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30 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Curtis Yarvin explicitly wrote that Europe should all be under Russian domination, complete with masturbatory prose about Cossack cavalry hooves on Parisian cobblestones. 
 

Very typical of Russophilic lightweights whose entire experience is reading some Dostoevsky and Lermontov and maybe a couple weeks of Moscow and St. Petersburg.  Just a complete disconnect from the Russian world as it exists. They’re like Weeaboos except they control our government. 

That's what's so bizarre about this.  Only in internet world could Yarvin be considered anything but a bizarre crank.

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Just now, tx 3 putt said:

 

take a closer look at 'one off' ballots in north carolina and mariposa county az 

If his intent was to say that he won due to a rigged election, we're in a much worse place than I thought.

11 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

take a closer look at 'one off' ballots in north carolina and mariposa county az 

So they’re just making up counties in AZ now? Suspicious.

 
'touched' 

Ana agrees with Yarvin, word-for-word.
You’ll note that he will never say that he disagrees with Yarvin’s thesis here.
50 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

take a closer look at 'one off' ballots in north carolina and mariposa county az 

Link?

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Defend.  These. Tariffs.

No one contends that corporations don't have outsized influence in American politics.

But name the last time a bullshit government agency was created then headed up by SoROS!, er, a wealthy private citizen and outsized donor who is also a massive government beneficiary.  And is also wholly unqualified for the position.

Show me a DOJ that is dismissing prosecutions for political reasons, all the while bleating about "weaponization of government."

Show me the last time a president signed an executive order singling out a law firm that represented a political enemy, er opponent, a decade ago for adverse action by the federal government.

You are certainly living up to Rockwall's reputation.

Great post. 
I’d add, show me the president who wholesale fired knowledgeable non-partisan civil service federal employees, presumably to replace with partisan hacks, and also fired a large swath of military leadership.

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34 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Great post. 
I’d add, show me the president who wholesale fired knowledgeable non-partisan civil service federal employees, presumably to replace with partisan hacks, and also fired a large swath of military leadership.

Yep. Where else have we seen this before?  Hmmmmm

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2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

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He’s still mad that Hope Hicks testified against him.

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

All anti-vaxers report to Baltimore ASAP.

20 hours ago, RockwallJim said:

I'll consider myself warned.   I've learned you can always tell when a person has nothing of consequence to add to the discussion if they do 1 of 3 things.. 1. grammar police, 2. swear, 3. ad hominem attacks.    Pardon the pun, but the 2025 trump card is when they label somebody a Nazi.  When they use that, it's because they have nothing more convincing to add.   

Or it could be that there are very obvious similarities between Trumpism and Nazism. 

Link?

Assume it’s this guy’s stuff.
6 hours ago, Red Five said:

I by no means speak fluent Dotard, but I think what he's saying is that he won in spite of a rigged election? 

Edit: We are so numb to him. However he meant it, a sitting president talking about a rigged presidential election from the Oval Office would have been the biggest story of the week/month not that long ago.

The problem is he's so fucking stupid that it's difficult to understand what the fuck he is saying.

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On 3/8/2025 at 3:42 PM, speed817 said:

Apparently this has been going on for a while at that same spot. Previous sign on the same billboard. Nobody seems to know who's paying for it, or if they do, they aren't talking:

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Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family. 
 

 

36 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family. 
 

 

 

secret service let him just go walk anywhere?

1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family. 
 

 

That shit was like the Battle of the Alamo.  And by Alamo, I mean the 2001 Texas Tech-aTm game, where Mike McKinney had to fend off Gap Kid and Harry Potter.

 

2 hours ago, wood said:

Apparently this has been going on for a while at that same spot. Previous sign on the same billboard. Nobody seems to know who's paying for it, or if they do, they aren't talking:

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@SydneyCarton

45 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

secret service let him just go walk anywhere?

Maybe they’re secretly trying to get him killed.

2 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Houston

 

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Some are calling for google to tweak its snark setting when Gemini replied “I don’t know…can you?”

^^ You can tell by the woman's voice in the Vance video that she's a savage killer.

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Google removed International Woman’s Day from their calendar? The cowering spineless simpering misogynists nauseate.

3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family. 
 

 

^^ You can tell by that woman's voice she's a savage killer.

Haven’t watched that video yet… but my instincts are that it’s not nearly as satisfying as I hope it will be. 

I know I've seen this before somewhere, but I don't think it's been posted here. A Brit's take on why Brits don't like Trump. nsiap.

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At the end of Trump's last term Nate White, an articulate and astute writer from England wrote the following response: -

“A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

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Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of ****. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?”

 

 

1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

90 minutes of Dunning-Kruger and Christian Nationalism. Fun stuff! 

 

 

My thoughts after 30 seconds into the video.

This guy looks like he smells like fucked butthole and dick breath.

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Yo Gabba Gabba! Is fascist.

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2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Houston

 

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baytown going to baytown 

6 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here is video of the terrifying gray haired Banderities assaulting our poor embattled veep and family. 
 

 

The party that normalized harassing others in public don't like it when engaged in public?

On 3/8/2025 at 10:26 PM, Brian Fantana said:

There's one coming out with Sam Seder vs. 20 conservatives tomorrow I think lol

Just watched it this morning.....oh boy......

 

16 minutes ago, speed817 said:

Just watched it this morning.....oh boy......

 

The way these young people "debate" feels like the result of right wing YouTube/podcasts over the last decade. A bunch of people that bought the disinformation from Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool and the cast of characters Joe Rogan books. 

Zero ability to critically think or even listen to Sam Seder. He brought facts and information and not a single person absorbed a word of it. They had their off-topic talking points ready and fired away. Completely hopeless to even discuss issues with them. 

 

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On 3/9/2025 at 9:51 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

“Would a real fascist do X policy” is a fools errand because fascism, its implementers, and its philosophical forefathers were explicitly anti-rationalist and uninvolved with political science as we know it.  This is especially true of the economy, which Hitler was notoriously uninterested in.  Franco did an about-face between planned autarky and market reforms and saw no conflict with the fascist state. 
 

Fascism is an anti-rational mood or vibe that places collective “national greatness” and the interests of a nation (inseparable from the state as controlled by a leader) above all else while completely subordinating the individual and attacking or eliminating those defined as outside the “nation”. The economy is an instrument to achieve those aims and there are no prescriptive economic policies or even political principles.  Even racism isn’t required, an out-group can be selected along other grounds. A genuine theocrat or free-market zealot might be brutally authoritarian but would not be “fascist” because elevating a faith or the market above the “nation” and its leader is antithetical to fascism which identifies “national greatness” as the highest metaphysical, spiritual, and temporal value. 
 

In the past I’ve been cautious about using fascism to describe anything in the United States, preferring “authoritarian” even for DJT.  But I believe that MAGA has coalesced into a fascist movement.  MAGA’s instrumental and incoherent stance towards market economics and Christianity (where the latter two may be useful, but MUST be subordinate to MAGA) rhymes with historical fascism.  The rhetoric about Americans being ready to suffer economic hardship to restore America is very fascist.  And on the economic front,  the emerging partnership between tech and MAGA and especially Musk is resonant of fascism’s relationship to industry. 

The best definition of fascism comes from Roger Griffin, who defines it as palingenetic ultranationalism. That can sound kind of wonky though since nobody knows what palingenesis is and still sort of sounds like an ideology even though fascism isn't really ideological, so Umberto Eco's 14 traits of ur-fascism is probably the best way to explain it to most people:

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1. "The cult of tradition", characterized by cultural syncretism, even at the risk of internal contradiction. When all truth has already been revealed by tradition, no new learning can occur, only further interpretation and refinement.

2. "The rejection of modernism", which views the rationalistic development of Western culture since the Enlightenment as a descent into depravity. Eco distinguishes this from a rejection of superficial technological advancement, as many fascist regimes cite their industrial potency as proof of the vitality of their system.

3. "The cult of action for action's sake", which dictates that action is of value in itself and should be taken without intellectual reflection. This, says Eco, is connected with anti-intellectualism and irrationalism, and often manifests in attacks on modern culture and science.

4. "Disagreement is treason" – fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith.

5. "Fear of difference", which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners and immigrants.

6. "Appeal to a frustrated middle class", fearing economic pressure from the demands and aspirations of lower social groups.

7. "Obsession with a plot" and the hyping-up of an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society. Eco also cites Pat Robertson's book The New World Order as a prominent example of a plot obsession.

8. Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

9. "Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy" because "life is permanent warfare" – there must always be an enemy to fight. Both fascist Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini worked first to organize and clean up their respective countries and then build the war machines that they later intended to and did use, despite Germany being under restrictions of the Versailles treaty to not build a military force. This principle leads to a fundamental contradiction within fascism: the incompatibility of ultimate triumph with perpetual war.

10. "Contempt for the weak", which is uncomfortably married to a chauvinistic popular elitism, in which every member of society is superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the in-group. Eco sees in these attitudes the root of a deep tension in the fundamentally hierarchical structure of fascist polities, as they encourage leaders to despise their underlings, up to the ultimate leader, who holds the whole country in contempt for having allowed him to overtake it by force.

11. "Everybody is educated to become a hero", which leads to the embrace of a cult of death. As Eco observes, "[t]he Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death."

12. "Machismo", which sublimates the difficult work of permanent war and heroism into the sexual sphere. Fascists thus hold "both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality".

13. "Selective populism" – the people, conceived monolithically, have a common will, distinct from and superior to the viewpoint of any individual. As no mass of people can ever be truly unanimous, the leader holds himself out as the interpreter of the popular will (though truly he alone dictates it). Fascists use this concept to delegitimize democratic institutions they accuse of "no longer represent[ing] the voice of the people".

14. "Newspeak" – fascism employs and promotes an impoverished vocabulary in order to limit critical reasoning.
 

 

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I went to visit some relatives in South Texas last weekend.  To the person they are MAGA through and through.  This has  been very disappointing to me because I love these people.  They are genuinely good, hard-working people.  They definitely believe themselves to be good Christians.  I have stayed away over the last few years in large part because of politics.  I don't want to be open with them about my politics because I know that would fundamentally change how they view me.  I don't want to engage with them about politics, but I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut.  So it's safer to stay away.  Anyhow, I was with them Saturday night for a little while.  Several of them were sitting around the kitchen table talking about politics.  I was listening, but not participating.  One of my aunts said something derisive about the mice transgender thing. I couldn't help myself and said, "No, it was a mice transgenic study."  She and another aunt asked me, "What's that mean?"  So I explained as briefly as I could.  One of my uncles said something along the lines of, "I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes to the government for things I want them to pay for; that I benefit from.  The ONLY thing the government does that benefits me is the military."  He was dead fucking serious.  He then went on about another ridiculous story about another study the government funded about the effects of tequila on goldfish.

What I took away from this is that these folks do no critical thinking whatsoever.  It's not that they are not capable of it.  They are all of normal intelligence.  I'm not sure the reason, whether there has never really been a reason for them to exercise critical thinking or if they are just too absorbed in their lives and activities to take the time and mental capacity to engage is such a thing.  These are all boomers.  Up until fairly recently in their lives, all news and media has been fairly unquestioned.  If Dan Rather or Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw said it on the evening news there was no reason to question it.  Same with every newspaper in circulation.  People used to not need to apply critical thinking to what they were seeing in the media.  I'm sure that all of these people only watch Fox News.  That's probably because they know it aligns with their preconceived notions and political ideology and makes them feel good.  So, feeling good (dopamine hits or whatever the fuck you get from confirmation bias) and zero critical thinking accounts, according to me, for why my family members are the way they are.

8 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

One of my aunts said something derisive about the mice transgender thing. I couldn't help myself and said, "No, it was a mice transgenic study."  She and another aunt asked me, "What's that mean?"

Trump said the transgender mice thing during the state of the union speech. All the republicans laughed and cheered. 

I know it's not feasible, but the democratic rebuttal to his speech should have just been a series of fact checks. Probably time restrictions there though.

8 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

They are all of normal intelligence.  

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9 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

  He then went on about another ridiculous story about another study the government funded about the effects of tequila on goldfish.

I mean, I would be for that study 100%

2 minutes ago, G650 said:

I mean, I would be for that study 100%

Hope the result wasn’t memory loss- they have so little to begin with!

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