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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#160276: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:09:30 PM

[up][up][up]Still not quite as crazy as "Nationalist Pony" who rails about the important white nationalist messages in MLP.

JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#160277: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:12:30 PM

These guys are stealing our song, appropriating nerd culture to sell their toxic ideology...

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#160278: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:13:22 PM

[up][up]White Nationalist MLP fans...

How much of a dipshit do you have to be to miss the entire point of the show that was built almost entirely around things like acceptance and friendship with things different from you?

edited 3rd Dec '16 9:13:30 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#160279: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:18:12 PM

@Alt-Furries: I'm reminded of this pic.

edited 3rd Dec '16 9:18:20 PM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#160280: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:20:18 PM

This article dissects some video interview Bannon gave:

Some choice quotes from Rasputin II: Electric Boogaloo

“We have a sacred duty to withhold traditions of the past — our best traditions — and pass them on to the future. Only one generation in our history didn’t do that. That was the generation of leadership before the Civil War. The Civil War could have been averted. It wasn’t, because of a failure of leadership.

So Lincoln was some loser. Glad to know.

And anyone who says this isn't Neo-Jim Crow and is not a revival of the Confederacy should make themselves heard or forever declare silence.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#160281: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:22:21 PM

These guys are stealing our song, appropriating nerd culture to sell their toxic ideology...

You see what I'm concerned about, Julian?

Oh God! Natural light!
JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#160282: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:29:18 PM

Them using nerd culture is only a sign that right-wingers have no culture of their own and are deeply uncool so they rob other people.

Its not like it helped them get elected by itself.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#160283: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:30:40 PM

Or maybe they're also nerds? Like, there's lots of bigotry involved in a lot of nerd stuff.

Oh really when?
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#160284: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:38:26 PM

Or they like one part of the show and throw the rest, something all fandom do in one degree or another.

Also, about trump suporter having economic problems: it could be true, sure....but they decide their answer is identity politic of Trump, they but their magical ideas "Trump is so good that he is going to build a wall and make mexico paid for it!"

Everything less is hating america, what Julian said about him being a pop cultural president is true: he dosent have voters, he have a good damn fandom dumb right now

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#160285: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:49:06 PM

@rmctagg09

Oh, those wacky Confurderates and their cries of fursecution...

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#160286: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:51:49 PM

Yeah, there's some ugly undercurrents in the gaming community, or parts of the anime fandom.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#160287: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:51:52 PM

[up][up][up] I always knew Fan Dumb would be the end of us all...tongue

[up] That's one reason I stick with single-player games most of the time.

edited 3rd Dec '16 9:52:18 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ecrivan Amused Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Amused
#160288: Dec 3rd 2016 at 9:58:20 PM

[up][up]Honestly that doesn't surprise me as I have seen some neo-nazi black LGBT people before that support shit like that. Furries and other fandoms having idiots like that? Sadly not too surprising even with the fact that LGBT people outnumber a lot of straight folks in the furry community.

edited 3rd Dec '16 9:58:33 PM by Ecrivan

Formerly known as Bleddyn And I am feeling like a ghost Resident Perky Goth
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#160289: Dec 3rd 2016 at 10:29:47 PM

"I have seen some neo-nazi black LGBT people"

Nothing surprising.

The Trump team has a misogynistic black man, a homophobic woman, and a racist gay man. Das dat intersectional bigotry.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#160290: Dec 3rd 2016 at 10:33:20 PM

Like I said earlier, I'm personally opposed to labeling myself with any sort of group identity. The ones I was born into are plenty enough for me.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#160291: Dec 3rd 2016 at 10:44:04 PM

[up][up][up]by Neo-Nazi LGBT Blacks, are you per chance referring to one ignoble Curves in Color?

It even goes back to the original Nazis - they had Ernst Rohm, and whatever the hell Rudolf Hess was.

edited 3rd Dec '16 10:46:12 PM by NickTheSwing

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#160292: Dec 3rd 2016 at 10:44:17 PM

Still not as bad as when I saw "Heterophobia" and People advocating for shoplifters to be a protected class trending on Tumblr a year so back.

New Survey coming this weekend!
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#160293: Dec 3rd 2016 at 10:57:26 PM

Julian, you are a fountain of knowledge. How do you retain all that political, cultural, historical and fantasy information?

I have to assume you're inept at everything else or you'll make me feel small.tongue

JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#160294: Dec 3rd 2016 at 11:29:49 PM

I am in fact inept at everything else.

edited 3rd Dec '16 11:30:05 PM by JulianLapostat

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#160296: Dec 4th 2016 at 12:11:32 AM

I'm reminded of the time I saw a hateful comment on a pro-LGBT video from someone with a Peridot avatar.

JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#160297: Dec 4th 2016 at 12:13:36 AM

Here's a wacky idea, Trump names himself as his own Secretary of State...Is there a rule against the President taking multiple posts?

RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#160298: Dec 4th 2016 at 12:36:06 AM

The entire point of the cabinet is to be advisors to the president.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#160299: Dec 4th 2016 at 12:37:02 AM

@Julian: That's not what I'm concerned about, so much as these guys co-opting stuff that I write.

I'm reminded of the time I saw a hateful comment on a pro-LGBT video from someone with a Peridot avatar.

I don't eve want to know how that works.

edited 4th Dec '16 12:38:27 AM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
Superdark33 The dark Mage of the playground from Playgrounds and Adventures Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
The dark Mage of the playground
#160300: Dec 4th 2016 at 12:46:16 AM

"They are just abusing a trend to seem popular and smart instead of actually striving to achive them! Stupid liberal sjws (pronounced sah-jews)!"

Said while having an anime pony stephanovich universky avatar


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