If Obama did it would you say it was respectful or to be an asshole?
That’s the difference here.
The what if the roles were reversed test always exposes how selective outrage can be.
The riots would be insane. Republicans love violence.
Violence is wicked cool! -MAGA
In a tan suit eating irregular mustard … the world would explode
The funniest thing about the tan suit is that there’s dozens of pictures of Reagan, Carter and other presidents wearing tan suits through the years
He made the mistake of being black
Classic mistake in America smh my head
Fuck that what would have happened if Biden had talked about another mans dick for 15 minutes or just started dancing, but trump gets a pass. I still don’t know how that wasn’t bigger news.
I missed that one but at this point nothing surprises me anymore
This is what fascism is, when the followers (Fox) want to give dear leader their power.
And the rest of you fight among yourselves while the fascists run away with it
It’s extremely important to remember and talk widely about the republican capture of US media - this is exactly the point
They scream and scream for weeks about nothing, then bury the real news. It could be the path to fixing america
We need pirate radio
We need pirate radio
You don’t even need to be licensed for Citizen’s Band. Get started today!
We need pirate radio
Eh, what? In the old days, the means of mass communication were limited or expensive, so sure stuff like pirate radio made sense.
But nowadays, anybody can start an Internet radio station for very little money. Or a YouTube channel or whatever. The problem is people not listening, not that they are prohibited or prevented from listening to you.
But nowadays, anybody can start an Internet radio station for very little money. Or a YouTube channel or whatever.
That means nothing when the search engines and algorithms don’t let them show up.
Well, yes. But how would a pirate radio be any better?
No idea, but the youtube and internet radio aren’t solutions either.
Completely agreed.
We need pirate radio
This is how we got in this mess to begin with. Talk radio, then podcasts.
Well I guess at least some pirate radio would be saying “Did you know it’s illegal to say that we should kill the president”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8jdzfHvCI8
Can’t be worse than every station being owned by Sinclair and ClearChannel anyway
Republicans are how we got in this mess. We need to leverage similar channels if they’ve proven to be effective
It’s ultimately a both sides issue. The Republicans did this shit and the Democrats did fuck all to stop it.
Oh you sweet summer child
I’m not saying both sides are the same at all. I’m saying that both sides share blame for the current situation for different reasons.
How embarrassing for you to say
I’m not embarrassed by being correct.
The Democrats had a chance to lock Trump up and they sat on their hands for 4 years. The Democrats had a chance to block the horrendous spending bill, but they caved. The Democrats had the chance to stack the supreme court and they didn’t.
It’s no different than saying protest non-voters share the blame for Trump being elected.
How’s it embarrassing if they’re right?
Besides witty comebacks, do you have any arguments that can demonstrate your point?
…I don’t know, man. I bootleg content and have adblocker. Since the only media I’m exposed to is social media, I’m only bombarded with left-wing propoganda.
Tankie opinion from a 1week old account?
Suspicious
Maybe they’re talking about tankie propaganda?
I’m just telling you how it is. I’m pretty sure alot of the seemingly democrat propoganda on places like Lemmy and Reddit are actually Republican propaganda.
If a bot farm says anything that is perceived as pro-Republican, they will probably be banned immediately. It’s a waste of their time and effort. I believe they get around this by posting unhinged pro-democrat messages; the moderators don’t delete it because it is seemingly pro-democrat, but it drives undecided voters towards the Republican party.
… just you wait. As we get closer to the next election, this and other platforms will be overwhelmed with aggressive anti-police and pro-gender fluidity messaging. I believe the technical term for what is happening is “false flag operation.”
I keep hearing people be shocked about that line as if he’s serious and I seriously question most people’s reading comprehension. Can they SERIOUSLY not recognize 7 year old level mockery when they see it?
The real news story is ANNOUNCING INTENT TO COMMIT WHAT IS UNQUESTIONABLY WAR CRIMES.
Our presidents have been committing war crimes for decades. Unfortunately, it isn’t news.
People know it’s mocking, it doesn’t matter. If parties were reversed, they’d be literally lynching Obama
Dude ate mustard and people lost their minds.
Actually that’s not fair, they lost their minds because he was black. But still.
Don’t forget the unforgivable offence that was his Tan suit
His gravest offense will always be the “terrorist fist jab”
I would’ve been totally in favor of that criticism if it had simply been about fashion.
Yeah no but if Obama said it in the same ironic manner MAGAts would freak out
It could only be a crime if he recognized the regulators as lawmakers. He thinks (as a lot of americans) that “I have big guns, nobody tells me what to do” The issue here is that he is one man, he will die, but the country and its people will have to pay for his crimes for a long time.
I don’t recognize the federal government’s authority. Does that mean I can’t commit crimes either?
Thank you for calling this out, my god. I think that its actually an intentionally misdirecting spin that someone manufactured
Well, yes. It was posted by “Republicans against Trump”.
Oh shit good point
“Republicans against Trump”
AKA Democrats.
Praise his noodliness.
When the rules do not apply to you, you have to keep on publicly demonstrating this or else you lose it.
fascists don’t think like that. they don’t care, and you’re wrong to assume that they care
I hate messing up replies - sorry about that. Anyway, I completely agree. We are very close to needing/wanting a forced reworking of the US government. Fuck, it’s only been a “democracy” for around 60 years. People that are, somehow, loyal to the constitution are therefore loyal to an oligarchy designed to make the rich richer. Fuck. When the constitution was framed and signed, roughly 6% of the population could vote and they were all wealthy white men that owned land.Things need to happen, and US citizens need to be very up in arms, but the arms won’t work despite 2nd amendment beliefs (I do believe in that amendment personally) because, in the end, small arms cannot harm a fighter or bomber. The US citizens are, despite the guns, incapable of actual revolution - ever.
scrap the constitution, start over from scratch. most other countries have rewritten theirs every 20 years or so.
That’s exactly how ours was supposed to be too
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And, you know, the F-bomb.
Someone again made bank on polymarket. I think he’s doing it on purpose.
At this point, it isn’t even an “I think” anymore. It’s just blatant.
I kinda think Stephen Miller is making him do it, because Trump seems to be in a worsening mental state and is suggestible
Or whoever is using that account. There’s always a non-zero chance that Trump isn’t the only one who has access to it, especially if that site has trash opsec.
God I forgot that site existed
Not trying to rag on you specifically OP but I’m sick of these “whAT iF A DemOCRAt Did ThIS?” posts. As if pointing out the hypocrisy is helping at all. Fascists and personality cults do not care about hypocrisy.
10 years into this I don’t know who these posts are for anymore.
I get what you mean, but I do think this brand of humor can help crack certain people’s indoctrination shells. Edgy standup comedy and memes turned me gay.
Yeah. This is George Takei. He is admittedly old, but has been through more than most. Once you are pushing 90, though, it’s probably hard to do serious adaptation to political landscapes.
Yeah respect George a lot but I worry he and a lot of other old Hollywood liberals still think we can vote our way out of this. Maybe we can, but that window narrows every day.
I disagree. It’s clearly not for them; as we continue to get pummeled by aggrigious behavior by world leaders it habituates us the be progressively less shocked by the next insult to democracy and human rights. Checking ourselves and putting these individual acts of hate, racism, xenophobia, and fascism in perspective is the one thing we can do to try to push the bar back to where it belongs.
Uh I don’t think “praise be to Allah” is an act of hate, racism, xenophobia and fascism, but also if the goal is to “push the bar back to where it belongs” then clearly it’s not working. Maybe consider doing something about the hate, racism, xenophobia and fascism?
Are you kidding? You think he meant that in a sincere respectful way?
If so this only proves my point.
I mean obviously not, but either way it’s not an act of hate, racism, xenophobia or fascism. It’s the whole war crime part that’s problematic, is my point.
I guess I could try to explain it further but would need to know what part of hate, racism and xenophobia you don’t understand?
Or raped children.
Obama should have done it.
