US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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[The Last Stand]

My point, to reiterate again is liberals using Star Wars are not doing something abnormal or modern. They are using a known cultural narrative(Star Wars)-as a metaphor to define moral stakes, identify who is a good and bad guy, etc…

I don't get it. All I tell them is to read another book, watch another movie, suck some other duck.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Holy fuck the size of those holes.

The A10 went into service in 1976...Quite a year:

 

[Ishtar]

I don't get it. All I tell them is to read another book, watch another movie, suck some other duck.

Then you misunderstand the point. It’s not about their lack of literary palettes-it’s that they are getting their moral compass and sense of right and wrong from the stories they consume.

 

[Wash away the rain]

Good lore turns out antifaggots have spent years in prison thanks to streamers catching their face hahhahahahah warms my fucking heart.

 

[invisibult plus+]

I don't have it handy, but there's a 4chan screenshot out there explaining this pretty well.
Basically, one of the things TPTB learned from programs like MKULTRA is that human brains suck at telling fiction from reality.
If a monkey sees another monkey get a banana for doing a trick on the TV screen, monkey thinks he will get banana for doing the same thing. Similarly, if human sees hero in Marvel film behave a certain way, they expect they will receive the same (or similar) rewards for doing the same things. Scale that up across thousands of films and other media and you can program certain "truths" into a population that don't actually have any real world equivalent.

It's pretty evil when you think about it, because like you pointed out, old stories usually serve to help teach lessons on behavior and expectations within a society.
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I want to add that when some people internalize these narratives and compare them to reality, unless you're demoralized (a la Yuri Bezmenov), it forms a cognitive dissonance that they really can't handle. When the monkey sees another monkey get a banana, and he doesn't get one, he gets really angry. Either they dig their heels in, the conditioning slips, or they reject it wholesale. When it comes to media and its programming, American culture is incestuous at the moment, with the infinite reboots and spin-offs. Even original works are made by the same 8% of the population, if that, as all the other slop, making this cognitive dissonance even worse. Eventually these rallying cries of Dumbledorlliance of Panemarvel ring really, really hollow. Even if it's kids cheering for Vader in heckin' Star Wars, to them it's different because it's something else, something closer to what they'd want in life.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Why should I give any fucks about 100% Dem cities tearing themselves apart?

Some people like to cross city, or even I dare say, state lines.

 

[Russell Coight]

I said Gavin don't cry, I wouldn't cry. Crybaby Gavin that's what we call him

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Holy fuck the size of those holes.

The rounds are bigger than a beer bottle.

Throw rocks at that commies.

 

[The Last Stand]

Then you misunderstand the point. It’s not about their lack of literary palettes-it’s that they are getting their moral compass and sense of right and wrong from the stories they consume.

Some women go to A Handmaid's Tale as a dystopian representation from outlawing reproductive rights. If you have to use media as a representation of your beliefs, then it goes from entertainment to pure propaganda.

Me, if a movie has an older actress, I'll humor it. I watch for the visionary talent.

 

[Breadbassket]

One must wonder if these protests and riots will continue until the 250th Army Anniversary parade on June 14 or will they peter out altogether before then?

 

[TV's Adam West]

Do you still believe this? If so, would you argue for a policy that restricts the publication of information such as phone numbers?

What the fuck are you talking about?

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Some people like to cross city, or even I dare say, state lines.

In their backyard one day...commies in your backyard the next.

 

[make_it_so]

One must wonder if these protests and riots will continue until the 250th Army Anniversary parade on June 14 or will they peter out altogether before then?

That's the day the big multi-city riots peaceful demonstrations are planned.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

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You guys have to understand that this area is pretty much what the whole riot is.
When it went to Little Tokyo yesterday it was just a couple streets south.
When people think of LA are they really thinking of like...5x5 blocks?
This isn't a massive protest.
I have personally seen DHS set up in City hall's boundaries, because there are actually underground access points for them in this area.

I would also imagine that by this point a lot of the biggest agitators have been hauled off.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

This guy needs to quit politics.

 

[BullfrogBill]

Then you misunderstand the point. It’s not about their lack of literary palettes-it’s that they are getting their moral compass and sense of right and wrong from the stories they consume.

Please take it to another thread dude.

 

[Ishtar]

Some women go to A Handmaid's Tale as a dystopian representation from outlawing reproductive rights. If you have to use media as a representation of your beliefs, then it goes from entertainment to pure propaganda.

Me, if a movie has an older actress, I'll humor it. I watch for the visionary talent.

The handmaiden’s tale is a great example-it was used to rally opposition from liberals and feminists over Project 2025-“hey you saw on the handmaiden’s tale how women were turned into brood mares by an oppressive theocracy-well that’s gonna happen in real life”.

One easily leads to the other. You make a hard distinction-most people don’t.

Apologies. I am actually done with this now.

 

[DAT DIGGA]

It fits perfectly. Someone put it into an edit.

 

[sum ting wong]

The juxtaposition of pride flags with riots will never stop being funny. Its really just the hallmark of clown world.
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Nothing annoys me more than the rioters who know that the police/military aren't going to do anything to them so they act all tough and try to provoke a response.

 

[make_it_so]

This guy needs to quit politics.
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Yeah, completely Boomering-up the audio for your big dramatic speech to the nation against the Bad Orange Man is definitely the hallmark of a campaign that's going places.