It almost always boils down to projection with conservatives. I think it’s the levels of selfishness and inability to consider the experience of those who are not like them, so they must apply their own experience and by extension how they would deal with a given situation, to everyone else around them, to make the world make sense to their narrow minds.
There was a Ghislaine Maxwell documentary where they interview the managers of the island house who are either in complete denial and/or being paid for their silence (sorry for the poor source but it’s late and I can’t find another with a clip, and it is otherwise just a summary of the interview). People like her and Epstein know to surround themselves with people who are easy to manipulate, so at least some staff didn’t need alcohol…
Those who defend rapists are telling on themselves, it’s about time society in general started to listen.
Ha, no worries. :)
I think you have misunderstood? Or have I missed a joke?
Either way - I’m on kbin, where votes are transparent, so I can see who the people that are staying quiet but upvoting racists are, and am letting them know it (and blocking them while I’m at it). I hope that clears things up?
I’m calling people racists for being racists.
The fact that you care more about being called a racist than the actual racism being discussed says it all.
Trying to shift the discussion to people you probably don’t give two shits about beyond using them as a debate tool does too.
At the end of the day, if being called a racist bothers you that much, just stop being one.
He would, for the few seconds between Putin turning on him, and trump hitting the pavement post-defenestration.
It might not be long, but he’s exactly the type to pull a “nice guy” and flip 180 the second he realises things aren’t going his way (which might be ages after everyone else around him realises, but the point still stands) - I’d wage good money that he’d be yelling, as he falls to his death, something along the lines of “I never really supported you anyway, you woke leftist!!1”, convincing himself (and no one else, of course) that he got the last word…
Looks like a couple of white supremacists from here would feel more at home there though (hey lurkers - from kbin we can see you upvoting the racist blowing their dog whistle, you can’t hide)…
Lmfao, I don’t doubt Putin would love Trump back, and that the dictatorial love for each other is mutual (until the inevitable point where they have to turn on one another), but I wouldn’t believe a single word out of Trumps mouth, especially if they come after “and I quote…”. Why anyone still would, never mind base a news report on it, is beyond me…
No, it’s literally the distraction the likes of Trump use themselves.
It implies that those deliberately using their almost complete power over the legal system, economy, education, and media to manipulate and flat out lie to people, many of who were, also deliberately, made desperate and vulnerable to said manipulation by the very same system in the first place - have nothing to do with the end result. How fucking convenient!
And what exactly am I meant to own? The fact that I voted remain, and did my best to get others to do the same? Are you seriously trying to claim that individuals like myself could ever possibly have more impact than the Murdoch empire? Or David Cameron? Or Boris Johnson? Why the fuck should we own it but not them, when they’re the ones making millions if not billions selling lies and doing “talks” about “what they learned” fucking the country up?
Do I begrudge people (again, the literal minority of the population) who voted leave? Fuck yeah. Do I blame them for brexit? Why should I? They didn’t think it up, they didn’t propose it, they didn’t go ahead with it despite warnings because it would further their career and make them money, they didn’t lie to and manipulate others to get their way. Those in power did. So I fucking blame them, because they are fucking responsible.
The fact that you compare the voters to criminals, rather than those who manipulated them says it all really.
I bet you also blame cancer patients who die from snake oil they fell for, rather than the grifters who sold it to them…
Those in power don’t even need to wash their hands of their actions anymore, people like you literally do it for them. But hey, bootlickers gonna lick boot. Keep blaming powerless individuals for systemic problems, see how that works out for you… ¯\(ツ)/¯
It’s a shame the “clear majority of Britons” have shit all to do with it, and brexshit happened for and because of a handful of people, who are not going to go back on their plan to make themselves richer and have fewer people to answer to, even if 99% of people voting in some poll want them to…
It’s about time people get it through their heads that we are never going to be given a better world by those who are holding us hostage, we are going to have to take it.
Around 35% of the total population actually voted for it, and even then, those people weren’t the ones who decided to push forward despite it clearly being a shit show.
Blame the people responsible, I’m so sick of this lazy “everyone” blanket statements people make about events that have very specific individuals and institutions to blame, all it’s doing is literally letting them get away with it.
I’m honestly surprised and shocked that Nazism is rising up again
Have people not learnt about and from the past?
or have you just not been paying attention? Nazism and fascism never went anywhere, and have been openly on the rise again for a significant while now, and those of us who it already impacts have been fighting them as best we can every step of the way. So maybe instead of pointing your finger at others, you should be asking yourself how this can possibly be taking you by surprise, unless you weren’t paying as much attention as you like to think you have…
Just fyi and not that it matters too much, but I’m pretty sure that if you have an instagram account, you’ve also got a threads account, even if you’ve never used or even seen it, that’s how they got “millions of new members” when they first launched…
Either way, this is gross, but I’m almost glad they’re going masks off to compete with xitter’s “free speech” because while this is definitely dangerous and scary, I’d rather those who feel the same actually see them for what they really are.
As someone who is a spectrum lady, yeah, we’re not a stereotypical monolith…
Lmao, imagine being that person, dying on this hill to tell you how wrong you are for… checks notes… buying a product as it was sold to you… 😂🤦♀️🤦♀️
Lmfao
As a restaurant manager
your experience with processed food probably processed hundreds of miles away and bought at a chain supermarket, is completely irrelevant. Clown
You repeating yourself doesn’t suddenly change any of the facts, the main one being that even if they did choose it, the content of the packet is not their responsibility, and if they hadn’t bought it, someone else would have, and then they would have been disappointed…
So what, you just like the taste of corporate boot? Or have you been so deeply programmed by those actually responsible to always shift responsibility to the individual, no matter how ridiculous it makes you seem? (E: your reply boasting you’re a restaurant manager as if it has any relevance has made these questions rhetorical - you clearly relate more to corporate position because of your proximity to the top, but remember - that proximity might as well be the distance between Earth and Mars, to actual corporate you’re just another worker drone, just one that is also happy to inflict suffering down the line for them, but a worker drone nonetheless, and like the rest of us you are almost certainly closer to being homeless than you are to being a millionaire, so all you really are is a bootlicking class traitor)
Either way, you need to have a word with yourself…
But why are you trying to blame op?
They could have had it delivered so had no choice, or maybe were in a rush and just grabbed a thing off the shelf without paying too much attention, or a bunch of other possible reasons, or maybe they even chose it deliberately so they could complain, but none of those make it their fault that the product wasn’t as advertised, and either way, if they hadn’t grabbed it, someone else would have.
Now imagine if the rich people funding this bullshit hoping to live forever on their yachts put their money back in to society instead, so that the rest of us might also consider living longer a bonus rather than a punishment…