People should look at what the president said yesterday. He stands with intelligence, he accepts the finding, he knows that Russia meddled in the election. But let’s make very clear — did it impact a single vote? No.
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
dear mr. "rich" (white) president,
it's okay to keep insulting my intelligence (and the american intelligence community), so long as you keep triggering those mean and nasty libtards
yours,
deplorable nation
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 July 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/07/incel-memes-like-millimeters-of-bone-and-virgin-vs-chad-mask-a-dangerous-and-toxic-culture.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
But Putin's denial was so strong!
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
It’s amazing. They are doing a number, just stick with us. Don’t believe what you see from these people in the fake news. Don’t believe that crap you see from these people, the fake news.
Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening.
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
“he has too many skeletons, he can’t have a public divorce.”“the issue was he wanted her to WANT to have the group sex and got upset she didn’t”“Has mom been tested for STDs?”
https://spectator.us/2018/07/has-mom-been-tested-for-stds-the-manaforts-home-life-and-why-it-matters/
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
everyone is corrupt and only looking out for themselves or lying to themselves about it. people only vote "democrat" to tell the popular republicans in their family to keep their distance at thanksgiving, christmas, and weddings, because they're failed, poor, and/or cheap
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 11 August 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
I must tell you that Paul Manafort’s a good man. He was with Ronald Reagan; he was with a lot of different people over the years, and I feel very sad about that. Doesn’t involve me but I still feel, you know, it’s a very sad thing that happened. This has nothing to do with Russian collusion. This started as Russian collusion; this has absolutely nothing to do . . . this is a witch hunt that ends in disgrace. But this has nothing to do what they started out, looking for Russians involved in our campaign. There were none. I feel very badly for Paul Manafort. Again, he worked for Bob Dole; he worked for Ronald Reagan. He worked for many, many people and . . . the way it ends up. It was not the original mission, believe me. It was something very much different. So, had nothing to do with Russian collusion. We continue the witch hunt.
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
it's hard to live in a world where smug centrists are always smarter than i am
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
"Remember this has nothing to do with Trump!""None of this has anything to do with Russia.""Time to legalize tax evasion ... ""This is still in no way a "vindication" of the Mueller witch hunt.""Speaking of unpaid taxes, did Al Sharpton ever pay up, or does he, as a Liberal Democrat, just walk unscathed?"
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
"neutrollization"
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0967010618785102
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
why do right wing nut jobs always default to calling their enemies p3d0z?
― maura, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
Projection
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
mr. trump wrote the "op-ed" to show liberals how wrong they are about his intellect and inflexibility. on halloween he'll reveal he's really Q, and the liberals will be forced to admit he's a stable genius. #maga
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 September 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
mike tokes!
BOMBSHELL: Christine Blasey Ford’s brother worked with Peter Strzok's sister-in-law at Exelis Inc, a US Defense and Intelligence contractor.•Jill Strzok is Peter Strzoks' sister-in-law•Jill Strzok works with Thomas Blasey•Thomas Blasey is Christine Ford's brother pic.twitter.com/KTFBM6TZxd— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) September 29, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The president’s ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
As much as it's a facile opinion, it does seem like owning the libs is the only coherent way to explain modern conservatism. Which is maddening, which is the point.
― DJI, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
i'm not sure how into christianity trump is, but otherwise that's otm
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
white evangelicals sure are into him, so he reciprocates the love
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
for sure. also, he attended sermons by norman vincent peale as a youth and was certainly influenced by the kind of cult of solipsism that peale helped make into the true american religion
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
i'm actually surprised that connection hasn't been mined more in essays. "the power of positive thinking" definitely had a huge impact on trump and his refusal to acknowledge facts that don't fit his narrative. he's one of the few people other than his father that trump has openly cited as an influence
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
I think one thing that the election made crystal clear is that 'christian' is more of an identity than a religious belief for most americans. the facade that the right was a bunch of true believers was something they lost in 2016 that they'll never get back.
― iatee, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Me: 'I don't like Brussels sprouts so I will opt to not eat Brussels sprouts.'A conservative: 'I don't like Brussels sprouts so there is nothing I won't sacrifice in the long-term pursuit of filling the Supreme Court with justices who will rule Brussels sprouts to be unconstitutional.'
― Werther Down the Spiral (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 October 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Funny that, conservatives over here don't like Brussels much either.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 5 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
"having integrity and morals limits one so. lying, cheating, getting help from our enemies makes it so much easier"
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
The right has followed the Powell Memo, the 1971 roadmap for business domination of politics written by Lewis Powell — then a corporate lawyer and soon to be a Supreme Court justice — almost exactly, except for this part: https://t.co/X0lD6zlhjj pic.twitter.com/cO1WF89J7Y— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) October 9, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Gary Lachman's Dark Star Rising - https://garylachman.co.uk/dark-star-rising/ - gets into the influence of Peale on Trump and expands outward to the occult via Dugin, Evola, etc. Worth checking out.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
except for this part
that part turned out to be too costly and ultimately superfluous to the success of the program
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
"presidential harassment" -- sure thing, mitch ; )
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mcconnell-urges-dems-not-investigate-trump-after-midterms
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
no joke, this is pretty good
https://newrepublic.com/article/151603/nihilist-nation-empty-core-trump-mystique
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 27 October 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
are all your other posts jokes then or
― Mordy, Saturday, 27 October 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Yeah I started reading that article with the same feeling of frustration that I read the GQ "Republicans all hate you" article a few days ago, like, the feeling like "oh great another article that isn't actually getting it" but then this article started to get it, I think. There's more to it than this, I feel? But I'm not smart enough to unpack it
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 27 October 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
I liked that quite a lot thx. Normally when things get so reductive i get all “theres way more than THAT” but i think the mutually reinforcing relationship of nihilism and endstate capitalism well.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 27 October 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
I don't know, the premise of the article is good and I'd like to have seen where he was going with it but, really, where was the editor? I made it as far as the Mike Pence and Lady GaGa bit and then I thought the author of this has got lost in the woods
― anvil, Saturday, 27 October 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
where was the editor?
i'm finding a lot to enjoy in the article, but this sentence stopped me in my tracks. especially the second half.
In the same way as antecedents for Donald Trump can be found in Roman tribunes and Nazi demagogues but not in any previous American president, you will search the historical record in vain for persuasive evidence confuting that nihilism in this country is something new.
there must be a simpler way to make that point. holy shit
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 October 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
I read it a third time and took delight in the author's preference toward more cryptic phrasing. I feel like it's actually kind of necessary? to get you to the "the answer, trite as it is, is l-o-v-e" ending
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 27 October 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
Xp I had the same issue with that sentence. Wtf is “confuting?”
― DJI, Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
causing confusion
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
confusing is just refuting. my main point of confusion was the presence of several dozen negatives in that sentence and trying to figure out which ones canceled each other out
= in the same way as*antecedents for donald trump*+ can be found in roman tribunes and nazi demogogues- but non in any previous american president,::+you will search the historical record-in vain+for persuasive evidence-confuting that*nihilism in this country*+is something new
in other words, "nihilism in this country is something new."
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
I think there is a lot of truth to this article
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
before anyone criticizes, yes, i am a professional sentence diagrammer and that was my very best effort
also, on the whole i liked that article a lot and recognized a lot of what the author was talking about in people around me, and impulses that i have, as well
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
i'm gonna be the one to say that it felt like this guy was stretching... a lot
― Nhex, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
I honestly don’t think he is.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Nihilism sounds like a kind of hysterical term but he definds it well here. And he is right: trump supporters aren’t pursuig some kind of positive good that is just different from ours, in mant cases their sole motive seems to be “owning the libs” or else exacting some kind of punishment on their target groups (women, minorities, percevied “cultural elites”) from which they will draw no benefit. This is a passion for negativity, not just selfishness.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
The aversion to climate research is the most symptomatic thing here in my view. They’re hurting themselves too.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
they're impervious to harm though because they've already been mugged by reality
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
punishment on their target groups (women, minorities, percevied “cultural elites”) from which they will draw no benefit
the religious cohort of the right wing at least defines such punishment in positive terms, as the ascendancy of the power of right and good over evil and wrongheadedness. they see this as pleasing to god, as beneficial to society and therefore to themselves as followers of god and members of society. in their terms, it is redemption rather than nihilism.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
I think it’s more likely they’re so alienated they don’t really grasp consequences, experiencing the world as some kind of spectacle from which they’re disconnected
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
Xp qualmsey