These baby brained motherfuckers seriously need to digest everything that happens through the lens of “orange man bad.”
"Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this..."
"this came out before Boss baby!? then Boss Baby people ripped this off!?"
Boss Baby really says a lot about our society.
---Richard D. Wolff (literally) on Chapo Trap House episode 186
Can someone explain this to a non-American
I watched those Jan 6 riots live and it was literally just a glorified tour of the Capitol and idiots tasering their own balls, why the fuck are libs so spooked
Liberals think power works like Duck Duck Goose. All you need to do to become king is to sneak your butt into the throne. They literally can't tell the difference between a riot in the capital (Jan 6th) and a nation-wide insurgency culminating in a seige of the capital.
Probably the same reason they thought Hong Kong was going to be a revolution when the demonstrators got into the parliament and spraypainted the chamber.
This is probably also why libs believe in moral contagion through movies and books. They also thought the cast of Hamilton talking to Mike Pence would do something.
The knots people twist themselves into when they believe history is driven by ideas.
This is going too far in the right direction. Sure, in hindsight, it's easy to see how disorganized the chuds were and easy to reach the conclusion that there was no possible way it could have accomplished anything significant. But it did create a chaotic situation and at least a credible pretense of popular support for Trump, all while you have Trump openly saying he wants to remain in power and while you have a bunch of high-ranking opposing politicians trapped right there in one building. If a coup is carefully building a campfire and deliberately starting it, this was something like shoving a bunch of mediocre kindling into a pile and passing the matches around. It didn't happen, but it created conditions where it could happen.
american libs have been really into the islamophobic "y'all queda/republican christian fundamentalists are the same as muslim fundamentalist" thing for a while. it's their way of "no u"ing republicans when it comes to who can hate muslims more by comparing republicans to muslims.
They kind of are the same. Why do Christian fundamentalists hate Muslim fundamentalists so much?
Racism probably? Competing faith too, the fundies even hated the catholics for a long while
Truth is white supremacists are worse than Islamic fundamentalists. (jfc why would anyone upvote this? All of you are insane.)
TFW you're such a fucking brainlet you think that an ideology that has conquered the world and lead both the Holocaust and extermination of native Americans and some incel warlords in the middle East are the same thing.
Brown people bad.
Because this website is full of racist white people doing lazy mental gymnastics pretending to be leftists(poorly), I mean they don't even put any effort into changing the wording and being slightly subversive, its just word for word the same shit talking heads like tucker carlson spew
He was the one who coined calling jan 6th a "glorified white house tour" and its the only way "leftists" here refer to it, pretty telling when you just repeat right wing propaganda word for word and can't come up with your own takes then you are not a leftist of any stroke, but just a boring standard right winger
I think it has a lot to do with the spectacle of it. It really was unprecedented seeing the US capitol get "occupied," but like it wasn't a real insurgency, there was no actual millitary support. The government never really lost control. Everything was basically fine, but the imagery was striking, so it basically became 9/11 in the liberal popular imagination.
90% of the american political experience post-1945 is looking at things on a screen in a cornfield
To be somewhat fair to the overdramatic libs, they did beat up the pigs, break through the windows, hunt for politicians, and get shot in the chest
Dude it was horrific optics for the right-wing in general. Lefties are too dumb to see that. Glorified tour? 5 people died bro, does that matter to you?
It was actually impossible to occupy a capitol before Donald J Trump taught people how to sit in chairs
if your chances of taking power with a violent outburst is 0%, it's not a coup, it's an attempted dudes rock party.
Yeah, if anybody can't see how one of those groups is a lot more serious than the others, holy shit
:reddit-logo: is so fucking bad that we're defending hogs. :sadness-abysmal:
Not really defending them, but the contexts here are so wildly different that the comparison is absurd. The main similarity seems to be "man I don't like in fancy building."
User was banned for not defending hogs smdh my dang head 1984 animal crossing
Every single redditor that upvoted this deserves a swirlie.
How about just plan old death? Can we give them that?
Broke: Comparing the Taliban to Republicans
Woke? : Comparing the Karzai and Ghani governments to the Democrats
While many Afghans—very much including Afghan soldiers—fear and despise the Taliban, they never developed much love or fealty toward the government in Kabul. By contrast, the Taliban’s soldiers were fanatical and relentless in their long-game strategy for victory.
( https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/americas-failure-in-afghanistan-started-twenty-years-ago.html )
Karzai is cooperating with the Taliban now. He's decided to stay in Kabul and head a commission to hand over power to the Taliban peacefully. I'm sure he's going to be fine. The comparison to the democrats holds.
It's almost as if being near symbols of centralized authority makes you want to pose and sit in them and stuff.
When I was in high school I represented my school at something called the "parliament of youth" or something like that. Because I live in the capitol of my country this was held in the premises of our actual parliament. Parliament itself was on break, so no politicians were there and we just got to use the actual location we'd seen on TV where they vote about laws and stuff. I was very much a liberal teenager, and also pretty shy, so I did not actually speak or anything, but when we had our lunch break they told us to "find a place to eat". I think they meant the cafeteria or somewhere, but at that moment I was left alone in my country's version of the senate hall while everyone else shuffled off to wherever they meant. There was pretty much no security inside, since the security at the entrance had been so heavy and no one important was actually there at the time.
I ate my lunch in the speaker's chair in the center of our parliament. I farted in the chair and dribbled mustard all over the microphone (turned off during lunch break). Since we were allowed pen and paper I could have done something a bit more important like leaving a note in the literal center of power for my country. I would have gotten away with it. But since I was like 15 or 16 at the time I of course didn't think of that. I do still get to enjoy the feeling whenever I see footage from our parliament of knowing that the speaker is sitting in my farts and speaking into my drool. If I got the opportunity again today I would probably have a slight panic attack and try to do something relevant, but I would still fart all over that seat.
TL;DR I'm a taliban and a trump supporter and a comunist, or maybe sitting on the throne when it's right there is just something anyone will do given the opportunity and them doing it means nothing.
The Taliban look like the kids at the family dinner who are bored out of their minds
