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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157976: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:19:19 PM

[up][up] Hell, Bannon is more or less a reincarnation of Goebbel.

Disgusted, but not surprised
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#157978: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:22:32 PM

AppNexus will no longer serve ads for Breitbart after an internal review found it in violation of the ad network's rules regarding hate speech.

So there is an ad network with a conscience after all.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#157979: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:25:20 PM

[up][up]Well, are you really surprised? We've known about this for a while now. Donald will just say whatever he thinks a random group of people will like at the time, and if it's a subject he doesn't have a strong opinion on, you can probably convince him to flipflop if you sound like you know what you're talking about.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#157980: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:31:54 PM

I wasn't even half joking. He's even contradicted things he has been on record of tweeting.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#157981: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:34:36 PM

Don't take this as him changing his tune. He'll be back to advocating torture the next time one of his cronies says anything.

It's been fun.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#157982: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:38:31 PM

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Trump is going to be a Puppet King, with many people, of varying degrees of evil, fighting for control of the strings.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#157983: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:40:09 PM

I take back what I said earlier — Trump isn't an orangutan. He's an amoeba, with a Retcon memory.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#157984: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:44:49 PM

The one thing we know for certain is what he will not be: a good POTUS.

Disgusted, but not surprised
henry42 [REDACTED] from Western Hemisphere Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#157985: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:51:18 PM

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Trump is going to be a Puppet King, with many people, of varying degrees of evil, fighting for control of the strings.

I'm imagining it like this.

edited 22nd Nov '16 8:53:07 PM by henry42

One does not shake the box containing the sticky notes of doom!
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#157986: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:54:34 PM

[up] Got a chuckle out of me. 100% accurate.

henry42 [REDACTED] from Western Hemisphere Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#157987: Nov 22nd 2016 at 8:59:24 PM

It's a shame the alt-right had to ruin Pepe for us.

One does not shake the box containing the sticky notes of doom!
MonsieurThenardier Searching from Murika Since: Nov, 2016 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
Searching
#157988: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:07:47 PM

nvm

edited 22nd Nov '16 9:09:28 PM by MonsieurThenardier

"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#157989: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:10:16 PM

I have to confess the use of memes by the alt-right to be a little weird.

Like, it's hard to take them seriously as a movement when so many of them are entitled dipshit kids on 4chan who probably couldn't even vote this election. Or it would be, if Bannon wasn't given the position of advisor.

animefan1 Since: Dec, 2013
#157990: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:11:42 PM

Hey guys. I don't know why, but everytime i hear trump say grab her by the pussy is the more i think of the fuck her right in the pussy meme.

What? What is this?
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#157991: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:14:16 PM

I don't know if this has been posted here yet, but recently,there was fighting in the house do to some Republicans switching their votes to reject an LGBT rights amendment.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#157992: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:15:18 PM

^^This is why, if you were wondering, Draghinazzo. Because memes are silly and hard to take seriously, and easy to defend as 'just a joke' if they happen to be a bit misogynistic or a bit racist.

^Also, Republicans continue to be shitty. Surprise surprise.

edited 22nd Nov '16 9:17:56 PM by RedSavant

It's been fun.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#157993: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:16:47 PM

[up] So essentially it's just a form of plausible deniability? I hadn't thought of it that way but that does make sense.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#157994: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:50:55 PM

[up]It's also really easy to sell a meme to the dumb or critical thinking deprived. Leave out all the details and nuance, put the attention grabbing stuff in 60 pt Impact.

And claim you were "just shitposting" when confronted.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#157995: Nov 22nd 2016 at 9:52:46 PM

@aminefan, well considering that the sources are both highly misogynist, and both have been attributed to incidents of sexual assault and harassment.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#157996: Nov 22nd 2016 at 10:22:44 PM

Like, it's hard to take them seriously as a movement when so many of them are entitled dipshit kids on 4chan who probably couldn't even vote this election.

Word.

Do not obey in advance.
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#157997: Nov 22nd 2016 at 10:36:38 PM

^But those kids will vote someday. And when they do, it probably won't be for the people their friends on 4chan have spent years telling them are responsible for their social failings. Young, angry men are very easy to radicalize online - you just find some frustrated, hurting kid, tell him it's not his fault, and then tell him who is at fault. It seeps in and it spreads like a rot.

It's been fun.
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#157998: Nov 22nd 2016 at 10:43:11 PM

The angry white man next door: Hearing out a Trump voter

Summary of the article: A journalist (who, incidentally, is Jewish, and by her own admission one who has relatives that fled Nazi persecution) living in a predominantly Democratic suburb of NYC decided to visit one of her town's very few Trump-supporting residents, on the rationale that you cannot begin the process of fixing divisions within a country if its citizens cannot hear out each other. Long story short, it was rather... interesting, to say the least.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#157999: Nov 22nd 2016 at 10:53:25 PM

[up]A record-scratch noise played in my head when I started reading the part about his disgusting tweets.

"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."
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#158000: Nov 22nd 2016 at 11:04:44 PM

Pretty much, yeah. I think that's a huge problem - people don't see anything wrong with talking or thinking like that, and anyone asking them not to is just being 'too PC'.

It's been fun.

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