Out of morbid curiosity I went on r/conservative to see what they were saying about the files.
Go there and it’s like Epstein who? Not a single thread, it’s all threads attacking AOC or threads defending racism with more racism
I want to tell myself that sub is mostly bots, but then the guy clearly got elected, so maybe they are real…
That sub is a small sample of the conservative base. Virtually every conservative I talk to in person is simply more ignorant overall, and often just parrot talking points (like black men who voted for him saying he’s not racist because he donated to black colleges when Harris didn’t, but she sent innocent black men to jail, etc).
They are literally and figuratively fucking dumb. Magical thinking, horoscope, and firmament believing nutters.
” I could stand in the middle of 5th ave and rape a child and I wouldn’t lose a single vote!” 🫲🍊🫱
Did he say that?
A couple of weeks ago I realised that power is an actual drug for some people. And that a certain type can, like any alcoholic or coke-head, lose their mind over this addiction. This would explain all the pedo stuff. Most of these crazies probably are no clinically diagnosed pedophiles, but what do you do if you already own everything, cars, houses, yachts and islands? You come up with stuff everyone would go to jail for, like raping minors. It’s coked out of their minds power addiction and we as a society need to make sure, that people are not exposed to it for too long.
Am I rambling? Made perfect sense to me when I first thought about it. :)The original quote was saying that he could shoot a man in the middle of 5th street and not lose any votes. But yeah, he probably could rape a child on the street, and he would have apologists lining up to justify it.
Also lining up to take pictures and beg for a turn, if the preponderance of pedophiles in their leadership continues as a trend in the voters.
They’ve already decided rape is fine. Now they’ve decided child rape is fine too.
Having a pedo rapist as Preznit has opened the door wide for these fucking losers to just say it all out loud. Just look at the game Pragmata— there used to be a time when you’d goon after a CHILD like that and you’d get reported and removed. Their new motto: “Our Preznit iz a Pedo so itz ok lawl wut u mad libruls???”
Remember when the worst thing MAGAts could be was racist? Ahh … nostalgia.
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some person i know (kms) continues to say 'even though he’s in the files he didn’t do anythinggg :( he literally reported epstein :((( if he did anything he would be in jail right now 🤓"
While the Europeans progress with their judicial system, the MAGA fucknuts are preparing another distraction by rattling their sabers against Iran.
They’ll also grumble something about DOW at 50 thousand
My friend dropped her phone and cracked the screen. It was a bad day and she started crying and all I had to say was the Dow is at 50K it’ll be okay.
next step is conservatives defending esptein.
Shotgun can cure a lot of ills
Just make sure you don’t place muzzle at the chin, that’s amateur hour, can shift and blow off just your face, leaving you with more problems.
Place muzzle back a few inches below the ear, pointing up into the brain. If you know where the cerebellum is, you’ll have even better success when pointing to that.
Oh, wait. You ARE taking about suicide, right?
The ones left really are the most retarded people on the planet.
You look like them when you drop the r-slur. Don’t let their shit behavior and punching down make you worse.
Agreed.
Window licking mouth-breather is so much more poetic.
Dumb take alert.
If you’re gonna jump in so late with so little to add, at least have the courage to drop the slur. It was right there.
More stupidity.
Now you’re just taunting me. Badly.
Nope, it is my well informed opinion after reading all your comments. Your take is incredibly stupid and ignores context.
Well with such a compelling, well reasoned argument, I’ll have to concede. Well done.
Nah. I’m good. I never was going to pass the “wholesome” purity tests that progressives love to fuck themselves with.
No autistic or adhd Lemmy/piefed users were hurt. Nobody thought, oh that’s kinda like me. Only retarded Republicans.
The test was ‘don’t use slurs’. I suspect you have larger issues if that is the hill you want to die on.
I’m autistic. I don’t like seeing that word come back. So I called out shit behavior. Have some godsdamned creativity if you’re going to insult people. Don’t emulate the people you’re insulting.
As usual with all things, it’s a spectrum when, where, and what I’ll use. And I think it’s plenty appropriate to direct it to hurt these fascist nazis.
But to be clear, no I will not pass your test to never use any slur in any context. I don’t think most people would, even on the progressive side of the spectrum. Nor do I think the bar will remain the same for certain people and they are just annoying people into fascism over every single fucking micro aggression.
So. Coming down from my high horse and taking a breath. A good faith question for you? I can understand the first paragraph and disagree with the second, but I would like to let that go for just a second.
Why are you attached to this word? They defend pedophiles, the steal from the poor, they commit atrocities, and they do really bizarre shit like wearing diapers because their leader is incontinent. I get the ‘hit them with what hurts’ angle and can’t say whether or not it’s effective. Is casually hurting others, because two different people in these comments have positively asserted that they were offended, worth not choosing a different word?
Because I believe it does hurt them and shame them more forcefully and is more effective conveying the degree of stupidity. I also think, tangentially (like wild), that Internet culture change vastly outpaces built-in generationally learned norms and that young people interact with older more than ever. And the amount of change desired, among a billion other more important factors but a factor none the less, is essentially ‘annoying people into fascism’. Especially in non formal settings, outside the workspace, legal language,Again, small factor in a while lot of things.
Some people are going to be full on charge. Some will think you are silly and over reacting. Sometimes, is an education thing and they are genuinely happy to learn. But if not, you insisting is essentially using political or social capital in various different ways. And I think it’s over used and failing because of said generational differences.
It’s not really my hill to die on. I just think they are a lost cause and I want to hurt and shame them at this point and think most people (maybe not on fediverse) enjoy hearing them described as such.
I appreciate the answer. I even agree to a large extent with your last point. I still think it an easy thing to not do and will call it out when I see it. I think the people that are letting annoyance with the general rule ‘don’t be a dick even if you can get away with it’ lead them to fascism were probably most of the way there anyway, but that’s whatever.
I’m not going to entreat further change from you, I’ve got too many paragraphs into this thread as is. I hope to see the immoral sacks of shit get everything they have coming too.
Oof. Way to embody your slur of choice.
I heard about this book when I was young, and the older I get the realer it becomes.
“Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler, written circa 1970. The author, a sociologist, predicted that as the world moved from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era many people would be unwilling/unable to deal with the new realities.
“Conservatives” all over the world are working harder and harder to hold onto the past.
They don’t look cool or intimidating.
JFC this is a meme of all time
Got sick and tired of those looks so I stopped making them question their reality.
