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I wouldn't go posting about that under your real name unless you want people pressuring your company to fire you on Twitter.. What a time.
The number one rule of fascism is to not comply in advance. Speak out loudly and use your rights; force them to take action to stop you.
But what else can you do? They already control the media and corporations.
More power to independent media I guess.
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Are you saying there are no conservatives who are attracted to those who identify as trans? Not too long ago you could say the same thing about being conservative and being attracted to the same sex, yet that isn't something be bat an eye at anymore.
I'm saying it's incredibly unlikely.
https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsessio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner
Being trans (or being attracted to a trans person) is one of many aspects of that person. Other political positions may outweigh it, and the taboo nature of it may be an appeal (see also: stepsibling roleplay porn).
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I've watched Rogan a bit and don't recall him telling jokes. He generally seems quite a neutral interviewer though his guests lean right wing.
Yeah, no. Not neutral at all. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-mocked-botching-joe-biden... One of many examples. Joe is outraged because he thinks Joe Biden talked about airports during the revolutionary war. He goes on to state that someone who makes such comments shouldn't have a job. When it's revealed that it's a Trump statement he pivots to "oh he just made a mistake when speaking". It's so blatantly obvious…
I mean he's not like Tucker say.
> The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them I've heard this before, but where did this originate? Did Jimmy just make it up or was he quoting some source? I heard the same thing but from people I interact with that this guy was crazy right wing nazi and killed Kirk because Kirk wasn't hard-line enough. But then the bullets said "Catch,…
It really is kind of incredible. I just saw the clip and there really is absolutely nothing there. This is not even 10% as poignant of what Jon Stewart would say in his day. He doesn't even say anything about Kirk himself, or even about the murder—he just talks about the reaction to it. I already thought it was very suspicious that Sinclair's official press release just talks about how the remarks were "inappropriate…
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But I watched the clip (I don't know the comedian) and it really doesn't make fun of the assassination. It makes fun of JD Vance.
I strongly agree you don't make fun of tragedies, especially polarising ones, but this really doesn't do that.
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Neither of those things occurred, here. Kimmel's remarks were extraordinarily mild, and they also happen to be entirely true.
Nobody has provided any evidence that I've seen that the murderer was motivated by a right-wing anything, and frankly as the least logical conclusion it needs sources. I read that the person who turned him in (or an acquaintance) said that he was the only leftist in a family of hard right people. [Apologies for the lack of source; I read it as news was breaking and don't have the link] It's a nonsensical argument tha…
> The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them I've heard this before, but where did this originate? Did Jimmy just make it up or was he quoting some source? I heard the same thing but from people I interact with that this guy was crazy right wing nazi and killed Kirk because Kirk wasn't hard-line enough. But then the bullets said "Catch,…
"Catch, fascist" is a reference to the Hell Divers 2 video game, it is less a political calling card and more of a reference to gaming.
Ok, fine, but then "Bella ciao" is an anti-Nazi and anti-fascist Italian folk song (at least according to wikipedia) [1], so, we got a hard right winger, mentioning killing fascists and listening to Bella ciao killing someone like Charlie Kirk. There was "notices bulges" comment which I didn't get. But given just those two clues and having to guess the affiliation of the shooter, not sure how people arrived at "this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them [maga gang]".
Mel Brooks had the right of it. Fascism and Authoritarianism is defeated by satire and mockery. The ideology is too outrageous to survive any such scrutiny. Why else would the administration be so afraid of a few jokes?
I have read that the Joe Rogan school of comedy, that has grown popular in the past decade, did so on the grounds on fighting liberal "cancel culture". Back then they were rebelling against what was painted as a predominant culture, now that they have overachieved, one wonders if they would also fight cancle culture when it is coming from thr political right. I am not very optimistic about that. But maybe we get new…
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It depends on where you draw the line for acting in good faith. Justice Antonin Scalia's opening statement before a 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0 Even more worth reading are the Federalist Papers, cover-to-cover, as he suggested. The depth to which the Framers considered the kind of situations we are in today is amazing.
Also read the anti-federalist papers. Their criticisms of weaknesses in the Constitution predict exactly how those weaknesses have been abused. Both sides of the argument understood the nature of power and humans.
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