Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

this is false equivalence ... such bullshit ... eye roll.

the right and the left pump bullshit to audiences ...

Fuck Fox. And fuck almost every outlet that hyped Russiagate for four years ...

So yeah -- fuck all those people. ...

their counterparts on the other side ...

... MSNBC is nearly identical to that Fox of old ...

Rogan ... has the right to do whatever the fuck he likes. Like Fox, MSNBC, etc.

...

If people want to make bad decisions, they've a right to do so. If they want to believe bullshit, they've a right to do so. ...

We Are Huge Fuck-Ups. ...

Lots of false equivalence, followed by "we have met the enemy and he is us" -- evergreen.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Lots of false equivalence, followed by "we have met the enemy and he is us" -- evergreen.

Tired of the same old, same old? Tomorrow’s Song of the Day will be a completely different song. I have a lot to choose from.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Tired of the same old, same old? Tomorrow’s Song of the Day will be a completely different song. I have a lot to choose from.

Paint it black! Paint it black you devils!

[Hank Chinaski]

I’m torn what is most cringey, reading these recent threads or watching Dr Pinple Popper?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Paint it black! Paint it black you devils!

Straight outta Hoboken.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Tired of the same old, same old? Tomorrow’s Song of the Day will be a completely different song. I have a lot to choose from.

To be fair, it's more trite equivalence, or easy equivalence, or oleaginous equivalence. There's some element of truth to it, but in the same way that stereotypes are usually based on something.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

To be fair, it's more trite equivalence, or easy equivalence, or oleaginous equivalence. There's some element of truth to it, but in the same way that stereotypes are usually based on something.

Sure. To the extent his point is simply to beware of information you receive from other humans because no human is able to fully rid him or herself of biases that person holds, including biases that are so inherent, we may not be conscious of them, this point is hard to dispute. This is hardly revelatory, although it sounds like he is jumping on the CRT train with this slippery slope of a premise. Hannity would be disappointed in him for leaving this door open. Everything else he says is just the same rotten fruit he has been trying to sell door to door for years now. As if he hopes that this time we will have finally become so numb to it that we can no longer see the flies.

[Replaced_Texan]

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

“A congressman‘s job is to speak the mind of those people they represent,” said Milam Langella, one of three Republicans challenging Crenshaw, who told GOP activists they were “kidding themselves” if they think the 2020 election was stolen.

“It appears that well over 50,000 people who attended the Trump rally (last month in Conroe) would agree that this last election was very questionable,” Langella said. “My duty as a congressman will be to not just vote conservatively, but to do what I can to kick over the ant hill, and fix what happened in 2020, as ugly as it might be.”

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

I understand why that sh*t is appealing to hard-core conservatives. What I don't understand is why Democrats have not been able to make Republicans pay more of a political price for pandering to those people.

Part of the answer is that people like Sebby, and people who pay less attention to politics than he does, have such a strong Both Sides instinct. Sure, the Republican Party is organizing around the principle that when a Democrat wins an election, it's illegitimate, but look, AOC is progressive and she bothers a lot of people too.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I understand why that sh*t is appealing to hard-core conservatives. What I don't understand is why Democrats have not been able to make Republicans pay more of a political price for pandering to those people.

Part of the answer is that people like Sebby, and people who pay less attention to politics than he does, have such a strong Both Sides instinct. Sure, the Republican Party is organizing around the principle that when a Democrat wins an election, it's illegitimate, but look, AOC is progressive and she bothers a lot of people too.

Republicans fight back. It's way easier to just shove Al Franken in front of a bus.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I understand why that sh*t is appealing to hard-core conservatives. What I don't understand is why Democrats have not been able to make Republicans pay more of a political price for pandering to those people.

Part of the answer is that people like Sebby, and people who pay less attention to politics than he does, have such a strong Both Sides instinct. Sure, the Republican Party is organizing around the principle that when a Democrat wins an election, it's illegitimate, but look, AOC is progressive and she bothers a lot of people too.

Put a pin in this and see what the reaction of the Progressives will be if the GOP takes Congress in November. ETA: It’ll lash out at moderate Ds and Rs viciously.

The Democrats are already, in Trumpian fashion, setting up an argument that elections will be illegitimate because Trump, evil genius, is taking control of state election officials and instrumentalities.

You could take this same argument and switch some words and it’d match up perfectly with the silly argument that Trump stole the election in 2016 and equally silly argument that Biden stole it in 2020.

No white hats. Blue pigs, red pigs, same mud. Sure, the blue are more reasonable. But in a game where winning is the only thing that matters, that’s a liability. And so they all go just as deep, just as ugly. And differentiating between their tactics is, intellectually, a dry handjob. It embarrasses those who do it. Telecasts naïveté. (ETA2: Not that a dry handjob is naive. If there’s no lube, one must make due with what he has…)

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

“The Trump fanatics are not the GOP.” -Sebastian
“We owe our eternal loyalty to the rightful victor of the 2020 election, Donald Trump.” -The GOP

Yup, that all makes sense. Carry on.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

“The Trump fanatics are not the GOP.” -Sebastian
“We owe our eternal loyalty to the rightful victor of the 2020 election, Donald Trump.” -The GOP

Yup, that all makes sense. Carry on.

In Sebby's defense the R's in the purple states responses might be of more interest?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

The Houston Chronicle asked all 143 Republicans running for Congress if they thought the election was legitimate. 13 said yes. The rest said no.

But this is a both sides problem.

To my begrudging respect, my be-eyepatched congressman is one of the 13. He's being primaried. Hard. My favorite quote:

Was this Texas wide, or Houston local? Would be interested in similar surveys outside Texas.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Was this Texas wide, or Houston local? Would be interested in similar surveys outside Texas.

Texas wide.