that "tankie takes" twitter makes for grim reading
seeing kids with anime gifs using cutesy twittertalk to lol about how the holodomor didn't happen is enough to make me never want to use the internet again
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC47sWmXgAEUlJZ.jpg:large
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
lmfao
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02X8bX_EBv4
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
I haven't been a commie that long but even I know stalin apologia is a bad look
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
I think that the genesis of a tankie is accepting the idea that the instruments of the power structure do not tell you the truth. From there it seems a short, logical step to think that everything they say is a lie. Once you have grasped that principle, you arrive at interlocking syllogisms:
A. The media and government do not tell me the truth.B. I hear or read statement or position X in the media or from the government.C. Therefore statement or position X is a lie, or is based entirely on lies.
A. Every lie is the opposite of the truth.B. Statement or position X is a lie.C. Therefore the opposite of X is the truth.
For example: the media and government say that NPRK is evil, therefore it must be the pure essence of good.
Logic does wonders like this with under-examined premises.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
I'm very sorry for having prompted this digression itt lol
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
DPRK tankies seem like people who flipped a coin and took their Asian fetishism that way instead of becoming anime Nazis.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
i wish i could go back to when i didn't know what a "tankie" is
― marcos, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
It’s true: Ocasio2018 has officially endorsed defunding ICE.ICE was passed in the same barrage as the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. Black-box, unaccountable, secret detention is not what America is about.Time to correct course. https://t.co/EGmFsHh9b7— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) February 28, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Heck yes
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
Hoping to see more of this.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
well would you look at that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
this is the first I've heard of Justice Dems that I know of but if this is the sort of candidate they're pushing, more power to 'em
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 February 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
well trudeau just has no spine he'll bend any way the wind blows
Founding principle of the Liberal Party of Canada iirc
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 March 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
Libby Watson provides the political coverage you need:
https://splinternews.com/texas-democrat-receives-huge-load-of-deer-semen-to-camp-1823436068
The names of the individual prize deer from which the semen was lovingly extracted are listed on the campaign finance report: Hotshot. Texas Giant. Bambi Chewy. Yard Dog. Sweet Dreams. All impressive names for those big, sexy deer. Who wouldn’t fuck Texas Giant, honestly?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 1 March 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
lmao
https://imgur.com/wtO1Nas
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
finally a true poster-candidate running for office in texas
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 2 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
He seems cool! They should have him on.
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
woops thought this was posted in the chapo thread for a second, apologies everyone
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
Ha, it applies to both threads, too
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 2 March 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
love the meme candidate
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Friday, 2 March 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
it seems like the kind of thing i'd hate but it's super endearing i wish him the best of luck and i think he'd do a great job
― Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
yea that rules i'd be persuaded to vote for anybody that showed up to my door, because i am vain and gullible
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
finally the perfect candidate to use my political slogan idea "It Me"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
im in
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
make amemica lit again
― Wyld Scalyns (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 March 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
Much like Million Dollar Webpage (or whatever that was called) this seems like an incredibly effective publicity stunt that can probably only work once.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
if even the once tbh
― Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
there's another similarly inclined fellow running in Alabama but he's playing it much straighterwww.webforalabama.com/issues/
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
I would absolutely vote for that dude.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
(The guy in Texas, I mean.)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
he probably needs another 5-10 years of age/experience but I think he might have a political future.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
his smartest move: no twitter account
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
#WV Senator Richard Ojeda, running for Congress, ummm... elicits a reaction pic.twitter.com/j2pWl1RkQp— Brad McElhinny (@BradMcElhinny) February 26, 2018
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/02/richard-ojeda-west-virginia-blue-army-one-217217
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
That dude rules
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 March 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
“I was unknown, and had no money, but I got 34 percent of the overall vote against Rahall,” Ojeda said. “And I beat him like a drum in Logan County.”
“Such a thorn in our side,” John Moffett told me. Moffett is the executive director of the People’s House Project and an Ojeda booster now, but back then, he was a Rahall aide who developed a grudging respect for the novice challenger who got a third of the vote “with literally no campaign structure.”
you know I'm starting to think this whole notion of needing to pad out yr resume with "experience" is total nonsense
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Obama thought so.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
“You know, hey, here’s the thing,” Ojeda told me. “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, made everybody excited because he said shit nobody else has ever said. But the difference is, Donald Trump wins, and he ain’t done jackshit to help us. Now let me tell you something about Ojeda. Ojeda won, and I’m telling you right now: I guarantee you there’s not one single freshman damn Democrat, there’s not one freshman friggin’ senator that’s ever made more damn noise than I have and has done more than what I’ve done.
“I get shit done!” he said. “I just started a friggin’ movement!”
this guy is much more ridiculous than the meme candidate
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
(not meant as a criticism, really)
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
In the video, Ojeda also gave out the number to his cellphone. A few weeks ago, I called it.After I introduced myself, Ojeda uncorked a nearly unbroken, 13-minute tirade in which he called lobbyists “the absolute scum of the earth,” said they should have to wear body cameras in the Capitol, said they shouldn’t even be allowed “in the damn Capitol,” and told me one of the first things he did as a state legislator was give energy industry lobbyists a tongue-lashing. “I threw Big Energy out of my office!” he said. “They said, ‘Well, is there anything we can do to change your mind?’ I said, ‘You can get yo’ ass out of my office.’” He continued by scorching lawmakers for making decisions based on corporate campaign contributions instead of the interests of their constituents.“Bootlickers!” he screamed into the phone.“Bootlickers!”I asked when I could come visit him.
After I introduced myself, Ojeda uncorked a nearly unbroken, 13-minute tirade in which he called lobbyists “the absolute scum of the earth,” said they should have to wear body cameras in the Capitol, said they shouldn’t even be allowed “in the damn Capitol,” and told me one of the first things he did as a state legislator was give energy industry lobbyists a tongue-lashing. “I threw Big Energy out of my office!” he said. “They said, ‘Well, is there anything we can do to change your mind?’ I said, ‘You can get yo’ ass out of my office.’” He continued by scorching lawmakers for making decisions based on corporate campaign contributions instead of the interests of their constituents.
“Bootlickers!” he screamed into the phone.
“Bootlickers!”
I asked when I could come visit him.
he seems insane in a great way
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
“I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.” And anybody who doesn’t? “I will make their life a living hell.”
tbh though I am a little concerned that the pro union rhetoric is just timely pandering. Dems have a history of talking big on this stuff and then not following up.
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
He was talking up a teacher strike well before the strike, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
yeah i don't think it's pandering with ojeda, but fair point institutionally.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 March 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
yeah I just like to fret
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
Interesting line slipped into that Politico piece:
‘In hard red, Donald Trump-loving West Virginia’
They referring to the state? The county? The local area? Less than half the state voted for him, but you always always always have to push that idea to reinforce popular belief that everybody subscribes to one belief and one belief only
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 2 March 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
They're referring to the state of West Virginia, whose electorate voted for Trump by more than 2 to 1, giving him more a higher percentage of the vote than any other state and more votes than any candidate in the same state since LBJ.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 2 March 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
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