• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    ‘I only wanted innocent Iranians to be killed!’

    Liberals acting shocked every time the fascists turn on them, instead of just helping them kill middle eastern people.

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    15 hours ago

    Jesus Christ, Wu played MAGA apologist? Given her history? She’s always been a shit person, I just figured she at the very least wouldn’t join the crowd tied at the hip to her arch-nemesis GamerGate edgelords.

    I guess it really doesn’t matter what flavor of bad you are, in the end they all gravitate toward MAGA.

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      The entire GamerGate/anti-GamerGate fiasco was a psyop designed to divide people and drain them of money and direct influence that was being run by bad actors and useful idiots. I had forgotten her name until now, but I guess Wu was the Useful Idiot type.

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        GamerGate was all weaponizes to be used as tool to popularize far right ideology by Steve Bannon. The rise in groups like Proud Boys, Groypers and the Manosphere can all be traced back to the GamerGate movement.

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          Yeah, I know. And while the GamerGate side was the far, far worse one, the anti GamerGate was also employing bad faith arguments and grifting their followers. Or in Wu’s case, just plain dumb. Both sides where easy targets for each other’s followers, which is how they wanted it. Who actually used that Call in a Gamer Girl service?

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      15 hours ago

      “My enemy’s enemy is my friend”

      When your enemy is human decency, you acquire a lot of piece of shit friends.

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      Now if we could only get them all to gather in one single place.

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        For what purpose? I don’t like 'em, either, but doing to them what they do to everybody else would make us no better.

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          The only good fascist is a dead one. My grandparents understood that and so do I.

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          Thats such a bad argument. They do it to people for things that dont harm anyone and are out of their control. We would do it to them for the things they want to do to innocent people. Things that harm people and that are in their control.

          So yes, we would be much better than them.

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            That depends upon what you want to do, which is why I asked. If you do the same things in return, then you’re also “in control.”

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              Don’t. Lemmy is a place full of terminally online people. You won’t change anyone on here, trust me, so you will have to suffer moronic people calling for literal concentration camps like the Nazis had. Because if you call them out on fashist thoughts and ideas they will pretend that its you who is the problem. 0 education, a lot of opinion and thinking they are worth more than other people.

              In truth they are just enraged about how helpless they feel so they like to fantasize about having the power. Pretty sad to see what they would do with it.

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    15 hours ago

    I guess trans people can be just as shitty as the rest of us. Don’t hurt me, I’m one of you. Hurt all the OTHER trans people…

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      Every conservative, from the most spiteful MAGAt to the polite nana across the street, all believe they are the exception and special. They won’t be stepped on. It’s all those other people that deserve it.

      It doesn’t matter if they are trans, cis, white, or black.

      The core belief of conservatism is that they earned their place while all those others didn’t.

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        https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

        A few miles away, another prison employee, Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend’s house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton’s 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

        Damn.

      • Pearl@lemmy.ml
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        14 hours ago

        Reminder for myself, engrave this in marble and bury it for future archeologists.

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      9 hours ago

      People are dumb and easily misled, so we need to construct a more foolproof world. I’m pretty sure there’s such a thing as “Latinos for Trump”, lol.

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    The most fucked up thing about this was that her single issue was demanding everyone support a genocide.

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      did I read that wrong because of the pixel count, or do you have that backwards?

      “standing up to Iran”

      edit: I’m a fucking idiot. don’t comment when distracted and drinking, folks

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          fuck I’m embarassed, got my I’s confused. I’m gonna try and blame it on being distracted by my dog bleeding all over the patio. but nope, just a really bad brain fart

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            Kudos on calling out your own mistakes.

            We all get things wrong; what’s important is that you own up to it when that happens and correcting yourself.

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      I guess we can now say that “she’s on the wrong side of history.” We already knew that at the time, but it’s a proof that they only wanted power without having any interest in video games.

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    14 hours ago

    Brianna Wu is a name I have not heard since like 2018? Or whenever the fuck Gamergate was.

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    I recall her going nuclear on bluesky about the rest of the platform not supporting Israel enough, but I haven’t seen or heard much from her for a while. I see I haven’t missed much. Maybe this is why Leo hasn’t had her on TWiT in ages, lol.