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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011


I gotta say, this is probably a pretty good advertising scheme for Confederate Joe's Flag Emporium.

One of my big takeaways from 1/6 is just how much that group of people sure loved flags more than any other form of expression.

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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Local Weather posted:

It takes a special kind of person to advertise to the nation what you like to jerk off to.

Well, there's been a number of horny cars in this thread, which I thought I respected the cars that were horny rather than angry.


I dunno what to do about anime nerds that feel confidant enough to be openly horny about that. Maybe somebody else does.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

"If you support Biden you support Putin" is an unusual one.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

The Hambulance posted:

I don't think there's any depth to it. It's literally them screaming "Nuh uhh! YOU ARE!" when they hear about Trungus dealings with Putin.

I think it also may just be that regardless of how much people at the top of the party are in bed or want to get in bed with Putin, Russia's not actually popular with the base, and the Ukraine side of the war is massively popular on both sides of the aisle. On most polls, it isn't even close.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

A peace sign with the Chilean flag?

Klyith posted:

I don't think these two things had anything to do with each other, in either direction.

17th amendment isn't about the civil war; very little is at that point. reconstruction is long dead and jim crow was in full swing, with the general acquiescence or even support of most of white america.
Direct election of senators in the 1800s wouldn't have changed anything because it's not like the (white-only men) voters in the south were 50/50 on slavery. even the men who didn't own slaves were temporarily embarrassed plantation owners.

There was an amount of abolitionists in the South, and when secession happened, there were a lot of southerners who were against it (often having their voices and votes suppressed), and an estimated 100,000 southerners signed up to fight for the Union even.

Which is not to absolve the South of its sins, but to add to the pile the fact that they covered up what actual dissent there was when they crafted their own new cultural vision for the South after the end of Reconstruction.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Well that's an interesting way of warning people about a student driver.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Scratch Monkey posted:

So basically is that some sort of Trumpists MAGAhead lunatic essentially saying that despite being a very loud piece of poo poo they still want abortion rights?

There is a whole thing where despite how loudly they agree on some things and some parts of the cult, they don't actually agree on everything.

But also this is a person going to vote in a referendum about whether they should ban referendums.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Mercury_Storm posted:

Wait.. also ACAB (unless it stands for something other than all cops are bastards here)?

Nah, that's just one of the things the far right are split on. They definitely will all tend to cheer cops when they're beating up black people, but the more radical ones are just as likely to see cops as people who could get in the way or stop them from doing whatever they want.

The most loud far-right group that will be anti-cop are the sovereign citizens, who build their entire ideology around the idea that they can just lawyer their way through proving that the US government doesn't actually exist and therefore holds no power over them.



There's also a black sovereign citizen movement who has the specific ethos that all african americans are actually citizens of Morocco and therefore exempt from American law. They make fake license plates.


SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

pseudanonymous posted:

There were sort of hilarious protests over a house being repossessed in Portland and part of the justification was the owner was a sov cit so didn’t pay his mortgage. Though I think his claim was that he was native not Moroccan and thus not liable.

It was an interesting Covid saga.

Native sovcit movements would be an interesting idea, especially since there's a lot of real broken treaties that you could have an interesting legal battles over. But having a legitimate grievance would get in the way of being a lunatic.

Closest I could find is this guy, James Akahi, who proclaimed himself King of Hawaii. The site doesn't seem to have many updates after his failed occupation of the former Hawaiian royal palace in 2008, but it does proclaim his right to issue license plates.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Sometimes the idea is that if you're willing to put up a very long and arduous fight through the legal process, then you can just out-endure everybody else and they'll give up. Maybe you think that by wasting somebody else's time, you're striking a blow against them.

They call it paper terrorism sometimes.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

In the middle of that mess, there's one Hatsune Miku thin blue line Punisher skull.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Who the gently caress puts a "loli" sticker on their car?! Why would you advertise being a pedophile, even in jest?

I think the anime community at large that prints those things don't see it as such, which does make things worse. The fact that it's a weeb word means that most of the public at large probably won't know what it means.

Although I did follow up the guy's instagram username, and he definitely relishes in the all-purposes anime degeneracy. He calls it the "weabarge".

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEO5wzHOku/

There's more stickers on the dashboard.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Kevin DuBrow posted:

"Miss me yet?" is one of those political stickers that makes no sense to me. No one who hated Trump and voted for Biden would feel that way. Was George W. Bush the first president those stickers were used with?

It's actually playing into the psychology of the conservative news sphere, where they believe that Biden's America is full of chaos and strife and the border is a literal warzone without people arresting migrants and forcibly removing their uteruses on their way to deportation. Surely any moment society is about to collapse.

It's hard to keep track of all the things they're upset about because most of them are fictional, and they are largely uninterested in either understanding the people outside their group or trying to explain whatever dumb bullshit they've been spoonfed by Newsmax to others, because if you don't understand, you're probably just one of those evil demon rats trying to destroy the world.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011


I like 12 years online 100 social media accounts disabled. 8 bans a year, this guy.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Honk Jesus honk
If u saves, if u love
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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

It's a really weird thing to really champion in this the year of our lord, but there's been Helen Keller deniers for forever. Reportedly there was an uptick of tiktokers denying Helen Keller for some reason. Here's a neat (and long) video that goes through addressing the denials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCg7Pda_3Gw

I think it's especially weirder to deny her now when most of her pop culture image is just being a blind and deaf person who successfully became functioning in society (which there have been multiple and there continue to be), but the reason she was notable in her heyday was because she was an activist and socialist.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Cythereal posted:

It's straight up eugenics poo poo in at least some cases.

Ironically, something Helen Keller was also in favor of.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Infowarriors in the news. Trump posted a video of one of the guys who painted Biden on his tailgate.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/03/30/donald-trump-joe-biden-truck-video-hog-tied-truth-social/


Revoke his bail.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Some sovcits are big legal experts and can give the courts a long runaround even if their overall premise is a total farce. Sometimes if you make enough trouble, people will just drop minor charges,

But a lot of surface-level sovcit stuff is about bluffing to make any prospective threat anxious enough that they'll just decide not to get involved in the first place. And it's hard to tell how much that works. Maybe some cops get scared of it, but also it's not like you'll get pulled over every day, so you won't really know if it's working.

The dumb belligerent sovcits that get tazed are fun, but the smart belligerent sovcits know how to waste everybody's time.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

rotinaj posted:

What the gently caress is the deal with Texas

That state has definitely produced more crazy people than any other state

Texas doesn't produce crazy people, it attracts them. The whole branding of the state as cowboys and guns and shitass presidents gives ideas to a lot of people who may be faced with the prospect of uprooting their lives and moving, and the people who would be put off by all the bullshit decide no thank you (or if they still come over, they think to keep their heads down and not make waves) and the people who are really into that bullshit go down, buy a cowboy hat and boots, and go publicly jack off at the Alamo at how great it all is.

A lot of the biggest shitheads in Texas are from elsewhere. The Bushes are a great example, their family was big in the northeast and educated in Connecticut at Yale. Ted Cruz born in Canada. Joe Rogan is from Jersey. Corrupt criminal with trial pending Ken Paxton is from North Dakota. Elon Musk is South African and specifically came to Texas after a fight with the government of California (California ships a lot of their worst to Texas).

There are a lot of big cities with a lot of economic activity going on that provides the basis for normal humans to immigrate in, but all those cities vote mainly democratic and have to be heavily gerrymandered for the political balance to be maintained.

The worst Texas grows locally in the large empty expanses between San Antonio and El Paso are fairly typical for the people you get in small town rural places anywhere, nothing compared to what the bog people of Florida get up to. Although also back before Florida's Republican death grip, they used to really believe in government transparency, so they wrote laws that meant whenever the police have to go stop some dumb person from doing something dumb, it gets written up and published (but the current state government has been working to exclude themselves from the transparency process).

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I do sure like gluten.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I think that guy just really likes Lyndon Johnson.

wesleywillis posted:

What say you goons?

I generally don't like "pickup truck culture" where people buy pickups because of like the statement or wanting to be big and they don't want to actually use them to carry stuff around in the flatbed. People who just want to larp as a working man.

It makes it worse when they jack up the pickup to minimize road visibility and maximize childkilling potential and ensure that in a crash they do the most harm to the other car. Monster trucks should be for shows and not actual roads.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

wesleywillis posted:

I've heard domestic violence as well.

You'd think they'd be better at avoiding.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Incremus posted:

Remarkably free of spelling errors, but that is a professional driver for you:



Is this one of those Canadian truckers who terrorized Canada for months and then came down to DC to try something similar but couldn't handle the traffic?

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Rubber Chicken posted:

Who Would Jesus Flip the Bird at?

Fig trees.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

https://twitter.com/tweetsofwill/status/1785425611638652980

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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I wonder if it's because the locally sourced fascism is legally suppressed.

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