Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
It’s not gullibility; the reactionary right want to oppress the people they hate. It’s White Christian Supremacy.
It’s similar to the KKK: they weren’t tricked into being hateful pieces of shit, they just are. Sure, a big part of that is that their culture is rotten with fundamentalism and anti-intelectualism, but those are cultivated and flourish because they’re helpful to the cause of being hateful pieces of shit.
How did I possibly forget that Tulsi ‘Present’ Gabbard was the director of national intelligence?
Or you could rocket jump for more hang time. Only once, though.
They want respect earned through fear.
Fascists can’t stand being the butt of a joke though.
I guess I don’t understand what you think I’m missing. I think the rise of an explicitly fascist party and the propaganda arm to support it is pretty dire.
And historically, the right has been at the forefront of new media. Talk radio has been almost exclusively reactionary since its inception, and that provided a model for new media as well. We’ve had nearly a century of radical right-wing radio content to hone the message and tactics. Father Caughlin was doing his radio show in 1933, wherein he took his “America First” message to the nation.
There have been more leftist new-media shows than previously, but they are still playing catch-up with the well-funded reactionaries.
The right-wing rage machine has recently been fueled by a number of things, but mainly loss in prestige due to acceptance of LGBTQ+ people & the US hiring a black president. They got a candidate in Donald Trump who swore to be their retribution, and they rallied around him because he hates all the same people, but (perhaps most importantly) also spoke to their loss in a way that other Republicans and Democrats would not.
Yes, the reactionary right is often derided as stupid, but they’re very effective at stealing the language of liberation from the left and repurposing it to defend the people in power.
While many of the base are indeed ignorant and misinformed, the people driving the message are meticulous and creative about finding ways to make White Evangelical Supremacy more palatable. Tucker Carlson is especially effective at laundering neo-nazi talking points for them; his constant scaremongering around the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory and his open hatred and lies about trans people are some of the most egregious.
But it’s also people like Joe Rogan who make this reactionary funnel really work: he acts like a middle-of-the-road centrist, but also sells a gentler version of the same great replacement and “gender ideology” bullshit while introducing his audience to a whole bunch of radical right-wing freaks like they’re just normal people.
Reactionary ideology is about loss and blame.
The current reactionary stripe in the US is focused on White Evangelical Supremacy, so everyone who is not in that group is a prime target.
White Evangelicalism has lost a heap of prestige in the last 30 years, while LGBTQ+ rights have been ascendant. This is the reason why trans people have long been taegeted by the reactionary right: they want to roll back all of the gains made to sexual minorities, and trans people make the easiest targets.
They also target immigrants for largely the same reason: they’re a highly visible population who doesn’t conform to their ideal White Evangelical model, so they use terror tactics to oppress them.
The goal is to make life intolerable for the people they hate so that they don’t have to compete against ideas that make the world a more equitable place. It’s no coincidence that the reactionary right rallied around fighting diversity, equity and inclusion: they are an evangelical white supremacist coalition.
She’s just mad that she got frozen out of the boys club. She was one of the biggest fundraisers in the party— she did her “duty” and only after she got stiffed did she figure out that there is no honor among thieves.
If this caterwauling troll had gotten her bag she’d have had no complaints. Fuck her.
They’ll use the heat to turn a steam turbine which powers a laser pointed at the polar ice caps.
Nice, I didn’t know Raimi was still making movies.
Cops will go fucking nuts on someone merely because they don’t comply; their pea-brains simply cannot tolerate anyone who dares to question their authority.
Dude shouldn’t have even gone into the house, he refused to leave and deescalate, then murdered a woman instead of just walking out of the door of a place he didn’t even belong.
There’s a fire starting in your ship
Reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing 'em out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go 'head and crash land and I’ll strip your saucer bareSee how I leave with every piece of it
Don’t underestimate the things that I will do
There’s a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch and its bringing me out the darkThe scars and gore remind me of war
They keep me thinking that we almost lost it all
The holes in my suit they leave me breathless, I can’t help feelingWe could have had it all
Terror from the deep
You had my heart inside of your hand
And you played it to the beat
I’ll just wait until you’re done moving those goalposts.
They “conveniently” left out something that wasn’t in title VII when they were talking about classes protected by title VII? How devious.
Police and ICE are right-wing paramilitaries. They don’t recognize anything left of White Christian Nationalism as legitimate legislative authority because their entire mission is service to the status quo. They protect entrenched power and wealth; it’s their entire purpose.
They are the enforcement arm of capital which rallies around White Christian Nationalism as its standard.
Here’s an idea: how about we stop killing people for no good reason?
Only if they change the triathlon to:
When one side frames empathy as “weakness,” it really makes it easy to identify the complete assholes.
That conservatism is an inherently reactionary ideology dedicated to entrenching the status quo and reversing the hard gains made towards a more free, open, and fair society.
I sure wish Pete would save himself.