MAGA -- soon as they got right back into power -- went from "The evil Deep State is interfering in our politics" to "We demand that the NSA and CIA have the right to spy on American citizens without warrants."
Pete Hegseth: give us this power or the terrorists will kill you.
Never forget that almost 34 years ago, we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14-year-old son in the back, and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child—all over how long the barrel of a shotgun is.
@swd2 Is this satire?
Is there anybody in 2026 who is still ignorant enough to believe that taking the Covid shot would save their neighbors, when the shot never prevented infection or transmission?
This is satire, right?
@_CritterMan@TRHLofficial I find this push to take away knives, particularly from a Libertarian perspective... stupid. Sus, even. Rather than stripping away knives- we should strive to ensure EVERYONE and their kids have comparable.
@OligarchOpoly@BumpstockBarbie I advise knowing when to call it and divert your time to something useful- which is nearly anything else. Count Dankula had some fine advice of making the final reply end on "Reply to this if you eat poo." If it doesn't stop them, at least you get a chuckle.
I've seen this unironically from some people and I just want to say... me too.
Also our sports team is the best sports team. That sports team that isn't our sports team is the worst. I celebrate my fellow right-opinion havers. It's a pity those other people have the wrong ones.
I don’t care how many followers it costs me.
I’m not afraid to say it. I’m against bad things. All of them.
That’s how stunning and brave I am. Now please tell me I’m a good person.
@OligarchOpoly@BumpstockBarbie It can be quite hard in text indeed- at least up until you realize they aren't even reading what you typed but some maliciously rewritten caricature. It's effectively a mental illness.
I was in the habit of calling it Strawman Syndrome.
@OligarchOpoly@BumpstockBarbie I've known too many people who implausibly misunderstand anything versus interpreting whatever they read in whatever way they think makes them look good.
So tangential is their concern for understanding that there really is no point in having a conversation.
@OligarchOpoly@BumpstockBarbie One can pretend the malicious manipulation doesn't exist, but not me.
Meanwhile I don't think the naturally changing terms are nearly a basis for disagreements so much as people who change the terms to whatever they think makes them seem virtuous on the internet.
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Not the first time today I've seen woke slop described as "women".
"Woke" means sociopolitical propaganda made by pinkos.
"Slop" means it sucks and anyone offering it to you for consumption is not your friend.
If those things make you think "women", I've got bad news for ya.
The reason this meme resonates with me is that it captures a common tactic in public democrat debate. Someone points to a broad trend and instead of discussing whether the trend is real, the conversation immediately shifts to an exception.
Mention fatherlessness and someone brings up a successful person raised without a father. Mention failing schools and someone points to a student who excelled. Mention crime and someone finds a neighborhood that remains safe. The exception is treated as though it disproves the pattern.
The problem is that exceptions do not erase trends. Nobody is claiming every circle is red.
They will call me a outlier... An exception.... an anomaly.
The point is that when most of the circles are red, focusing exclusively on the blue one prevents an honest discussion about what the overall picture actually shows. Serious analysis begins with patterns, not exceptions.
That is why so many conversations about public democrat policy go nowhere. Instead of asking why a problem exists, people spend all their energy trying to prove the problem doesn’t exist because they found a single exception.
Reality doesn’t work that way. If most of the circles are red, then the responsible thing to do is explain why.
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@OligarchOpoly@BumpstockBarbie Literally, now defined as literally or figuratively, is new objectively a meaningless term. Rendered so by hyperbolic idiots and either kin or mercs they paid.