My partner doesn't follow up on news too much and looked into this stuff today through an MSM lense and was completely bewildered when I brought up how the cops helped. They showed me what they looked at and all of it made it sound like the police got overrun by armed protesters. There's no 180 imo

Mods please ban Lenin and all emojis with him, he's cancelled now

There's a variety of reasons why someone might not groom themselves and wind up with a neckbeard that doesn't involve the stereotype, and mocking anyone on their appearance might hurt other people who look like that that are reading what you're saying. That's the take I've seen I'm not sure if that's what was explained to Beatnik

According to the congressional calendar, the house is going on recess starting today until the 21st, and the senate until the 20th. Unless they decide to declare an emergency over this and force everyone to come in, the ball won't even start rolling. It's purely performative, but they are going to be able to slide that past a lot of people

Theres something about his shirts/collars too that make his head look floaty and his neckline look weird

Yeah exactly. I'm just venting about news articles mainly, and that rhetoric is being repeated online and it absolutely will lead to ghoulish policy. Does me venting on chapo change that, of course not, I'm just yelling into the void

It's not a coup stop calling it a coup no power was threatened and it was only slightly worse than a drunk tour group running away from their guide. It's not a coup, it's not terrorism, it wasn't anything beyond a spectacle at the end of the day

What would they have pulled? They refuse to leave the building until Trump is president? Won't happen, even if Trump tried to go full coup. The fact the "mob" was unorganized, had no demands, had no real power etc is the whole reason they got into the building in the first place, if it was an actual possibility for a coup it would have been shut down

I thought it was pretty see through, and where she climbed through the glass was broken through, definitely enough for her to read the situation

I saw the original and thought it was just someone doing a bit, thanks for saving it

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Nah it's actually incredibly easy to divorce the two when you've trained your audience to reject it every time they catch a whiff of it and the government is doing the same. Most of these viewers will walk away from this segment still holding a negative view of communism (cause it's instictiual) but have a few ideas wrattling around their head that can be played on later by media/politicians.

Ideally, we'd be the ones taken those ideas this gives them and run with it, but on a practical level outside of talking to Fox viewers you know about this segment the reach won't be there. Meanwhile someone could easily pick almost all the points up as a platform, slap "for Real Americans™ " on it and they'd have a primed audience. Stuff like this is like the mentality behind advistersting, you want to establish a passive voice in someone's head through saturation and then play on that later. I'm rambling now but I hope you see what I mean

No part of these touch on what really makes socialism socialism, and it's all stuff that these people can nod along to or strongly agree with. This is how ideology gets co opted

Looking at the age range from the arrests spike from 1/5-1/7 vs earlier in the year is pretty interesting to me (but also it's expected results)

i can’t get on board with accepting reformed reactionaries because they say bash the fash now or some stupid shit.

I think the second part of that sentence is the key, though. OPs statement applies to people like these two who occasionally lean into the A E S T H E T I C and not to people who are generally trying to learn and improve themselves

Very surface level answer- capitalism will inevitably collapse on itself, and when it does either the proletariat will sieze power for themselves, or the bourgeois will try to hold on to their power while eliminating any threat to themselves and directing people to look elsewhere for solutions to their problems, this results in fascism

2 days of continuous yelling only stopped by the spectacle, classic Chapo

Generally yeah, just make one a lil damp and drape it over the bowl beforehand and it'll help. Depends a bit on the food/bowl/microwave in question. But if your bowls are super duper hot in under a minute they aren't really meant to be in the microwave and they are basically stealing all the warmth your food could be getting

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Wet paper towels help with that, steam it up!