This is all true, but it's a far stronger effect than at any time in the past. One has to wonder about just what drove such a large swathe of people down this cult thought drain. I still maintain it's bizarre!
I'd argue it began here.
It's not the first time I posted this. It lives forever in my brain...
Newt Gingrich was the start of a lot of dreadful precedents in US politics…
It's totally fcuked up, it's not normal.
We have the democrats trying to be sane, pointing towards their achievements and trying to run a somewhat decent campaign.
On the other hand we have the republicans, literally foaming at the mouth, speaking in tongues, threatening to arrest and deport ELEVEN MILLION PEOPLE (FFS), telling woman they'll literally be on watch if they're pregnant and announcing plans to destroy democracy.
If you're now saying "well, I don't think the Dems are running a good enough campaign no wonder people are voting for Trump", DAFUQ IS WRONG WITH YOU?! Have you paid fcuking attention since 2016? Is there some kind of mass psychosis in the US? Is it alien mind control rays?
Because I refuse ANY rational explanation of this effed up situation. Imagine you are offered a lift. One driver is neat, tidy, boring and drives a diesel Mercedes. The other is an axe murderer.
Maybe the yanks have been living in the nuthouse for so long, they don't see the craziness anymore. I don't care for "well, you know it's complicated and it's not all black and white", dude, take a step back and take a look at yourself. Because you may be on shrooms.
I think some republicans should be taken to the gravel pit.
It's a mixture of decades of drug abuse, dropping educational standards, the celebration of the moron in TV/films, rampant religious craziness, and fetishization of Americana.
I think as well that America had a sense of self from WW2 up until the end of the Cold War. Once they won that, they had no clue what to stand for, and as a country have been drifting along ever since, fighting amongst itself. 9/11 galvanised them together for a while, but Trumpism has ripped it apart and sped up the decline.
I don't know if it'll be a Democrat or a Republican that fires the first shot, but I do know it's the Republicans pushing for another Civil War, this time through Trump trying to destroy democracy in the US. Or perhaps, the finishing of the first one, which the Confederates don't seem to think ever ended.
the worst part about this all is it has ruined one of my favourite Wu Tang Clan's songs for me 😔
/s
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/trump-second-term-abortion-immigration
The future according to Trump for everybody but his chosen ones will be bleak, it may take a few Generals to take him out if he wins in Nov.
I generated this meme as it popped into my head...
Trump took… every position on Israel this morning?
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/trump-attacks-jewish-politicians-says-you-have-to-stop-israels-war-on-terrorists-in-bonkers-fox-hit/
ODB had plans to run for the senate as a Republican candidate, many felt he would have been hugely successful.
Georgian Carbuncle declares after facing much ridicule that yes she’s still definitely going to be filing the vacate motion she threatened to weeks ago then had no follow through with
https://www.mediaite.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-announces-she-will-call-vote-to-oust-mike-johnson-crowns-him-with-make-ukraine-great-again-hat/
Trump doesn't have "positions" , he has "What will make them love me the most today?"
He will flip-flop in the same sentence if he thinks it will get him more positive feedback in that moment.
No I don't have autism or Asperger's though I agree there's no shame in having such a condition.
I can 'comprehend' disagreement, however I just think differently. Anyway discussion has run its course.
I just don't understand. When did it become acceptable for US Republicans to take Russia's side on things?
Around the time that "owning the libs" became their primary purpose in life.
If she could control the pup to bring it to the quarry, she could just as easily have brought it to a vet. So yes, end of conversation.
I disagree. Stop replying to me.
So in town today and came across this chap lol,
when Russia started helping them win elections.
I disagree too: it’s even easier to bring to a vet than to kill it and deal with the mutilated corpse.
It's a discussion board and that was my first time posting here on this particular subject. I don't agree with your thoughts on it so I replied to your message.
I agree that at times an animal may need to be put down immediately for certain reasons. But if you have the time to take control of an animal and can bring it to a quarry then how could that journey not have been to a rescue centre or a vets office instead. Some how you disagree with that, fine, bizarre but fine.
I can reply to any post I want. I seldom post here anyway. I won't be replying again regardless and I wouldn't have replied at all only for you telling me not to.
Feel free to click the ignore button, I really don't mind.
The single thing that has changed overwhelmingly in the last decade is the spread of social media. At least msm had some degree of control and intelectualism, even the likes of Fox and similar. You had to make an effort to read a newspaper or watch a news programme. But the various platforms for every randomer to spew rubbish on are now available to anyone with an opinion or a thought, and they are instantly available to a gullible and screen obsessed public. Look at the number of vox pops where people are asked where they get their news and information, and they reply social media or 'the internet'.
Consider how fast the pandemic/mask/vaccination nonsense spread, much of it was totally irrational and most of us have friends or relatives who accepted it and went with it. The borderline between people not automatically accepting anything authority tells us, and going off on lunatic tangents based on fantasy has become very blurred. When added to the policy in the US for the past century of destroying critical thinking, encouraging whatever fantasies big business wants to spread in pursuit of money, and doing more indoctination than education in schools, there is no wonder they have problems. And trailing by around 5 or 10 years, the rest of the world is following.
Lol Wut???
Obviously not that "close" to her friend to know that she has already 100% confirmed the story and has doubled and tripled down on justifying her actions…
My favourite oxymoron has to be when the conservative GOP cheerleaders whipped themselves into a frenzy over X-Men 97.
Like at what point did you guys think the bigots were the heroes of those stories?
they did what
hehe, I would think you surely came across the big kerfuffle there in February/March, lol.
https://cosmicbook.news/rip-x-men-97-woke-nonbinary-characters
The most notable cause of consternation was a certain characters derriere. It was all bullh*nkey but you get the idear.
They were throwing a shít fit about the X-Men going "woke" because the reboot intoduced a "non-binary" character.
For one said character wasn't "introduced" he was already in the original series first ever episode. And secondly non-binary is a strech as he is a shapeshifter like the better known Mystique so is naturally fluid.
But again the X-Men "going woke"? Whats next Batman "going woke" fighting criminals?
****Ing culture wars!
It's all they have
