Whats_your_reasoning

I found Cheesus Christ on a Cracker

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Same. At one point I found myself skimming words without taking them in and I had to stop.

I did learn one important thing from all of this though - there are more fractures and divisions among the far right than there appears. Ever-smaller factions fighting amongst each other is better than one coherent group fighting the rest of us.

broke mind virus

Oooooh, I like that! Their favorite phrase, turned around and reclaimed, and made fit to highlight their damage. This needs to spread.

He joined via a video link, I'm not sure if he was even in the UK.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if he joined via video not because he couldn't physically be there, rather because he's scared of being attacked.

Could well be he couldn't go himself because all his ~~human shields~~ kids had playdates pre-scheduled. Who knows.

Well yeah, "finding out" runs the risk of them learning something. Knowledge and facts are poison to a MAGA, that's why they spew bile out their mouths whenever they're exposed to it.

I imagine people won’t like to hear it, but there’s no denying that major sports teams rely on the same “in-group/out-group” dynamic that fascism relies on.

It may be a more benign form (for the most part), but the whole “my sports team is better than yours!” Is definitely tribalistic in nature. It’s not surprising to me that many die-hard fans may revel in arbitrary social divisions in other facets of their lives.

That was less than a year ago. In terms of history and revolutions, that's not a long time.

It's easy to read history and think everything happened seemlessly - events clearly triggered subsequent events, in an easy-to-follow pattern on a timeline. In reality, months on a timeline actually take months to happen. We are living in days that will be written in history books someday. The people who read about this time will have a hindsight into our era that we can't possibly possess.

Which is why I don't understand how we can be in the comment thread of a high-profile, wealthy conservative being shot, and there are still people saying that Luigi (or whoever shot that CEO) didn't "spark a trend." Just because we're too close to see it doesn't mean a trend isn't actively emerging right now.

Former President Barack Obama stressed that "this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy."

With all due respect sir, if our democracy were functioning for all of the people instead of just for the rich, people wouldn’t feel the need to vote with the ammo box.

simple man.

Bruh, wrong band. That's from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

(In seriousness though, The War on Errorism provided a soundtrack to my youth.)

A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?

They’ve got my vote.

It's wild because it implies a lot out of OP's comment that OP didn't say, but at the same time your frustrations make perfect sense.

The context is what makes it stand out. There absolutely are insensitive people who think the solution to red states' problems is "just go to a blue state." I can see why OP's comment may have triggered a certain defense. However, I didn't get the "insensitive" vibe from their comment, merely a mention that the vaccines are still available in other states.

It read it not as, "Oh you don't really have a problem because you can travel," but rather as a response to how the above article implies that this is a problem nation-wide, even though it actually isn't. I know, because I just got both the covid and flu shot yesterday and the experience wasn't any different from other times I've received shots. I was looking through the comments specifically to find somebody who pointed this out, as I planned to mention it myself (though I would've phrased it differently.)

With all that said, I feel you. It's absolute bullshit that a luck of the draw means some of us have better access to preventive medicine than others, and it must be frustrating when people chime in with "solutions" that are beyond your means. As if being surrounded by MAGA isn't bad enough. And to the points in your second comment - you're absolutely right. The billionaires are the ones behind all of the crap we deal with, regardless of where we happen to live.

Their critique is valid, what’s with all the assumptions? They’re pointing out additional details that enhance the darkness behind the message, not denying the original point. It’s not an exaggeration - it’s an observation. Different people notice different things. It’s an aspect of human diversity, and it’s supposed to be a good thing. Maybe it takes an artist’s eye to notice it, but the disembodiment of the girl can definitely be interpeted as a display of dehumanization toward their victims. Faceless, anonymous, they clearly see those girls as no more than sentient sex toys.

Are we so desperate to attack someone that we must complain when someone on our same side notices more than one shitty thing about our shared target? Are we not all in agreement that this is a really creepy card? It seems to me the real detraction here isn’t the new perspective provided, but the assumption that a new perspective only exists as part of some greater pro-Trump scheme.