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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don’t know what my political identity or label is

You might wanna figure that out if you're going to opine about politics

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She knows. She's playing the "nonpolitical" card like so many reactionaries before her.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Said it before and I’ll say it again. Reactionaries see themselves as the absence of politics, not a political idea.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ever meet a fundie who said "I don't belong to any religion; I just have a personal relationship with God" or something like that? Similar energy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hear this all the time and I absolutely hate it. You go to church once a week, go to bible study/cell groups, you follow all the traditionally conservative rules around protestant Christianity. You are part of a religion. Just because you believe you can personally communicate with God and don't need to go through the priests, it doesn't change the fact that you are still very much part of a religion.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a different but related gripe when someone asks "are you Catholic or Christian?" smuglord

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Being political is anything that questions the status quo

Accepting the status quo requires no action and is therefore “non-political”

Fish not seeing the water around them basically

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cuz politics, to them, is anything intrusive and obstructive to them, that brings discomfort to power

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

"why won't the unworthies just lay down and die?"

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

It's liberal.

You're a fucking liberal.

That's just not fun to write an attention seeking essay about, because you're just another dumbshit liberal trying to seem unique and redeemable.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Once again proving TYT are fucking morons and I feel vindicated about never liking any of them.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

The best one was Hasan and he got fired or whatever proving that they were never committed to having good opinions

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm so glad i figured out these guys were performative hacks when I was like 14 lmao.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ppb-gigachad Don't care what she has to say, not reading it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you've picked up on any of her shit takes over the last three or so years, you've already read it.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago

LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME I AM THE GOOD ONE death-to-the-poor

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

surprised-pika-messed-up

I'm waiting for her/TYT to start working with David Rubin again lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dave Rubin returns to TYT arc that no one say coming michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She was so pissed when he left and became an explicitly right wing grifter. It's funny to see her say the same shit more or less

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

she was pissed that he beat her to the punch

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Ana and Jimmy make up.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

As expected, going the way of Bill Maher and Destiny. Being a reactionary liberal who hates the Republicans while increasingly agreeing with them. Also known as a scratched liberal.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay so I'm just gonna say some stuff and I haven't really thought about this too much so I'm shooting from the hip here but it seams like being a TERF takes vastly more effort than not being a TERF. Like it's way more work than being a bog standard misogynist. So the issue isn't that they are lazy, per se, it's that they've chosen to die on this very frustrating reactionary hill. So you can't even kinda defend them by calling it ignorance. No, they had to do work to get here, and they still concluded the worst fucking things.

I try to be nice to people and be patient and tolerant because, partly, I can. That's a privilege I have as a cis man. Somebody saying "I hate trans people" isn't a direct threat to me. I still condemn it, I tell them to shut the fuck up, but I can afford to try to talk them down from those rhetorical ledges because I'm not in the cross hairs, if you know what I am saying. I can try to interrogate them and be a little more objective about it because I'm not having to defend my right to exist. Like it's one of those fucked up ways where you can use their bigotry to shut down a bigot and I'm willing to use any tool I can to combat that stuff. Again, it's how I can use my privilege. Privilege doesn't go away because I pretend it doesn't exist so I should use it tactically.

The point I'm trying to make here is that I don't extend that to TERFs because they've clearly thought about it! They've rehearsed talking points and stuck their heads in sand. So they should be bullied into oblivion.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No one is surprised. Everyone saw this coming like 6 years ago when she’d go on unhinged anti homeless rants

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Her parents are LA landlords, too, lmao costanza-maoist

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And she’s married to a gusano. She’s gone on anti-Cuba rants about how Castro caused so many Cubans to “lose their jobs.”

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why I right the right

Why I centrist the centrist

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

I did Nazi myself leaving the Nazis

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I can't quite remember who she is. Could I get summary - I hope it's a couple paragraphs.

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Out of curiosity - I read her post.

I don't know what my political identity or label is, and I'm not even sure I want to be pigeonholed.

Does that mean she's a libertarian?

This comment made me laugh.

“I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me" - Treebeard

The first time I read those words I couldn't understand how much I would come to relate to them...

[Liked by Ana Kasparian]

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me" - Treebeard

screm-a aaaa aaaa

So what happened to Treebeard next?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Turns out he realized he is on the side against the people killing all his friends. Since liberals can not have friends it makes sense they'd miss that part. Stupid fucks.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Oh god the Enlightened Centrism is unbearable

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This person claimed to be white passing for being Armenian. Rephrasing, this person claimed to be passing for Caucasian because she was from the actual caucus.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Honestly everyday that Cenk doesn't fire her he's just blasting his own future prospects. But at this point it's pretty clear that he doesn't disagree enough or care enough (or agrees with her...).

TYT would better than letting your conservative dad watch Fox, CNN, etc.

But just barely.

That's basically all it's ever been. Something closer to "reality" but still definitely in the sphere of western bullshit.

And I'm just talking about how they discuss issues broadly. Not the editorialized rants that they go on, especially Ana

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly everyday that Cenk doesn't fire her he's just blasting his own future prospects.

Hasn't Cenk basically always been just as bad lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I can only think of a solid like 3 times I've watched clips from TYT that weren't just Ana focused. One was when Hasan said America deserved a specific event. And probably some other stuff.

Cenk's reactionary viewpoints are different from what I've see. Like he hates homeless people and loves cops. Complains about other shit that right wingers have dragged into "political" discussions (things that shouldn't be up for debate.).

I just know Ana has been on a bridge-burning expedition to the far right for years now and while Cenk definitely agrees on some stuff, he doesn't come off as gung ho "this is my hill. I will die here." His hill is "homeless people are homeless because they're morally bad and should be rounded up and... not shot! No, no not that!" Even though that's clearly something he leans towards but knows he can't just say it or people will realize how shitty his pro-police, anti-people policy ideas are.

Maybe he doesn't touch trans issues (much) because Ana has it nailed down for the show or because he's uncomfortable, but she certainly doesn't feel any discomfort. Just keeps blabbing for years too, nonstop, over the perceived grievance of allegedly someone one time calling her a "birthing person" in a medical context. She took that shit personal... for no apparent reason other than stirring up unnecessary shit. Even got Ben Shabibo to make a video about the terminology. Ben "my mommy I mean wife is a doctor" Shapiro ranting about medical terminology... peak irony, peak idiocracy, who knows anymore

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Holy shit I hate her so much.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

~~You're right, I've changed.~~

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are there not any fucking right wingers in the US that see both parties pretending to cater directly to them or more specifically any more upper-class dipshits that actually are getting pandered to, who are like "hell yeah, i'm winning right now, i'm the bell of the ball right now" or is everyone trying to out-soy each other in how they're the most persecuted and misunderstood?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm gonna beat this dead horse until its a sludge. The channel having the name Young Turks is a major red flag. And an Armenian being one of the faces of a channel named the Young Turks.... I mean.....

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

This happened years ago and it's happening now

manhattan

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Airing the young turks dirty laundry is the only thing I will respect Jimmy Dore for.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm confused, is this the Peter Thiel podcast girl?

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