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Someone keeps telling me that Eric Schmidt is how all Republicans feel. Namely, wanting to put all the gays into concentration camps.
 
Why are people so intent on giving the other party a bad name?
Amagan

@Zaknel  
Because stoking anger against an opponent makes it easier to promote yourself with only minimal effort.
 
Plans for infrastructure? Mounting national debt? Crippling inflation? Nah, just tell your voting constituents that at least you’re not the other guy and they won’t give a damn what your policies might be.
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@Zaknel  
Because the parties exist only to keep people fighting amongst themselves instead of causing trouble for the ones in positions of power. It doesn’t matter whether your candidate is a Democrat or a Republican. They don’t represent your interests. Once they get elected their only goal is to shift laws around just enough to keep both sides simultaneously unhappy and hopeful.
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Prager University, which is a youtube channel, not a school or even a physical place, for some reason needed to take a $700,000 loan from the government, got it forgiven, and is now preaching that poor people shouldn’t have their debt erased too.
 
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I didn’t know who that is a couple days ago… spoiler: big piece of shit. I don’t even know how i came to that topic anymore, but got aware of KiwiFarms thanks to that.
 
I hope he gets put in jail for a long time which shouldn’t be hard on the charges of peddling drugs to children alone.
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Laughed actually out loud at ‘Rest in Power’, even if you mean in a post ironic rebellion against our current political order.
 
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@Seiken  
Only been to Kiwi Farms a few times. It just feels like to me a bunch of toxic and abusive relationships all around, from the lolcows themselves to the posters there; then again, have a bit of distrust/misgivings with Josh due to his previous failed chan exploits and mishandling of it. Nonetheless, even if I am not the most found of Kiwifarms, their enemies I cannot support and often are morally repugnant and I don’t think Keffals is likely to be a exception from what I have seen thus far.
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Are there terrible people on KiwiFarms? Absolutely, but i see them everywhere, on reddit, on twitter, here, on derpibooru. But overall i can sense freedom and camaraderie among them, its a place where people throw shit at everyone… including each other and their day moves on. They also directly and blatantly attack each other’s opinions without batting an eye and their day moves on.
 
And Keffals is just a piece of shit grifter that hates that someone documents his terrible tweets, morally bankrupt, legally there could have been multiple cases against him, a crybaby who will lie and twist words to further his agenda and an absolute hypocrite. In a just world he would rot in prison forever as to not harm more people.
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Yeah, I have no interest in mentally exhausting myself with direct & constant hostility for its own sake so I’ve never interacted with the site. More power to them if that’s what they enjoy, though. Regardless, the threads make for very… “interesting” reading. Like studying some historical atrocity that continuously turns your stomach, yet you can’t stop reading. The place definitely serves a purpose, and sometimes even a good one.
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“Dark Brandon” (which is what his supporters are unironically calling him now) made a speech for 20 minutes talking about how half the country is literally hitler, and then said he’s here to unite us not divide us.
 
He also did it with monochrome red lighting looking like Satan.
 
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His wife also escorted him to the podium, they kissed, and then immediately afterward he adjusted something in his mouth with his tongue. Did she transfer something from her mouth to his?
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Isn’t Dark Brandon originally a CCP propaganda poster series trying to paint America has the great Satan of global geopolitics?
 
And the left actually ran with this to promote their guy?
 
Are we sure these people aren’t secretly fucking based and doing this for sabotage purposes?
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I heard it was right leaning mockery at first. If it originated from there that would be hilarious.
 
@Mitchy  
I wouldn’t call it framing, so much as pivoting, Biden tried to pull a basket of deplorables last night, like Hilary Clinton. Though more vague than her guesstimate 50% of Trump supporters being deploreables, he was trying to define a significant sum of them as bad/dangerous and probably got cold feet considering he did so from a way more prominent stage than Hilary making a off handed comment at a rally. If I were him, I would have not done that speech till after the mid terms and waited to see how the investigation against Trump turned out. Specifically it would be a smart move to focus on one thing and emphasize it over and over again so the headline is not “Biden, in a prime time address, said Republicans are bad” but something more along the lines of “Biden, in a prime time address, warns nation Trump over threats to turn over 2020 election: ‘Gross corruption and misconduct.”. Still, that would arguably be a unprecedented and politicized move but considering some of the things Trump is rambling on at truth social lately he might have greater moral authority than whatever this was.
 
As for unity. Biden was trying to pull together the moral consensus that is trying to be everything but Trumpism. That moral consensus I don’t think he can fully pull off in a good/healthy way for the country. Fundamentally, most of Trump’s most hard core support basis is from places that have issues that Biden/mainstream/Democrats/whatever else can barely bring themselves to acknowledge as a problem, let alone fix it. Too be fair, the Republicans I don’t think at this moment would have much better luck considering how much of their (our, I guess since I am technically one) politics is based on harnessing contempt for that establishment and everything remotely connected with it.
 
As for Civil War 2, possible, though plenty of other things could happen and though fearful, I am not a full on pessimist for the future. I think a Irish Troubles or Italy in the 1970s style conflict is more likely if violence occurs. Most men of fighting age are at least a little broken and a lot of apparatuses on the right and left are dysfunctional and prone to fighting each other at a moments notice over over being even basically competent. Frankly I am more worried over the creeping authoritarianism from our globalized and connected world than a civil war.
 
@Seiken  
I guess I can see a certain appeal to the chaos, mean spirited fighting and gossip. Especially in a time of increasing restriction. I think the tighter things keep getting the more conors of the internet like this act as a pressure valve for better or worse.
 
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>and sometimes even a good one.  
We live in a world where everybody worships some influencer now and various groups can’t be criticized at all other than being accused of impurity to the cause. Lots of communities are completely incapable of handling abusers and otherwise problematic if not outright bad people (at least in a healthy way). Perhaps it may serve a noble purpose depending on where things go in this world of tightening restrictions. Still, I can’t shake the dark vibes I feel coming off the site itself even if I am not in team deplatformKiwi or whatever they call themselves.
 
@IvanSatoru  
On the contrary, Dark Brandon is one of the first times I would say the left is memeing successfully. Nearly always when the right has a meme the left would not meme back but try to set the boundary of acceptable debate past that meme. It worked some because of the amount of control and influence they have and the right became too obsessed with owning libs. It also though expressed a weakness as hiding from mockery is one of the lowest moves you can do when your a massive public figure, government or organization. It comes off especially stupid when it is something they couldn’t easily cast as villainous Dark Brandon as a meme works by appropriating something from the right and turning into a good thing for their guy. What is one to do when is out to trigger the libs and they actually enjoy it? I think, at least at the moment, it is a win for them.
 
It is interesting seeing some of the reactions from there own boundary police as there is little hints of confusion and uncertainty amidst the amusement. Like this  
Who gets to decide what a meme means? Can a meme born in darkness — say, for instance, the racist corners of 4chan — ever come to have lighter meanings? Do we have a responsibility to purge our cultural vocabulary of memes with spurious origins, or does that just lead to the elimination of, well, all internet culture?
These are just a few of the complicated questions the rise of the “Dark Brandon” meme leads us to. In recent weeks, Democrats — including numerous politicians and White House staff members — have been using the meme, which began as an ironic take on the already-ironic “Let’s Go Brandon” meme from the right (in short, it’s code for “Fuck Joe Biden”). Attempts to reclaim “Let’s Go Brandon” for the left failed badly, but recently the “Dark Brandon” variant took off.
 
“Who gets to decide? complicated questions?” Oh please! It is just a meme.
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I heard it was right leaning mockery at first.
 
No, the right wing part comes from the “Dark MAGA” meme, which is the idea that when either Trump or the next America First candidate comes in, they need to hammer the establishment hard: disband the CIA and the FBI, disbar every activist judge, gut congress and the senate of all the corrupt officials etc.  
“Trump’s Revenge” basically.
 
The “Dark Brandon” thing came from a CCP appropriation of that term and used as anti-Biden propaganda, with a series of artistic depictions of him as demonic:
 
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So if you’re wondering who made these pictures and originally coined the phrase, it’s the CCP.
 
 
Then (because the left cannot fucking meme to save their own lives), they took it and ran with it, going so far as to steal a “punished Trump” meme from 4chan and photoshop Biden over it instead.
 
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And you’d think that they would have been more cautious from stealing something from that website but they where so fucking clueless they didn’t notice the Imperial Eagle silhouette dominating the background. You know, the Nazi symbol?
 
Congrats DNC, you played yourselves. You just can’t stop fucking up can you?
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It’s stuff like this that really make me wonder if there’s any reason to keep going on. Anything to look forward to. There’s barely even any way to escape all the bullshit nowadays. Horse has been over for almost 3 years. The communities worth a damn are dead, dying, or becoming not worth a damn. Vidya sucks. Most other media sucks. All I see is political instability, corruption, and disguising loss of liberty behind the excuse of “well it’s not the government, private companies can do what they want” as though we’re going through the setup for some bad cyberpunk themed fanfic, and I’ve long since tired of getting angry about it.
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