Everything is Political

[rischka]

our government will likely shut down tonight - musk thinks it should be fine until trump is inaugurated.

merry christmas america - saving the white race from extinction (along with our ally putin ofc)

wonder if anyone regrets their vote yet

Current personal financial situation compared with 5 years ago, net better minus worse, from Michigan survey:

October -6
November +5

so all it took was trump winning the election and things are all good

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.

It’s between democracy and oligarchy.

[rischka]

also WOKE MIND VIRUS = ANTIFASCISM



this is who he always was. AfD are neo-nazis even le pen won't associate with. they just had three members arrested for plotting a violent overthrow of governments in East Germany to install a Nazi regime. ugh sorry i hate this so much. we used to say it's just the internet. now it's everywhere

elon has enough money to buy elections for the next 25 years

AfD has replied to musk: "Yes! You are perfectly right! Please also have a look into my interview on President Trump, how socialist Merkel ruined our country, how the Soviet European Union destroys the countries economic backbone and malfunctioning Germany!" the 'socialist' merkel

the road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting. musk has been thumbing his nose at reporting requirements at the pentagon and denied a security clearance by the air force but i'm sure trump will clear up all these nasty investigations from the deep state for the first buddy. ok no more politics during the holiday season

[rischka]

one for the history books

[rischka]

MAGA world in full meltdown lol

merry christmas to me

what's most hilarious is this is how the richest man in the world spends his holidays



Lot going on here but is he misquoting Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder

[rischka]

[rischka]

maybe the MAGAts finally turn on the billionaires elon wrote an oped for Politico EU promoting the AfD - yet he's still not racist enough for MAGA world

i'm halfway through a book on resistance in nazi germany - never never compromise with fascists.

proud to say one of the few public demonstrations was female students in munich walking out of a fascist speech about how they were wasting their time with books and should be at home having babies.... the speaker went on to say that if they were ugly he could lend them an adjutant. sexual assault is not disqualifying!

at the MAGA "hitler youth" turning point USA event in phx last week :

Tucker Carlson told them it was necessary to start a big conservative family at a young age and make sure they also have kids because continuing your bloodline is one of the most important things to do. Some commentators told the women in the audience to put off education or a career to start having children as soon as possible.

super special guest kyle rittenhouse was the star of the event

[rischka]

i wonder if taibbi still defends musk atp. the whole laptop debacle is the basis for the 'great lie' that trump won the 2020 election. because we're all just as dumb as trump voters

the radical free speech absolutist is censoring anyone who doesn't agree with him now (and he's at least unofficially part of the government since he paid for it)

they've already managed to turn everyone against vaccines just in time for bird flu. misinformation about a public health emergency is dangerous!! duh!

i'm reading an interview with the cato institute. they love taibbi. he's still outraged about government surveillance of the trump campaign who had absolutely nothing to do with russia! i guess those bomb threats emanating from russia to terrorize PoC voters on election day won't be investigated. oh well

he claims here that jim jordan uncovered evidence that -- putin actually was fine with hillary being elected and didn't support trump lol. even tho his whole project is white male patriarchy. fuck all of these fascists.

edit: oh god his podcast - trump's defamation case against ABC was totally legit because trump was not found liable for rape. why am i not fucking surprised

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald- ... dge-2023-7

i've fucking had it with men making light of sexual abuse as part of some inconsequential culture war. yes i'm angry again.

i'll try to chill in time for my bday. brand new world where women will never be equal citizens in my lifetime

[rischka]

LOL sorry/not sorry for losing my cool i guess i need to learn my place!~



says the guy who loaded his platform with hatemongers

[rischka]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 024-12-16/

arrest warrant for yoon who apparently fell into youtube right wing conspiracy web

When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol cited claims of election hacking and "anti-state" pro-North Korean sympathisers as justification for imposing a short-lived martial law, right-wing YouTuber Ko Sung-kook had heard it before.
In fact, Ko had made the same claims himself many times to the 1.1 million subscribers of his Kosungkook TV channel on YouTube.
"If President Yoon Suk Yeol listens to the voices of YouTubers attentively, he may understand what the people really think, what the public sentiment of the president's supporters are, that's what I'm expecting," Ko told Reuters.

PPP leader Han Dong-hoon, a former confidant of Yoon who went on to advocate for the president's impeachment, announced his resignation on Monday and blamed South Korea's right-wing media for creating divisions among conservatives.

"If we sympathise with extremists like the conspiracy theorists and extreme YouTubers, or if we are consumed by their commercially produced fears, there is no future for conservatism," said Han, who was a common target of Ko's criticism.
A columnist for the conservative-leaning JoongAng Ilbo newspaper on Friday said Yoon's "YouTube addiction" had ruined his regime.
"If you are addicted to YouTube, you fall into a world of delusion dominated by conspiracy theories... President Yoon watched too much YouTube," the column said.

Shin Jin-wook, a sociology professor at Chung Ang University, drew parallels between Yoon and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
"When traditional newspapers and television networks took a critical stance on President Trump, Trump blamed them as fake news or garbage. Trump pointed to social media like YouTube as the right ones instead," Shin said.

"Dr. Ko is a great political commentator who awakens conservative citizens and guides them in the right direction," said Lee Kwang-hyun, 71, a fan at the rally who decried "fake news".
Yoon is fighting against election fraud just like Trump, Lee said, adding he opposed impeachment in part because it would prevent Yoon from attending Trump's inauguration in January.
"I believe Yoon's ideology and spirit has completely turned toward saving our country," he said.

german elections in which elon supports the neo-nazi party this february -- seems like a bellweather

what a time to be alive. good luck everyone

[rischka]

yes that's right -- we're about to be ruled by 4chan trolls circa 2014

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/201 ... meme-magic

appropriately, my post #6666

[ofrene]

watched Civil War yesterday and watching standoff to arrest the president this morning.. fiction can't beat reality no matter how imaginative it is

[wba]

fiction can't beat reality no matter how imaginative it is

so true

[rischka]

it's killing me that this cybertruck bomber railed against government corruption and the 1% and is ALSO a huge trump/musk/RFK fanboy who thinks DEI is poisoning our country. he did this as a wake up call -- to veterans, military and militias to get DEMOCRATS OUT OF DC by any means necessary. not ominous at all

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/02 ... -terminal/

Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn't have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors. This is how you get St. Louisans sincerely explaining that Ferguson protestors are the real racists, and how you end up with an organized group of precisely the same video game enthusiasts to whom an entire industry is catering honestly believing that they're an oppressed minority. From this kind of ideological fortification, you can stage absolutely whatever campaigns you deem necessary.

https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the- ... 646145844/

What we have in Gamergate is a glimpse of how these skirmishes will unfold in the future—all the rhetorical weaponry and siegecraft of an internet comment section brought to bear on our culture, not just at the fringes but at the center. What we're seeing now is a rehearsal, where the mechanisms of a toxic and inhumane politics are being tested and improved. Tomorrow's Lee Atwater will work through sock puppets on IRC. Tomorrow's Sister Souljah will get shouted down with rape threats. Tomorrow's Tipper Gore will make an inexplicably popular YouTube video. Tomorrow's Willie Horton ad will be an image macro, tomorrow's Borking a doxing, tomorrow's Moral Majority a loose coalition of DoSers and robo-petitioners and scat-GIF trolls—all of them working feverishly in service of the old idea that nothing should ever really change.

an article from 2014 about gamergate

[rischka]

today we remember trump's 'day of love' - the assault on the capitol by the violent terrorist group antifa disguised as trump supporters (according to attorney general nominee and sex trafficker matt gaetz and others). none of these dangerous pedople were ever captured. meanwhile a bunch of peaceful tourists were imprisoned, some even pleading guilty to the charges. but no matter, these brave patriots will soon be free. NEVER FORGET

nancy pelosi and her antifa hordes are the real criminals! all will be exposed by kash patel!! those who tried to stop fascism will burn in hell!!

[rischka]

yep still angry and a bit sentimental about the last best hope of earth

sorry about that, carry on!

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

freedom and liberation are un unending task

[ofrene]

President is arrested still don't feel relieved though.. every day i feel new divisive era has begun since marshal laws

[rischka]

lock him up!! it's so disturbing to see how trump has infected everything. social media is poison

[cinesmith]

I'm baffled as to how Biden has the lowest polling numbers ever from Gallup? (other than Trump)
Trump's at the bottom-yet the headline is Biden's the worst?

He's hardly been that bad in keeping things running. The ugly side of pulling out of Afghanistan wasn't his doing. It was Trump's but he had to follow up with the decision Trump put in motion. It's probably just ironic how Syria fell with the same speed and yet the he cleared the COVID dilemma and got the economy back up and running yet he's the fall guy? Trump put the country in so much debt over any other leader who ever ran the government that it's no wonder that he wants to eliminate the debt ceiling. He'd just as well print money with his face on it.

[rischka]

he should've locked up the guy who tried to do a coup?

gotta love how these bootlickers being confirmed are asked if they would obey illegal orders - answered with, 'the president would never do something illegal'

technically yes the supreme court says nothing the president does is illegal, nevermind that he's an adjudicated felon

i'm trying to ignore this. hesgeth the crusading drunken rapist will get through, his only qualification is that he's a white male

the people railing against DEI are telling you that cis white males are superior by virtue of skin color alone

this is ultimately what trump is about -- nothing he can do is disqualifying. ever. because a black man was president once

they want to completely destroy multicultural democracy aka WOKE

[rischka]

like they just asked bondi if joe biden won the 2020 election. her response: joe biden is president of the united states and there was a peaceful transition of power

no there wasn't and note the weaselly words to stay in her boss' good graces.

this country is a terrible JOKE. they've successfully destroyed consensus reality

and now we'll all suffer under white nationalist toxic masculinity for the forseeable future

i am SOOOO angry that we have to take these idiot clowns seriously

HIRONO: Who won the 2020 presidential election?

BONDI: Joe Biden is the president

HIRONO: You cannot say who won the 2020 electon

BONDI: *sits in silence*

HIRONO: It's disturbing that you can't give voice to that fact

k i am done here!!!!!!!!! i know no one wants to hear it but it still boggles my mind that nazi internet trolls are now in charge of our govt

on stage at the inauguration will be musk, bezos and zuck -- to remind us where the real power resides

and hallelujah there's a ceasefire deal in gaza - same deal they could've got in the spring but bibi wanted to wait for trump's election

SO WHY WERE YOU HELPING HIM JOE BIDEN



gen x delivered the white house to trump. the era they're nostalgic for is the 1980s (surprise) you know, when white people didn't get offended about racism or misogyny

They find the ideological reflection of their mentality in Social Darwinism, racism, misogyny, and pseudo-historical doctrines of eternal tribal warfare. After misogyny, antisemitism is perhaps the most characteristic mob ideology and it is usually found among all those who are the most extreme and committed members of the mob, because of the way it combines naturalization and conspiracy: it creates a permanent, natural anti-mob, constantly oppressing and humiliating, denying entitled recognition....Hegel, not Marx, identified the real internal mechanism of civil society. Generating a revolutionary proletariat is only possible under particular historical conditions. However, the mob can be generated wherever and however capitalist productive relations exist. Under the condition of social media, pauperization, the internalization of unsatisfiable wants and needs becomes universal. We can all constantly see what we don’t have. What’s being denied to us by others. It becomes possible for more people than ever to become members of the rich rabble and flaunt luxury and wealth in front of others. And it becomes possible for the richest man in the world to become a pauper, desperate for recognition. Economically, the mob member is a dupe, a hapless consumer, who is always seeking to match or exceed the social minimum. Politically, he is indignant about his position and furious at the society that’s keeping it from him. He is easy to manipulate, to direct on imaginary enemies or to pay off for “reactionary intrigues. Social media creates a universe of angry suckers. But, as we’ve seen, the mob is quick to turn on its would-be masters and bite the hand that feeds. The mob does not believe in gratitude, it believes in deserts.

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/mob-rule

[culinan881]

Honestly, it feels like we’re living in some dystopian fever dream. The way accountability has become optional, and truth is just a tool for power, is maddening. Social media only amplifies the chaos—everyone’s yelling, no one’s listening. It’s exhausting, and yeah, I don’t see how we come back from this. The mob’s in charge now, and they don’t even need logic to keep things spinning. Wild times.

[rischka]

it's far beyond parody. my friend has a teenage son and his friends LOVE trump



anything can happen in these times. our incoming president is doing a pump and dump scheme on his own fans

[rischka]

NYT interviewed curtis yarvin about why we need to get over our fear of dictators. this guy is a huge influence on the techlords. in case you wondered where we're going

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/maga ... =url-share

'dewokeification' is coming and 'democracy' is done

he equates nelson mandela and anders breivik and says slaves were better off under slavery

welcome to the dark enlightenment where we're rolling back the rights of (anyone who isn't a cis white) man

someone once called it a 'vast right wing conspiracy'

i know i've been screaming for years now so i'll just stop. and hope we catch some breaks. good luck everyone

[rischka]

[ofrene]

after a warrant review the president was formally arrested, and far-right supporters stormed the court, rioting and using violence against the police. didn't expect to see this kind of scenery in here and it's really horrible..

[cinesmith]

gen x delivered the white house to trump. the era they're nostalgic for is the 1980s (surprise) you know, when white people didn't get offended about racism or misogyny

It's a weird deal to blame an entire generation as being 'at fault' but if we wanted to break it down. It's the middle aged white men who didn't go for Harris and truth be told, Harris didn't even try to get them.

Cheeto face has once again gone on his usual tangent making his exaggerated claims to anyone who will listen.

How he got the majority of the youth vote (he didn't)
How he got a HUGE majority of Pennsylvania votes. (wrong again- HE won the state by a whopping 121,454 votes. A whole 1.8% margin)
Trump beat Harris by 2,284,316 votes. Of the 7 swing states that called the electoral majority. It was 765,000 votes that really nailed it down.
It was like 2020 in the sense that Trump was calling up states looking for those tiny totals to be flipped somehow. Instead, it was suburban collar suburbs where the guys who went for Biden just didn't bother to vote because they didn't like the options.

and of course, Trump has to defend his biggest claim to fame in how the 2020 election was rigged..
(where of where are any measured responses to this sort of repugnant bs in the light of day?)

It's such a bizarre notion to be aware of the fact that while he won the electoral college and the popular vote. He still didn't win the majority.
He's under 50% and there was a lower turnout than the 2020 election at 64%

The very thin margin of control of the House and the Senate would suggest that depending how the country feels about what he's about to do in the next 12 months may quickly change if the population gets the sense that they've been hosed again by this snake oil salesman.

The man has never been honest with anyone including himself and it's nearly insane as to how we have a government that can barely operate with the lunatics running the asylum. It's going to be a real test of how well the system can stand his efforts to gut the house without it crashing completely.

[rischka]

It's the middle aged white men who didn't go for Harris and truth be told, Harris didn't even try to get them.

you mean the people who think she's totally unqualified by virtue of being black and a woman?? who instead decided to support an open racist and rapist and felon?

middle aged cis white men are certainly the most angry -- god knows they've been oppressed their entire lives /s

yes the best we can hope for is complete collapse. yay

don't worry, middle aged white men will be fine. they're just tired of other people having rights. they are the only ones qualified to run things and elon is gonna get it sorted



this country is a very sad joke. the insurrectionist party should have been purged. instead their coup succeeded and they'll crush the last 50 (or more) years of progress

the democrats are reduced to a feminized DEI party who aren't interested in 'real (white) americans'

Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

- lincoln, 1865

at least leonard peltier won't die in prison



doofus maximus. maybe he's signalling bannon -- BLOOD TRIBE

there are proud boys marching in DC today for the first time since 1/6 - chanting about ANTIFA. what a sad day in the city of my birth

[cinesmith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlJuxpeTats
My feelings this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cAFs65o1U
followed by this

[rischka]

and people said toxic masculinity wasn't a real thing

voters effed around, now we'll find out



he's not even attempting to hide the grift this time. anyone seeking to curry favor — including foreign gov'ts — now has a vehicle to transfer a virtually unlimited amount of money to big daddy by driving up the price of $TRUMP coins



statement by the ADL on elon's nazi salute -- we're too busy harrassing kids protesting gaza

[rischka]

the german press knows what they saw

cue: it's just trolling, they aren't serious, hahahahahaha

speaking of, gamergate 2 is happening. games with women or POC characters or women or POC writing about games are DEI and must be purged

the guys who taught the alt right to weaponize the internet are kings now

revenge of the nerds



it's funny to me that all these middle aged white dudes are obsessed with ww2 -- never realized they actually wanted to be the nazis

looking forward to them doing this on the street to be 'cool'

i'm going to try to ignore this now after screaming about it for literally years lol