top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 280 points 3 years ago (37 children)

It blows my mind that this is how far political discourse has fallen. Fuck anyone who supports shit like this.

  • source
  • hideshow 37 child comments
  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago

    We’re getting to the point where verbally attacking or making fun of conservatives in any way will be considered abuse of the mentally handicapped.

    Enjoy it before it’s too late.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Unfortunately even though most people don't 'support' it- it's a spectacle that gets headlines and clicks, and those further incentivize more spectacle. She's not doing it for the few people that would say they support it, she's doing it for the attention of people that don't.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • load more comments (4 replies)
  • load more comments (24 replies)
    [–] 169 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    I will never understand how people don't realize that Hunter Biden is irrelevant. He's not a politician.

  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] 111 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Because his name is 'Biden' and a significant number of people operate at a sort of Pavlovian word-association level.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago*

    As always when it comes to conservatives, you can trace their behaviour back to projection and how they think everyone else is just like themselves.

    They put personal faith into the person they support, and see any criticism of that person as a personal attack. And they assume everyone else does as well, so they honestly think talking negatively about Hunter Biden is a personal blow to democratic voters.

    It's honestly delusional.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's because conservatives have zero imagination. All they do is project their own crimes into their opponents assuming everyone is as evil and guilty as they are.

    "Hunter Crime Family" is laughable when we have a literal ex president crime family. Accusations Hunter took foreign bribes is pathetic when it's almost certain the entire trump family is in Putin's pocket.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Same people who lose their mind over hunter ignore jared and Ivanka actually being hired into the white house, a crime, not filling out their sf86, a crime, and profiting off of what they knew from being in the white house.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 105 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    She's just a troll, nothing more. She contributes nothing towards policy or making life better in America. Whatever will own the libs is what she exists for. Trash.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Indeed her name is Margarine "Trailer Park" Trash Greed.

    Also, I've got some reading to do as not-a-lawyer, but I'm doing a big think on this and how it may/can/should apply:

    https://withoutmyconsent.org/50state/state-guides/district-of-columbia/statutory-criminal-law/#criminal-nonconsensual-pornography-dc-code-22-3051

    There's no damn way throwing around actual nudes can apply under speech and debate.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [+] 102 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)
  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    While I respect the sentiment, Charles Sumner was once beaten within an inch of their life on the floor of Congress for delivering a scathing abolitionist speech.

    We're not quite at our lowest point yet, but it is scary how close we are coming.

    https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • load more comments (6 replies)
  • [–] 101 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Republicans are now sharing porn to minors. (She sent out the images to her followers without a restriction on the age limit that it was sent to, just a warning to the parents about explicit content). So given the number of Republicans that force their kids to participate in politics. It's a given that she just sent porn to a massive group of republican minors. She's not only sharing images of porn in congress, but she's also participating in distribution of pornography to children.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 81 points 3 years ago

    Hunter is a rich, attractive, Chad with a huge shlong who spends his time doing drugs and banging women.

    Yeah ... I can understand why Republicans have such a crush on him.

  • source
  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Hi everyone, European here. I have a quick question: Are Georgians fucking broken or why did they vote this person into office?

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 76 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    She had no opponent. He dropped out because he was getting death threats.

    Also yes, white Southern conservatives are broken people who only feel better when someone else is suffering.

    My guess is the only way this is gonna change is when people like her get dragged into the street and beaten to death by a crowd

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago

    She had no opponent. He dropped out because he was getting death threats.

    Makes sense. The death threats don't come as a surprise. But I am also not shocked to hear she only made it this way. What a shit person she is.

    Also yes, white Southern conservatives are broken people who only feel better when someone else is suffering.

    It is known. I hate this timeline.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 38 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Filipino here, I'm curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?

    don't get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they'd never pull stunts like this over here.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Coverage of politics became commodified and sensationalized in the name of ratings and advertising dollars and coupled with intense competition for viewer attention this has led to the news becoming more of a form of entertainment than anything informative.

    At the same time, voter apathy drives politicians to search for new ways to create interest, promote themselves, and generate a following.

    This promotes more and more sensational behavior, which is further played up by the media, which raises the bar for the kind of things a representative from a flyover red state hardly anyone cares about has to do to maintain a presence on the national stage.

    Repeat that cycle a few times and now congress is looking at Hunter Biden's nudes.

    I would suggest 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman for further reading.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    For a second I thought Magic The Gathering was involved.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)
    load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 25 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Being from Belgium, following American politics started for me together with the rise of YouTube and I could watch episodes of The Daily Show on it and where things have gone from topics like 'Dick Cheney shot someone in the face' to news like this. It really made me stop watching talkshows that I really enjoyed like The Daily Show, The Late Show with SC, ... . It's so much politics, every day again, on so many television shows. Is it also perceived as such in the USA itself? In Belgium, for many reasons, politics isn't 24/7 discussed everywhere, everytime.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My guess is, the reason why politics are not an outsized portion of your life over there has something to do with your country not having an angry, empowered, and vocal minority disproportionately overrepresented in government making regressive laws to strip away human rights and sell off ever more of your life to rent seeking corporations.

    It's everyday with these people here. If they got everything they wanted today they would come up with a new list of horrible shit to demand tomorrow. We are a police state and a third of us seem to think the boot isn't stepping on us hard enough.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    I'd be dumbfounded about how something like this could be brought in, but then I remember that in my country our previous prime minister, when he was treasurer before that, brought a lump of coal in to parliament and said "This is coal. Don't be afraid. Don't be scared. It won't hurt you." to talk down any talk of climate change and how bad coal is for the environment. Another former prime minister ate a raw onion, skin and all.

    These lifetime politicians really do live in a world of their own. They're a bunch of grown up children with no idea how to behave.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    load more comments
    view more: next ›