That image of text that breaks accessibility, searchability, & fault tolerance for no compelling reason while making the web less usable would have been far better as proper text.
friendly reminder that they ended Howard Dean’s presidential campaign because he got a bit impassioned in one of his speeches and said “Hyah!” a bit awkwardly. that was too weird for a presidential candidate.
Remember when Christians called for Clinton to resign because he was unfit to be president because he got a BJ from an intern? Those same Christians voted for Trump.
All of it is about control, it has nothing to do with logic. If you understand this, fighting these idiots becomes much easier. You’re not dealing with reasonable adults, you’re dealing with a bunch of giant upset babies that don’t want to get sent to their room.
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Hypocrisy is dead under the republicans.
That’s because they can’t spell it
Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.
Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.
This isn’t a Republican problem, it’s a wealthy elites problem.
Drugs are bad, but let’s not pretend that weed and meth are the same.
Or is it the other way around?
Republicans take hypocrisy to a whole new level.
[sniff] That’s so beautiful, it should be embroidered on a pillow.
If I wanted to protest in the US, I would put that quote on tshirts and have everyone buy it. It would make for quite a tv presence…
Here’s the original conversation if anyone is interested. Reading all the “that is just what men do” comments makes me wanna barf.
It’s just locker room talk man. Perfectly acceptable.
/s
The good thing is that in hindsight we can be pretty sure that it was mostly bots. The sad part is that it worked.
Nope, pretty certain everyone who voted for that fucker do believe that it’s perfectly okay what he did.
Lunatics will have insane ideas, that’s a given. It gets dangerous when lunatics get other people on board however.
Edit: also the amount of billionaire cocksucking many Americans do is genuinely creepy. No cap.
Why do dumb people think it’s “all of the sudden”?
Supposably
Yeah, when you guys chose to elect that guy, I knew it was over. I knew stuff was only gonna get worse and worse.
Honestly, this should’ve been the end of it. No sane country would elect someone that said this as their president
A significant portion of American voters: “Heh, NICE! I wish I was famous.”
That significant portion dont realize they are closer to 0 than they are a 100k-inair
Wow i just need to be famouse and i can sexually assult people? Man this really is the land of the free. You got my vote.
I hate to be the one to tell you, but the moral timber of the a lot of American voters is infested with selfishness and a lust for hurting others with impunity. And while good people stay home, the selfish always vote.
We are fundamentally broken. It doesn’t matter. It’s been a facade the whole time.
He is america. A racist misogynist bully.
I’m going to blame reconstruction failing. We never corrected the hypocrisy at our core and this is the result.
Amen. Trump is showing the world what America truly is. The rest of the world sees this. Many Americans do not.
And to throw an olive branch, many countries are a Trump away from the same realization.
It’s something innate in humanity. We’re just speedrunning it.
Being an optimist it’s waves throughout humanity and this is merely the most recent one. We are better as a species though still not perfect. My gut tells me we will make it out of this but like many times before the old thinking will need to die.
We are going to look back at the greed rampant today for the mental disease if truly is and address the underlying issue that makes people like Elon or Bezos not only exist but thrive. We will come to the realization that people like that are not normal and we will no longer idolize or encourage such destructive individualism.
As well as when he made fun of the journalist who was in a wheelchair. I remember seeing that and I thought it was completely over for him, but no.
The amount of times it should be over for him, you could fill a library
Interesting website idea.
Sane you say?
The Onion, if they were writing this (instead of it being actual) would have made it better reading, less disgusting.
It really should have been. The “conservatives” are not religious or conservative, they are disgusting. The “conservative” republican party is way WAY too liberal for my tastes. We should start calling republicans the “libs”, because they are.
You sound like someone who still believes a party what doesn’t blab about it’s cruelties, wrongdoing and stupidity is a party that is innocent and good. Haha, good one. Who has been the opponent of trump the first time around in 2016, Hillary Clinton, right? Personally I always welcomed trumps presidency. Thanks to him the whole world can see what a farce our democracies are (and it’s not only the MAGAs I talk about). And as Europeans it enabled us to distance ourselves more easily from the forced western dependency/decadency. I just don’t know what’s better: being a US colony as before or the recent stupidity, having a straight-from-BlackRock-lobbyist as a chancellor… Darn, and that’s one of the reason why people become more and more aggressive while becoming decreasingly tolerant to differing world views…
Seeing the conservative reaction to this was my first realization that we were truly fucked.
Initially: Thank god we can finally stop pretending Trump is a real candidate
Moments later: Oh, oh no
Ten years later: What what what oh shit oh fuck
Your initial reaction was the only sane path history could have gone down.
I have repeated this story numerous times.
After that tape came out, a conservative woman went on The View TV show to defend Trump.
One of the panelists kept using the phrase ‘pussy.’
The conservative woman asked her to please stop using that offensive term.
Shoulda called her a cunt
As a PoC we kinda just go with the flow. Got a few scattered family members that support him for his regressive values but its very few and far between. For white people, I can only imagine, entire families must have had a schism put through them.
“i’m… offended by him saying that too…”
Since 2016.
What does even “conservative” mean for Americans? For Europeans it means you try to conserve things, or apparently being a moron.
In North America, it means (traditionalist, nationalist) right-wing whereas liberal means left-leaning. Similar to European definitions
Conservatism: Originally inspired by natural law and formed by the upper-class, conservative parties today are middle-class organisations that seek to preserve established traditions and the current status quo of a society. They normally advocate traditional values as authority, nation, religion, family, stability and continuity. Over the time they incorporated some liberal values, especially on economic issues (free market policies).
From wikipedia
Conservatism in the United States is one of two major political ideologies in the United States, with the other being modern liberalism. Traditional American conservatism is characterized by a belief in individualism, traditionalism, capitalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states, although 21st century developments have shifted it towards right-wing populist themes.
In the US, liberal–conservative is synonymous with left–right
American political ideologies conventionally align with the left–right political spectrum, with most Americans identifying as conservative, liberal, or moderate.
Americans’ ideological identification was steady in 2024, with an average of 37% describing their political views as “very conservative” or “conservative,” 34% as “moderate,” and 25% as “very liberal” or “liberal.”
However, much of lemmy seems to deny that conventional alignment exists: I don’t know if that’s basic ignorance or tankie disinfo/stupidity.
in america, “conservatives” will tell you that they want a return to “traditional values” even though that’s just barely the case in reality.
what maga really wants:
be racist/bigoted with complete impunity
mandatory jesus
own slaves again
failing that, resegregation
tradwifei’m definitely leaving things out, but you get the idea–pretty much the fantasy is to return to the 1950s
edit: i want to add, a LOT of maga voters will say “no i don’t want that i don’t want that” while literally voting for and supporting and wearing t-shirts of the party that’s trying to force people to deify charlie kirk, and punish anyone who doesn’t. it’s absolutely fucking insane, and whatever problems exist in europe, please know that here’s at least one person who envies you
Now I just need to know what “libtard” means, as I get called that by tankies from time to time…
“libtard” = someone with the capacity to feel empathy = enemy of fascism AND communism
The U.S.A’s Age of Grace and Class. /s
Trying to remember the sound of the recording because I’ll never get over how “I moved on her like a bitch” does not read the way he intended
Was this an excerpt from his Nobel Peace Prize award speech?
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Did he actually say that? Lol
Yep. This came out during his first election and they still voted for him
Yes. It’s outrageous.
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