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Kristi Noem: “It never ends, but it’s so lazy, to make fun of women and how they look. Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can’t. They pick something petty like that."


Originally Posted By u/kenistod At 2025-08-08 03:49:56 PM | Source


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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

LOL, they are definitely not liberals.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

They've said before that, if you had to label them, the most accurate label would probably be libertarian. Which is pretty par for the course for the criticize/mock everyone and play on the shock and disgust of others for a laugh crowd, which was definitely true to a great degree in the early seasons (I say that with love for Trey and Matt).

Of course that was 20 years ago, and people change. But if I had to guess, I bet they would say that their politics have remained largely unchanged even as the show has transformed... well, transformed, a bit. I was going to say "matured" but that definitely seems wrong. We're still talking about small dick jokes and gory murder of animals which has a long proud tradition in South Park.

Anyway, any appearance to a leftward shift is largely just the rightward shift of American politics and those in power while they remain in place. No offense intended to them, but I can't imagine decades of success in media production, specifically by saying "fuck you" to everyone, has made them LESS libertarian. It's a trope for a reason.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, they've stayed where they were while everyone around them goosestepped to the right, and now accuse them of being leftists.

Can't wait for people to start calling them woke. 🤦‍♂️

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Right wing "libertarians" are a subset of conservatives which are, in theory, a subset of liberalism ideologically.

The terms for them already exist, and they're not special snowflakes.

[–] SydBa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

It is supposed to be on paper but in practice most libertarians have the social values of a moderate conservative.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Libertarians are liberals that want to make slavery legal again

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I thought it was paedophilia.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 16 hours ago

It comes as a package

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

the general stance of the statesian libertarian party is they want do meth, weed and fent, not pay taxes, tank the economy by going on the gold standard, fuck children, and own people (not realizing that they will be the people who will be fucked as children and owned, or more likely their children and grandchildren will be) but hey you can go to their conventions and be entertained by the lunacy

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Slavery is already legal, and liberals are okay with it. Reread the 13th amendment. Name one liberal supreme court justice in history that would rule against the constitutionality of the 13th amendment's wording.