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MAGA and DOGE are the apex of the homosexual movement. The crash test dummies at the rally crave the attention and acceptance of Trump. They want a strong daddy to make them feel safe and loved. It is gay. And I am tired of pretending it isn't.

This is road racing, for what it is somewhat progressive but now it's more popular so bigger undesirable crowd. Rally doesn't give enough time to bring your flags. Drifting seems relatively progressive also.


But yea, how does the anti gay crowd overlook Grindr always crashing when Republicans are in town.
Don't answer that.

Last edited by RTHKI (2025-03-14 16:23:48)

i actually cannot even imagine what this is like, nation-wide, across the entire range of institutions and doctoral/postdoctoral programmes. just total funding moratorium on all forms of research.

america was a world-leader in research and academia, and for very good reasons. china and india have been pouring an order of magnitude more money into their own research programmes and universities to try and catch up. and your 'engineering CEO genius STEM lord' administration are vandalising america's prestige and ruining the careers of so many of your brightest young people.

incredible stuff, folks! winning to own the libs!

Last edited by uziq (2025-03-15 04:02:46)

time was, the billionaire oligarchs would at least throw a few crumbs to humanity. open a few hospitals. build some libraries. open a new wing to a research centre.

the USAID cuts to HIV medicines are going to kill millions of people during this presidency.

but hey, he shot a tesla into space that’s so cool man!

american liberals are not exempt from some of this kind of thinking. (e: while the following is not as egregious as maga):

unrelated to politics, one self-avowed liberal in my circles with a sagacious mien recited a quote from benjamin franklin about the saxophone, with zero indication of jest. this was obviously one of those -abraham lincoln moments. five seconds of google-fu for the specifics, and the inventor of the sax was born after franklin's death. the original quote was supposedly in the next century, in a local newspaper, and about the cornet.

this is an example of an easy fact-check a person person can do, on their own. this person likes fact checking when it's them doing it (preferably against conservatives), including for misattributed quotes. they present as "experts" on any subject that comes up and will spend an afternoon reading wikipedia about the bible or sumerian history or whatever just to infodrop along with the usual obnoxious spelling/grammar catches. so i get the knowing elbow nudge about v.p. vance not liking fact-checking, but this person loathes being on the receiving end of it. they get all angry or insular and withdrawn when it is done to them.

it wouldn't do anyone any favors here to point out that adolphe sax was well past when franklin could have made a joke about the instrument and gentlemen who don't play it. or that the quote is even later (and non-verbatim) to begin with. next to the other fake news that americans—including lefties—eagerly line up to mouthpiece for: fairly inconsequential. enough on my plate without needlessly generating cold shoulders at work.

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i think a lot of americans don't like being corrected, and don't have the emotional maturity or were never taught how to take correction without internalizing it as a personal attack. or they usually receive correction in the manner or intent of an attack.* on the reverse, i also think a lot of americans don't do a very good job of correcting without coming off as unnecessarily, insufferably smug. if their intent is to inform, ineffectual. but exasperation, i understand. completely understandable, the urge to sign on and call a republican senator an absolute nincompoop for hopping up and down on a table flinging feces across the room.

*(e: this is one of the barriers i've encountered and have had to figure out ways to tiptoe around on an individual basis when walking people through math, or computing)

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-03-16 05:39:54)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

re: "we regret our trump vote but the woke stuff was just so annoying, you know."

i've yet to hear one of these people explain to me what woke stuff is or what about it annoyed them. it's a phantasm.

I'm guessing that the people who voted for Trump to defeat the wokeism that they'd never experienced and were never going to, and the people who write critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen - Cats for example - are the same people.

uziq wrote:

i dunno, man, somehow i think an anachronous anecdote about the saxophone isn't quite as bad as cheering on torpedoing your own medical research, national parks, and HIV humanitarianism.

absolutely not my intent to imply that. this was a yuge aside.

but it feels like the same thought process people use to internalize whatever they hear from the first place they hear it and belligerently defend it. it's the impression i have, anyway, from decades of talking with my fellow americans.

Once again, Taylor Swift as a cat.

Wasn't the whole opioid crisis caused by the Sacklers?
Didn't that lead into the fentanyl thing?
How is this Canada's fault?

OK, but there's a definite parallel, two groups of people who have very strong opinions about something they know nothing about.

Dilbert_X wrote:

OK, but there's a definite parallel, two groups of people who have very strong opinions about something they know nothing about.

i don't think it's the same at all. people have expressed a disinclination to watch cats in media-educated terms (and critics have elaborated).

while the trump administration is flagging federal pdfs for instances of the word "female," the magas can't really explain the whats or whys of 'woke' or how it bothers them, but for sure there's an undefined number of library books with titles they're not sure about that need to be addressed!

it's not a compelling argument to tell people they need to go see a fanfiction of a thing they're not that interested in just to prove they're not interested in it.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-03-16 05:35:52)

uziq wrote:

i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that film critics do know what they're talking about, actually.

Then Trump and all the geniuses he employs must know what they're talking about too.

I'll concede that some strange paths have been gone down, I'm sure its all part of the genius plan which is guaranteed to deliver something sometime.