US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

additionally, it's about sculpting what kind of space we want ilx to be. "slam piece" and "blow-up doll" are the language of juvenile misogynists. this isn't 4chan and as a group i believe we all want more women to feel comfortable posting and conversing here, not fewer.

otm

Hey remember that Kentucky primary?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/04/coronavirus-voting-kentucky-primary-348611

Coronavirus has upended elections around the country since the pandemic landed in America, and last month, Kentucky was feared to be the next disaster. National figures from Hillary Clinton to LeBron James warned of impending calamity in the state, focusing on a dramatic decrease in polling places, especially in Louisville.

But after the votes came in, Kentucky earned measured praise from voting rights advocates for how it largely sidestepped the missing ballots, long lines and other problems faced by many states amid coronavirus. The Democratic governor and Republican secretary of state reached bipartisan agreement on a massive expansion of absentee voting, leading to the highest primary turnout in Kentucky since the hard-fought 2008 presidential primary.

Hmm wonder why no women post here any more? Could it be the unironic use of honestly pretty fucking extreme misogynist language? No must be something else.

What about “Great Value Melania”

saw that today and chuckled

Misogynistic language doesn’t help, but if you think that’s the only reason women don’t post as much...

I value the women who post here greatly, and I would be highly pissed off if some smartass flexing their locker room slang turned ilx into another internet dude ranch

No of course. Necessary but not sufficient.

I guess it ain't kayfabe after all

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— keyvan (کیوان) (@shafieikeyvan) July 3, 2020

have you ever met, seen, observed, heard about, read about, or know anything about Kimberly Guilfoyle? that term is actually polite where she's concerned.

also: she was in Rapid city meeting with donors, zero mask, then apparently tested positive for Covid. Anyway I'm particularly irked by this because my mom lives in Rapid, which doesn't have very high numbers, but thanks Kimberly, for coming into town and being a super spreader, my mother starts chemo in a week and still has to live in the city you shed your fucking viral goo all over.

also, can't someone just take Trump to a Madame Tussaud's and tell him his garden is complete?

"blow-up doll is a compliment for THIS woman i dislike" is BS in the same way that "blow-up doll" is in the first place

imho

xxpost and then embalm him alive

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/8198f128-0dfd-4756-8143-789b6c0c8b9e_1.664ddfc068b422ab6b73ca1437ec4eb5.jpeg?odnWidth=undefined&odnHeight=undefined&odnBg=ffffff

yeah, it's fairly obvious the target isn't the problem of the comment, but the comment itself.

cos it implies the moment any woman gets on your bad side, you're sitting on these comments ready to dish them out.

I see your point re down ballot effects on beloved ILX posters being here anymore bc of that language! Ty. DJTJ’s new wife is still tragic

i don't think they ever got married. and now they never will, because they will both die, holding hands, smiling, because they didn't wear masks and look like pussies.

The bravest way

I should not have used the awfullest of terms to describe the woman in question. I apologise--particularly to any of our Female posters who were offended--for using the term.

I guess I don't understand the presumption that the Conway's daughter thing was kayfabe when it seems much more reasonable that a rebellious rich teenager hates her awful parents

seems pretty clear from her earlier social media posts which they made her delete that she does not agree whatsoever with her mother's political views.

at one point her mother didn't agree with her own views on Trump

really who wouldn't be embarrassed of a mother who wore a "patriotic" dress on Inauguration Day that turned out to be a UK-themed design

It's the family drama, not the individual viewpoints, that's manufactured for the sake of clicks.

why? this seems like "PHOTOSHOPPED"-level skepticism

yeah there are easier ways to make money when you are these people

I mean obviously it's possible but kids acting out on Twitter, even famous children of public figures, is hardly a new thing, and they don't always wind up being "pilot for new reality show".

sometimes I feel like this thread = "I found Waldo! yay me!"

sometimes a mess is just a mess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WxDTEszGJQ

there's no finding waldo, you have to create him yourself
https://i.imgur.com/6kA9IYB.jpg

Maybe he’s on this thread!

Waldo was within each of us, all along.

Btw, Qanon, Proud Boys, Hawaiian-shirt wearing Boogaloos ... who the fuck are these fringe groups and what's their deal? Where's Weirdo is more like it.

This shit is just so weeeeeird:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/03/ufc-qanon-mma-far-right-fake-news-conspiracies

Former UFC title challenger and Special Forces Green Beret Tim Kennedy shared an Instagram post of himself wearing a Hawaiian shirt beneath a bulletproof vest while holding a rifle. The Hawaiian shirt alludes to the Boogaloo Boys, a far-right extremist movement that is preparing for a second American civil war which they call the “boogaloo”. Participants often wear Hawaiian shirts along with military fatigues to identify themselves at protests.

xp

White supremacists, lunatics, and white supremacist lunatics.

You all may be right about the Conways, but this is a totally unscrupulous family that likes to play up their political differences for online rubberneckers, so...

is this the first time you're encountering those dumbasses?

abolish the UFC

Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders & Trader Joe's employees must be so bummed at the alt-right co-opting aloha shirts.

No, I know about all these dummies, but Qanon aside, I wonder what Proud Boys and Boogaloo have to offer that traditional crazy separatist and supremacist groups don't? (Aside from, I presume, breakdancing competitions.)

in some ways the Hawaiian shirt thing feels like a continuation of Boyd Rice types worshipping Martin Denny and the like

not exactly about the US, but some heavily armed Qanon nutter was arrested after ramming his way onto Justin Trudeau's property.

xpost totally Boyd Rice

I usually stay away from these threads, but this seemed important: <url=https://celebrityinsider.org/president-donald-trumps-mt-rushmore-rally-brings-out-mary-hart-as-a-maga-supporter-while-don-jr-s-girlfriend-kimberly-guilfoyle-tests-positive-for-covid-19-412748/>;Liberal Hollywood has lost Mary Hart</url>.

"QAnoners are reporting that Melania wearing an Alexander McQueen dress tonight is a signal that Time's Up for famous paedos"

how does this signal anything of the sort?

(ugh, sorry for messing up link)

how does this signal anything of the sort?

You have no flair for conspiracist thinking. An obvious signal would tip off the famous paedos that Their Time Is Up, allowing them a headstart on the Forces of Justice and perhaps escaping to their undersea hideouts. Secret signals have to be opaque, as when two spies meet and confirm one another's identities by each wearing brown shoes and having the following conversation:

"I hear the moon is in its dark phase tonight."

"Yes. It makes my monkey lose his appetite."

You are to disregard the fact that if ilx knows about Melania's secret signal, then it is not exactly a secret from the famous paedos, either.

XPS The way I saw it explained was that McQueen was abused as a child, and depression stemming from that led to his suicide, so by Melania wearing one of his designs so soon after Maxwell getting busted is signalling something's up.

I only brought it up to show the gymnastics Q nuts are utilizing to build their narratives through codes and symbols while ignoring that the biggest hammer hangs over their boy Donnie.

Not enough red string and tacks in the world.