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Should be a wild four years.

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JustSomeDong said:
Because the Purity Spiral works, amongst themselves. And they, by default, assume it will work for everyone else. They imagine every person that leans right is a puritanical strawman with a sadistic streak, who will do what the leftist expects, become morally indignant and, naturally, admit total moral and ideological defeat. Because, of course the leftist was actually right all along, and the orange man is actually BAD! VERY BAD! Then they expect you to thank them, for they, this magnanimous leftist, has helped you see the Holy Light of Truth.

mid stoned-posting break: Okay, I took a minute to try to gin up an AI image with the prompt "ward cleaver from leave it to beaver in american psycho" for some shitpost-y imagery of what they think everyone on the right is,and it gave me this:

I giggled at it for a couple minutes.

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lol that beaver looks somewhat displeased, but it ain't what I was going for.


Anyways...

"But, JustSomeDong!" you might say. "You've just constructed a strawman! You're a hypocrite! A charlatan! You need to stop smoking weed before posting!"

Well, I think my strawman is much more accurate than theirs. And I feel its more of a generalization, than a strawman. The right is far more accepting of people, even people who make mistakes, than anyone on the left. Thats the best part.

Also, Hypocrisy is human nature, and I enjoy a bowl and a warm blanket on a cold night of freezing rain. Stoney shitposting to the glow of the fake fireplace is as close as I'm going to get to a vacation until at least May.
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Most of them seem to still think the hysterical fundies are still in charge of the right, like it is 2003 or something. I have posted before about how because of them, we are dealing with problems now.
The best thing the right ever did was get those retards out of any real say within the MAGA movement.
You can conserve family's without a scolding preaching asshole saying your pokemans are the devil incarnate. Have your god, but MAGA. The left have become the anti-fun side. I will advocate for the right wing not to become the same again.
 
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just Reading a post said:
For some reason we have them trying to incite purity spirals against him.
HHEHHEE HAS KIDDSSSS OUT OFF WEDDLOCK DO U UUUU HATE HIM NOW?
No.
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They still think it’s the 2000s and Republicans are religious Boomers who hate anything impure. The Dem play-book of Late Night TV epic owns hasn’t changed even though it is a good decade out of date.

Edit: Got beaten to it by @just Reading a post
 
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mandatorylurk said:
It's from the anime One Piece. Trump is Luffy, the main character, the one with the straw hat who is chaotic good who looks goofy and no one originally took seriously yet gets results for the average person, who the world government hates because he has slowly revealed a grand conspiracy about the world. His right hand man is a character named Zoro, the guy with green hair who has three swords. He's very much of the same mentality as Luffy but more composed in how he operates. Just look at how they debate to see the similarities but difference. Trump just goes blasting away at his opponent and mocking the enemy, Vance just picks apart his opponent bit by bit in a way where you can't just hand wave it as being brash.
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Appreciate the explanation, even if it is much more autistic than I expected.
 
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moocow said:
Sure, they're adorable, and I have no doubt interacting with them would be quite relaxing. They're a staple of petting zoos for kids (and adults for that matter).

But doing yoga with them is retarded. Dafuq does a goat know about yoga? :story:
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Well a some goats can lay on their sides really well! Mostly when you startle them.
 
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This negro's just wall of text now, way to go dems

@davidhogg111


Seven years ago today was the worst day of my life. On that day, a 19-year-old who never should’ve had access to a gun in the first place entered my high school with an AR-15 and took the lives of 17 students and faculty members and injured 17 others. Since then, I’ve worked to get stronger gun laws passed across the country because I never want anyone else to hear the deafening cries of their classmates and family members after their friends have been stolen from them by the epidemic of preventable gun violence. I’ll be honest, this work is soul-crushing. No one would choose to spend every day talking about the worst day of their life because they want to — but the reason people who’ve experienced this do this is because we feel we have no other choice. Like with all forms of activism, it is not voluntary, it is mandatory to organize for others survival. Because despite the empty “thoughts and prayers” offered by too many of our leaders, this continues to happen on a regular basis. Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough on their own — they need to be paired with action. Though this work is incredibly hard, it is working. President Biden created the first ever office of gun violence prevention which helped act like FEMA for instances of gun violence and mass shootings along with making sure the hundreds of millions allocated by congress to combat gun violence was actually used to fund violence intervention programs and enforce laws better. The other day I was talking with one of the former directors of gun violence prevention from that office, who told me in 2023 we saw the single largest one year reduction in gun homicides in US history of 12% and the data for 2024 are pointing to an additional 15% reduction. That means we cut gun homicides by nearly a third in just two years. That means thousands are alive right now who otherwise would not be. ⅓ is nowhere near enough but it’s a hell of a lot better than where we were headed. I spent many days of college in between classes on zoom calls with the white house working to create that office and had worked on the idea since introducing it with March For Our Lives in 2019. What keeps me going are my incredible family, friends, fellow survivors and knowing what we are doing is working, even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes. One day, I want to live in a world where no one ever has to experience the pain so many experienced that day in Parkland and every day in America. But until that day is a reality, we have to keep doing this work. It’s too important not to. Those in my generation who are part of the gun safety movement know that if we don’t have a government that will change gun laws then we’ll change who’s in government. That is the next phase that I am working on now with Leaders We Deserve we must bring the next generation of the movement into office to create the change our country so desperately needs.
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moocow said:
But doing yoga with them is retarded. Dafuq does a goat know about yoga?
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I imagine it's meant to be disruptive whenever you're doing yoga, in a very endearing and lighthearted way, since goats tend to randomly climb and headbutt things. I think the intent is likely more of teaching people yoga to do in their own time through an experience that's joyous and humorous, rather than actual serious yoga classes, with the main overall intent being charity.
 
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These European countries demanding America intervene in Ukraine are just annoying and pathetic. Ukraine isn't a US treaty ally, and it cannot join NATO because it's occupied by Russia and it would be a massive liability.

China is the peer competitor of America, it is economically more robust than Russia, and China has been able to rapidly upscale its technology at significantly reduced costs compared to America. Furthermore, Russia is the nuclear deterrent preventing America from nuking China, Moscow will not allow it. China is America's bane.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
sounds like somebody's jelly

after USAID is cut CSPAN has to make ends meet and teams up with World Star
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"I'm Anderson Pooper. The Budgetary Committee has reconvened after a slight recess, and will be discussing....hey, what?! Why are there two large black women fighting half naked in the chamber?!"

"WOOOOORRRRRLLLLDDDSTAAAAR!"

Gunshots ring out
 
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mandatorylurk said:
It's from the anime One Piece. Trump is Luffy, the main character, the one with the straw hat who is chaotic good who looks goofy and no one originally took seriously yet gets results for the average person, who the world government hates because he has slowly revealed a grand conspiracy about the world. His right hand man is a character named Zoro, the guy with green hair who has three swords. He's very much of the same mentality as Luffy but more composed in how he operates. Just look at how they debate to see the similarities but difference. Trump just goes blasting away at his opponent and mocking the enemy, Vance just picks apart his opponent bit by bit in a way where you can't just hand wave it as being brash.
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I Think the biggest origin of the meme is less about Trump and Co being parallels to Luffy and Co...but the fact that The World Government of the setting slaughters people for the most basic of questions like "What do these giant indestructible blocks with the weird writing say"
 
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karaokeman said:
These European countries demanding America intervene in Ukraine are just annoying and pathetic. Ukraine isn't a US treaty ally, and it cannot join NATO because it's occupied by Russia and it would be a massive liability.
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This war is like a reverse Iraq where European eunuch elites want Uncle Sam to die against Russia for them.
 
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