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hpslugga

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  1. You're projecting as I have nothing to be defensive about. And why should I? This wasn't about anything I've done or said over the years; this is about you and your commitment to obsessive whataboutism. I'm not the first person to call it out, even if we limit that to just this thread. You knew better than to say something like that. I wasn't even referring to QAnon. You just assumed that. But see, that's the point. When it comes to batshit nuttery, GOP voters aren't short on material. I was actually referring to birtherism, which is at least sympathized with (if not wholly embraced) by 72% of registered GOP voters. 41% of participants in a 2016 poll indicated that they "disagreed" with the statement "Barack Obama was born in the United States" while an additional 31% "had doubts." In other words, even despite being presented concrete, irrefutable evidence to prove the fact of the statement fully 5 years before the poll was taken, 72% of GOP voters will not say that they agree with it. And that's just the most egregious example. Again, we also have Jade Helm 15, the stolen election of 2020, QAnon, Pizzagate, Seth Rich, Vince Foster, COVID is a hoax being perpetrated by the Chinese, etc. That laundry list is considerably longer than whatever dreams Democratic voters are having. You spend far less time and effort pointing that out than you do with your silly little "both sides!!!" comments.
  2. And you really don't see how people can detect the utter tone deafness on your part when you seem to equate, for example, 20 quotes that, according to you, were posted more than 16 months ago by fewer than 20 people with a belief that either was adopted by or sympathized with by 72% of Republican voters?
  3. First, I would ask how many is “many?” I can’t speak for anyone other than myself but I didn’t give a shit about the dossier one way or the other. Do I think Donald Trump should have been impeached? Yes. Do I think he should have been impeached for the reasons he was actually impeached (the first time around)? Let’s put it this way: if you ranked his crimes alphabetically and if you really believed every single word in that dossier, there still aren’t enough letters in the alphabet to include it. Second, how many, of this “many,” still cling to it? Is it nearly as big as the QAnon idiots who still believe in a batshit fairy tale that never earned a microsecond’s worth of attention? If you could provide evidence to “yes” answers to both, you’d merit consideration. Until then, you’re still coming off as someone desperately seeking a false equivalence in this stupid game of whataboutism.
  4. I admire Anastasis' commitment when he feverishly tries to equate these two parties. It's a passion worth replicating in a more noble venture. But what he's actually doing here is like jerking off with his hand tightly wrapped in barbed wire and then he ends up blaming the barbed wire and the lighting of the room equally for not producing a climax. No, one factor was much more responsible than the other. Just because two things contribute does not inherently render them equal contributions.
  5. Could not have said that shit better. Well actually I could have if Bill Maher didn't beat me to it two years ago: The problem is that they genuinely believe that feelings and emotions are an adequate substitute for legit evidence. As to them being censored, that's a bad joke. They have 3 cable "news" networks, a litany of radio stations/shows, and a roster of characters that they readily confuse for intellectuals. The fact that they keep self-owning to the point where even some of their own people stop listening to them (COVID is real, Ted) does not mean they weren't given a platform and/or opportunity to put their shit on blast, much less does it mean they don't exist. As many here have asked, what views, exactly, are being censored? If the right wingers cannot offer a sensible answer to that question without some quip that they find to be clever or some stupid insult like "go fuck yourself," they have no right whatsoever to act offended when they're easily dismissed. And if they still are offended and they want to let us know that they're offended, my response to that is this: I'm offended that they're offended.
  6. This is precisely what I was referring to. That’s exactly what you’re doing, yet here you are projecting your own faults onto those willing to call you on your own bullshit.
  7. Always been about the cancel culture Always been the snowflakes Always been the communists Always been the fascists Always been the racists Always been the dogmatic ones that try to force their beliefs down people's throats Always been the ones opposed to civil rights When you resist those things, in their tiny minds, you're the one that's guilty of those things precisely because you resisted them. When you resist their calls to cancel things like Dungeons and Dragons, the Teletubbies, a great chunk of the music industry, etc, that's you being all about cancel culture. When you resist their whines and bitches about QAnon, Jade Helm 15, Pizzagate, the fake COVID-19 scamdemic, etc, that's you being a snowflake When you oppose corporate welfare, that's you being a communist When you oppose bills like these https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-legislature/oklahoma-bill-seeking-to-protect-drivers-who-run-over-protesters-heads-to-governors-desk/, that's you being a fascist When you say things like "whether white people want to admit it or not, they've enjoyed a degree of privilege in America that no other race has," that's you being a racist. When you oppose the suggestion, as so many states have, that history classes in public schools need to teach that God's holy finger wrote the Constitution before he handed it off to Jesus and Moses to deliver to the Constitutional Convention, you're being dogmatic in your zeal to force your beliefs down other people's throats When you call a woman a Karen, that's you being sexist When you oppose compulsory prayer in school, you're opposed to civil liberties. And they don't see that same evil in themselves when they do the exact same. Quite the opposite, actually. So when they wanted to cancel D&D etc, that's them being moral crusaders When they promote QAnon, Pizzagate, et al, that's them fighting for all of our freedoms by speaking truth to power When they support corporate welfare, that's them being capitalists When they support bills like the aforementioned, that's them championing freedom of speech When they deny the existence of white privilege, that's them being tolerant When they support the Moses/Jesus things, that's them being scholars that are faithful to accurate history When they oppose calling certain women Karens, that's them being feminists When they support compulsory prayer in school, that's them supporting religious freedom It's a shocking level of self-delusion that goes far beyond anything that I've seen in my lifetime.
  8. You're being too kind. It's literally impossible to defend their positions. Asking a GQP to argue in good faith is like dreaming of the perfect woman.
  9. I think it depends on how frequently these crimes get caught on camera.
  10. Or, to put it another way, those are things that we get out of only what we put into it. If you're gonna put a turd into an oven, don't expect buttermilk biscuits to come out.
  11. He went on that tangent because it's a good sound byte. You boil down a complex issue to a simple question and decorate it with "muh freedumz," you're going to win over a lot of seriously dumb voters. That whole screed he went on yesterday had absolutely nothing to do with serious discussion about public policy with intellectually serious people. It had everything to do with the "I'd have a beer with him, I'm voting for him" crowd. Nine...eleven=Our...freedom. EDIT: Also, notice the very dramatic hand gestures. When you couple that with the empty, substance-free commentary, you should take note that you're watching a person trying to assume the role of an oppressed individual preaching dramatically against his/her oppressor. For the past year, the GOP has been on a non-stop crusade to frame Anthony fucking Fauci as Sheev Palpatine reincarnated. All I'd have to say, were I in that room, would be "Congressman, I served with Obi Wan Kenobi. I knew Obi Wan Kenobi. Obi Wan Kenobi was a friend of mine. Congressman, you're no Obi Wan Kenobi," since we're all completely pulling this out of our asses anyways.
  12. Slow enough to where little Tucker could have had a cut.
  13. Psssshhh. Tip of the iceberg. But that's what red America is: all about the sizzle, none about the steak. They loved to think of Trump as a successful businessman when he was nothing of the sort. He was successful, yes. He was successful as a conman and a crook. He had a very successful presentation. But a businessman? Shit, I'm a better businessman than he ever was.
  14. I mean corporations are what line the GOP's pockets, and that's why they get into it. Mitch McConnell calling them "stupid" is a bit like when Paul Heyman was calling Vince McMahon "the evil empire" back in 1997 when it was known that Vince was cutting him and ECW a check every week. As to the state's threats to close tax loopholes those companies usually enjoy: that's a bluff. It usually goes the other way around: corporations threaten state governments that if they don't receive those benefits, they'll just relocate to another state. And it usually works, too (see Fidelity and Raytheon in Massachusetts back in the late 1990's). Corporations aren't begging particular state governments for those benefits; they'll usually find them even if they have to look somewhere else. It does not pain them at all. Anyways, you know that your party is a bag of dicks when even the corporations are openly calling you a bag of dicks.
  15. You’ll be in a line that resembles same of Splash Mountain.
  16. Only disappointment was the mutual decision to not finish the fight by the monsters after they took down MechaStreisand. The 1962 film actually had a winner. Was hoping for the same outcome here.
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