Yeah! We usually puppet the dictators! This is all wrong!
That woman needs to stay the hell away from open windows.
Any Republican with the capability to be embarrassed has left the party. Anyone remaining is complicit.
The post-Reagan GOP has only ever been about more government, more police, more fascism. She’s fallen for the classic blunder of assuming that fascists ever argue in good faith. They don’t give a shit that they talk about being the party of small government and yet can’t wait to use techno-feudalism to make sure that gay people aren’t secretly having sex. They’re not arguing for small government in good faith and never have done.
This is the bastard child of capitalists and fascists. They both need each other and both think they are in charge of the other.
The real truth time and time again for 10k years is labor has the power.
I think that crap resonates with people because they think smaller government = lower taxes. If there’s one thing conservatives love to obsess about more than other people’s genitals it’s money. Even if they’re poor and pay a negative tax rate.
Becca is 100% correct.
Lady, the states have always supported dictators that were friendly to them (often because they were installed BY the USA, like Fulgencion Batista, Manuel Noriega, Augusto Pinochet, to name a few)
“waa waa trump is a russian puppet”
Karma sure is a bitch, huh? Enjoy.
You haven’t thought this out, have you? Unless you are happy that the US President is taking Putin’s orders, eventually abandons NATO and lets Russia invade the Baltic nations? Is that what you mean by WAA WAA KARMA IS A BITCH?
…Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, before being betrayed by the US of course.
I upvoted this comment, but schadenfreude isn’t a good look anywhere.
Why are Vermont reps so based??? Isn’t Bernie also from there?
Democrat stronghold. No worries about Republicans picking up seats.
Vermont is awesome, we’re planning to move there once our family situation changes, but it may be a few more years of caretaking before we can. In the mean time we’re trying to keep the state we’re in at least purple as long as possible.
TBO US supported dictators before, Pinochet, Marcos, Saddam, Suharto, Batista and others.
This is the first time for a major land. Still scary and absurd tough.
If Republicans could feel shame I’m sure they’d be very upset
Anyone with integrity, morals, or even a backbone was pushed out many years ago.
My grandfather, who took a pistol off a dead Nazi doctor in the 14th Armored Division, quit the Republican Party when they had those Purple Heart Band Aids.
I guess if you get one after waking up under the body of your dead friend you don’t get the joke.
Yeah, that was when the myth of the “liberal” media should have been permanently put down, along with the GOP, but nah, the MSM dutifully “both sides” it and so many (most?) veterans had zero problem with it. That was when the (D) party should have had its real ‘Houston, we have a problem’ moment, and started fighting the metastasizing problem of right-wing/fascist propaganda that gets merely parroted by the rest of the MSM, but alas, they did fuck-all while it just got worse and worse and worse.
But not upset with themselves, upset that society hadn’t lowered the bar far enough for them to not feel shame for their actions.
The bare minimum, that’s all people want. Show a fucking backbone and rage!!!
I dunno, as a non-empty subset of “people”, I want more than rage. I want action. Spare me your tears, spare me your anguish, spare me your irascible outcry. Arrest the people breaking federal laws every single day, and if no action is taken by those who have abdicated their duty, ensure they abdicate their posts, through main force if necessary.
Showing life would be a start. Instead we get this…
And all it took for Republicans to get on board was the threat of primaries funded by Trump’s multi-billionaire buddy.
I mean, that’s all we know in the open. I seriously doubt there weren’t background threats and bribes.
There’s always organic threats too from the
brownshirtredhat thugsThere are always background threats. It is politics after all.
The True President.
Current political stage is more left vs right, progressive vs conservative, woke vs antiwoke. Russia is ally of conservatives, because their politics are far right conservative.
I think you’re missing proletariat vs. bourgeoisie. The tarrifs are a direct attack from each capitalist nation on its working class. They do not net negatively hurt capital. On the contrary they allow a manufacturing of concent for further suffering the working class of each nation will endure while the capitalist class of each nation will further strengthen the nationalism of each country. And further concentrate wealth in fewer hands.
“America first”, “Buy European”, etc. These are all excuses to further worsen the material conditions of its people, build it’s nationalism and xenophobia, and build concent for more war.
That’s not quite right. Russia is not conservative in the American sense of the term, although they are far right in terms of authoritarian rule. They’re an oligarchy. But their 10-year psy-op against American conservatives has been incredibly successful. They are up to their eyeballs in Russian conditioning and behavioral modification.
It’s actually incredibly impressive. Turns out that Russia won the Cold War, and their greatest former adversaries (American conservatives) ended up being the United States’ weakest link at the end of the game. Endlessly fascinating stuff.
They are ultra conservative in internal politics and in public opinion, which is of course controlled by their state controlled media.
Russia’s internal policies are wet dreams of American conservatives.
Much of this situation is because of the Russian long running psyop campaign against American public opinion. Dividing nations is default Russian psyop playbook. They have been done that all over the world, and they are proud of it.
Yes, they have that “social conservativism” that has become the shared obsession of the American right thanks to Russia’s brilliant disinfo and behavioral modification campaign.
I just meant that, economically, they do not share American conservative values. For example, the typical poor Russian can’t just work their way up the social ladder, start their own business, hit it big, own a bunch of property, etc. You must be born into it, full stop. This is the piece that American conservatives fail to understand in their Russian aspirations, and why, at the end of the day, they really do not want to be Russian despite what they’ve been brainwashed to believe.
They’re an oligarchy.
And the US is not?
Under the current administration we indeed aspire to be more like Russia and are succeeding.
Why the fuck are they waiting until after he came into office to hammer home the Russian ties and really bring it to the forefront?
They’ve literally been saying this shit for 10 years, it just doesn’t make it into the algorithms during election season.
It’s literally a quote from his debate vs Hillary.
That’s find but I mean why does it pop up in the news after it is too late? I certainly noticed a LOT more press and comments about it in recent weeks. It is really fucking weird and infuriating.
Because they are cockroaches and only act for their own survival.
That’s my rep! Glad that the little State of Vermont has sane representatives in both chambers of congress.
Yeah, I’m wondering what the hell is going on in Vermont, and can you guys ship it to the rest of the country?
Democratic stronghold. No need to moderate for Republican voters because they’re irrelevant.
Yeah, but they still have better reps than most other democratic strongholds.
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Fuck. See, that was easy, no censoring necessarily at all.
As in: Fuck off for using the r-word.
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Could you please not lump folks with learning and or intellectual disabilities with a bunch of spineless fascist traitors?
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The war on all words that describe a negative trait continues.
I promise whatever the goalposts are set to will be the next inappropriate term.
I don’t know about that. What I do is try to listen to why a group thinks a word is offensive.
The thing with “retard” is that it has been used to refer to people with mental disabilities for a very long time. By saying “republicans are retards” you say “rebilocsns are as stupid as people that were born with a mental disability”.
Thing is, people with mental disabilities are still people. There are goofy, snarky, nice, some are even quite big assholes. Many can be a lot of fun to interact with. They are just people, even if they are not as intelligent as you or me.
Referring to people as retarded, to me, means setting mentaly disabled people as the baseline for beeing idiots. And I just don’t think it’s fair to reduce them to something, they had no saying in what so ever. They didn’t choose to be born that way and they shouldn’t be reduced to just that.
/rant I guess
You know idiot, moron and imbecile were replaced by “retarded” as a less offensive way of expressing those terms? Kind of funny that things have flipped and the original offensive terms can be used with abandon but the less offensive replacement is now the thing that can’t be said.
I completely understand. In ITIL terms they’re addressing the incident - the thing that is causing someone immediate harm. To continue the ITIL analogy, the problem is not being addressed and will never be addressed. I am confident humanity will never stop using the concept of mental disabilities as a slur regardless of the verbiage used.
Any ‘nice’ term you can think up is immediately ammo for someone to use once it starts getting traction as the new way to talk about it. “Trump has a mental disability”, “republicans are mentally disabled” are two examples of what people could say until that term is no longer acceptable, and the cycle repeats.
Really what should change is that mental disabilities should be normalized so that descriptors cannot be used to degrade people based on a reality that cannot be changed.
Anyway, regardless of our best intentions, empathy, patience and understanding for others, the cycle will just keep continuing. Idiot is a great example of a word for the same thing and is used frequently and often because people simply have forgotten over the generations how it was once used. It’s original term was innocuous, simply describing common individuals, not necessarily implying any truly negative thing. Eventually it was used to describe the mentally disabled, and then used as a slur, and then it fell out of favor for a long, long time. Ultimately the meaning and the application is the same. The problem remains.
I feel highly offended by your use of the word “goalpost”
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Euphemism treadmill go brrr
Or people could just stop using slurs?
It’s not like there’s a short list of things to dislike about fascists without punching down on social minorities…
Is calling someone stupid a slur? Not saying that’s what the previous poster said, legitimate question
I don’t think so since stupidity is a trait not a slur afaik.
Okay. Would you say the same applies to the word idiot? Imbecile? Moron? Are any of those slurs?
idk for idiot or imbecile.
Moron is a slur imho.
But these are only my opinions and English isn’t even my first language so I might miss some things ^^`
