I sadly don’t think that’s the case. I still talk to people every day who are parroting 50s-era anti-communist propaganda straight from the mouth of the CIA unironically. Circumstances may be dire, that I don’t dispute, but I feel like they’re going to have to be considerably worse before most people are willing to overcome their indoctrinated bias and start considering alternatives that don’t involve ‘maybe make capitalism suck a little less?’
Kissinger was Jewish, so that was antisemitism. That’s how it works (according to Israel), any political statement or action made against anyone who is Jewish is antisemitism, right? :P
Hmm, someone call maga a waaaaahmbulance, it’s nappy time.
If you feel like hunting for it I’d be happy to look at it, but I’m not gonna go digging in your posts for who knows how long to find it.
I agree that’s definitely the case, but I think the problem here is that most Americans can’t tell minorities apart, they see brown skin and assume. I once watched a grown adult yell ‘Mexican go home’ to a Pakistani couple, and this sort of thing is far too common.
Yup. When he did those nazi salutes I didn’t think ‘omg he’s secretly a nazi’, it was ‘omg that fucking 12-year-old edgelord cringe-factory is so fucking proud of himself for pulling that off.’
To be clear I do think he’s a nazi, just not because of that salute. Dude has some weird ideas about ‘spreading his seed’ and shit that I’ve only ever seen in fanatically religious communities and among white supremacists.
No, I have to assume he’s doing it on purpose and thinks he looks cool and fails to realize what a complete fucking moron he looks like.
I have been reading The Onion for decades, and it’s bad when even I can’t tell the difference between legit stupid shit Trump says and made up stupid shit.
I dunno what this article is about, all I see is that image of elongated muskrat being bad at wearing hats. :P
Sure, I realize it’s not universal, I’m just saying counter-examples exist because I am one.
I’m also a pretty non-violent person, I’ve never been in a fight or thrown a punch in my life, even as a kid. But yeah that’s probably not the norm.
You are conflating civilization with empire, the two words have different definitions for a reason. Imperialism is, according to Miriam-Webster, ‘the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas’. New Zealand qualifies as civilization in most peoples’ books, it’s not an empire, and there are lots of other similar examples out there.
It smacks of accelerationism. ‘Fuck with those who fucked with us’ just results in a whole lot of people getting fucked, only substitute targeted, arrested, renditioned, etc for ‘fucked’.
But I’d settle for taxing the living fuck out of conservative churches and other non-profits that violate not staying out of politics.
Fuckin’ same.
Nah I’m not down with that. Prosecute them with proper due process, remove everyone’s ability to do what you suggest, and unfuck all the things Trump fucked and you’ll have my vote.
Do you think that will make it better or worse? Cause you know it’s going to swing back the other way at some point, and as aggro as they already are toward the left, can you imagine how they will react when they have legitimate reasons to think they’re being targeted?
It’s the Democratic Party, if you don’t go into it already prepared to be disappointed you haven’t been paying attention. :P
And I’m not talking about whether not they win, I’m saying their campaigns should consist solely of ‘here’s a list of things Trump fucked and that I am going to unfuck.’
I went to high school from 86 to 90 in Oklahoma (so south-ish.) I’ve been pushed and shit, but I’ve never thrown a punch or had one thrown at me. It was less luck than just not being a very violent person (not wanting to hurt other people as much as not wanting to get hurt.) Also I got picked on a lot as a kid so I learned to have a foul mouth and a rather sharp sense of humor as a means of deflecting or defusing situations that might’ve otherwise led to fights.
I fully realize that I’m the exception though, fights were pretty common when I was in school, but I just attributed that to being high school cause I’ve seen like 3 actual fights in the ~35 years since then.
Not as far as I know? I was always pretty liberal, and then in the last 10 years or so I’ve slid sharply to the left as the bullshit in the world has increased. shrug
My ‘extremist’ views are a rather late development, in the last 10 years or so, so that seems suspect as well. shrug Maybe I’m just a special snowflake or whatever.
That’s interesting. Like it seems that, like most people, he had a complex relationship with his heritage and the way it manifested in the world. But what’s especially telling is despite him making the antisemitic comment about breaking of the 1973 ceasefire it turns out he gave them the green light to break it, so that makes it seem like that comment might’ve just been an act for the benefit of others. Saying the equivalent of ‘Oh lawd, those silly Israelis are breaking ceasefires again’, etc, to conceal or misdirect from his involvement in giving them the go-ahead.
But also this isn’t particularly relevant to the joke I was making. Which is that Israel calls anything said or done against Jewish people for any reason antisemitism, so I was turning that back on Israel for doing/saying things against a Jew. It’s funny regardless of Kissinger’s relationship with his ethnicity/religion or Israel because it’s about Israel, not Kissinger.