And instead of disavowing these scumbags, JD Vance is saying it's not a big deal.
Just more "locker room" talk from the fascists.
Does that mean we can make Charlie Kirk jokes?
There was never any reason to stop. The GOP shot him too.
Just like how it’s “locker room” talk about committing sexual assault.
wow.. this is unbelievable to everyone who has never seen or heard a republican before.
NYS Assembly benefits administrator here. I can't wait to process the termination paperwork for Peter Giunta. It will be the highlight of my work week. Edit: I got to process the paperwork today!
Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
It’s amazing to me that there are genuinely this many white nationalists/nazis irl. I honestly had no clue people were this awful and prevalent.
I’ve never seen people more openly willing to hate other humans based on race, gender or sex.
Why do we get to exist as a species if we are this toxic to ourselves?
Hating and differentiating people based on race is pretty rational as long as you believe race is a real thing. That's kinda why it's called race-ism.
I’d love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.
100%. These assholes have been trained to gaslight and trot out nonsense about Robert Byrd being in the Klan like 100 years ago, or that Democrats were the real racists because of shit that happened before the 1960s, and completely ignoring (or lying about) things like the Southern Strategy and how the parties completely re-aligned since the Civil Rights era.
Thing is, I'm a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space. I grew up in an area that was overwhelmingly Republican, deeply racist and nearly 100% white.
They ain't fooling me, I can tell you that much. This ain't my first rodeo, I've heard all this shit before, and I've seen these mofos in action online since the BBS days, and shortly after that, the USENET days. I don't care what kind of rhetoric they try to dress their "movement" up with and it doesn't matter what protocol or platform they are on....their methods and tactics like employing the Gish Gallop should not fool anyone, either.
Thing is, I’m a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space.
Same! I have the added pleasure of being a big, bearded, "straight-passing" gay man. I get to have really fun moments were the Republicans around me say despicable things about gays, I tell them I'm actually gay, then they trip all over themselves to explain how they're actually totally cool with the gays. I call them out for being racist when that happens too. Making them uncomfortable by calmly shining light on their own words is one of my favorite group activities.
Remember: at the national level at least, democrats (at least the liberals) are foaming at the mouth to work across the aisle with these people and pass legislation that "every" american, including these shitstains of humanity, will agree on.
Both sides, right?
These are Charlie Kirk's people.
And some idiot in one discussion still tries to convince me there is a difference between Republicans and Nazis..
Yes, pretty much the type you'd expect to be a young Republican.
Bet you they all have amazing parents too
I used to be an internet edgelord, until I recognized that it doesn't matter if you aren't actually a bigot when you act like one online. The impact is the same, it makes the real ones feel more comfortable in their views.
I also came to this realization around age 16, and it sounds like these guys are in college...
Up to age 40, not just college-age
The thing about being edgy is that it shouldn't necessarily imply a particular political bias but if it always goes One Direction that's indicative
One of the "Alt Right Playbook" videos talks about how the right wing don't argue against each other. I don't like internet videos, but i make an exception for this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4
One thing that snapped me out of that phase was a psychology professor saying your actions define what you are.
I don't think there are as many edgelords anymore anyways. Since the Trump MAGA era nobody pretends. It's all out in the open now. You either are or you aren't. Nobody hides behind the "it's just a joke bro" stuff like in the older internet eras. The bigots aren't hiding their power level anymore.
Pretty much defines Republicanism today. Way too many people in denial about how extreme they've gotten.
“Character assassination” 🙄🙄🙄Please - Nazis gonna nazi.
As if to put an even finer point on it. I just watched blackkklansman today and they really hammered home that that bullshit is not in the past, it is the present reality we live in. Opening lemmy to see the exact shit the white supremacists in the movie spewed is almost poetic in a fucked up way.
The Hitler Youth is back, although they never really left.
What is so goddamned infuriating is how the RW assholes like Tucker pull that Murc's Law shit - that if he finds that he "has" to vote for fascists, it is the liberals that made him do it, because they have been (rightly) pointing out what fascists the Republicans and conservatives really and truly are.
That's some serious mental gymnastics there - the fascists that keep showing their hand are going to end up fascists because the meanie smarty-pants liberals called them fascists, and that's the only reason they are fascists. Well, that, and most entertainment and universities and science and culture really are not overly friendly to the far right, and even might have - gasp - not attacked the already-marginalized. Those monsters. Yep, it's entirely the fault of the "woke" mind virus that the fascists became fascists who voted for other fascists. No other reason. Some blue-haired trans with too many face piercings stole their masculinity or something.
Even worse, the fucking Tone Police among the "centrists", the corporate/conservative mainstream media that is called the "liberal media", and not a few Democrats help them in this bullshit narrative.
No one has been subjected to more vicious rhetoric and violence than President Trump and his supporters
Whiny fascists gonna whine
“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr,” he wrote.
Get cooked, fuckface. nihilist racist pieces of shit
Great job on Politico's part, though.
If you really love him you should go out just like he did.
Indeed. If you're a fan of Hitler, follow his example and take yourself out. Save the rest of us the bullet.
I am shocked I tell you.
There will probably be no consequences anyways.
Absolutely fucking wild.
…to the surprise of absolutely no one.
A whole new generation of shitheels coming down the pipe. Would be a shame if someone connected all their hate speech to them on the Internet so all future employers, friends, and romantic interests can know about their true colors.
Anyone surprised? Yah me either.
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