Nicker on 19/3/2023 at 19:02
OMG. I am sicker than I thought. :eek:
Starker on 29/3/2023 at 21:56
In latest not the news, here's a video about the state of Wisconsin's attempts to become a democracy:
[video=youtube;SYiYCEoofp4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYiYCEoofp4[/video]
Starker on 6/4/2023 at 07:11
A sneak peek into the lives of main characters and how much more weird they tend to be compared to regular NPCs:
[video=youtube;IP2EKTCngiM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP2EKTCngiM[/video]
Cipheron on 17/4/2023 at 12:23
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https://www.wonkette.com/qanon-psychic-makes-case-for-bland-food-and-dirty-bums)
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The deep state has teamed up a taken over the wireless providers such as Verizon and they are hijacking the wireless technology 5G. It has been used as tool for surveillance, mind control, and tracking. People are getting harassed by all sorts of technology.
For instance, they make people hear voices. So in those hot peppers, jalapeno peppers from Mexico, what I discovered is there's a coating in there like graphene, it's some sort of nanoparticles. And it makes people hear voices.
Mexicans are putting 5G in jalapenos.
You also get the "5G" by wiping your ass:
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And I told people, stop eating that and then it goes away. Toilet paper has it in it too. You can have it sitting - the toilet paper - in your bathroom and the 5G gets in the air.
It gets everywhere, the graphene. You don't even have to use the toilet paper. So that regular toilet paper, Quilted Northern, I would not buy any further. I would look for maybe organic, maybe a recycled one. And also paper towels, they have graphene in them as well.
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https://twitter.com/2022_Karma/status/1647183625861976064)
Dia on 17/4/2023 at 14:03
You can't make this shit up. *smh*
demagogue on 17/4/2023 at 16:21
I remember watching Bill O'Reilly's show once, Lord knows why, and suddenly out of nowhere (to me) he started railing against tomatoes entering the US from Mexico. It's like just saying the word Mexico somehow taints whatever they're talking about.
I guess having done research in ag trade law for a while that made me particularly miffed about that. You can't just discriminate products by their country of origin. You have to treat them just like you treat your own products. Discrimination is against WTO law, you know the whole economic liberalization thing that won the Cold War and that the US itself has pushed on to the rest of the world for decades now. How are conservatives forgetting the heart of their own movement so sensationally?
But it's one thing after another on that network... 10 things a day, 365 days a year of things from Mexico and trans people destroying the country. Don't give them time to think about one until you throw five more things at them. It just drowns people into a stupor of disgust and hate. That's no way for humans to live.
One of the crazy things about the wingnuts' hysteria about migrants, first, most of them aren't coming from Mexico but from Central and South America, but if Americans really wanted to end the violence that's motivating so many migrants, they should acknowledge that's it's the US market for drugs that's funding it all, and then do the right thing: legalize drugs already FFS. Bankrupt the cartels; put the tax revenue into social programs; and shift the whole thing from a criminal problem locking people up to a healthcare and social welfare problem taking care of people, along with aid programs to help rebuild the economies that the US itself helped wreck.
Cipheron on 17/4/2023 at 23:17
That's because they are NOT conservatives.
This isn't my idea, but the labeling on the left/right divide isn't meaningful.
Liberal is a set of values and beliefs. Doubling down on those specific values isn't going to turn you into a communist revolutionary. And it's the same on the other side. Conservatism is a set of values, related to maintaining the traditions and institutions of a country. There's no reason to believe that doubling down on the values as stated is going to turn you into a Christian Nationalist who wants to destroy the government, have a civil war, and install a theocracy - but they've successfully convinced people that this means they're "extra conservative".
However going back to the question again: one of the issues is that "conservative" HAS no stated specific position, other than being opposed to change.
- If there's a monarchy, conservatives are monarchists, but if it's a republic, conservatives double-down on how great the republic is, and it can't be questioned - despite them being monarchists right up until the point the monarchy fell.
- if there's a state religion, conservatives will support that being enshrined. however, if there's no state religion, conservatives will also support that, under the religious freedom label.
- If there's free trade, conservatives will support that. Conversely, if the status quo is protectionist with tariffs to protect local industries, then the conservatives will support THAT and not free trade.
So, conservatism is entirely dependent on what the status quo is. Therefore, this explains why conservatism often HAS no stated policy positions, and why it's so easy for it to be hijacked. If your position is merely in opposition to change, what sort of policies can you even outline? All you can do is look at the winds of change, and try and offer up a watered-down version of whichever way things are going, to mitigate any changes.
Fundamentally I don't think they're even the same people. These are radicals and reactionaries, which are a different thing from conservatives, in the same sense that communists and anarchists are not just a flavor of liberals.
Starker on 18/4/2023 at 12:05
Happened to see that Charlie Brooker hosted Have I Got a Bit More News for You the other day:
[video=youtube;wopqts7hv20]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wopqts7hv20[/video]
Cipheron on 4/5/2023 at 00:48
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign-1234728327/)
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Musk Threatens to Give Away NPR's Twitter Handle Unless It Tweets Again
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In April, the public broadcaster quit the social media platform after Twitter added a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's main account. The decision made NPR — a private, non-profit company that maintains editorial independence from the U.S. government — the first major news outlet to stop publishing new content on Twitter.
That tag was later revised to “government-funded media,” though NPR has said both are false and misleading. Musk also took the label off government-backed outlets including Russia's RT and China's Xinhua News Agency.
So Musk added the "state media" labels to progressive outlets, then when that was protested, he removed them again - but also took them off RT and Xinhua at the same time.
Was this the plan all along, or just opportunistic?
