It tastes like someone fermented trashcan juice in a skunk’s asshole in the dog days of summer.

The kind where one can get to a different galaxy in a single lifetime? I doubt it.

It’s not gullibility; the reactionary right want to oppress the people they hate. It’s White Christian Supremacy.

It’s similar to the KKK: they weren’t tricked into being hateful pieces of shit, they just are. Sure, a big part of that is that their culture is rotten with fundamentalism and anti-intelectualism, but those are cultivated and flourish because they’re helpful to the cause of being hateful pieces of shit.

I love to put kimchi in ramen to give it a bit of acidity.

I have to wonder if that’s part of what made him good for the role? The series was trying to break the Trek mold anyway, so it was maybe for the best that the head of the ensemble cast didn’t have any particular reverence for the source.

Bushido Ball is one of those games I’m surprised I hadn’t seen done before. It’s such a great idea: elegant in its simplicity while still having a high skill ceiling.

How did I possibly forget that Tulsi ‘Present’ Gabbard was the director of national intelligence?

Or you could rocket jump for more hang time. Only once, though.

They want respect earned through fear.

Fascists can’t stand being the butt of a joke though.

“You can’t investigate my child porn machine, this is a political witch hunt!”

SCOTUS rushed to get the case in front of the court when States were legally keeping Trump off their ballots due to his numerous convictions, but when regular Americans are having their 4th amendment rights trampled they can’t be bothered.

Almost like they were installed to facilitate a fascist power grab.

I guess I don’t understand what you think I’m missing. I think the rise of an explicitly fascist party and the propaganda arm to support it is pretty dire.

And historically, the right has been at the forefront of new media. Talk radio has been almost exclusively reactionary since its inception, and that provided a model for new media as well. We’ve had nearly a century of radical right-wing radio content to hone the message and tactics. Father Caughlin was doing his radio show in 1933, wherein he took his “America First” message to the nation.

There have been more leftist new-media shows than previously, but they are still playing catch-up with the well-funded reactionaries.

The right-wing rage machine has recently been fueled by a number of things, but mainly loss in prestige due to acceptance of LGBTQ+ people & the US hiring a black president. They got a candidate in Donald Trump who swore to be their retribution, and they rallied around him because he hates all the same people, but (perhaps most importantly) also spoke to their loss in a way that other Republicans and Democrats would not.

Yes, the reactionary right is often derided as stupid, but they’re very effective at stealing the language of liberation from the left and repurposing it to defend the people in power.

While many of the base are indeed ignorant and misinformed, the people driving the message are meticulous and creative about finding ways to make White Evangelical Supremacy more palatable. Tucker Carlson is especially effective at laundering neo-nazi talking points for them; his constant scaremongering around the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory and his open hatred and lies about trans people are some of the most egregious.

But it’s also people like Joe Rogan who make this reactionary funnel really work: he acts like a middle-of-the-road centrist, but also sells a gentler version of the same great replacement and “gender ideology” bullshit while introducing his audience to a whole bunch of radical right-wing freaks like they’re just normal people.

"I just love these celebrities who say everybody’s illegal on stolen land. If you don’t like the land and our history 250 years later, you’re free to leave,” the conservative host groused. “If you feel as though you’re being brought up on stolen land, as ill educated as you are, then you should actually go somewhere where you feel as though the land belongs.”

Cry more, bootlicker. Why don’t you leave if living in the same country as brown people pisses you off so much? Maybe fuck off to Sealand where Peter Thiel will let you fill up on brine shrimp if you agree to be his slave.

Reactionary ideology is about loss and blame.

The current reactionary stripe in the US is focused on White Evangelical Supremacy, so everyone who is not in that group is a prime target.

White Evangelicalism has lost a heap of prestige in the last 30 years, while LGBTQ+ rights have been ascendant. This is the reason why trans people have long been taegeted by the reactionary right: they want to roll back all of the gains made to sexual minorities, and trans people make the easiest targets.

They also target immigrants for largely the same reason: they’re a highly visible population who doesn’t conform to their ideal White Evangelical model, so they use terror tactics to oppress them.

The goal is to make life intolerable for the people they hate so that they don’t have to compete against ideas that make the world a more equitable place. It’s no coincidence that the reactionary right rallied around fighting diversity, equity and inclusion: they are an evangelical white supremacist coalition.

She’s just mad that she got frozen out of the boys club. She was one of the biggest fundraisers in the party— she did her “duty” and only after she got stiffed did she figure out that there is no honor among thieves.

If this caterwauling troll had gotten her bag she’d have had no complaints. Fuck her.

Sounds like he hit a raw nerve.

They’ll use the heat to turn a steam turbine which powers a laser pointed at the polar ice caps.

2. Day-oh (the banana goat song)

Even one of those would be a really stupid shield to bring to a melee. You’ve got no mobility if you’re resting a panel on the ground.

But these guys aren’t the smartest tools in the fridge.