure?

Pray there is only oblivion after death. For if there is an afterlife and if whatever karmic or divine forces are supposed to exist do not punish you themselves know that I will eventually catch up to you there.

Warren Hurst #homophobia

So while serving as a commissioner who sets the legal agenda for a tourism dependent county alongside 23 of the oldest and whitest old white men in a comical political stereotype played almost agonizingly straight except for the remaining token white woman who’s there because she has a financial stake in construction you probably resent complained about white men having their rights taken away… while in the process of giving guns more right to be in your county as a “gun sanctuary” than actual people and especially one particular white man whose right to participate in politics you considered invalid because of his sexuality, disparaging his character, suggesting that pulling random people out of jail and having them run would be more morally acceptable, repeating Trump’s “other countries are sending us their thugs and rapists” lie, and pretty much butchering the English language confounding transcripts. Rudely chewing on a toothpick as you spoke, devolving into a nearly unintelligible gibberish interspersed with slurs that sounded momentarily like a turkey gobbling which given the hideous neck folds emblematic of politically entrenched old white bigoted assholes fighting against the march of time was astonishingly appropriate. In a courthouse. During an official function of local government.

Democratic chair Sara Thompson literally called bullshit and walked out in disgust. So that’s cool I guess. Problem is she’s the only one who did. The rest clapped, guffawed, and then realizing the whole thing was caught on tape ran some pretty weaselly damage control avoiding actually condemning the screed and instead insisting that the 95% white county is actually very diverse and tourist trap Dollywood in particular welcomes all regardless of ethnicity or orientation to spend their money… and in parentheses I suppose the disclaimer would be (As long as they turn the fuck around and go back where they came from when their walking around money is spent and keep the actual walking around to a minimum.)

Cuban Government #moonbat #wingnut

Raine-Rose #fundie

God made Steve too, and his hard-on for Adam. And whatever goes on between Adam and Steve how the hell does that stop anyone from getting together with Eve?

Oh right, you’re not one for debate. Just stating whatever you think as fact and only allowing comments if they reinforce what you think.

sarahkuving #fundie

Nobody tries to blame and certainly wouldn’t try to shame a bar of gold when men are filled with greed at the sight of it.

Cuban Government #moonbat #wingnut

Not wanting to hear if you’re not doing a good job is a sign you don’t even particularly care if you’re doing a good job or not. Also I seem to remember Raul Castro saying he’d lay off this kind of thing and involve public opinion more when he took over for Fidel. Can’t say I was holding my breath for that but I would have thought he’d have liked to avoid being compared to Trump at least for a couple more years.

Unnamed Newberries Primary School teacher #wingnut #racist

Are the racists getting even dumber somehow? It really seems like they are. The sheer stupidity of saying something that pointlessly offensive just out of the wild blue yonder is itself offensive to me. How does a thought like that even occur to someone and how much of their brain would have to spontaneously shut down to escape their every filter on its way to the mouth as nobody could possibly think blurting that out loud could end well?

Daily Stormer #sexist #psycho

There is no greater counter to the idea of “the white race” having an inherent intellectual or moral superiority or respect for the stabilizing influence of laws, rights, and responsibility to the greater scope of society than the pathologically hypocritical morally bankrupt degenerate sociopaths who push it.

Fuck this asshole, fuck the rapist, fuck every piece of shit who sees unity in embodying humanity at its worst in between dehumanizing everyone else and burying their virtues under slander. And this is specifically glorifying something they usually mean as dehumanizing insult and justification for aggressively treating people like criminals: A foreign rapist.

Racists and rapists are just one letter apart, and regardless of their ethnicity are ironically bound by their mutual rejection of the humanity they claim to represent even as they gloat of their predation on us.

soulartemis #sexist #psycho

So not only did you illegally record someone having sex without their knowledge or permission but something about the way you phrased it makes me think the sex itself may have actually lacked consent. If so you’re a scumbag on multiple levels.

I am honestly too afraid to try and confirm or disprove my suspicions by stooping to viewing the video, both of violating my personal morals by viewing content taken without the subject’s express permission and in doing so violating the law and their right to privacy just as much as this fucker and also that my suspicion might be correct and I wouldn’t even know who to report it to or if it would amount to anything if I did and I’ll never sleep soundly again in my life. I’m also afraid of doing nothing and potentially letting evil continue unchallenged.

I don’t suppose anyone’s willing to give me some advice on this?

Teutonic Knight #racist

@Bastethotep

Damn, that Wikipedia article says a mouthful. First it describes some seriously hard-working, practical, civic-minded, and certainly underappreciated people making lemonade out of some fairly unpleasant lemons and doing so with efficiency that from the sounds of it kicks private enterprise in the balls but towards the end as it describes how political policies such as a pig culling and awarding of waste collection contracts to a multinational company have threatened their way of life it also displays the domino effect of dicking around people at the lowest rung of society who go painfully unnoticed such as the sudden pileups of garbage in Cairo.

And to think I might have to thank a whining incel dipshit since his self-absorbed, moderately racist, wangsting pity party devoid of self-awareness is what led us to something I found educational and even somewhat inspirational as a socioeconomic cautionary tale about taking into account all of one’s people and the greater role every individual plays in their society in these times.

David J. Stewart #racist #fundie #conspiracy

I think the Diddler here has graduated from creatively interpreting the Bible to usurp the position of God to creatively interpreting RaHoWa’s “holy books of creativity” to usurp the position of God.

Uganda government, President Yoweri Museveni and Minister Simon Lokodo #homophobia #psycho

@SpukiKitty

As much as it can feel like it. What’s not being said is often just as important. The quiet voice of reason isn’t so compelling if it’s trying to scream over top of the cacophony. You have to find a way to bring the volume in the room down instead.

Heh. I just realized: A while back when I was the one saying Donald Trump was about to make the world a much shittier place you were calling me Chicken Little. Now here I am on the opposite side trying to convince you take a few calming breaths and look under the fear for what’s still right with the world.

@SpukiKitty

That’d be a hard thing to quantify in the news because when everything is going swimmingly it’s really not newsworthy. For something to be a progressive victory something else would have to be going horribly wrong to get stopped or fixed and for something to be going horribly wrong or to resist a positive change that would otherwise make no real ripples because everyone rationally agreed it was a good and needed change evil would have to start out in the winning position and hold it long enough to start breaking your heart.

The righteous in times of peace don’t look like a hero’s charge being celebrated they look like regular people agreeing together to solve a problem before it ever gets to the point where it affects anyone else enough that they felt the need to draw attention to it because people were already paying attention.

One alt-right mental exercise you could use - though it runs the risk of thinking like them in worse ways - is to take every silence and the lack of catastrophe as a sign people are applying ideas that align with yours and are a silent majority who would support you if they weren’t busy with their own lives.

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Or the Good News Network. That works too. I’ll shut up now.

Kajm #wingnut

See, that’s how actual “crisis actors” work: they provide a sound bite for others to sensationalize and then disappear hoping to pin the crazy sentiment to the crowd. If you stick around after the fuss calms down enough that people start asking questions they’re going to find out very quickly that your name isn’t Joe and you’re not a plumber.

It is clinically insane to think that someone would hire entire towns worth of people to fake the deaths of their children requiring a lifetime commitment to the story and utterly impossible levels of coordination with government, law enforcement, and media not only locally but globally and then continue to remain active on the issue going out of pocket to organize and protest and attend regular vigils and continue with private actions such as psychological counselling outside of the public eye. Forever. Which would have to be bankrolled by all the money that exists in the world and require so much fine control over the entire world you’d basically control the world already making the whole venture kind of a pointless waste of effort.

Uganda government, President Yoweri Museveni and Minister Simon Lokodo #homophobia #psycho

@Niam2020

1) That kind of shit is the exact reason Africa is politically unstable. And how half the dictators in recent history got their jobs.
2) They got the kill the gays bill idea from an American in the first place.
3) Hypocrisy being the poison of democracy is why America is politically unstable and has Trump for a President right now. Well, that and foreign meddling.
4) America is on the thinnest of ice with the rest of the world and unlike previous years of non-existent resistance may not have the allies to actually attempt such a thing without global retaliation this time, some of which could include old friends that have very recently been alienated, bullied, or even outright betrayed.
5) Team America World Police is not a documentary.
6) Dude… just no.

I am not reassured by the fact the bill failed on a technicality rather than being rejected on the basis of it being a morally repugnant raping of human rights and regression of humanity to a darker time we frankly should be able to say we’ve moved on from but clearly haven’t as a species.

Ahreeman X #fundie

To an outsider looking in, there hasn’t even BEEN a left wing of American politics in decades. The centering metrics are slanted far to the right compared to the rest of the world. But to even acknowledge the rest of the world seems to be a cardinal sin to many in the US. America is unwilling to step back from its global interests despite decrying “globalism” but is only willing to sit at the table to discuss mutual interests if they’re at the head of the table with their hand hovering over buttons that make the rest of the chairs slide into death traps a la Dr. Evil.