Agreed. He very easily could take this kind of act in disturbing directions, so I’m glad he’s doing this instead.
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I’m reminded of when a large mosque was built in our area. Not because people reacted this way – if they did, I’m unaware. But when the place was under construction and I went to do a Google search about it, the only link that came up was an article from World Net Daily or someplace similar. They focused on how the Turkish government put up the money (sort of true – it was a Turkish organization with some kind of semiofficial ties to the gov’t), but spun it that a giant mosque (also true) was being built in a Maryland small town. The small town part was patently untrue – our county, adjacent to Washington DC, has almost a million people. (And, more pedantically, the mosque isn’t located in a town at all, small nor otherwise.) It was like instead of Cohen, they used their own WND reporter, except there was no small town, no anxious townsfolk, etc.
And the mosque is beautiful, and big, on par with what I’d seen in the Gulf region.
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I am horrified at how easy it is to troll people who are allowed to vote. No wonder Cheetolini got elected.
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The corollary to this is that they don’t have to be poor small town dwellers, they choose to be.
We should remember that although their ideas are absurdly wrong, in many ways the ideas are a product of their environment, one which is hard to escape. Avoid the smug style. Regardless of whether it’s morally or technically justified, it’s counterproductive.
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You almost make it sound like you think there should be a class of people who don’t have the Constitutional right to vote…
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We should remember that although their ideas are absurdly wrong, in many ways the ideas are a product of their environment,
I grew up in a small, racist town. So I respectfully dismiss this excuse as hogwash. They know it’s wrong. They choose to be what they are, because they think it’s better to look down their noses at someone else. I’m not mocking them for being poor (because lord fucking knows I was at the bottom of that rung for a long time), or rednecks (guilty as raised), or uneducated, or how they choose to live their lives. I’m talking about their choice to be racists. That is not to be tolerated. And it’s not smug to reject that attitude and refuse to tolerate it.
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Might have more impact on the townsfolk if he set it up as a Catholic cathedral, mentioned all the coverups, fraud, and kiddie diddling, and made sure they were ok with all that, and then switched it to the scary mosque.
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Roger that! I wasn’t trying to change your mind or anything and I apologize if I came off that way.
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I don’t, I grew up with them. Fuck their ignorance, fuck the security that allows them to remain ignorant (at the expense of countless other peoples around the globe) and fuck their unamerican, unchristian attitude toward anyone who isn’t like them (ie toothless and ignorant).
BTW, my vitriol isn’t directed at you, but as @cepheus42 points out, it is their choice to remain ignorant bigots. Fuck them.
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While Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. … During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
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We should have people who aren’t allowed to vote - stupid people. We have the behavioral sciences advanced enough that today we can create IQ tests that are not racially biased. We should use them. We should stop having elections decided by knuckle dragging mouth breathing inbred cousin fuckers who don’t know shit and who hate and fear anyone who does. Here’s a really easy touchstone that is absolutely infallible: If someone ends a discussion about politics or economics by saying “the guvmint oughtta do something,” that person is too ignorant, too stupid, or both, to be trusted to vote.
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Some of my relatives were at a rodeo where he performed, and found him hilarious. It has to be harder for him to avoid recognition, although I am sure that many people just play along.
I did notice in the subject video that it seemed to take place in a rented conference room, so some audience selection likely took place beforehand.
Immediate problem there, comrade; who gets to decide what the metric of “stupid” actually is?
Because in the US, we have a really shitty track record of weaponizing such kinds of laws and legal stipulations against People of Color, women, gay folks, and pretty much everyone who isn’t a straight, White, cisgender, able-bodied, heteronormative male who vaguely identifies as ‘Xtian.’
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Any tool you create that disenfranchises people will be used by the strong against the weak.
Just don’t go there.
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Pretty sure that one is rewired to the Republican candidates in some states.
The thing that ruins his humor for me is the chilling fear i get upon realizing his targets are serious and sincere
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I mean… there will always be bigots. New bigots are being born, raised, and put into the general population of this great nation every day. Little Jimmy hating anything brown skinned and with a quick N-word chambered and at the ready on the tip of his tongue - he is the voter base, the heartbeat of America. He is proud to be white and better than them people. He is a loving man who wants to preserve the purity of white culture (whatever the fuck that even IS) against the onslaught of rapey colored skinned folk diluting the gene pool.
I totally get it. Middle America has been, is, and will be - despite all facts countering their beliefs - that racism is bad. It’s a fight we cannot win because it’s a fight that cannot be fought. It’s like ghost cockroaches. We’re never getting out of this with an enlightened progressive educated nation - and you know who wants it exactly that way? The rich and powerful.
Not if humanity self destructs due to its’ own hubris, and our species goes extinct.
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Technically, yes.
