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On June 16 2023 04:40 oBlade wrote:

Yes.

On June 16 2023 04:40 oBlade wrote:
he's in the middle of federal indictments on his birthday

On June 16 2023 05:41 BlackJack wrote:


Not really interested in watching this whole video, care to sum up the radicalness of it? Seems like he is mocking the corporate virtue signaling campaigns for Pride month. Ever seen the mashup that's been done of corporate websites for Pride month in the western world vs say the Middle East? Corporations care about profit, not advancing LGBT rights. If their pride campaigns went from boosting their ESG scores to hurting their bottom lines they would scale it back immediately as we saw with Target and Bud Light. If anything that sort of insincere virtual signaling is worthy of mockery.

Also have you considered that 3 years later Ben Shapiro and others are more vocal about this because our society has been keen on making it more ubiquitous particularly to schoolchildren? We now have schools where they fly the Pride flag every day just under the American flag. There's a video going viral right now where a math class is shown some kind of Pride video and the students are told to shut up and threatened with detention for objecting. 3 years ago in Math class we probably just taught Math, as radical as a concept that may have been.

On June 16 2023 10:34 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:

I don't care about the corporations involved, and yes of course they are doing it for marketing but at least they are marketing to them because they see them as normal people. I do think if you enjoy drinking some beer for a long time and then drop that and become a brand hater just because they give a personalized can to a trans person, then you have some introspection to do about why you have that much hatred for trans people. And the irony is now you have '100% gay and trans free conservative beer' brands selling to this croud of suckers for insane markups.

As to radical, he starts off by calling pride sodomy, then shows a rainbow Ford truck and complains that Ford is a manly brand and shouldn't sell to gays because they are apparently not men/manly, but then says well at least they don't sell to trans people like Bud Light. This is a truck or beer, sold to adults. That's part of not wanting trans to exist if companies are not 'allowed' to sell/market to them. Not to mention Target employees getting physically threatened by deranged angry people who watch content like Shapiros vid.

On June 16 2023 23:27 JimmiC wrote:

Were you under the impression that there were only extremists on one side? Did target bow to these ones? Interesting that these threats were explicitly non violent.

I do not think this is the own you think it is.

On June 16 2023 23:59 JimmiC wrote:



You quoted this, do you not read what you quote? I mean not going through the article is kinda embarrassing. Not reading even the parts you quoted, that is next level. It helps to explain your world view though.

On June 17 2023 00:13 Acrofales wrote:

Even a bomb threat that is only intended to do economic damage is violent.

If this was some MAGA crazies threatening bombs but only for economic damage you'd be yelling about far right terrorism, and be justified.

The only right response isn't to point out isn't that this is non-violent, when it obviously isn't, it's to point out that yes, this was left-wing terrorism, condemn it, and if you want to discuss something, ask if Razyda wants to say that the terrorism somehow justifies Target's anti-LGBTQ stance? Or are they right, just taking very wrong actions?

On June 17 2023 00:55 riotjune wrote:
Sometimes violence is the answer. You don't think Martin Luther King Jr. was able to do what he did without Malcolm X stirring the shit do you? Sometimes you need someone like Sasuke to do the dirty work so people will listen to Naruto. As for Mahatma Gandhi...actually, I don't know who the shit-stirring counterpart to Gandhi was, but there has to be one.

On June 17 2023 00:55 riotjune wrote:
Sometimes violence is the answer. You don't think Martin Luther King Jr. was able to do what he did without Malcolm X stirring the shit do you? Sometimes you need someone like Sasuke to do the dirty work so people will listen to Naruto. As for Mahatma Gandhi...actually, I don't know who the shit-stirring counterpart to Gandhi was, but there has to be one.

On June 16 2023 08:02 KwarK wrote:

There hasn’t though. He’s got a fifty year public record as a conman who steals from everyone he interacts with and they all know this and like it about him.

Then they try to donate to him and he enrolls them in recurring donations without their consent, drains their bank account, and steals the campaign funds to cover his own expenses by fraudulently billing his own campaign with fake invoices.

And the dumb red hats go “well I don’t agree with how he robbed me of my savings and I’m being foreclosed on because of it but I’m still going to vote for him”.

Just about the only thing Trump and I agree on is the naked contempt he has for his own supporters.

On June 16 2023 08:08 KwarK wrote:

I’m confused by this part about the birthday. Is it your position that people should be immune from criminal prosecutions on their birthday? Because if not I really don’t see the relevance of the date.

On June 17 2023 01:42 oBlade wrote:

You should have read the post I was replying to and not just mine before arriving at a self-evidently absurd conclusion by having taken the word "birthday" and built an entire straw argument around it. It's a pretty simple point that he has other things going on in his life than just being a pullstring doll that goes "Build the wall" whenever JimmiC expects him to - and that it's a moot line of criticism to begin with because if one doesn't agree with him on immigration, one should be happy that he supposedly hasn't said a "peep" about it - or conversely if one did in fact think there were a border crisis, the operative target of criticism should be the administration that's actually in power. There's no principles underlying these opportunistic heckles.

But since you asked, in point of fact, I believe the only things that should protect people from criminal prosecutions are good old-fashioned cronyism, money, corruption, nepotism, and blackmail.

the temperance movement, Texas secessionism, the Green Party, Maoism, the Tea Party, anti-nuclear environmentalism, creationism, antifa, in fact Marxism and communism in general (even allowing the criteria is stupidity, not simply cruelty), voluntary extinctionism, antinatalism,

On June 17 2023 02:49 Sermokala wrote:


MAGA at its core is a dogwhistle that has no meaning and only exists to make the world worse. The most simple way to show this is to ask any follower or supporter the simple question "When do you think America was great?". They can either not answer the question or they have to self report on themselves for what kind of person they are. Is it when black people were slaves? When women couldn't vote? civil rights? gay people being able to marry? Black president? In reality its entirely filled with people following a guy who constantly lies to them and steals from them. Its filled with culty conspiracy theorists with no grasp on reality and a less of a grasp on any sort of evidence. It has no positive intentions and has no merits to speak of.

On June 17 2023 03:37 JimmiC wrote:

The problem with your theory is the party of MAGA is anti LGBTQ2 and proud of it, they are anti abortion, they are not quite explicitly racist but people who are support them and go to their conferences.

The basic root of MAGA is that some "others" have made it bad for you, vote for us and we will punish them. But its always a "they" so it can fit anyone's hate.