Discussing US politics with exclusively modern day movie topics and themes. America is house Slytherin. America is the Harkonnens. America is Thanos. America is the Empire/First Order. America is Homelander. America is Miles Quaritch. This is the kind of discourse the Democratic Party needs to engage in.
I think about 10% of the vote hasn’t even been counted. I checked my ballot yesterday afternoon and it was still marked as received and my county is only reporting 96%. We are a deeply unserious nation.
Biden, Lieberman and Moynihan were all more than happy to defy the party line for their own interests. Dan Moynihan was particularly shitty about abortion rights, he accused women abortion activists of being bad for the party image.
My Nephew’s favorite thing is Minecraft. It seems like the easiest way to make a huge profit is getting the attention of children. They will beg their parents for the treats and the parents will oblige.
Hexbears, I need your help on the history of apartheid in South Africa. Specifically what I wanna know is should I be concerned my new CEO may have a not so ethical past? His parents were Lychee farmers and he immigrated here in 2000 through the Fulbright scholarship program. Should I be concerned that this guy’s parents owned slaves?
Old white dudes can’t help but be bigots. Guy next to me at a restaurant has to tell his wife how the Cleveland baseball team and Washington football team changed their names. Cultural revolution can’t happen soon enough.
So that essay really doesn’t cover the actual propaganda technique which I’ve always heard called vranyo, and your right it could be that some Nazi or American decided to use a Russian word to label their propaganda technique. I shouldn’t have said Russia started it, but meant instead to cite back to Dostoevsky’s analysis of lying in Russia. The essay is an observation of why lying is so prevalent in late 1800’s Russia.
This line most stands out to me as an early example of why a blatant lie is a wonderful tactic in propaganda; For centuries truth will lie right on the table before people but they will not take it: they will chase after a fabrication precisely because they look upon it as something fantastic and utopian.
Like you had asked earlier. Why do chuds all spout the same blatant lie that immigrants get tens of thousands of dollars in free stuff? It is because they know they are lying and are seeking to entertain an audience with others who will repeat and purport the lie. Your coworker is testing if you will participate in the ritual, when you refute it with fact you’ve indicated you are not going to participate in this ritual.
No, Dostoevsky’s essay doesn’t credit Russians with inventing lying.
It’s actually a form of propaganda the Russians started called Vranyo. Repeating a known lie is a ritual used to establish in-group/out-group dynamics. All the folks who repeat the lie are signaling they are acting in unison, refuting the argument indicates that you are a member of the out group.
The swing states all have a lot of fuckery at the local level and it will take a couple days before we know who is the true winner. SCOTUS will try to intervene but the lower courts will get ahead of them to ensure the states wrap up the counting. Harris probably wins, but the chuds will be frothing at the mouth. I’m setting the over/under for how many get shot dead by the authorities at 3.5.
Isn’t that more like 20 years ago at this point? 2004 Kerry lost to Bush but the Democrats started taking back the house and Senate. Then it culminates in '08 with Obama’s near blowout and folks started that, “the GOP is no more” celebration. By 2014 the GOP was back and trying to repeal the ACA every week.
In the month of October, Trump has drilled down on his campaign message to round up and kill liberals while Kamala has been forgiving Israel for the most heinous crimes to occur with in my lifetime. Trump gained 5 points in polling amongst suburban white women in that time. Truly scared of the bloodlust amongst most Americans.
I love your posts because they remind me of the Minnesota Timberwolves and my own Siberian Husky. They also provide me motivation to continue to make this wretched place just a little bit better. NY needs to reintroduce Wolves like MN and CO have done.
A couple years ago Hexbears lambasted me for not being angry about the railroad strike. I said from my experience in my union we were barely an institution let alone a left wing institution. Most of my brothers were fucking fascists who were slowly taking control of the executive board seat at a time.
I think the rest of us are dumbfounded with the spectacle that is natural disasters in the Southeast. I support Floridian refugees taking our black jobs, living in our hotels and eating our cats. I refuse to expend the CO2 needed to rebuild their state, time for this project of annual reconstruction for a minority of folks to enjoy some beaches and palm trees to end.
This is really a phenomenon they believe. They’ll cite that the ozone layer above Australia naturally closed despite examples like DDT being outlawed. I’ve tried it with acid rain too and that one they’re sometimes willing to acknowledge was pollution. I’ve lived in the upper Midwest and Northeast so it could just be folks admit that because it personally affected them.
I remember being a kid during the 2000 election and libs just whined for 8 years.
I’m expecting WI, AZ and GA to rig their elections to give Trump the W regardless. Really don’t think it matters how any of us vote and most of us here understand that we’re a deeply undemocratic nation.
Have chuds really forgot the riots of 2020?!? They have zero understanding of what terrors can occur. John Brown was right about these fucking cretins.
I’ve been reading both Settlers and Wretched of the Earth since last week and it jokerfied me. Now that the election has passed I keep thinking about the US calling Venezuelans election illegitimate a couple months ago meanwhile my ballot has still not been counted.