• x0x7@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    That’s called chutzpah. People who take that strategy in life should be ignored.

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    23 days ago

    There are genuinely intellectual conservatives but the oligarchic media intentionally prop up pseudointellectuals to further dumb down the population. And I guess it is working.

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      23 days ago

      Let us all remember that when the Soviet Union fell, they did not end the Cold War, they just changed tactics.

      It’s well known that their most effective tactic for destabilizing a nation is to pour resources into boosting both sides of every debate or social issue, this poisons the well so nobody knows what’s real and just defaults to whatever the controlling party says is real.

      They are doing a very similar tactic right now, by boosting absurdism like the whole narrative of an “armed takeover of Canada” as if that’s even possibly a thing. Casual browsers know somewhere in the back of their mind that it’s absurdism, but they hang on every word because it’s sensational.

      This is WWE theater. Like the whole administration since the beginning, it’s designed to spin stories to keep dumb fucks engaged and wondering what’s going to happen next, simultaneously believing in the stories but also knowing logically it’s not true. Literally the same cognitive dissonance that made us have to argue with our friends back in the 90’s that no, the World Wrestling Federation is NOT employing actual necromancers, that no, it’s not a real sport, no the performers would not be allowed to bring swords and weapons into the ring if it was real.

      USA has no actual intention of taking over countries like Canada and Panama, they just want to make some huge distraction and sensational story, so that when they change interest rates or deregulate some banking laws, nobody will notice.

      This isn’t to say the rhetoric isn’t dangerous, but what they’re doing financially is going to be far more damaging to our actual future in America.

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        I think you’re assuming that Russia is being led by super geniuses that are able to manipulate every possible narrative.

        Russians aren’t super geniuses. Trump is certainly not a super genius either. And we saw Putin make the completely stupid move of invading Ukraine.

        Not saying the US will definitely do something like invade Canada. But when a country is run by idiots, we can’t really predict anything they might do.

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      There are genuinely intellectual conservatives

      There are not.

      Conservatism is ingroup loyalty as a theory-of-everything. They’ll invent whatever pretense is necessary to promote the hierarchy of their guys over our guys, because they think that’s all there is to reality, let alone all there is to argument. To be a conservative is to be in this form of tribe.

      The smarter ones invent better bullshit. That bullshit tricks people who are not doing performative loyalty. Some of us argue against it, like the answer would change who they’re loyal to - some of us argue for it, because ‘what the loyalists really mean’ is desirable, regardless of the unrelated awful shit they keep doing instead.

      You’re describing people who bought and defended the bullshit. Actual conservatives now call them communist traitors. They don’t fucking care what they said yesterday. They don’t understand why you do.

      Conservatives will abandon any idea, in favor of loyalty. They do not believe ideas. They believe people. If their top guy says the sky is green, you better fucking agree with him, and make up some bullshit to explain why - or you’re saying he doesn’t belong on top. Disagreement and disloyalty are the same thing, in conservatism. Nothing they do makes sense until you understand this.

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      23 days ago

      And when libtards rise up

      checking the history of Italy from 1919 to 1940

      I cannot find anything in here about liberals rising up. Did you mean… socialists?

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        23 days ago

        Do you think the right differentiates? That’s all I’ve got to say without become pedantic. That means “being stodgy and strict with rules and definitions”, in case you were wondering. /s

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    23 days ago

    PP was all in with Trump and fElon, also… Until shit started going down in the US. He’s a traitor.

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      Yea and the whole Trump “He’s not my kind of guy” thing screams like a lie to get Canadians to think Skippy isn’t affiliated with Trump. But Skippy meeting with the family that owns the largest chain of for-profit hospitals is what scares me the most. If he wins, he’ll push either an American system, or more likely a 2 tier system. Either way we get fucked.

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    23 days ago

    Threatening a foreign citizen (and former PM no less) with

    1. Invasion of his home country
    2. Expelling him from that country
    3. Forcing him into manual labor in another country (which also is currently independent)

    That is insane, even as a joke.

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        I find it hilarious that the little bitch-boy thinks he has any ground to speak to a respected world leader who served as PM for just shy of a decade.

        Also, Trudeau in all his good-natured gentleness would absolutely fuck Shapiro up one-on-one.

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      23 days ago

      It’s always “I’m just joking bro” to find the other shitty people who “get the joke” until it’s no longer a joke.

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        23 days ago

        Ben Shapiro is supposed to be one of the bow-tie wearing, Ivy League educated, violin playing, chess mastering “Smart” conservatives.

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      Maybe he imagines that like in the Thames river people open wooden doors by manually turning a crank

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        23 days ago

        That’s actually a pretty chill job and, depending on the lock, you might get a nice and free house to live in.

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    23 days ago

    Jews bragging about deportations

    Not something I had on my bingo card for 2025, but here we are

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      I know right? In what fucking universe did we slip into? That’s like BLM supporting black slaves lmao it’s like our whole world lore is currently being written by 10 year old and their imagination.

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    23 days ago

    She wants to take your health care, and turn it into profit share, and split it up with P-Pierre, and that ain’t fuckin right. She’s turned into a MAGA hag, she’s turned against our Maple Flag, vote against this traitor slag.

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          23 days ago

          “Hello cuckberal, why don’t you take the moral high ground yet again, like you always do? Sit back in the cuck chair while I dismantle your beloved democracy!”

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          No. It’s hating someone for their bullshit ideas. Doesn’t matter what the individual identifies as. They just are a piece of shit.

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              I don’t. You probably do, because you’re socially underdeveloped and don’t know what’s appropriate or not appropriate. But my guy, you sound like a incel.

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                What does me apparently not having sex got to do with anything ?? Sounds like you’re projecting your inadequacy.

                The right will play the misogyny card. You’ll see.

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              They spin everything as whatever is convenient for them.

              A jewish person that supports them being attacked? Antisemitism.

              A jewish person that doesnt support them is attacked? Sounds like a dumb lib got what they deserved.

              A woman that supports them is being attacked? Misogyny.

              A woman exists in the ‘wrong’ space? thats DEI

              A man expresses emotions while disagreeing with them? What a soft emotional baby.

              A woman exists, with a valid complaint about men? What about men’s emotions and loneliness?

              What about men’s emotions and loneliness? Well i mean you just have to work out and pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

              Ive seen it all and its pretty consistent in messaging. They pretend to care about men’s issues, but don’t. They pretend that only democrats hate men, but the truth is they dont give a shit about anyone that isnt on their side already, and even then its only so far as they can control the mass messaging and manipulate people into voting against their own class.

              The constant miasma of social media messaging makes it nearly impossible to get past surface level stuff.

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    23 days ago

    Maga propagandist: says almost literal Nazi authoritarian shit.

    Magoos: We’Re ThE GoOd GuYs!

    Me: