Ciderpunk

joined 2 years ago
[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

It’s better. That’s not a reporter. Or anyone with any credentials at all.

It was MTG’s boyfriend.

Dating a congressthing gets you Oval Office access now.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Incredible that Trump remains so mad that Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize that he’s willing to literally just order an ally to give up so he can claim he made the peace and demand his prize. He really was just entirely broken by a black man being president.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Rich people figured out that if you buy a news outlet and just have them repeat a lie over and over and over and over it just becomes a fact that everyone knows.

From there you have your politicians run on fixing the problem you lied about existing and now everyone is convinced that not only is the problem real, but only the right wingers can fix it.

Bonus: when your chosen politicians win, you can have your media outlet lie about the problem being fixed to give people a warm fuzzy to reinforce voting this way.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Yes, but this would require someone to enforce “Nazis bad” and lol @ thinking the current admin would do anything but clearly define anything to the left of Hitler as hate speech.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Game of the Rear edition indeed

~tis a joke about how bad the faces look, you see~

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey quick question, how does one spread their populist message?

Might it, perchance, be via a system that allows some kind of speech that might be free?

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Rubio’s answer is (intentionally) conflating Hitlers rise to power with his authoritarian regime that occurred after. Hitler absolutely abused the Weimar era Germany’s tolerance of his speech to take power and then destroy both others free speech and commit a genocide. Rubio is entirely wrong with his statement but he knows other idiots will believe it and here we see an entire article that dances around the obvious gaping logic to insist that saying you want to genocide people doesn’t lead to genocide.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

At least pretending like they care would be a good start. They unanimously approved a few Trump appointees on the promise that the republicans might reconsider one or two and whoops the dems once again got the football pulled out from in front of them. They literally cannot learn the lesson that bargaining with the republicans gets them nothing in return ever because they are the only ones who will hold up their end of the deal…

At a bare minimum they can stop doing that.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I remember when big phones used to be called “phablets” and that was considered a bad thing that only certain power user types would want…

And then the same marketing that hit cars came to phones when companies realized that “bigger than the last model” was an easy way to have a number that they could point to that got bigger to imply this one was somehow better. That and human brains are wired to like bright colors so store displays of PHONE WITH BIG BRIGHT COLOR SCREEN made people want it despite it being objectively less easy to use than a more reasonably sized device.

-Sent from my iPhone 13 mini

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

the fart of the deal baybee

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Remember when Dan Quayle of all people convinced Mike Pence to not go along with Trumps plan to not certify the 2020 election? Wild times.

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