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What the hell are you even talking about? DEI hardly changes anything, it's a joke of a policy. Trump appointed the 1st Indian as FBI Director, an Egyptian is head of the FDA, and an Indian is head of the NIH. There's hardly anyone that cares about race when hiring. You really think our government went from complete competence to complete incompetence because DEI was dropped? That's fucking crazy ass shit if you actually believe that.
I mean, if a joke of a policy did way better than what currently is in place, I'm also going for the joke of a policy. Because what the US has now is truly atrocious

What Trump has put in place now is the old Spoils system that the US rightly got rid of in the 1890s (and a president was assassinated over.) It always deleted any form of meritocracy. This is way, way worse than anything DEI did

You replaced a system you don't like with something worse. Congrats
 

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Yes you do, as well as other nations' propaganda machines. The difference is that you have zero personal experience to help see through the propaganda.

As the famous quote goes: "“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”
My dude, I don't think you know much about the lived experience of the average US citizen

You DEMAND the average US citizen follow your standards of living. But you haven't shown understanding that other US citizens have differing opinions
 

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"You've completely proven me wrong, so I have to dismiss your argument out-of-hand to save face."
When Tstorm says something like 'completely lost their mind'', it just means that the other person said something Tstorm finds disagreeable

Which means nothing in reality
 

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No, it is pretty obvious that was is currently happening is a fascist takeover attempt. It looks exactly like all the other ones we know from history. And as the Republican party is still either actively supporting it or staying silent, it stands to reason that the Republicans stopped being a conservative party and are a fascist one right now.

However that is not the same thing as them being Nazis. There are a lot more flavor of fascists around than them, it is just a way wider term. The US Nazis that do exist, do tend to flock to the Republicans however since they feel its a better match than the democrats. And too often they are welcomed.
Do people think Mussolini was a Nazi? Or Franco?

Because you're either a troll or an idiot if you do

Sidenote: Jordan Peterson has been calling out fascists lately and now they are calling him a woke authoritarian. The Leopards found a face
 

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My dude, I don't think you know much about the lived experience of the average US citizen
Don't mind me, I'm just a totally average US citizen constantly surrounded by other average US citizens, who was born and raised in the statistically second most average county in the US before moving onto the first most average county in the US for a few years. What could I possibly know about the average US citizen? Obviously, anyone in Australia could know better just by reading the internet.
 

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'Trump did not answer when asked if he would contact the leaders of both countries but said he is "close" to India and Pakistan and he knew both leaders.'


What a sociopath. If he were a responsible statesman, he would de-escalate the situation. Instead, he will likely use the opportunity to get closer to India, and Modi, China will back Pakistan. And we will get another Proxy War between two nuclear-armed countries.
 
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Not everything, but that one...

Regardless, your attempt to tie conservatism or Republicanism to fascism resulted in 3 pictures, every single one of which was promptly and vehemently disavowed by Republicans and conservatives. Imagine if Biden kicked a nazi out of one of his events, and that was my evidence that Biden is a nazi.
It's interesting that Biden didn't have to kick any Nazis out of his events, but the Republicans have to do it all the time. Maybe it's because the Nazis feel comfortable enough at Republican events to attend them but not Democrat ones.

I wonder why that is. Maybe it's because modern Republican rhetoric just meshes with their worldview so well.
 
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Do people think Mussolini was a Nazi? Or Franco?
Well, the Nazis are the famous ones. For many people thea are even the only ones they have ever heard of and then they use the terms as synonyms.

Also some other people deliberately muddle the water :

"What you are doing/saying is fascist"
"No, i am not a Nazi"

It is way easier to refute the latter.


Of course then in Germany it is even way messier as both are legally potential insults people can be sued for and then courts have to decide whether someone factually can be described as fascist or Nazi which would mean that in such a case it is not an insult. That actually makes it risky for far-right people to sue people for calling them fascist as a court might officially confirm that as a reasonable description.
 
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So, how long before police start receiving "anonymous" immigration tips from each other to allow them warrantless entry into any home they want for any reason? Because in at least parts of my state they've done that with child protective services already (I used to date a social worker who left CPS because she was causing problems with police in her county by refusing to play along).
Exactly. If immigration enforcement don't need a warrant to enter a property and the police are deputised as immigration enforcement, it means the police don't need a warrant to enter a property. It is only a matter of time until that starts being abused.
 
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I think your commitment to the resentment of right-wing people makes you incapable of seeing any positives.
I think you're trying to convince yourself, not us.

I get it: it hurts. You put your faith in Trump, and he's stormed in with a series of major policies that haven't just failed, they've failed very quickly in a manner that was predictable. Even worse, the chaos, incompetence, illiberalism and authoritarianism was predictable from his first term and campaign.
 

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Such meme. Much cool.
I wouldn't be too keen to publicise that until the data comes back on whether your organisation actually achieved anything substantial.

I wonder if Musk stomping around government with DOGE might have been the rich political donor equivalent of letting a child flyer visit the cockpit of the plane, except the child is not given the opportunity to do anything with the controls.
 

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I wouldn't be too keen to publicise that until the data comes back on whether your organisation actually achieved anything substantial.
Oh, exactly the opposite. Now is the time, before the data that DOGE utterly failed is out and commonly accepted. At the moment, they can still claim inflated numbers or pretend that the results are not yet in.
 

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It's interesting that Biden didn't have to kick any Nazis out of his events, but the Republicans have to do it all the time.
It's amazing how you just imagined that "all the time" out of thin air. Two examples out of the last decade somehow becomes all the time.

It's also really impressive how Republicans rejecting Nazis at events means that Republicans are just like Nazis, it's evidence of guilt, but if someone shows up to disrupt a Democratic rally, it gets seen like an act of heroism. To be fair, I am aware that when Republicans kick nazis out of events, there are right wing outlets who treat it as an act of heroism, as well as people who see communist protestors at Democratic events as a sign the Democratic party is communists, but I'm willing to bet you can see through only half of the stupidity...
I think you're trying to convince yourself, not us.

I get it: it hurts. You put your faith in Trump, and he's stormed in with a series of major policies that haven't just failed, they've failed very quickly in a manner that was predictable. Even worse, the chaos, incompetence, illiberalism and authoritarianism was predictable from his first term and campaign.
I think you've been horribly mislead. It's not surprising, you are reliant on the media for information, and that information gets filtered through wealthy elites before it can get to you... the only "failure" is in the stock market, which has only failed in as much as rich people want to take advantage of a crisis. But there is no underlying crisis, so the reaction is an illusion that will not last. And frankly speaking, nobody (Republican, Democrat, or otherwise) particularly cares about the price of Tesla stock unless we put our own money into it. The media is seeing the flailing of degenerate gamblers as a sign that everything is falling to pieces. It really isn't. Down in the actual economy, we're busier than ever.

Nobody is taken aback that the war in Ukraine didn't end Trump's first day in office, nobody ever believed that would literally happen, but we elected a president who is trying to end that war. "Oh, he promised in a day, and he's not succeeding 100 days later, what an embarrassing failure." That's not embarrassing at all. Embarrassing is looking down your nose at someone trying to negotiate the end of a war that many other leaders have egged on. We elected him to try, and he's trying, that's not upsetting.

The border is an unmitigated success. Crossing numbers have plummeted. Democrats are flying to El Salvador to try to spring a man who has been credibly accused of gang membership, accused of domestic abuse, and pulled over while driving a car full of other migrants in a car owned by a convicted human trafficker. And that is the example of the administration being in most conflict with the law. Why do you think that is a failure on Trump's part?
 

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all. Embarrassing is looking down your nose at someone trying to negotiate the end of a war that many other leaders have egged on. We elected him to try, and he's trying, that's not upsetting.
if the end goal is to end the war on Russian terms, reward their barbarism and legalize war on the European continent then maybe we should look down our noses at it.

Trump’s conduct regarding Ukraine just further highlights he’s a complete freak out to strengthen Russia at Europe’s expense.
 
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Funny event in anti woke world. How about Trump intruding in the Canadian election and managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for his far right mates. This to the extend the Canadian chief demagogue apparently lost his seat.
 

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The Canadian Liberal Party has won its fourth consecutive term.

Just a few months ago, the Conservatives were over 20 points ahead. Then came Trump's bombastic threats to Canadian sovereignty, the "51st state" insult etc. Although Poilievre has tried to distance himself from Trump, he's seen as cut from the same cloth-- anti-"woke", populist, focused on cutting gov spending and regulations. While Carney has appeared more sober and been more vocal in condemning America's "betrayal".

Now that's a funny event in anti-woke world; Trump destroying a 25-pt lead for the Conservatives in Canada, in less than 3 months, and showing just how little appetite there is abroad for his brand.