this one weird trick worked!
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Of course this works on reactionaries. They consider themselves enlightened and advocate for return to "traditional" society, viewing that as extremely normal. They think everyone secretly agrees with them. And — crucially — they spend an inordinate amount of time seething about people they view as "deviant", i.e., weird. They think they're the paragons of normalcy.
They're not self-aware about how everyone else thinks they're not normal, because they primarily socialize with other reactionaries who agree with them on just about everything.
Really surprised it took them so long. You could tell that the chuds were pushing it too far with the anti trans shit. It's just way too off-putting to 
types.
IMO it's a big reason they kinda ate shit in the 22 midterms
Dwayne Wade being like “I’m always gonna love my kids” is the type of argument that destroys anti trans rhetoric.
The face of of the Nuevo cultural warrior alt-right since 2016 has been Trump, but Trump isn’t of that movement. He’s good at pitching to them, giving them a god emperor figure to lionize, but he’s an outside avatar for him. Trump doesn’t care enough about anything than his optics to get deep into that.
Vance is though. He’s been stewing in that terminally online world for years now, so suddenly he’s the face of what until now had existed as an abstract for voters that weren’t paying that much attention. Which makes it clear that it’s not a fourth reich movement of ubermensches, it’s sad sack, whiny, doughy white boys. And that’s so easy to mock.
Really shows how easy Chuds would be to defeat if Dems actually tried
Dems are gonna fuck it up somehow. I'm not sure how, but its gonna happen
Well from where we're (and they're) standing, success is failure... Their continued relevance is predicated on burgerbrain's belief that they are the good guys, stumped and stymied by Republicans. If they ever fuck up and get a supermajority then they have to get all "parlementarian" because they will fail to keep their promises and there has to be a limit on the average voter's credulity... right?
Yeah of course it is. Respectability politics is a fuck and thats why Trump won the first time - because he didn't try to be respectable, he just called em like he sees them.
Triangulators have finally figured this out. You don't need to use 5-dollar words or weird rhetorical phrasings to talk around issues, when the issue is that your opponent is a clown.
genuinely astonished how much this makes sense but i'm still like baffled it's working
Like, they are weird fucking losers. They're dangerous fascists, but they're also whiny, scared, irrational losers.
It's a very effective strategy against fascists, I just never expected the Democrats to start treating Republicans like a real threat.
100%, fascism is all about the image of seriousness, solidarity, and the struggle against the perenially weak but ever-existentially-threatening Enemy, and the pageantry and horseshit required just cannot accept ridicule. It's why media like The Producers works at all, and it's weird nobody in power thought to just ridicule these people, but i've been doing it as much as i can in real life and it works every time
It's also why Christofascists were so triggered by the Olympic opening ceremony. Can't have even a whiff of mockery spoil your aesthetic.
I don't think they are. What I think is that this is a fluke. They found something that works and they're just going to use it until it stops working.
Someone else said it, but reactionaries see themselves as normal. You can’t be weird, and be normal.
They think they’re the ‘in group’ in DEI speak. To them, they’re normal for the beliefs that horrify others. Being called weird by a critical mass of people establishes them as the ‘out group’ and stigmatizes the things that comprise their identity.
It also doesn’t hurt that democrats are highlighting JD Vance as the face of republican weirdness. That insult aimed at Trump would only be effective until Trump declared himself weird and put a $50 bumper sticker on his online store that says “Weird” in bright red letters.
There's no way it lasts. They're going to do some shit like have Pharrel Williams make a Happy parody about being weird and encouraging people to vote. They're going to lean too far into the one word instead of calling them orgiastic pedophiles. Of course, if their politics allowed for it instead of being mutually exclusive (i.e. supportive of the LGBT and Palestine), they could call them genital obsessed freaks and genocidal maniacs.
In fact, either they do the Pharrel Williams route or their enemy is simultaneously weak and strong and they have to concede an anti-woke alliance or some such nonsense.
They're going to run it into the ground. That's my prediction. I'm already seeing it on Twitter and Reddit. A bunch of 
responses to every post they make that just say "gee you sure are WEIRD sir!" They found one thing that works and they're just going to repeat it until it loses all meaning.
Yeah, what’s good so far is that weird is ambiguous enough to mean anything.
Ask dems how Repos are weird and theyll say some shit like ‘well, GOP says that they want secure borders and yet they keep allowing all these illegals in’
Right. I think it works best when really just used occasionally, and mostly by smaller-time actors. Harris gave a speech the other day that included a line like "and by the way, have you noticed how a lot of these guys are just plain WEIRD?" It felt unnatural and, well, weird. Waltz and people like him can deliver it convincingly because they can talk about normal things they do. Harris can't, because she is also weird. If they oversaturate with it, it's going to lose effectiveness.
Idk tho when they keep showing their ass in response to it every time by pulling out absurd transphobic memes they have saved on their phone I think it might just keep working forever.
This is my thinking. They've found gold and instead of using it in mixture with other things. They're going to run it into the ground.
Eh... we will see. Chuds getting self conscious is funny to me.
It reminds me of "ok boomer", but that stopped because teens found other things to say, which I doubt will happen this time
I’m waiting for Trump to start selling bumper stickers of it.
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They need Walz on the ballot. He's the one who used it first, not because it was a tested strategy, but because it's just genuinely something he believes. He's probably the most progressive and pro-labor candidate for VP. Obviously still a Democrat, but one of the few non-lizards in the party that can actually push against the emerging maga communism nonsense that the teamsters president was trying to feed into
I keep running the clip in my head of Tim Pool being like, “it’s weird for you to not care about people’s genitals, actually”
lmao is this real?
I'm not going to open that in a nitter instance because I'm not going to subject myself to the replies lmao
begging to get hired as the kid dick checker at the local elementary school because I'm a TRUE PATRIOT and NOT WEIRD
Yeah that's literally the only comeback for the accusation and it's just dweeb behavior, sorta shit you say right before your head goes in a toilet.
It doesn't work on left wing, because we definitionally are against the status quo, so de facto weird, and most of us have already accepted that lol.
Whereas these right wing freaks have built their whole personality around defining what normal should be. Idk how they can defend against it. It's a load bearing aspect of the "ideology", coming at their definition of normality with a sledge might require restructuring
I think the guys in the dark room who are all spotlit but their faces are always in shadow concluded that Dems remaining in power is better for their share values than Trump and so sent the secret memo threatening to release the pedo tapes to force the DNC to let some actually competent people do stuff.
I think they're all out of campaign ideas (see kamala's new ad where she's put up as even worse on immigration than trump) and some intern whose brain isn't yet rubbed smooth by association with the rest of the lanyards noticed people on social media calling jorkin depeanus vance "weird" and ran with it
As far as I can tell, Patient Zero was Tim Waltz. He said something like "when I get home, I throw a Frisbee for my dog, then rub his belly when he brings it back. Can you imagine any of these guys doing that? They're just all so weird." The Democratic machine noticed that this engendered a bunch of 
and ran with it.
Tim Waltz
It probably helps with this image that this guy probably is genuinely the most normal Democrat lol. (Which is why he should probably be the VP pick).
Yup, exactly. It works way better coming from him than from Harris. My money is still on Shapiro as the VP pick though, because he's the most ghoulish on Palestine.
Gross, weird, creepy. Pretty plain words, but they sting for a person who has internal cognitive dissonance.
Its just 'deplorable' but they dont have to look it up in a dictionary
"Deplorable" is condescending and implies a moral hierarchy. "Weird" is a relatively value-neutral observation. You can't pretend to be oppressed just because someone called you weird, without proving their point.
What's this in reference too?
Rather than sticking with the "republicans are threats to democracy" talking point, Dems are pushing a "republicans are weirdos" talking point.
Democrats never believed in the "Republicans are a threat to democracy" line, if they did then they wouldn't be bending over backwards about "bipartisanship" at every turn.
They do believe "Republicans are weird" though, and it's the most honest they've ever been. Democrats are happy to work with weirdos.
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Does anyone here watch Evil?
It reminds me of the scene where
Kristen tells Leland she knows his actual name is Jake and that he sold his soul because he was a loser nerd kid who couldn’t keep a partner.
jesus christ is every comm on here going to be gloating about the CHUDs being in shambles for the next few months
idk maybe as someone who had truancy problems i find the kamala pivot very grating
Is making fun of CHUDs malding automatically a pro-Kamala pivot to you? We're observing that something theyre doing is making the Chuds really mad. And it is. I was just observing how any post a reasonable noteable account makes about Republicans being weird gets flodded with replies featuring anti-trans memes and how they show their ass because like... why do you have that on your phone. Thats not a pro-Kamala pivot thats an observation of a thing that is happening in real time lol.
OP is passively lumping me into the democrat anti-Trump coalition the same way the CPUSA nerds here do, the same way Juniper and Hasan and all the other microcelebrities this place orbits now try to as well.
are you gonna get freaked out because I feel comfortable sharing that /u/the_dunk_tank leaking in text form is annoying? the main problem is just US election spam for the next few months. already completly ruined the news thread. you only get major events outside US politics now. i'm just gently hinting to OP that maybe this would be better in the dunk tank. you know
I have a solution. as long as people devote the same amount of attention to half of the countries on the list of BRICS applicant countries I will shut up about The Dunk Tank's low quality posting leaking out
and also thats not what the dunk tank is for.
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