Blah blah right-wing Rumsfeld warmonger chickenhawk evil Bushies Wolwowitz and his neocon cabal for oiloiloiloiloiloil blah blah ignorant stupid bloodthirsty morons, the real axis of evil on a ranch in Crawford and blah blah blah no WMD he lied, Bushitler lied, people died died died tie-dyed peace peace peace down with the Zionists! peace peace Kyoto! they hate us they hate us they hate us and what can we do and root causes and root causes and blowback and Plame and Plame and Chalabi Plame Wilson blah blah blah unilateral multinational Halliburton Enronism crony capitalism and it’s all about oiloiloiloil blah blah blah, cowboyish disregard for allies, for the wishes of the world community who rise up against us, the terrorist threat is overblown and anyway, it’s all our fault because we gave Saddam his weapons to begin with, photo of Rummy and Hussein, but make no mistake, he no longer has those weapons because inspections worked, containment worked, and blah blah blah Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan handle it, Roy, handle it handle it, Caspian pipeline oiloiloiloil blah blah blah show me the stockpiles, anthrax CIA plant Richard Clarke said so and we believe him because and unless unless unless Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib, square-jawed cocksucking military jarhead torturing fucks, bring home our troops! We care about the troops! We support the troops and don’t you question our patriotism our love for this fucking filthy crass consumerist bullying country of redneck dolts and biblethumping bourgeois suburbanites with their SUVs and where are the CAFE standards fight the real terror, eco-terror, Israel, the US, imperialist colonialist racist homophobic hegemonic and blah blah blah blah blah because dissent is patriotism and fighting against your country is really fighting for your country and our dissent keeps the nation strong and we’re brave and heroic and up is down and black is white and oiloiloiloiloiloiloiloil blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.™
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Let me know. I’ve still got skillz if needed!
People who voiced support for the war or Bush or Cheney or anything else the left opposed, did not live in fear that they’d lose their jobs to an online lynching. “Cancel culture” had not yet developed. The Tumblr contingent didn’t have the powah to do in real life what they’d only done online.
All we had back then were blog wars, but they rarely spilled into real life (she-who-must-not-be-named notwithstanding). It would be a case of an isolated creeper taking it into the meatworld. But it was not a mob.
The leftist template has changed considerably in 15 years, I’m afraid. (Holy crap 15 years!) They now have the ability to reach out and hurt their enemies. Their words aren’t blah blah blah but “Now YOU’RE toast,” leaving a smoking crater in their wake.
I don’t know how this ends. Do companies and organizations learn to ignore the mob? Does the public begin to reject the SJW aggression? Or do we get to the point where a permanent underclass of “cancelees” forms, people who’ve been written out of polite society and who must live their lives in the shadows?
This article I just read offers hope (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/06/11/40452193/repent-resent-or-reinvent-how-to-survive-a-pile-on), but it also serves as a warning: the vulnerable cannot survive the lynchings.
This should not happen in America. The digital Brownshirts should be rendered powerless. But how?
nobody had heard of quinoa back then much less knew how to pronounce it
i feel dizzy
Beyond time.
You could update the names and places but the left wouldn’t feel any (more) shame about it.
Dystopia must happen and it shall!
sweet
here are a fakenews
Nearly 4 in 10 LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in past year: survey
no link there’s really no sense in going to thehill.com anymore but i still click on accident sometimes
there’s really no sense in going to thehill.com anymore
Half the rightosphere pulls earnestly on leftist tropes these days, generally of an identity-projecting demeanor. Pick one of many alternatives.
Recently the right had to drop MLK like a hot potato.
yes yes Mr. Howard and they used to seem genuinely skeptical of fake news
but now they lick lick lick it up
The left could propose a balanced budget and half the right would immediately holler that debt is the way to prosperity you communists. By now Bill Mitchell is is such a big fan of Keynes even Keynes shudders to think of it.
The right needs a serious inventory spot check.
Mitt Romney has some fun ideas about a brand new obamacare plan we could do all up in it
does that help?
Have to replace it to repeal it is the new strategy. Can’t let Nancy own any memes by herself. That wouldn’t be how this is done.
Well first off, you assumed Sadam’s gender.
You need to update it, JG, not only for intersectionality, but because you forgot to include the LGBTQTG community.
Plus, not to forget those of us who fancy ourselves as penguins.
So, please add a TS to the end of our community monicker.
Coming soon to a zoo near you!
At the Zoo
lgb’s really need to decouple from the weirdo mentally ill trannies
just as a branding decision, not necessarily for super-substantive reasons
You’ve just confirmed all my sentiments as regards you, slewfoot.
C’mon…
Can’t we all sing along?
What do you get when you cross intersectionality with liberal fascism? A hard-hitting and effective, powerful, social media weapon vs. conservatives that we’re just not equipped to face and counter, because we’ve ceded social media platforms to a handful of powerful LW radicals performing deplatformings: it’s truly #SanFranciscoCollusion.
They’v a new term for us: “Hate Agents”. How do we qualify for this honorific? That’s all up to their interpretation of our signals, of course.
We are so damn doomed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-14/facebooks-secret-hate-agent-formula-leaked-insider
what facebook is doing on american conservatives is the exact same thing pervy Mitt Romney did on Roy Moore
Spitt Romney
«spit»
Facebook are rank amateurs. There’s Google, head and shoulders above them, data-collection-wise.
Then, if you really want to seriously collect data and “interpret signals”, so as to classify Americans into various “Hate Agent” categories?
“Are you interested in a career in Domestic Surveillance? Check out our Utah Data Center jobs page for exciting employment opportunities.”
https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
Who has your data, and knows you best?
The “Top Five” corporations in America, for starters.
https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/07/18/Photos/NS/MW-GM758_market_20180718204202_NS.jpg?uuid=8d36657a-8aec-11e8-81b7-ac162d7bc1f7
i don’t think there’s any actual daylight anymore between google and the slurpy low-t booger-eaters at the corrupt and treasonous NSA
But muh corporations.
The post abides, JG.
Still, visual aids are always helpful, because there are more than I’ve ever visualized.
viz: The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags
Still, for folks that claim to be artsy/creative, visually or elsewise, all their flags are ham-fisted derivatives.
“Still,”
Hat Trick!
One hopes that some wag has already redesigned the myriad flags to show the colors with area proportionate to their representation in the general population. So, basically 99% pink or blue, with some vanishingly narrow band of other colors in the middle.
Purely from a design efficiency perspective, this would be a big improvement, since the various combinations of colors would be so condensed as to be indistinguishable, obviating the need to produce so many variants.
As such, we could market the new flags by saying they represent just how outnumbered our queer friends are, and how important it is that they stick together instead of splintering into a dozen ever-more-marginal groups.