CharlesDarwin

It's only the "will" of the conservatives that matter, though.

Even if Taco barely pulls in a (dubious) plurality of the actual population, that's the Will of the People, and An Historic Landslide, etc.

Agreed. They have lost all rights to talk about anyone else being "radical" without people pointing and laughing right in their faces.

Well, that's all very cool.

How about ICE stop wearing those goddamned masks so they can be identified?

About the only time they notice "activism", too.

They can have activism like Project 2025 or the decades-long effort to overturn Roe, and none of that counts as "activism".

I remember having multiple discussions with a guy I knew who was adamant about various works of fiction, including the original Star Trek TV series, and how, in his view, if they have any kind of subtext to them, that it was not intentional and it's entirely in the eye of the beholder, meaning, that people just make it up as they go.

These included, but were not limited to: OG Star Trek, Dune (book), LoTR (books), and even the NARNIA series. I mean, Narnia. I think I first read them around the age of 10 or 11, and the Christian parallels practically hit you between the eyes it is so obvious. Even to a kid...I mean, I'm pretty sure Lewis has gone on record with the clear intent on proselytizing his faith via that series.

I wish I was joking, and this guy read most everything when it came to old sci-fi stuff. If that is his take on reading all those classic sci-fi stuff, I was just gobsmacked as to what he was getting out of it.

I have the feeling that there might be more people like him, but I just don't get it. Even things like WWE have the basic outline of the hero's journey to them, FFS.

And by "antisemitic", they are still going by the hilariously outdated notion that maybe last held sway in the 90s, and that means "not sufficiently subservient to just whatever the fuck Israel wants to do"?

It will be so hard to wake some of these people up enough to vote against the Confederate Party, because of all their training to balk at doing so - because, OMG, "woke", "DEI", "CRT" and "antifa".

Besides all the wedge identity politics (their fixation on things that have zero impact on their quality of life, like "men in women's bathrooms/sports" is legendary), the red-baiting bullshit runs nearly as deep. It's just common currency among so many Republicans to just casually talk about the Democratic Party as if they really are filled with literal Communists.

Yep. Reprogrammable meat bags. As long as they think their vote will be hurting the people they think need to be hurt, they'll vote for it. Even if they get royally reamed at the same time.

MAGA movement that outlasts Donald Trump by letting business leaders shape American policy.

What's so goddamned ironic is that I cannot tell you how many asshole Taco supporters would mutter nonsense about "Big Tech" because of them being trained like good little parrots to talk about "Big Tech" as if it was liberal, LOL.

When I'd ask them any further questions about such claims, I'd usually get nonsense about how they were being "censored" or "shadow banned" and other such hilarity. Most of it came after their October surprise was foiled, seemingly, in relation to Hunter Biden's ~~hard drive~~, oops I mean, "laptop".

And now, well, will you look at that. These guys are just talking about having "Big Tech" simply set policy, because, hell, why not. Worthington's Law in action.

Anyway, I guess suggesting that people with huge communication platform add fact-checking on Russian disinformation campaigns or anti-vaxxer quackery in the middle of a fucking pandemic, that was where they drew the line....having shadowy, deeply weird freaks like Thiel who are enamored of even weirder freaks like Curtis Yarvin and the authors of The Sovereign Individual set policy for the rest of us....very cool.

That's good they have been making efforts on that front.

Seems they are worst in per capita homicide, 5th worst in obesity, 2nd worst in poverty, and worst in life expectancy.

Kind of like "Florida Man" (or the corollary, "Ohio Man").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

This is what I'd love to see sent to every butt-mad dipshit that is queening out over Mamdani, and acting like he is the second coming of Karl Marx, FFS. 🤣