Funny events in anti-woke world

[Cheetodust]

how do ppl see anything appealing there at all?

... Because he's the guy who platforms child porn and nazis. Literally nothing else about him matters to his supporters.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

... Because he's the guy who platforms child porn and nazis. Literally nothing else about him matters to his supporters.

Likely. Those YouTube comments are unanimously all in favour of Ron too. Though I strongly suspect most or all of them didn't even bother to watch the debate because he did not come off as anything they would usually consider respectable at all. He was a cowardly unconfident dumb wet flimsy paper bag.

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Marjie knows nothing, remembers nothing. But somehow it's Biden who is the one with dementia.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Lmao

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Marjie knows nothing, remembers nothing. But somehow it's Biden who is the one with dementia.

Well, hell, it worked for Ronald Reagan.

 

[Gergar12]

Heaven's not real.

 

[Gergar12]

US won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands

Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink warns security pact presents ‘potential regional security implications’

www.theguardian.com

I hope Curtis Lemay's tactics return if this happens.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

The Right’s New Conspiracy Theory: Kamikaze Planes and Food Fires

A bizarre right-wing conspiracy theory has found a prominent ally.

www.thedailybeast.com

A new conspiracy theory on the right—that a marauding band of arsonists and kamikaze pilots have been sabotaging the national food supply—has captivated Donald Trump supporters with the help of a big name: Tucker Carlson.

The theory has no basis in fact. Last week, an image began circulating on Facebook showing local news headlines about fires and other accidents at American food processing plants that produce everything from Hot Pockets to potatoes. The implication was that something was afoot with the food supply, even if the conspiracy theory’s proponents themselves couldn’t explain what it was. The image spread to Telegram, the social media messaging app that's become popular on the American right, with conservative figures like Jan. 6 rally organizer Ali Alexander reposting it.

But despite a total lack of evidence that anything out of the ordinary is going on, that didn’t stop Carlson from running a Fox News segment on the debunked supposition.

“Industrial accidents happen, of course, but this is a lot of industrial accidents at food processing facilities,” Carlson said during an April 21 segment on his primetime show.

Carlson opened the segment by suggesting that a sinister plot was at play, even if no one could explain what it was. He then kicked it to his guest, Seattle talk radio host Jason Rantz, who called the timing of recent fires “very suspicious.”

“You’ve got some people speculating this may be an intentional way to disrupt the food supply,” Rantz said.

Despite what Carlson, Rantz, and an anonymous image posted on Facebook say, there’s no evidence of an unusual amount of fires at American food-processing plants. A Snopes review found similar numbers of fires in earlier years. And while Carlson pointed to roughly a dozen fires as proof of a conspiracy theory, a 2017 Census report found that the United States has 37,000 food processing plants—suggesting that a dozen fires wouldn’t significantly hurt the food supply.

Right-wing blogs promoting the plot have also used an expansive definition of “recent.” In the widely circulated Facebook image, for example, the first headline about a fire cited in the meme came from January 2021, more than a year ago. A post on right-wing commentator Tim Pool’s blog about the fires cited a Tysons Meat fire as far back as 2019 as evidence of a suspicious sabotage campaign.

This new brand of conspiracy theorist doesn’t just suspect a nationwide arson gang, though. They’ve also seized on two recent plane crashes at food processing plants, at an Idaho potato plant and a General Mills plant in Georgia.

Neither of those cases suggests a plot to deliberately crash planes. In the Idaho accident, a UPS pilot crashed into a factory chimney that her father claimed was positioned too close to the approach to the runway where she was trying to land. In Georgia, the plane crashed into a group of mostly empty tractor trailers in a remote part of the plant. Neither incident appears to have been targeted at a linchpin of the food supply.

Still, Carlson had questions.

“What's going on here?” he asked on his show about the plane crashes.

Even the arson theory’s proponents have struggled to explain the motivation behind launching an elaborate attack on food processing plants. There are often vague insinuations that Joe Biden’s administration is behind the “attacks,” or that the fires are to blame for rising food prices. But it’s rarely explained why Biden would want to induce a famine ahead of the midterms by, for example, sabotaging a Hot Pockets facility.

All the same, right-wing personalities have theories. On the far-right personality Stew Peters’ show, one pundit claimed nefarious forces—bent on causing a repeat of the Ukrainian Holodomor famine—were behind the industrial accidents.

Even Carlson, the conspiracy theory’s most prominent proponent, struggled to figure out whether the number of fires was even notable.

“What are the odds of that?” Carlson said. “I have no idea.”

Making shit up is the only viable political strategy when your sole ideology is sourced from fading tradition dependant on chronic lack of scientific data.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Making shit up is the only viable political strategy when your sole ideology is sourced from fading tradition dependant on chronic lack of scientific data.

Well, if it keeps working, why change?

 

[Cheetodust]

The Right’s New Conspiracy Theory: Kamikaze Planes and Food Fires

A bizarre right-wing conspiracy theory has found a prominent ally.

www.thedailybeast.com

Making shit up is the only viable political strategy when your sole ideology is sourced from fading tradition dependant on chronic lack of scientific data.

Honestly at this stage I'm worried we're just going to have to accept that the fascists are going to takeover and hope that pivot back to the left after they fuck everything is quick and severe. Hopefully president DeSantis doesn't do too much damage in his 12 years in office.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Honestly at this stage I'm worried we're just going to have to accept that the fascists are going to takeover and hope that pivot back to the left after they fuck everything is quick and severe. Hopefully president DeSantis doesn't do too much damage in his 12 years in office.

Nah, each time the right takes over they'll rewrite the rules for elections to favour them. Sooner or later they'll just automatically win and stay in power indefinitely.

I personally think that we're going to have to accept that certain countries are going to write themselves off, and get busy forming treaties with the ones that don't look too close to doing that yet.

 

[Cheetodust]

Nah, each time the right takes over they'll rewrite the rules for elections to favour them. Sooner or later they'll just automatically win and stay in power indefinitely.

I personally think that we're going to have to accept that certain countries are going to write themselves off, and get busy forming treaties with the ones that don't look too close to doing that yet.

Unfortunately my country is obsessed with following in America's footsteps. Our next leader will likely still be under criminal investigation for leaking private state info when he takes over in December and everyone in government has said that isn't a problem.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Unfortunately my country is obsessed with following in America's footsteps. Our next leader will likely still be under criminal investigation for leaking private state info when he takes over in December and everyone in government has said that isn't a problem.

Much the same in Australia, only we have federal elections in a few weeks and our PM has stuffed literally everything up, so fingers crossed we'll get the lesser evil instead. The media is firmly on his side, though.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Unfortunately my country is obsessed with following in America's footsteps. Our next leader will likely still be under criminal investigation for leaking private state info when he takes over in December and everyone in government has said that isn't a problem.

What sort of private state info? What or who was that compromised secrecy meant to protect? (That sounds like a pointed question, and it might be depending on what you're talking about, but I don't actually know.)

 

[Cheetodust]

What sort of private state info? What or who was that compromised secrecy meant to protect? (That sounds like a pointed question, and it might be depending on what you're talking about, but I don't actually know.)

Abridged version?

Department of health were in contract negotiations with a doctors union.

Head of rival union trying to supplant the old union was a friend of the then Taoiseach.

This union was threatening to lobby against the Taoiseach's party in upcoming election.

They were also trying to get a hold of the draft contract agreement but couldn't because it was still private and confidential. Minister for health couldn't even get a copy.

Taoiseach gets copy and has it delivered by courier to friends home address rather than through official channels.

He has since then admitted that it happened in the Dail and now denies that it happened because, as he described it, it was 100% a crime so the entire government and media has just decided to pretend that he never stood up and said it.

The latest development is that the Gardai have finished their investigation and handed the file to the DPP. The fucked part is every newspaper is spouting the same narrative that the gardai have not recommended pressing charges. The reason that is fucked up is that it is not the Gardai's job to recommend pressing charges. It's meaningless but the media are framing it as them finding no evidence of wrongdoing. It's weird how ireland gets a pass. Honestly watching our government and media, the way they interact you would swear we were a South American country that had their government installed by the US.

There are more details but that's the gist. I'd say Google it but Irish media has been fairly circling the wagons to protect him. The Irish independent never even ran a news story on it when it first broke. They instead ran only an opinion piece on why it probably wasn't illegal.

Edit:side note, the doctor/friend is question is getting his own TV show because Ireland really loves rewarding the openly corrupt.

Oh and the same doctor who was discussing opening a direct provision center (a place that profits off of refugees)


Yeah we're rewarding him with a TV show.

 

[Gergar12]

Lol I am at a talk by John Ikenberry, he is still talking about the liberal international order.

And he is talking about cooperating with PRC China.

 

[Elijin]

What sort of private state info? What or who was that compromised secrecy meant to protect? (That sounds like a pointed question, and it might be depending on what you're talking about, but I don't actually know.)

Im furiously trying to find the disclaimer that the website is satire, for my mental health..

 

[Cheetodust]

Spain airport queues warning as Brits say Irish getting ‘preferential treatment’

Some holidaymakers are reporting missing flights at Malaga Airport in recent days due to massive queues

www.irishmirror.ie

"Why do the members of the EU get to travel through the EU easier than we do?"

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After just returning from a holiday and I have to say... Lads just stop. We were queing for security and an English guy just started walking past the line saying "I'm late for my flight" as if that excused it.

And now this one is a pet peeve. Stop turning up here wearing leprechaun costumes. It's not funny to turn up to any country wearing aa caricature of their culture for a laugh. And it's particularly not cool when you colonised that country for the better part of a millennium.

I just remembered walking through town over Easter and passing a group of English lads on a stag standing outside a pub making jokes about the trad music they were playing. Just friendly advice, Easter weekend might be a particularly bad time for the brits to be at it in Dublin. I'm not saying they deserved a bottle to the jaw, I'm just saying it's a good way to go about getting it to happen.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"Look at those poors, trying to act like they're as good at us. Get 'em outta here!"

 

[BrawlMan]

Likely. Those YouTube comments are unanimously all in favour of Ron too. Though I strongly suspect most or all of them didn't even bother to watch the debate because he did not come off as anything they would usually consider respectable at all. He was a cowardly unconfident dumb wet flimsy paper bag.

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Marjie knows nothing, remembers nothing. But somehow it's Biden who is the one with dementia.

What a coward. Own up to your actions and betrayal, biatch.

 

[Agema]

After just returning from a holiday and I have to say... Lads just stop. We were queing for security and an English guy just started walking past the line saying "I'm late for my flight" as if that excused it.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has given the game away – even this government knows Brexit is a disaster | Jonathan Freedland

The founding purpose of the Johnson administration has gone, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

Pretty much. Brexit was a mass delusion of national strength by nationalist twats, who now do not wish to face the reality that they have brought on themselves. The sooner they start to realise all the negatives, the sooner they - and the wider country - may learn some humility.