What the fuck level of cult of personality even is this? They’re writing fan fic about their fucking overlords. What the fuck I cannot emphasize enough what the fuck?

  • FungiDebord [none/use name]
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    511 months ago

    yeah i’m sure the guy who went from meemaws and peppeps to YLS and a nonneglible chance at being the most powerful person in the world really could you your advice.

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    Yea, yea we could do that, all ideas are on the table. OR we could lock them in a cage with a hungry Lion and a very nice couch live on NBC.

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    Unironically Steven-Universe-brained.

    They fully swallowed the lie chuds have been using since gamergate “stop swearing revenge on me and then promise you’ll forgive me. I’ll turn good after you enter this one-sided friendship with me, I promise!”

    We are no one’s unpaid therapist. Forgiveness is earned, not owed.

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    6611 months ago

    I’ve said it before. Liberals are narrativists. Everything must be a story for them, and if it’s all going wrong? Well that’s where the hero doubles down.

    We saw this with Biden. First he was the stoic, refusing to move when all around him was chaos. Then when he stepped down the story changed, he became a saintly martyr.

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      3411 months ago

      I think this is just all Amerifat political discourse, our people think real life works the way movies do, which is why while Trump was flopping in office they had to make up that he was doing 4D chess or hiding his power, as if things were going to turn out like a climax in a double cross heist film.

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        Or even more sinister, they do the opposite and venerate fiction like Dune, LotR and GoT as if it was real history, then use those ‘histories’ to base their opinions on.

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          Yep, you think their idea of a chosen one leader or shifting loyalties between camps are from the Bible or history, but their mental model is actually the plotline from some show or movie they watched while eating.

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          611 months ago

          I personally became as liberal as they come after reading The Giver. I used this in conjunction with Narnia to synthesize Markism-Lenonism-Yoko Onoism.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]OP
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            211 months ago

            The giver is such sinister evil shit. “Here’s a book about why sharing is bad for children!”

            • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]
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              110 months ago

              I haven’t read that book in decades but I didn’t get that message from it. The message I thought I got was why suppressing messy feelings for the sake of conformity and “stability” was bad. What did I miss?

              • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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                110 months ago

                Oh the book is super anti-communist. The whole thing is basically “gommunism is going to tell everyone what to do, destroy the family unit, make fun illegal, and will practice eugenics.”

                9-year old me thought all that sounded pretty good if we just didn’t do the eugenics part. I don’t think that’s what my 4th. grade teacher was hoping I’d get out of it lmao

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    these are the people who take their adult emotional development cues from the inside out movies

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    There are 2 wolves within the Democratic party

    two-wolves-1 Wow, Vance is so weird… where did all these reactionary politics come from? It’s totally unlike the United States to have high-level politicians that are so fascist, very weird. And I am normal btw

    Vance just needs a hug. The 2 parties just need to come together and forgive each other and we can get this country back on track :) two-wolves-2

    Both wolves cannot see the fascist bonk that is about to hit them

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    7611 months ago

    Unironically this is the end result of Hamilton and West Wing and hell even fucking School House Rock (for all the 30 something US Americans). This is real “end of history” thinking. Democracy is the final form, this is it, the problem is that the wrong people keep getting voted in, bad people, because “oh Republicans are stupid” or “oh Russia Boris what time is it in Moscow” or “oh leftists let Trump win”. We just need real people of character to get in there and do politics and reach across the aisle and just have heart to heart talks with fascists and get things done FOR AMERICA because America is perfect! We just keep electing the wrong people but don’t worry we’ll fix it

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]OP
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      411 months ago

      School hourse rock on language and maths; awesome, pure, wonderful

      School house rock on politics; ansolute zero pure evil doctrinal propaganda trhat has done irrepairable harm to the world.

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        eh, i’m in my 30s and they still showed it when i was in elementary school

        feels like the sort of thing that doesn’t really need too much updating since it’s meant to teach literal children the absolute basics

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          611 months ago

          Damn, they kept it up that long? I’m Canadian so maybe that’s why, but it for sure aired on our TV in the 70s cause my dad and uncles are very familiar and have various long running verbal memes about it and this was in the 3 channel days so there was no getting American stations. Probably why it didn’t keep airing here, but now that I think about it, it’s weird we had it at all.

          • Kuori [she/her]
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            311 months ago

            they did! wheeled out the tv cart and everything.

            I’m Canadian

            that does make this all a lot stranger. i never even entertained the thought that it would be played as a regular program on tv, let alone in a different country with an entirely different system of governance. it always had such “made for a specific audience to watch on tape” vibes.

            but yeah i wish i knew people younger than me who grew up in the same area, i’d be curious when/if it stopped being a thing.

            also i just checked the wiki and apparently it ran for 7 seasons. the only parts i recognize are apparently from the third season: “To coincide with the upcoming United States Bicentennial, a third season, America Rock, airing in 1975 and 1976, had music videos covering the structure of the United States government (such as “I’m Just a Bill”) along with important moments in American history (examples include “The Preamble” and “Mother Necessity”).” i genuinely thought it was a one-shot special or smth, like a PSA. at least now its reach makes a little more sense? still fucking weird though

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              210 months ago

              I thought it was these a series of shorts used to eat up children’s air time back when advertising to children wasn’t as allowed

              • Kuori [she/her]
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                210 months ago

                yup that’s correct; wiki says it was designed to be put between programs during saturday morning cartoons

                i had just never encountered it on the air, only in vhs format. apparently they put more of this shit in 2009(!!!) but it was a reunion style thing.

                the-more-you-know

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    2711 months ago

    Calves cramping. Mommy Kamala and Daddy Biden coming over for dinner. Sageing the oval office with Michelle Obama and HRC. The list of fan fiction knows no bounds for these deranged lunatics.

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      611 months ago

      I’d sooner pray for Twitter than pay for it. Lmao though it’s funny that none of us will be the person who paid the most for Twitter. billionaire-tears

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    its not a post-2016 election without weird fanfic tweets born out of liberals’ parasocial obsession with the most milquetoast politicians imaginable