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[Dante Alighieri]

I see the term "celebrity" gets used pretty loosely anymore.
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Pretty sure these folks were supposed to have been in Canada by now anyway.

See, they would've moved to an even less diverse country but then they'd have to pay more in taxes and have to deal with tough immigration standards.

 

[ForTheHoard]

I see the term "celebrity" gets used pretty loosely anymore.
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Pretty sure these folks were supposed to have been in Canada by now anyway.

They tried but Trudeau tear gassed them back.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

Rosie O'Donnell has a net worth of $120 million and recently sold three or four multimillion-dollar properties. Maybe she can buy a private island and house a few hundred immigrants herself if she cares so much.

 

[Mistress of the Night Sky]

Okay is it my imagination or are these stories getting fucking stupider?

They're really scrapping the bottom of the barrel here, but then again, maybe the barrel was dug through a long time ago

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Ironically, that shitty book was originally about post-revolution Iran. But we can't be criticizing Islam now can we?

Even more ironically the author herself recently fell on the wrong side of the SJW Inquisition when she opined a male college professor should-- gasp!-- at least be able to tell his side of the story.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/...etoo-backlash-steven-galloway-ubc-accountable
Why Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood is facing #MeToo backlash - link is archive b/c fuck Vox.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

I keep thinking stories like "The Handmaid's Tale" are wishful thinking by Feminists and landwhales hoping for some wealthy, arrogant Nazi to whisk them off to some richly-appointed sex dungeon for some rough, romance novel cover lovin'. After which, they can cry to their friends and receive pityfeels for their "brutal" treatment.

The fact that the real thing (occuring to women all over the world) is about .001% as pleasant as their fantasties completely escapes these addled women. As is the fact that they'd have to lose dozens of pounds and dress halfway decently for even the most incel of Nazis to become attracted to them.

Well, yeah. I mean, 50 Shades isn't doing it for them any more and they need something to fill the void.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Handmaiden's tale is persecution porn, where all the little hidden things that only super femininsts see in our own society are magnified a bazillion times. Powerful men get the women. Women go along with powerful men completely against their own self interests just for the petty satisfaction of being "right".

But that book and TV show are completely offensive to me, because part of the message is "This could happen". And the fans go along with that. So what they're saying is that I and pretty much the rest of the men in the US are just waiting for our chance to literally enslave the women. That there's enough of these maniacs to fight off the US military. It's insulting, and it's fucking stupid. It's not as if we have a huge popular religion that demands women be enslaved and covered up all the time here...

Oh, also, the author believes this could happen in the US (Under reagan/bush1/bush2/trump) it could never happen in Canada, where she is from.

The protests where they cosplay as these women make no fucking sense, of course, as the very fact that they can protest sort of goes against the whole "enslaved women" narrative. The comparisons are always so weak, worse than the harry potter ones honestly.
"In Handmaiden's Tale, there's guys with guns shooting and arresting women. During this protest, there were cops with guns. It's totally the same thing!"

I mean... I guess if I wrote a shitty dystopian book and feminists latched onto it like they have here, maybe I'd milk it for all it was worth too. But that doesn't excuse everyone else, just the author. Feminists are fucking obsessed with this book, it's practically a book of the feminist bible.

To me, the connection is completely self defeating and makes them look like they don't have legitimate complaints, but uh.... virtue signalling is a hell of a drug.

 

[Hux]

There are fully grown women that started in their youth with Harry Potter before moving on to Twilight to 50 Shades then finally settling with Handmaiden's Tale today

I think I know how to fix this

 

[Matthew216]

This whole thing reminds me of an idea I once had for a story set in such a future. In it there where 2 classes, one devoted to fighting the powerful (modern day leftists basically), and the "powerful" who were forbidden by law from not being the bad guys. They lived in manors were they almost prisoners, but every few weeks a new "ruling" would come to those fighting them, and give more fire to those protesting. Thsee rulings would always be attributes to one of the powerful, who would eventually be killed and replaced. The whole thing was a vast conspiracy by the actual rulers to keep people in check, while still holding the moral high ground. The rulers would occassiobally appear as leaders of the fighters.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Harry Potter is pro gun. They give kids wands at a VERY young age, wands which, by the way, have the power to kill people (as demonstrated in the backstory of the whole saga and later on in year 4, they teach the kids about what the Killing Curse actually is!). The kids are, for all intents and purposes, armed to protect themselves, and so are all their teachers. They are taught to use their wands responsibly, and in Book 5, when the state tries to take away their defensive training, the kids revolt by holding training sessions in private and fight for their rights to arm and defend themselves.

The Handmaiden's Tale is about the oppression of Islam, as the women in that story have about as many rights and freedom as the women do in any Islamic run state. Look at the world being presented in The Handmaiden's Tale and I guarantee you no other government in the world right now matches it better than those run by Islamic states and under Sharia law.

There. How fast do you think I'd get banned on twitter for posting this?

PS, attacking the First Lady for Red Christmas Trees is about the most pathetic thing I have ever heard in my life. I didn't think it could get any worse than the media attacking Sarah Palin for being on a Turkey farm while, GASP, Turkeys are being killed (THE HORROR!!!) but nope, the bottom always sinks lower than I expect.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/us/a...utm_term=link&utm_content=2018-11-27T01:00:06
CNN is really having a hard on today for Obama.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/us/america-state-of-hate/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2018-11-27T01:00:06
CNN is really having a hard on today for Obama.

Oh fucking jesus why would I click that. I knew what I was gonna get, but I clicked it anyway. I'm not reading all that garbage, just the title alone makes my head hurt.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

It's just so...blatant. They might as well make a press release statement, stating that they are opposed to the Trump Administration and are in open rebellion against the false fascist government.

They're already doing that in everything but name. What the fuck do they have to lose by "officially" calling themselves part of La Resistance?

 

[CatParty]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/trump-supporters-bill-white-bryan-eure.html

Maybe They’re Just Bad People
Not all Trump support is ideological.


Seven years ago, a former aide to Ralph Reed — who also worked, briefly, for Paul Manafort — published a tawdry, shallow memoir that is also one of the more revealing political books I’ve ever read. Lisa Baron was a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, hard-partying Jew who nonetheless made a career advancing the fortunes of the Christian right. She opened her book with an anecdote about performing oral sex on a future member of the George W. Bush administration during the 2000 primary, which, she wrote, “perfectly summed up my groupie-like relationship to politics at that time — I wanted it, I worshiped it, and I went for it.”

It’s not exactly a secret that politics is full of amoral careerists lusting — literally or figuratively — for access to power. Still, if you’re interested in politics because of values and ideas, it can be easier to understand people who have foul ideologies than those who don’t have ideologies at all. Steve Bannon, a quasi-fascist with delusions of grandeur, makes more sense to me than Anthony Scaramucci, a political cipher who likes to be on TV. I don’t think I’m alone. Consider all the energy spent trying to figure out Ivanka Trump’s true beliefs, when she’s shown that what she believes most is that she’s entitled to power and prestige.

[Listen to “The Argument” podcast every Thursday morning, with Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and David Leonhardt.]

Baron’s book, “Life of the Party: A Political Press Tart Bares All,” is useful because it is a self-portrait of a cynical, fame-hungry narcissist, a common type but one underrepresented in the stories we tell about partisan combat. A person of limited self-awareness — she seemed to think readers would find her right-wing exploits plucky and cute — Baron became Reed’s communications director because she saw it as a steppingstone to her dream job, White House press secretary, a position she envisioned in mostly sartorial terms. (“Outfits would be planned around the news of the day,” she wrote.) Reading Baron’s story helped me realize emotionally something I knew intellectually. It’s tempting for those of us who interpret politics for a living to overstate the importance of competing philosophies. We shouldn't forget the enduring role of sheer vanity.

Bill White and his husband, Bryan Eure, headlined “How a Liberal Couple Became Two of N.Y.’s Biggest Trump Supporters.” The answer: ego. A former big-ticket Democratic fund-raiser, White went straight from Hillary Clinton’s election night party to Donald Trump’s when he realized which way the wind was blowing. (“I didn’t want to be part of that misery pie,” he said of the dreary vibe at the Clinton event.) Another turning point came earlier this year when, he claims, Chelsea Clinton snubbed him at Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar in Manhattan, leading him to call Donald Trump Jr., who offered to come to him right away.

This story, like Baron’s book, is arresting in its picture of shameless, unvarnished thirst. White and Eure mouth some talking points about disliking “identity politics” and valuing “authenticity.” Like a lot of Trump apologists, White insists the president isn’t racist because African-American employment figures have improved during his administration. But the lurid opportunism that’s driving him and his husband to embrace Trump is obvious. Such opportunism is far from rare; it’s just not often that we see it exhibited so starkly.


Trump is hardly the first politician to attract self-serving followers — White and Eure, after all, used to be Clintonites. (The guest list at their lavish wedding, The Times once wrote, “read like a telephone book, if the White Pages printed a version containing only the rich and influential.”) But Trump is unique as a magnet for grifters, climbers and self-promoters, in part because decent people won’t associate with him. With the exception of national security professionals sticking around to stop Trump from blowing up the world, there are two kinds of people in the president’s orbit — the immoral and the amoral. There are sincere nativists, like Bannon and senior adviser Stephen Miller, and people of almost incomprehensible insincerity.

The New Brothels: How Shady Landlords Play a Key Role in the Sex Trade
Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity
How a Common Interview Question Hurts Women

More from Opinion on Trump supporters:
Opinion | Timothy Egan: The Secret to Cracking Trump’s Base
Sept. 14, 2018
Opinion | Roger Cohen: How Far America Has Fallen
Aug. 24, 2018
Opinion: ‘Vision, Chutzpah and Some Testosterone’
Jan. 17, 2018
In many ways, the insincere Trumpists are the most frustrating. Because they don’t really believe in Trump’s belligerent nationalism and racist conspiracy theories, we keep expecting them to feel shame or remorse. But they’re not insincere because they believe in something better than Trumpism. Rather, they believe in very little. They are transactional in a way that makes no psychological sense to those of us who see politics as a moral drama; they might as well all be wearing jackets saying, “I really don’t care, do u?”

justified his sycophantic relationship with the president by saying, “If you knew anything about me, I want to be relevant.” Some people would rather be on the wrong side than on the outside.

 

[Adamska]

This is you faggots fault for telling them to read another book.

I honestly believe it's a book they never read and just pick it because it's the most well known of femtrash books. On top of that, they still need to read another book because Handmaiden's Tale is one of the three books I see these retards pull out.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/trump-supporters-bill-white-bryan-eure.html

Maybe They’re Just Bad People
Not all Trump support is ideological.

Spoiler: the article

Seven years ago, a former aide to Ralph Reed — who also worked, briefly, for Paul Manafort — published a tawdry, shallow memoir that is also one of the more revealing political books I’ve ever read. Lisa Baron was a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, hard-partying Jew who nonetheless made a career advancing the fortunes of the Christian right. She opened her book with an anecdote about performing oral sex on a future member of the George W. Bush administration during the 2000 primary, which, she wrote, “perfectly summed up my groupie-like relationship to politics at that time — I wanted it, I worshiped it, and I went for it.”

It’s not exactly a secret that politics is full of amoral careerists lusting — literally or figuratively — for access to power. Still, if you’re interested in politics because of values and ideas, it can be easier to understand people who have foul ideologies than those who don’t have ideologies at all. Steve Bannon, a quasi-fascist with delusions of grandeur, makes more sense to me than Anthony Scaramucci, a political cipher who likes to be on TV. I don’t think I’m alone. Consider all the energy spent trying to figure out Ivanka Trump’s true beliefs, when she’s shown that what she believes most is that she’s entitled to power and prestige.

[Listen to “The Argument” podcast every Thursday morning, with Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and David Leonhardt.]

Baron’s book, “Life of the Party: A Political Press Tart Bares All,” is useful because it is a self-portrait of a cynical, fame-hungry narcissist, a common type but one underrepresented in the stories we tell about partisan combat. A person of limited self-awareness — she seemed to think readers would find her right-wing exploits plucky and cute — Baron became Reed’s communications director because she saw it as a steppingstone to her dream job, White House press secretary, a position she envisioned in mostly sartorial terms. (“Outfits would be planned around the news of the day,” she wrote.) Reading Baron’s story helped me realize emotionally something I knew intellectually. It’s tempting for those of us who interpret politics for a living to overstate the importance of competing philosophies. We shouldn't forget the enduring role of sheer vanity.

Bill White and his husband, Bryan Eure, headlined “How a Liberal Couple Became Two of N.Y.’s Biggest Trump Supporters.” The answer: ego. A former big-ticket Democratic fund-raiser, White went straight from Hillary Clinton’s election night party to Donald Trump’s when he realized which way the wind was blowing. (“I didn’t want to be part of that misery pie,” he said of the dreary vibe at the Clinton event.) Another turning point came earlier this year when, he claims, Chelsea Clinton snubbed him at Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar in Manhattan, leading him to call Donald Trump Jr., who offered to come to him right away.

This story, like Baron’s book, is arresting in its picture of shameless, unvarnished thirst. White and Eure mouth some talking points about disliking “identity politics” and valuing “authenticity.” Like a lot of Trump apologists, White insists the president isn’t racist because African-American employment figures have improved during his administration. But the lurid opportunism that’s driving him and his husband to embrace Trump is obvious. Such opportunism is far from rare; it’s just not often that we see it exhibited so starkly.


Trump is hardly the first politician to attract self-serving followers — White and Eure, after all, used to be Clintonites. (The guest list at their lavish wedding, The Times once wrote, “read like a telephone book, if the White Pages printed a version containing only the rich and influential.”) But Trump is unique as a magnet for grifters, climbers and self-promoters, in part because decent people won’t associate with him. With the exception of national security professionals sticking around to stop Trump from blowing up the world, there are two kinds of people in the president’s orbit — the immoral and the amoral. There are sincere nativists, like Bannon and senior adviser Stephen Miller, and people of almost incomprehensible insincerity.

The New Brothels: How Shady Landlords Play a Key Role in the Sex Trade
Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity
How a Common Interview Question Hurts Women

More from Opinion on Trump supporters:
Opinion | Timothy Egan: The Secret to Cracking Trump’s Base
Sept. 14, 2018
Opinion | Roger Cohen: How Far America Has Fallen
Aug. 24, 2018
Opinion: ‘Vision, Chutzpah and Some Testosterone’
Jan. 17, 2018
In many ways, the insincere Trumpists are the most frustrating. Because they don’t really believe in Trump’s belligerent nationalism and racist conspiracy theories, we keep expecting them to feel shame or remorse. But they’re not insincere because they believe in something better than Trumpism. Rather, they believe in very little. They are transactional in a way that makes no psychological sense to those of us who see politics as a moral drama; they might as well all be wearing jackets saying, “I really don’t care, do u?”

justified his sycophantic relationship with the president by saying, “If you knew anything about me, I want to be relevant.” Some people would rather be on the wrong side than on the outside.

Holy shit, OK I admit it, they caught me. I've been faking it this whole time, I hate trump, I hate his policies, but I feel trump being in office... uh... is transactional to me...

Uhh.... are you guys getting paychecks for agreeing with trump sometimes? I didn't know it was supposed to be a transaction, I think I fucked up.

But I think the actual correct response to this article is "No u".

 

[Godzilla@1989]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/us/america-state-of-hate/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2018-11-27T01:00:06
CNN is really having a hard on today for Obama.

Well shit if they haven't obsess about his skin color, we wouldn't be having stupid slap fights on the streets.

I'll be honest though, I knew Obama's election would ignite racial backlash, but I never knew it would be caused by the MSM and the left.

 

[damian]

Cuck Windbag made another giant screech:

Spoiler: Too long

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Chuck needs to get a life.

 

[The Great Citracett]