I seem to remember tearful letters written on behalf of this asshole and printed in the Denver Post when he was rightfully kicked out of CU.

Fuck this guy. He should be in prison.

Especially when it comes to hate speech and inciting violence, etc. Even America has restraints on inciting violence, but other countries definitely restrict things like hate speech, while the conservatives in America just go BUCK WILD with the hate speech and then have meltdowns when private platforms boot them for violating the TOS and they cry about their “free speech” and how “conservative speech” is being restricted, LOL.

It’s weird how conservative speech always needs to involve hate as its core tenet. These assholes are never kicked from these platforms because they were discussing tax policy or deregulating big business.

Wow, I can think of quite a few more personalities and “influencers” and authors that I’d love to see go to a prison labor camp.

Benny Johnson, LibsOfTikTok, Bannon, Roger Stone, founder of the “Proud” Boys, Curtis Yarvin, Nick Fuentes…

Honestly I wouldn’t even bother saying it’s an annotated Bible, as long as it’s pulling from a translation of the Bible that a church would use, it’s the same Bible.

Yeah agreed, but the site is called “Skeptic’s annotated Bible” so they are going to notice. :)

https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/bible.php

The guns were and are always about signaling threats to the perceived enemies of the perpetually paranoid radical right wing. The idiots waving those things around do not give a flying fuck about the Constitution, America, rights, or freedom.

We all saw what happened when the Black Panther started exercising their rights to open carry. None of this was even remotely a mystery long before donnie dumbfuck rode down that escalator.

God forbid any of these fuckers be held to account for their crimes.

I know it’s now considered verboten to blame the voters, but what politician is going to be able to win on 20% of the vote?

This is exactly why the cons tried to make trans rights just only about things like “men in women’s sports” and then make Democrats defend a position only ~20% of the population supports.

I know driftglass has made his enemies, especially among never-trumpers and the MSM, but I doubt it’s extended to Lemmy, LOL. Maybe it’s a blogspot thing?

I’ve had the same kind of thing happen in various circumstances. I think they really, deep down, don’t believe you on this, and if you manage to convince them of this, it’s like something shorts out in their head.

They really just cannot comprehend that. Not the marks in the base, anyway.

Their thought leaders do comprehend, and use that kind of morality as a weapon, because they know Democrats actually GAF about citizens and outcomes, etc. Republicans will just hold the entire nation hostage because they don’t.

The cons effectively made it all about “men in women’s sports”, I bet.

And that’s something where things are nearly the exact opposite other way (80% against). So that’s why the conservatives harp on it.

Anyone see that video of PEDOnald asking the DoorDash driver about “men in women’s sports”?

I mean…his brain. WTAF. It’s really like he’s just the walking, talking version of Faux “News”.

I remember getting in an argument with a rather strident xtian and he questioned where I got my “information” from. I said: from your Bible [1], and pointed him in the direction of skeptic’s annotated bible.

His reply: “of course you’d use a resource like this”. Did it matter to him that it is annotating phrases from his supposedly revealed text? No, it did not. Having the word “skeptic” in there put him off of it and so, therefore, he just declared victory, I guess, LOL. A whole lot of xtians seem to think that “skeptic” is the same as “cynic” as a term.

[1] He was one of those annoying xtians - and probably everyone has run into them, because they seem to be everywhere - they often resort to one of the most presumptuous phrases in the English language and it’s: “read your Bible”.

It’s presumptuous as fuck to assume I own a Bible. It’s also presumptuous as fuck to assume that there is only one version of “the” bible - because there is not. And lastly, it’s especially presumptuous because it seems to take as evident that the person saying it has read a version of “the” Bible, when odds are quite high that if they read it at all, it was select passages in a study group or something like that.

In his case it was especially ridiculous since he refused to even read his Bible at the prompting of something with the term “skeptic” in it, LOL.

The xtians are known for have fainting spells not only over a message from a competing Abrahamic religion, but they are known for getting the vapors over what this country was actually founded on: freedom not only of religion, but FROM religion.

This type of xtian seems to think that we only have freedom “of” to pick among several pre-approved Protestant strains. Catholics might be begrudgingly tolerated…for now.

Read the last paragraph.

Also, we already know that the likes of Benny “I’m totally not GAY!!!” Johnson were/are funded by Russians.

Do any of the followers of any of these “influencers” or movements ever bother to stop and ask themselves just WHY Russians would want to fund conservatives? I realize they don’t have much introspection, but…

Just for extra Irony Points, this is being done in the name of one of the supposed free-speech-maximalist DEBATEMEBRO types.

Not that I ever thought that he was genuine about it, either, but FFS. If anyone ever wants to see one of the biggest cases of conservative “free speech maximalism” in action, it’s someone like fElon and the way he runs Xitter.

fReE sPeEcH

It’s hilarious when I would see cons trying to do this “liberals can’t meme” narrative they were all telling themselves and trying to foist onto the world.

These dumbfucks are almost always terrible at anything related to comedy.

100%. This is what these pieces of shit always do.

The conservatives and their party, the Republicans, are destroying this country, and are backed by extremist radicals like the Seven Mountains Mandate and Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and the authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans and so on.

These people need to be named. Talking about some nebulous thing like “the United States” in a headline without naming the guilty is just helping the enemies of the country. Sure, not too far into the article this current administration is named, but why not put that or the Republicans in the headline?

Hard to really quantify. They could be all over the place; I only tend to mostly read a few communities. I’ve found strategic blocking usually tamps down on any noise.