TemutheeChallahmet

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A secret trick that dumb liberals who performatively denounce "mud-slinging" overlook is that if your insult to your opponent is undeniably funny or resonant, they cannot repeat it to shame you because it will get more people to laugh at them than to be outraged on their behalf.

The RNC recently tried to attack Kamala by showing a clip of her laughing at Trump being called the r-slur, but too many people get why Trump would be called that, and the "how dare she" responses were overpowered by responses saying "based."

This is also why the Vance couch cushions bit is effective, there is no way to condemn that insult by name without humiliating yourself more than you shame your insulters.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This while DJ Khaled, an actual Palestinian, simps for Israel.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

By pandering to the 2016 micro aggressions discourse people saying "coconut could be a slur" or having whoever is today's equivalent of Lena Dunham speak at the convention, or leaning too much into "yasss queen" stuff that is more about worshipping the candidate than centering the policies they support. The Republicans currently wield the mantle of being really annoying and weird, Kamala would do well to not help libs reclaim it. Also, just no more smugness as a response to Trump's wacky shit. Hillary was too into that annoying Colbert Report era "I think therefore I am liberal" winky snark. She kept doing it in the debates and it lent itself to no good sound bites, just a feeling of condescension while general voters thought Trump's panicked tone at the least matched their anxieties.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah it just seems like something that would be in the memoir of a guy like this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is one of those jokes that even if it was fake will just stick because the accused looks like someone who would do that. At the least the underlying stigma, about Vance being a weird little piggy, will be amplified by this rumor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is terrible storytelling like that bit in Arrested Development where Tobias tried to play a British woman by having a British flag painted on the roof of his car and driving on the opposite side of the road.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why would she stay on the bus and cry? Either get off the next stop 2 minutes from now or don't get on at all if you are racist. If you keep crying you'll miss the next stop!

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

In a way this is the fault of advertising in the US. The memories these chuds have of some better age for gaming were never real, they want their franchises to bring them what no video game can but what so much media now gets advertised as: a restoration of their hopeful youth where they could still be taken by complete surprise in a pleasant way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have irresponsibly meted out my supply of super serum

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I know, the volcel police must detain me

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more the voice and look, no one is calling Stephen Miller funny for being even more naked about those views, Trump's way of speaking just makes it sound like he bumbled into them

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Only in the bedroom

 

Wrote this long ass piece because I got sick of the same reddit-logo denizens claiming that there is a conspiracy to cover up widespread black-on-asian racist violence. If you ever hear someone whine about this bullshit please use the talking points included here.

 

Let's see if they are gullible and spineless enough to still go for it this time.

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Imagine if they had a response that generated the "it's true but they shouldn't say it" feeling Trump generated in 2016 to rousing support, and dared their base to not default to performatively reciting the spiel about decorum and decency toward even Trump that most of them genuinely don't believe deep down, maybe even say something like "glad he handled that better than he did the pandemic," and force Trump supporters to run on the in-group concern and outrage toward his shooting while Dems exclusively talked about policy that could make lives better.

Imagine if Dems had a vision they would uncompromisingly fight for first, and a concern for whether they'll be adhering to precedent or seeming decent second, rather than still campaign for anti-abortion Democrats at this stage, and legislate based on what public sentiment polls say now versus betting on messaging and success turning the tides, shifting public opinion. Alas, dream as we may the party is locked into the through-line of "When they go low, we go high," hoping the people who hate them and want them imprisoned/dead can be governed and opposed like co-collaborators on their email job work project.

Perhaps the fear of saying something galvanizing, enlightening, and unspoken because it could be polarizing, un-nuanced, and transformative to the very way their supporters think of their party and themselves, is actually a symptom of what gets liberals called "too PC," too fearful of any turn toward tension even though the absence of tension is the absence of momentum.

Imagine if liberals didn't resign themselves to losing the election after today, and realized that if they defeated Trump electorally after this it would mean the end of the MAGA movement once and for all, and moved forward under these premises. But that would require them to embrace the icky feeling of being ruthless in pursuit of an ideal, and I guess they cannot stand to think of themselves that way no matter what the enemy might do to them.

 
 
 
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