also he’s downstream of russian propaganda. russia says the war in Ukraine is NATO’s war. so Trump’s plan to bring peace to Ukraine was simple: just stop fighting. what he didn’t account for was the operational reality in Ukraine that who’s fighting is Ukrainians who are defending themselves from a russian initiated genocide.

it used to be like that before reagan flipped the “conservative” party upside down

still don’t with landlines, but when’s the last time you used one of those?

no yeah for sure. i’m just saying that the subset of people who are gungho about the importance of circumcision because of their love for jesus are people you’re unlikely to ever encounter, but do have every conservative politician’s ear

Pentecostal holiness denominations are both small and overrepresented in policy making

edit: oh yeah and they teach the opposite of what jesus did

i saw the edit

no i know. i’m part of that statistic. my parents weren’t consulted ahead of time. it was simply done “for health reasons”

that sounds like you need to blame the writers and producers more than the director to me

only jesus said there is a new covenant with him, which nearly all denominations interpret to mean the rite of circumcision is a thing of the past

i honestly have no idea how debt juggling works. it seems like it should be hella illegal, but then i also look at the humans around me and want them to thrive and be happy. i don’t see my fellows as being rubes i can exploit

he sold twitter to a company he owns, didn’t he?

🤮

fascist cronyism doesn’t require everyone to be a crony. just enough people to flummox the people who actually give a shit. if boozey pete had some high ranking DOGE dope install a starlink connection point in his office, and got enough high ranking officials to be cool with it, that’s enough to get it done even if most people there find this to be a problem.

it’s not about the bad ones doing evil. it’s about convincing the good ones there’s nothing to be done. as the saying goes, all evil needs is for good men to do nothing. well. fascism is mostly about manufacturing consent by convincing you to do nothing

starlink in the window maybe?

they do! the maga cult can’t be exposed to diverse perspectives. the motivation for this is that diverse perspectives threaten the white supremacist hegemony by offering frustrated white men alternative solutions to their anger that they can’t perform masculinity in the way idealized by people like andrew tate, donald trump, and pete hegseth (none of whom live up to that standard, by the way. much like hitler would have been sent to a death camp were he not the führer given the phenotypical traits he possessed and was persecuting). white supremacy says the answer is to get violent, entrench yourself deeper into capitalism, and intensify the status quo. the hierarchy is intrinsic to human nature according to these people. never mind that the racial hierarchy was invented 400 years ago.

but that’s the thing, at the end of the day. it’s not even that japan isn’t racist, or doesn’t have problems with the hierarchy. it’s that if japanese tourists talked to the maga cult, they might notice things. they might figure out our divisions are arbitrary. the white supremacist plan for this country is mass scale civil war / genocide. the cult leaders need numbers. they get more numbers by keeping people already in the thrall enthralled. any risk to that is unacceptable

then what is your argument. because i don’t have another way to interpret “ceasing all trade with russia does nothing when uae still trades with them”

oh so everyone should just give up then. good point. being complicit is fine i guess

oooooooh. that would make sense probably

i sometimes worry the newbs won’t realize the joke, but i love you magat satire account

dude claims douglas adams as his biggest influence. douglas adams would hate the world’s richest dickhead