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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Has anyone started to link them up to their real names and addresses?

    It’d be nice if some company would start offering services to do background checks on people for hateful comments. Oh, I’m sure there would be lots of butthurt about it, and people rearing up on their hind legs, barking out some shit about “rights” and “freedom”, but if there are private companies issuing FICO scores on things like private purchases, etc…why the fuck shouldn’t something like that exist?

    If companies are doing background checks into your finances, why not about the shit you say, even if it’s been leaked?


  • What is so goddamned infuriating is how the RW assholes like Tucker pull that Murc’s Law shit - that if he finds that he “has” to vote for fascists, it is the liberals that made him do it, because they have been (rightly) pointing out what fascists the Republicans and conservatives really and truly are.

    That’s some serious mental gymnastics there - the fascists that keep showing their hand are going to end up fascists because the meanie smarty-pants liberals called them fascists, and that’s the only reason they are fascists. Well, that, and most entertainment and universities and science and culture really are not overly friendly to the far right, and even might have - gasp - not attacked the already-marginalized. Those monsters. Yep, it’s entirely the fault of the “woke” mind virus that the fascists became fascists who voted for other fascists. No other reason. Some blue-haired trans with too many face piercings stole their masculinity or something.

    Even worse, the fucking Tone Police among the “centrists”, the corporate/conservative mainstream media that is called the “liberal media”, and not a few Democrats help them in this bullshit narrative.


  • I’d love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.

    100%. These assholes have been trained to gaslight and trot out nonsense about Robert Byrd being in the Klan like 100 years ago, or that Democrats were the real racists because of shit that happened before the 1960s, and completely ignoring (or lying about) things like the Southern Strategy and how the parties completely re-aligned since the Civil Rights era.

    Thing is, I’m a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space. I grew up in an area that was overwhelmingly Republican, deeply racist and nearly 100% white.

    They ain’t fooling me, I can tell you that much. This ain’t my first rodeo, I’ve heard all this shit before, and I’ve seen these mofos in action online since the BBS days, and shortly after that, the USENET days. I don’t care what kind of rhetoric they try to dress their “movement” up with and it doesn’t matter what protocol or platform they are on…their methods and tactics like employing the Gish Gallop should not fool anyone, either.




  • I guess I’m not really surprised, but I still remain pissed. I still, on occasion, dip into Facebook and see some old classmates on there that took the burnout track (even so, some barely graduated, and at least one didn’t. Not sure if he later got his GED) of business/vo-tech.

    Some are truly racist MFers and of course all are gigantic fans of donnie dumbfuck. And to a one, they all feel they know better than the smarty-pants people that went to college, as well as professors and scientists. All of them want to rely on “common sense” and think education and expertise are not only not really worthwhile, but something to avoid and something to mock.


  • People keep referencing that Fourth Turning stuff. People say it’s been largely “debunked”, but I do wonder if there is not something to it…I think the larger problem is not so much the boomers, though. Taco is not even a boomer and he definitely should have known better on the Nazi stuff, but his brain is broken and I doubt his generation has very much to do with it.

    The young males all bro’ing out online, bitching about the dating scene, calling themselves incels, listening to Rogan and Benny Johnson and joining up with nonsense like the Proud Boys are most definitely NOT boomers.

    As a Gen Xer I remember a boomer lecturing me on wearing a shirt from The Cult - the had made use of the Iron Cross and he was concerned I had fallen in with the skinhead stuff. Gen X and certainly boomers had quite a bit of that drilled into our heads about the dangers of fascism. I think it stuck with most of us. As fewer and fewer olds are around to keep that cultural memory alive though, I do wonder…the problem is that even with the people that do know about the dangers of fascism, I think few are really aware that it won’t take the same form as it did in Italy or Germany in the 1930s.