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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Well, again, I wouldn't put it past the sexually frustrated neckbeards who think Trump is the greatest thing since David Duke to be getting off to scantily clad anime pre-teens on the sly, but I highly doubt there is a significant statistical correlation.
edited 20th Jan '16 8:38:54 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
x6 Well as a pretty hardcore fan of A&M, uhh no. Most anime fans seem to be quite left leaning, they just want their Waifus to be left alone. Hell a lot fear him or Cruz because they might pass a SOPA.
I have seen more bashing and making fun of Trump than anyone actually supporting him.
edited 20th Jan '16 8:40:09 AM by Memers
It is like nutsacks, but not.
My excuse is that I would have maybe noticed it earlier if my fucking tvtropes website want fucked up. It is working odd for some reason...even without my scriptsafe extension. The forum posts appear without their boxes, and it is disorderly.
I blame satan.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesNearly one in ten college graduates apparently believe that Judge Judy is a member of SCOTUS.
edited 20th Jan '16 8:57:36 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)We can take them, the mods know how to deal with other internet communities getting angry with us. Though personally I'm not a fan of using physical attributes to define a group of people we don't like, just doesn't sit right.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI'd never even heard the phrase "Neckbeard" before being turned toward Sword Art Online Abridged when Kirito refers to other players as "Mouth-breathing Neckbeards who think LMAO is how French people laugh."
"That's so l'mao!"
Kirito shudders
edited 20th Jan '16 9:44:49 AM by sgamer82
"l'Mao"?
I would have figured that's how French people refer to a particular Chinese communist dictator.
Leviticus 19:34re: Trump anime monkey-spankers
While I think it's hard to deny there's a significant right lean to chan boards in general note , our boy was speaking specifically of the "alt-right" note portion of Trump's fanbase, many of whom do probably like to hang out on /pol/ and related areas of the internet.
For people who are supposed to be having it only within wedlock, and only for procreation (never for fun!), sex is most definitely a point of obsession among that political faction. It's understandable, of course: methodically denying one's basic human impulses causes incredible tension that leaks out (ha!) into all kinds of aberrant behavior, including getting incredibly worked up over how much sex other people are having.
edited 20th Jan '16 11:44:33 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Thing is they're some of the best breakers for the left we have, how many hardcore atheists and liberals come from fundementalist households again? It doesn't matter how many kids they have if they keep during their kid against their ideas.
edited 20th Jan '16 11:49:13 AM by Silasw
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Which in turn came from the far-right's ties to white supremacists
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While pointing out how toxic the GOP and the places it gets its ideas from would make for one hell of an attack ad, this probably would not get more people to come out and vote against them.
edited 20th Jan '16 11:52:35 AM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotThe forum parser breaks that link: I assume it's referring to the old racist meme about how black men were fathering kids with white men's wives?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@ NoName:
Not necessarily.
For example, in a country that had a stronger (Far-)Left, that drifted right to be elected during The '90s, a "regressive left" is a part of the left that wishes to return to the policies and attitudes of the Old Left of The '80s and earlier.
In fact, the Wikipedia article on the term "Regressive left
" clarifies just thatnote .
It is not something that happened in the US.
edited 20th Jan '16 11:56:42 AM by Greenmantle
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Notsacks?
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay