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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1000 on: January 29, 2025, 11:48:29 PM »
More ILL-ANNOY memes
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1001 on: January 30, 2025, 07:41:51 AM »
The post is too long to copy and paste, but just check out the first post in the linked thread (unless you really want to dig into insanity, then I guess read the others too). The crazy ladies at XXPreppers on reddit have outdone themselves. One of them has "created an AI Bot" that is giving them instructions on how to "fight the regime".

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1idekkv/for_my_fellow_prepared_ladies_a_list_from_my_bot/
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1002 on: January 31, 2025, 08:21:28 AM »
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1003 on: January 31, 2025, 08:38:40 AM »
Haven't seen more "resist" signs here in the Neighborhood of Skinny Jeans... I suspect that the most vocal are getting the attention, and most folks are simply ignoring them.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1006 on: January 31, 2025, 03:07:20 PM »
They might be doing it! Hogg for DNC chair!  :rofl:

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/01/31/rep-eric-swalwell-makes-proud-endorsement-for-next-dnc-vice-chair-the-rnc-might-like-it-too-n2407659

This is going to be incredibly fun to watch if he actually is elected.  Popcorn futures are going to skyrocket.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1007 on: January 31, 2025, 03:10:21 PM »
This is going to be incredibly fun to watch if he actually is elected.  Popcorn futures are going to skyrocket.

Yeah, but do I ever get my gun ban pillow?  =(
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1008 on: January 31, 2025, 03:33:53 PM »
I am thinking an activist in a position like that is bad idea.  Activists tend to have "all or nothing" viewpoints.

Then again, he may not be a true activist, just a grifter.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1009 on: January 31, 2025, 03:41:48 PM »
I am thinking an activist in a position like that is bad idea.  Activists tend to have "all or nothing" viewpoints.

Then again, he may not be a true activist, just a grifter.

I think you can classify Hogg as a grifter.  Lots of grifters among Dem notables.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1010 on: January 31, 2025, 03:45:30 PM »
I think you can classify Hogg as a grifter.  Lots of grifters among Dem notables.

It seems like over the past eight-ish years, the terms have become interchangeable. I don't know of many current well-known "activists" that aren't wealthy. e.g., BLM leadership.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1011 on: January 31, 2025, 04:08:12 PM »
Yeah, but do I ever get my gun ban pillow?  =(

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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1012 on: February 01, 2025, 12:01:33 AM »
Caricatures
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1013 on: February 01, 2025, 12:02:50 AM »
More caricatures
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1014 on: February 01, 2025, 12:04:39 AM »
And let's not forget  >:D
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1015 on: February 01, 2025, 12:08:13 AM »
One last "dig"
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1016 on: February 01, 2025, 12:17:37 AM »
Memes?
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1017 on: February 01, 2025, 12:20:10 AM »
Memes
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1018 on: February 01, 2025, 12:21:58 AM »
OH - I forgot some caricatures!  :facepalm:  >:D  :old:
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1019 on: February 01, 2025, 12:24:00 AM »
One more caricature and one meme
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1020 on: February 01, 2025, 07:56:34 AM »
As a preface, while I have been looking at these recommendations reddit always emails me more to make fun of the morons there, I have to admit it has turned kinda into doom scrolling and I need to find something else to do. That said...

I noticed in the last couple of weeks there have been a ton of "nazi killer" posts popping up. They started out as, "Here's a photo of my grandpa (man in WW2 uniform) who fought nazis." They are now switching to manuals on how to fight fascism and nazis, and posts like the below. "My grandpa hated nazis so much that he killed 25,000 of them!". No, your grandpa killed maybe a couple of thousand nazis. The rest were women and children.*

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ien6xv/grandpa_hated_nazis_so_much_he_helped_kill_25000/

Point being that these whackos (or foreign agents) are working overtime to conflate everyone who disagrees with them with nazis, and also to suggest that physically harming those people is just fine. Just like the crazy lady who said she's getting a Glock, walking up behind random white men, and killing them. Or Hakeem Jeffries just yesterday calling for people to take it to the streets. It really feels like the hate is being ramped up at warp speed, and some of these whackos are going to act on it and "kill the nazis" who are just people minding their own business.


*I'm not trying to do a "right or wrong" on Dresden. War is war. Just pointing out that most of the people who died in Dresden bombings were just people. However "hating MAGA/nazis" is not war, and killing innocent people because you have given them a label that "allows you to" is murder.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1021 on: February 01, 2025, 08:48:36 AM »
As a preface, while I have been looking at these recommendations reddit always emails me more to make fun of the morons there, I have to admit it has turned kinda into doom scrolling and I need to find something else to do. That said...

I noticed in the last couple of weeks there have been a ton of "nazi killer" posts popping up. They started out as, "Here's a photo of my grandpa (man in WW2 uniform) who fought nazis." They are now switching to manuals on how to fight fascism and nazis, and posts like the below. "My grandpa hated nazis so much that he killed 25,000 of them!". No, your grandpa killed maybe a couple of thousand nazis. The rest were women and children.*

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ien6xv/grandpa_hated_nazis_so_much_he_helped_kill_25000/

Point being that these whackos (or foreign agents) are working overtime to conflate everyone who disagrees with them with nazis, and also to suggest that physically harming those people is just fine. Just like the crazy lady who said she's getting a Glock, walking up behind random white men, and killing them. Or Hakeem Jeffries just yesterday calling for people to take it to the streets. It really feels like the hate is being ramped up at warp speed, and some of these whackos are going to act on it and "kill the nazis" who are just people minding their own business.


*I'm not trying to do a "right or wrong" on Dresden. War is war. Just pointing out that most of the people who died in Dresden bombings were just people. However "hating MAGA/nazis" is not war, and killing innocent people because you have given them a label that "allows you to" is murder.


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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1022 on: February 01, 2025, 08:54:07 AM »

I don’t believe a single one of these aholes who claims their grandfather did this or that, but if they did and their grandfathers were alive today then their grandfathers would be ashamed of them.

I should have pointed that out in my post. I also believe these are all fake, from whoever, trying to ramp up outrage and perhaps try and further normalize "punch a nazi". People who would have had a "grandpa" in WW2 are in their 50s now.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1023 on: February 01, 2025, 09:42:24 AM »
I should have pointed that out in my post. I also believe these are all fake, from whoever, trying to ramp up outrage and perhaps try and further normalize "punch a nazi". People who would have had a "grandpa" in WW2 are in their 50s now.

Probably not their actual relatives, true.

On the other hand, the guy who tried to murder Trump on the golf course is in his 50s. The guy who tried to murder Steve Scalise was in his 60s.
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Re: 2024 Meltdown and Meme Thread
« Reply #1024 on: February 01, 2025, 09:55:27 AM »
Never-Trumpers are threatening to provide pro-Democracy cooking advice.  :facepalm:

https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/1878860721532125681?t=WNlG8ZJRXk705q_1_mqVOw&s=19
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