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@awstar11 They’re just decent heckin people

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@CathyYoung63 @IMAO_ Yes, you are a “principled conservative” who works for a media outlet defined by “principled conservatism”

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@neontaster *tap tap*
https://t.co/DP7Aei9XQf

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I like how people argue with the Bulwark gals as if they were independent thinkers subject to persuasion instead of Jojo From Jerz dem agitprop with better grammar. Lib Catturd hahahaha

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@wil_da_beast630 Get on the truthiness wave Wilfred
https://t.co/nIW6yrUMqs

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

During the 2024 campaign, a post went massively viral claiming JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” contained a scene in which Vance had sex with a latex glove jammed between two couch cushions. This was a total fabrication.

In interviews, the poster responsible for the meme said he was inspired by a story about Lyndon Johnson spreading false rumors about political opponents having sex with pigs to try to force them to publicly deny the allegations.

The fact that the claim about Vance, which came with page numbers that could easily be checked, was totally false, easily falsifiable and came from a source who openly admitted he made the whole thing up was irrelevant. The story spread across the internet and into mainstream media and discourse.

Stephen Colbert joked about it repeatedly. He shared AI generated meme images of Vance with a couch. John Oliver also spread the memes. And, eventually, so did the Harris/Walz campaign, with Walz saying he couldn’t wait to debate Vance, if Vance would “get off the couch and show up.”

On the first episode of his 2005 show, “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert, who gleefully spread the couch memes, famously promulgated a widely concept called “truthiness.” He explained that certain things that are not true nonetheless “feel true” because they validate priors, and people would rather have their beliefs reinforced than debunked.

He said: “It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.”

“Truthiness” was not a criticism of liberal discourse — it was presented as the animating concept of his parody of Bill O’Reilly; that conservatives didn’t want truth, they wanted “truthiness.”

Liberals like Colbert and Oliver demonstrate no self-reflection or self-awareness with regard to their previous criticisms of conservatives and conservative media when they spread viral misinformation like the JD Vance couch meme, which was a perfect example of “truthiness,” in that it was a completely fabricated claim that had the feel of truth to progressives because it validated their beliefs about Vance.

Anyway, here’s my point: A screenshot is currently circulating of a passage from the Wall Street Journal article about Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s history of infidelity, sexting and hookup apps, which says that Platner refers to his penis as “Mein Fuhrer.”

A lot of people are saying this screenshot is fabricated. Some of these people are claiming that they are WSJ subscribers who have read the paywalled WSJ article, or even that they are journalists who wrote this article, and that this passage does not appear in it.

You should not listen to these people.

Graham Platner refers to his penis as “Mein Fuhrer,” and also, he has shaved his pubic hair into a “landing strip,” which he refers to as “Der Fuhrer’s mustache.”

This is the truth, or at least, is exactly as true as it needs to be.

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@JacobAShell Tyler is a professional bad faith interlocutor. This is literally his job, he gets paid to obfuscate like this

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@baseballcrank Maybe the time to stop playing the “both sides” game is when democrats have embraced actual Nazi candidates and this is how their supporters treat “reasonable, principled conservatives” who dislike Trump’s lack of strict adherence to conservative principles. Food for thought

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@yhdistyminen @politicalmath @feelsdesperate @xwanyex look the “reasonable technocratic libs” are running cover for domestic terrorism again

They’re just such decent heckin people am I right?

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@mazemoore Massie has also called the Trump administration the “Epstein administration”

“BuT hE diDnT cAlL tRuMp A pEdO”

These bad faith grifters do the same willful obtuseness/refusing to understand things act we are all too familiar with when dealing with leftists

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@wil_da_beast630 @CBHeresy Did he challenge him to a fight or sucker punch him? You keep acting like fighting words are active legal doctrine. The racism is a non-factor, this will be a standard self defense case

Chud will likely be found guilty, but not for the reasons you outline. Discrediting stuff

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@Noahpinion @wil_da_beast630 Yup. Maybe it’s just demographics of where we live respectively, but if your sample size is large, neither of these are remotely rare categories
https://t.co/dHtSN2o42u

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@wil_da_beast630 Go to a super smash bros tournament and get back to me. You will find ample examples of both

When the online racists get under your skin the quality of your posts drops dramatically into the type of slop you rightfully criticize!

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@wil_da_beast630 Go to a super smash bros tournament and get back to me. You will find ample examples of both

When the online racists get under your skin the quality of your posts drops dramatically into the type of slop you rightfully criticize!

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@redsteeze *tap tap*
https://t.co/8D1r4o4Lu1

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@awstar11 David French is your average lib’s favorite minstrel show

Bill Kristol is your average communist’s favorite minstrel show

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@bonchieredstate We’re all seemingly supposed to be ignorant of the fact that good behavior while incarcerated typically results in serving 50% of the sentence, which she already did

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@xwanyex I notice the “travel” discourse is centered around going to hotels, trying new restaurants, paying for entertainment etc

Not much about week long back country camping/hunting/fishing excursions with a $5 per day land usage fee

Foreign shopping malls are masculine now I guess

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@feelsdesperate But she made it herself hurrr durrrrr. Groundbreaking commentary from Alice as always
https://t.co/geLVPTkOGG

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@AliceFromQueens @ShineboxHukster “Look Trump is subservient to china”

“What do you think of China?”

“I’m not hawkish at all, kinda pro China and anti-Taiwan”

Literally beyond parody. You are shameless

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@AliceFromQueens @ShineboxHukster “Look Trump is subservient to china”

“What do you think of China?”

“I’m not hawkish at all, kinda pro China and anti-Taiwan”

Literally beyond parody. You are shameless

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@CathyYoung63 @avidseries Cathy we get you want to defend Islamic rapists. How else would you keep getting your paycheck at the Bulwark you evil harpie? Tell your boss he’s an antisemite. You’re a kapo

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@wil_da_beast630 You may disagree with current precedent and think it’s immoral, dishonorable, etc (and that is certainly a reasonable pov, iirc you are a fan of bringing back duels lol). But let’s call a spade a spade, the guy’s words posed no imminent threat. Ergo standard self defense case

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@wil_da_beast630 I mean not really, he’s clearly a scumbag and the open question (to which he will probably lose) is whether it was a reasonable use of force

You seem to be under the impression though that fighting words are live doctrine… fighting words are effectively dead doctrine

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@TheBrancaShow @misfitpatriot_ I think his team’s best line of defense will be the same argument used by police officers. If he was incapacitated by a punch, his firearm could be taken by the assailant, thereby elevating the punch to an imminent threat of life