Lurker > bobbycorwin

UnfairRepresent posted...

Then "they" are being silly.

If "they" jumped off a bridge would you?

No, but if they made fun of someone for jumping off a bridge, and then they also jumped off a bridge, then I think its fair to give them the same respect they gave for the first guy.

How long until right wingers swoop to his defense with it was just a joke?

darkace77450 posted...

E. That was a long time ago. He's changed.
F. Because of the deep state.

G. It was a joke

Heineken14 posted...

It's exactly what they did with Donnie and Obama. It was literal days after the election before Donnie was already claiming credit for the glorious economy that he single handedly built all by himself with no help at all.

There was a part of me that wanted to see Trump win the 2020 election. Ive never seen a Republican try to clean up their own mess.

Though when I think about it, Fox News had already started praising Trump for the glorious return of his economy early January, then after Biden took over it was suddenly crap.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

I mean, when he was asked how he would specifically make things cheaper for people, his response was "vote for me, I'll fix it".
So yeah, he's got absolutely nothing.

His solution is drill baby drill. Ive heard him answer this question a few times and his answer is always that ensgery costs are more expensive so everything else is expensive and hell fix it by increasing energy production.

Then that links back to Trump getting billions from the oil lobby and it makes sense his solution to everything is just let oil billionaires do whatever they want.

wanderingshade posted...

It's a belt, it's not like he's putting his hand in her back pocket.

Trump has probably tried to do that at least once.

Is that what we are supposed to be upset about? Him grabbing her belt at her side?

And that got 11k likes?

HighSeraph posted...

What's weird about it? You've never hugged a close family member?

Usually you can tell what piece of their misinformation bubble they are leaning on when they do stuff like this. I dont even see that here.

Its justweird.

ClayGuida posted...

https://twitter.com/Brcremer/status/1826116813186543863

Oklahoma teachers required to teach the bible, should be teaching their students to require more from the rich. Until those Republicans quickly shout 'not like that!'

Shh! We dont talk about woke Jesus

Whats not weird about the first photo?

It started with comments the actress made and suggestions by the creators that she would be the most powerful superhero in the MCU. That got peoples eyes on right wing grifters who would complain about it. Once that blew up, the grifters pumped out a ton of content because it made them money. That gave the impression that there was a lot of hate for the character.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

This really needs to be linked in the minds of Americans. It would break Trump because drill baby drill is one of the only things Trump can remember to use at his rallies. We all know what it means, but it would be nice if word could get out how that slogan is really just pro billionaire.

So they are literally telling people to get beat up at the DNC, but avoid any Republican event because they might get beat up?

Yep, nothing suspicious about that.

The shark from raft.

Been playing a lot of raft randomized lately.

divot1338 posted...

A better analogy is if youre perfectly poised on a tightrope thats the only path to victory, why in gods name would you veer to either side?

What perfectly poised tightrope? The pro Palestine protestors have no path to victory with their current strategy. They are pissing the Harris campaign off making her less likely to listen to them and leaving her no reason to listen to them if she wins despite them. They are also making progressives not want to support Harris which might allow Trump to win which would be disastrous for Gaza.

You can complain all you want, but there is a train coming and you guys dont even seem to notice.

HairyQueen posted...

Is there any line that yall are willing to draw when it comes to AI replacing human jobs? Or just when it replaces yours?

Id be cool with it if AI worked like they thought it would in the 50s, where robots took all the jobs and everyone else got an endless vacation. Unfortunately we live in a capitalist hellscape.

Thanatos_the_Great posted...

Your analogy is awful and you should find a better one.

Its not awrful, you just dont get it because you dont want to see Trump as a factor.

Thanatos_the_Great posted...

It puts pressure on the Democratic leadership to make a change in policy that (1) is obviously the morally right thing to do and (2) would help them beat Trump.

No, it's like shouting at the train driver to stop the bloody train.

Um, the train is Trump in my analogy.

AnsestralRecall posted...

Pushing for Harris to support an arms embargo is pushing her to adopt policies that would gain her votes

It's not hard

Disagree. Most of American moderates are all in on Israel. If Harris were to shift her position she could lose those voters to the side that would still seem to support Israel.

If anything, these pro Palestine protestors are doing Harris a favor by making their side so toxic to moderate voters that Harris openly rejecting them is preventing the right from launching anti-Israel attack ads at her.

Thanatos_the_Great posted...

No. They are making it harder for themselves to win the election. Protests are one way to make them understand this (since being polite about it clearly isn't working).

I just dont get the strategy of doing this while Trump is basically tied and would be so much worse.

lIts like complaining about the color of your car while it is sitting in train tracks and a train is coming at you. Maybe get it off the tracks, then talk about changing the color.

Why? Because he wont get his tax breaks?

Thanatos_the_Great posted...

Sure, keep parroting that line if it helps you sleep at night.

Ill be charitable and assume you want the best for Gaza.

Wouldnt it make more sense in an election year to ensure the party that wants to glass Gaza doesnt win, then protest the more sympathetic side in power to get what you want?

What you are doing instead is making the sympathetic side harder to win the election and giving the glass Gaza party a free ride. Doesnt that seem counter productive?

divot1338 posted...

No it was obviously meant ironically. It was just stupid since were not talking about protestors getting hurt were talking about protestors hurting others.

I commented when he did it the first time.

This warranted another remark.

We were actually talking about protestors getting hurt. Someone brought up that pro palatine protestors did not go to Trump events because they were worried about getting hurt.

Clays satirical post was very on point, because MLK absolutely did not shy away from protesting in dangerous areas.

Intro2Logic posted...

A key member of that government is campaigning to stay in power. Hee public events, from here on out, are going to be campaign events.

The VP has no control on foreign policy. You should be protesting Biden, not Harris.

lilORANG posted...

My wife told him heaven was in the sky and now he thinks we can fly there in an airplane.

To be fair, God thought people could build a tower and get to heaven, so sounds like your son has the same concept of heaven as God.

You would do your kid a disservice if you only tell them about one god.

Fox News is spreading rhetoric that Israel needs to bomb Gaza. Are there protests around Fox News?

ai123 posted...

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negros great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

Martin Luther King, 1963.

He wasnt saying dont protest the actual racists. Some of the biggest sympathy the civil rights movement got was from being arrested or beat up while protesting.

Pro-Palestine protestors look like attention seeking children in comparison by protesting in safe spaces only.

ai123 posted...

If you are a Democrat, and are unhappy with an aspect of Democrat policy, why would you protest Republicans?

If you do not like what the president is doing, why would you protest the party that isn't in the White House?

If you believed one party was more sympathetic to your cause, why would you direct your energy at the one that will never listen?

Why would a Muslim of Arab origin not protest at an event stacked with the violent, racist, extreme right?

Suspicious indeed. Must be because they are secret MAGA supporters, desperate for Trump to win (/s).

Protestors are going after campaign events. They are not just protesting the current government, but trying to have an effect on who becomes the next President. If this was just about the current government then they would leave the election campaigns alone.

Instead, they are taking an active role in disrupting only one campaign.

BakonBitz posted...

There goes that Tampon Tim nickname they love so much.

Dang, does that mean we have to give this up?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90fe001b.png

StarFighters76 posted...

And what would that be though? Legit question. Because I agree, it does sound a bit sus, when thinking about it.

Right? Saikyo probably has the most charitable answer, that they don't really care and only want to hit super safe spaces for the clicks.

A Less charitable explanation would be that this is an astro-turfed movement created by the Trump campaign to disrupt the Harris campaign.

imagine how different our views in the civil rights movement would be if they left the actual racists alone and only harrassed the people who were mildly sympathetic to their cause.

ClayGuida posted...

They've already said why, Republicans are openly hostile to them.

Which is a pretty big red flag about your movement. Blocking a highway is fine, throwing smoke bombs at a dem event is fine, bit going to a maga rally is when it gets scary.

i dont buy it. If they really cared about the movement they would take the risk.

The fact that they mysteriously leave the worse group for Palestine alone makes me question what their real agenda is.

Shadow_Don posted...

Neither are the people in pride parades who got their events protested by pro Palestinian activists.

You know, I dont think Ive even seen a pro Palestine protest happen at a right wing event. Its always democrat events they are interrupting. Kind of suspicious

Sandalorn posted...

It is going to be interesting if polling comes out to suggest these types of protesting SOLELY against Democrats have softened support for Harris and is making it more likely that Trump will win and become a full on supporter of Bibi and the destruction of Gaza.

Will there be any self-reflecting to be had? Signs point to NO.

Of course not. The anti Hillary crowd doesnt see any connection with their movement and the removal of abortion protections. If Trump gives Bibi the authority to nuke Gaza, these protestors will still blame Harris for it.

I support any and all name calling for Trump. He has opened this box and people need to lean into it. Nobody in a public space should have the desency to call him Trump, because he will not reciprocate.

ai123 posted...

Why are so many people in this thread so very keen on seeing a minority group beaten up by the extreme right?

(Don't bother, I know the answer).

Why do you think I want them beaten up? Take proper precautions of course, but I imagine the vile hatespeech maga would use on them might be worth a few viral vids.

ablegator posted...

Protesting Trump does not accomplish the goal of defeating Harris.

Defeating Harris with what exactly?

creativerealms posted...

They are protesting Democrats and not republicans because they know Democrats can be reached while Republicans could never be reached.

They should still go for protesting Trump. Let those on the fence see exactly what the Israel at all cost side is willing to do.

Who do you suppose makes more money off these remakes? Disney or right wing grifters?

What she should have done was create an LLC and stole the chicken in the name of her company. Then when she got caught her company would owe a fine and she could have the company declare bankruptcy and kept the chicken as a severance package.

Frolex posted...

No. This is a post-biblical apologetic, one often employed by modern christians in order to reconcile their values of humanism that come from the secular society they grew up in with the heinously anti-human value of their religious texts, but it's completely without scriptural warrant.

There is absolutely no point the new testament says that the law of the torah is to be abolished. And specifically relating to the role of women, the new testament frequently reiterates that men are to be heads of household and women are to be subservient to them. The guy in the video is absolutely in line with the biblical position of women in society.

Ive heard evangelicals claim that whenever there is a law in the Old Testament they dont like then its old covenant, or its a law that only applies to the Jews. Things like eating shellfish, or wearing mixed fabric, or needing to leave the city if you get a papercut. Things like clean and unclean dont really mean much among todays Christians.

its only the parts that allow them to subjugate others that are still important somehow. Specifically just the anti gay stuff and most of the 10 commandments really.

Oh, and eye for an eye to justify corporal punishment despite Jesus calling out that one specifically to contradict it.

Yawn_Master2 posted...

It is basically impossible to make things cheaper again unless there is a massive depression or we start sucking up money and deleting it from the economy which would probably cause a massive depression.

A weird thing about the right is that they seem to be okay with whatever prices are as long as a Republican is in charge.

During the Bush years, gas was twice what it is now and gas companies where masking record profits, but only the left seemed to care about it. Towards the end of Bushs presidency housing costs where skyrocketing and it was seen as a good thing up until the housing market collapsed.

Now these are major points of contention and factors on why our economy is doing bad.

I disagree. MAGA believe whatever their media has pumped into their brains. The clearest example is when Trump told them to vaccinate and they booed him. Trump has more leeway than most, but he cant do whatever he wants, He still has to coast down the river of right wing misinformation.

Ive been rewatching lost and this was one of my first thoughts. If it came out today it would be pegged for its diverse cast by trying to claim forced diversity.

The right is so weird.

absolutebuffoon posted...

What makes an eye for an eye fitting?

The god these people claim to worship even rescinded the eye for an eye command. It no longer applies.

lol Trump wants to go back to running against Biden.

Too bad Dumpy Donald.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Yeah ok ya got me there . Only argument I can come up with is how with normal people would they find out about stuff like this.

Do we have documented cases of people being caught amd the authorities just being like nah fuck it don't care?

But I don't give a fuck about that law so idk why I'm even arguing. Boredom is a helluva a thing I guess

Im pretty sure if it was anyone else being convicted of this, they could go on Fox News and claim the woke FBI was coming after his gun.

Im still amazed the right were able to push for charges involving a gun without having a paradox aneurism.

Im surprised people are defending this law. Its disheartening to see people actually demanding fast results vs accuracy.

If having to wait a few days for results makes people doubt the election process, what do you think throwing out legally cast ballots will do?

BDSMKane posted...

I dont know how I feel about this. It seems like if it matters to you, mail it out in the weeks or months prior to Election Day. But at the same time, I dont like votes that are ignored. Nothing is actually changing with the GA system though since they already tossed ballots after the third, so any panic over this is unjustified.

The article says it took weeks to count the Georgia vote which is the driving factor of 'fixing' this. So instead of a week to count those votes, they only have an hour. How is that unjustified panic?