American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

This is the type of garbage that Mods should concern themselves with

The comment doesn't break any forum rules but that is what moderators should concern themselves with. What a joke. How about all the garbage that blatantly goes against the rules?

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Yes, an obvious fabrication.

We were only paid $350.

I was going to say that I was traveling through BC about 10 years ago and managed to convince someone I was there protesting and being paid for it.

[trackercowe]

I had never heard of the paid protestor conspiracy before MAGA losers took over. Is that truly something that happens anywhere? I wouldn't put it past MAGA themselves to do just that... heck they were paying suckers to see Melania to boost its box office numbers. Trump would have no problem stealing from Americans to build attendance for his Reichsparteitages.

Same with the topic of crowd sizing... again something else only Trump is obsessed with. PreTrump I don't think anyone gave two ####s about crowd sizes at political events. MAGA ain't Taylor Swift.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

The comment doesn't break any forum rules but that is what moderators should concern themselves with. What a joke. How about all the garbage that blatantly goes against the rules?

It is pretty funny watching fascist bootlickers cry about people not treating them kindly.

If you think getting sworn at or insulted online is the worst that’s coming you better read up on your history kiddo.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

https://twitter.com/user/status/2022658504675463492

This woman is fantastic

https://twitter.com/user/status/2022168427142778906

She also uncovered the redacted co-conspirators

[Roast Beef]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

My sister's sleazebag loser ex-husband used to use "roast beef" as a code word with his friends to refer to going to the strippers. I'll let you use your imagination for why they used that word. I don't know what he is up to these days, but I imagine he is a Trump-Epstein fan.

Uh oh....


Just to be clear, that's NOT what my user name is referring to.

[trackercowe]

Great interview with Obama. Hard to believe the US is less than ten years removed from him.

https://youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?si=m3ItMMfrtIX_kUTV

[Ped]

Really, it's clear that all these despicable and disgusting opinions were there, they were just held back from being fully unleashed by the veneer of civility. There were always incredibly racist and bigoted towns and areas, and many places in the south still celebrate slavery and cosplay at it with their plantations and things like that.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Ped

Really, it's clear that all these despicable and disgusting opinions were there, they were just held back from being fully unleashed by the veneer of civility. There were always incredibly racist and bigoted towns and areas, and many places in the south still celebrate slavery and cosplay at it with their plantations and things like that.

I sometime wonder if it has even grown, or is it just more apparent due to the internet & social media?

The old adage; every village has an idiot and now every idiot has a village.

I'm not sure people have gotten any better or worse, we just see all sides of them more.

[Fuzz]

https://bsky.app/profile/lorak.bsky..../3metqnysxps2p


I would suggest clicking through to the thread for a fine collection of snowflake bangers.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

I had never heard of the paid protestor conspiracy before MAGA losers took over. Is that truly something that happens anywhere? I wouldn't put it past MAGA themselves to do just that... heck they were paying suckers to see Melania to boost its box office numbers. Trump would have no problem stealing from Americans to build attendance for his Reichsparteitages.

Same with the topic of crowd sizing... again something else only Trump is obsessed with. PreTrump I don't think anyone gave two ####s about crowd sizes at political events. MAGA ain't Taylor Swift.

That's because all their accusations are actually confessions.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

If you think getting sworn at or insulted online is the worst that’s coming you better read up on your history kiddo.

This directed at calgarygeologist? What are you implying?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

It is pretty funny watching fascist bootlickers cry about people not treating them kindly.

If you think getting sworn at or insulted online is the worst that’s coming you better read up on your history kiddo.

The world is a scary place. Thankfully we have safe spaces like this where everyone can come together, have fun and share dialogue under a defined set of rules and moderation. I don't leave sheltered places such as this and a few other welcoming environments.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

This directed at calgarygeologist? What are you implying?

That the world has historically treated fascists and their supporters far worse than name calling and using “bad words” when the power swings the other way.

You don’t know your history?

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

The world is a scary place. Thankfully we have safe spaces like this where everyone can come together, have fun and share dialogue under a defined set of rules and moderation. I don't leave sheltered places such as this and a few other welcoming environments.

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

God, you're such a ####tard.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

That the world has historically treated fascists and their supporters far worse than name calling and using “bad words” when the power swings the other way.

You don’t know your history?

The world generally doesn't, actually.

Yes, they hung some Nazis at Nurenberg, but most were just sent home after they finally accepted their loss in the war.

When the Greek junta fell in 1974, A few top people were put in jail and people in the police or military lost their jobs, but then again those people had often got their jobs by being fascist supporters, so it's basically a wash.

When the Franco regime fell in Spain, there was a mass amnesty, and there wasn't even a cleansing of the government.

In both cases there was some vigilante justice delivered in the form of assassinations, in Spain it ended up being some hundreds of people, but it absolutely shrinks in scale when compared to the hundreds of thousands the fascists killed after their civil war victory, and to the sheer size of the decades long regime.

The fall of the Pinochet regime saw neither any significant vigilante action nor even the people in the security apparatus losing their jobs for the most part, at least not in the beginning. There was a significant amount of court cases (hundreds) against this group in the early 2000's after the arrest of Pinochet himself, but this was 20 years after the end of the regime and again small potatoes compared to the actual number of people actively working for the security apparatus, let alone when compared to the number of all regime supporters.

In general, if you're not one of the literally worst people in a fascist regime, the worst you're likely to see is maybe get fired and have trouble working in some fields.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Itse

In general, if you're not one of the literally worst people in a fascist regime, the worst you're likely to see is maybe get fired and have trouble working in some fields.

The worst of it is more likely losing friends and family because you’re an insufferable piece of ####.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

The worst of it is more likely losing friends and family because you’re an insufferable piece of ####.

Majority of these people already have very weak ties to friends & family; thus the pull to online loser communities.

[Bs&Cs]

Originally Posted by Itse

The world generally doesn't, actually.

On the other hand….

When the fascist Ustase regime in Croatia fell following the Axis defeat, the Croat fascists fled Yugoslavia to surrender to the British in Austria. The British sent them back, where they were subjected to death marches and mass executions.

The western allies were much softer on the Nazis than Stalin was. The fascist military and civilian leadership in places like Romania and Hungary, which were not occupied countries but self governing Nazi satellites for most of the war, were not given the slap on the wrist the Germans were under the shared occupied zone. A lot of them, were they allowed to live, spent a decade in the gulag, along with thousands and thousands of Axis POWs on the Soviet side of the line. Stalin reopened Auschwitz for use as POW camp, and it housed prisoners until 1953.

FDR and Churchill were a lot more squeamish on what probably should have been done than Uncle Joe was, and he made good on it in a lot of cases.

Violent purges also followed the ouster of Juan Peron in Argentina to accompany cultural de-Peronification, a campaign that looked a lot like De-Nazification but seemed to have some teeth to it, for a time anyway.

The violent dismantling of the Shah’s regime following the Iranian revolution also didn’t see many people just shuffled off into new lives like you saw with the Nazis. Those not lucky enough to get out were subjected to mass incarceration and execution.

So it’s really more of a mixed bag. All depends on circumstance and the goals of whoever comes next.

[All In Good Time]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

I think the reason the myth of the "paid protester" is so persistent among MAGA types is because they are all so selfish and totally lacking in empathy for other people that they simply can't comprehend why someone would demonstrate for a cause unless there's something in it for them. Like their brains just can't fathom why a US-born straight white man would join an anti-ICE protest since the fascist goon squad isn't coming for him, so clearly the only possible explanation is that someone must be paying him to be there.

Any election lost
Is fixed
Any protest against them
Is paid
Any truth that discredits or reflects badly on them
Is a hoax


Really very childish and low IQ

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Itse

The world generally doesn't, actually.

Yes, they hung some Nazis at Nurenberg, but most were just sent home after they finally accepted their loss in the war.
.

Not remotely true. Read up on your history.

Hundreds of thousands were arrested around the world and tens of thousands were executed. And that is not including extrajudicial activities like in the Netherlands where suspected collaborators were rounded up in wagons and shamed, beat, spit at, had their heads shaved, etc.