regular reminder that the most woke way to mock a man is to imply that sexual virility is the key to male worth; oh yeah and all men are straight
Patriarchal attitudes are the most feminist thing possible
Bad Trad Chad: You see, women are weak and helpless creatures at the mercy of strong, powerful men, who hold all agency and make all decisions.
Dumb Internet Feminists: Yes, I agree, it is definitionally impossible for women to have power.
Politicals baffled majority of industry in country caters to majority of customers, products selling in lower volume priced higher.
But who the fuck are these people? Are they blind? Are they crazy? Have they been brainwashed by all the giant signs? Or is it possible they see something in Trump that the rest of us don’t? What makes someone want to seriously consider voting for this man? I didn’t know what the answer was, but I wanted to see for myself. I needed to make it make sense. So I went to Iowa—Iowa: The State You Grew Up Swearing You’d Leave One Day!™—to meet them. And to see The Donald in the flesh.
GQ
Trump supporters as described in the media 12 months ago.
(via argumate)
two years on, voting for Trump remains a head-scratcher.
(via argumate)
Me: There could be side-effects to this whole culture war thing with these unethical tactics that you are not anticipating.
Them: I don’t know what you’re talking about. Getting outgroup members fired is definitely Good because outgroup members are Bad? There would only be consequences to this because outgroup members are Evil??
In addition to the “at-will employment“ angle here, also noticing people who get offended at words like “neckbeard“ seemingly unable to grasp the general concept of prejudicial language.
Turns out hypocrisy is not very convincing to the outgroup.
Pro-tip that is only somewhat meant snarkily: If you’re going to use facts and logic to make a argumentative point, just use the facts and logic. Facts and logic should be able to stand on their own, they don’t need a preface saying you’re going to use facts and logic.
If you say “I’m using facts and logic“ there’s a subtext there that is “unlike you, who are irrational and hysterical.“
There’s a roughly similar point for talk of “bias” that I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.
“That sounds like something a racist misogynist would say. I bet you talk about forking dongles near womyn, discouraging them from entering the tech industry with your disgusting sexual harassment.”
Total mystery why someone would assume certain factions were hysterical and illogical or not acting in good faith.
And yeah, I know it isn’t all like that, but aside from lopsided media exposure there is a culture war going on, and doxxing/firing/etc have been deemed Justice so a lot of that social capital has been blown, including for leftists more generally.
Sometimes right-wingers must be really kicking themselves for denouncing the term ”micro-aggression“ instead of co-opting it.
Nah, right-wingers can’t co-opt that, that isn’t how it works. You have to wait for the kinds of violence and broken promises you can associate with careless previous rhetoric, then use it ironically. Like “cultural enrichment”.
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”
We can hope!
Hey, we can also hope on the effects of inbreeding
So you’re saying you agree we should ban cousin marriage even though, at least in Britain, it’s most heavily practiced by ethnic minorities?
Because I agree. Marrying your cousin is terrible, doing it for multiple generations is worse, not just with health risks, but also socially as support for extreme patriarchal norms. It doesn’t magically become good just because isolated, low-income, lower class white residents of rural Appalachia do it.
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
“If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party”
We can hope!
#change their policies to attract different voters
Yes, yes, very funny.
The Republicans should clearly support expanded welfare, mass migration, and culture war against the country’s ethnic majority. That won’t upset their base at all and just make them a more sucky version of the Democrats.
Honestly, if they actually started changing policies to appeal outside their party in a way that wasn’t stupid… they’d be looking to pick up Asian voters by expanding the definition of white to include them. There are already risk factors for this in the current environment, it just remains to be seen if the visual difference is too much of a leap.
And if that happened, the democrats would quickly throw Asians under the bus. Socially, I mean. Apparently it isn’t mostly white people that are displaced by Affirmative Action, etc. There have been lawsuits about this.
Of course they won’t actually do this, because both the Republican and Democratic parties are never going to actually get smarter. Maybe if we didn’t have FPTP.
Remember when Republicans pretended they were fine with legal immigration
If they don’t do something, then there is no future for the Republican party.
But don’t worry. In about ten years I’m going to be asking “remember when the democrats made fun of marrying your cousin instead of calling all objections racist?”
Maybe Dems shouldn’t brag about Demographic Destiny™ next time.
This is a darkly comical level of ineptness here.
Alright everyone, it’s all better now. Any DNC interns that were thinking of throwing frag grenades into strategist’s offices should put them back.
Honestly, I don’t know if I’m going to even bother voting in the next election. I mean probably, civic duty and all that, rah rah USA, but I’ve seen nothing to convince me that the DNC isn’t a popularity-devoured ideology-huffing institution that will throw me under the bus the first chance it gets.
