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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • The problem with this garbage type of reporting is that you can create any narrative you want. Social media is so big that it’s not hard to find a handful of posts, like what is being posted in their story, saying almost anything you need them to. Always going to be some insane person in some corner of the internet saying something completely batshit.

    The article is really “we found some people on social media saying these things” and it’s being framed as “maga meltdown.” It’s fucking garbage.

    I agree that social media has a large influence, but how does garbage journalism like this do anything other than add more fuel to the fire of “traditional media is now trash”?







  • On Friday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to request that the ethics panel does not release its report, saying that because Gaetz is no longer in Congress doing so would be a “terrible breach of protocol.”

    This is the best part of the article, where Mike Johnson, a big supporter of the man who is all about breaking norms, all of a sudden cares about “breaches of protocol,” especially in a case where the guy obvious left congress to hide it, likely because he knew he was going to be tapped for this position.


  • This is the beauty of being a conspiracy theorist, it gives you free reign to believe anything you want.

    Evidence comes out that someone you support has done something bad? “It’s a set up and/or manufactured! Where’s the proof!?” Same evidence comes out that someone you oppose has done something bad? “See! I told you so. When will people start listening to me!?! Of course it’s real because I think they are running defense for this person.” No evidence evidence exists for your theory? “((They)) are very good at hiding it!” Evidence that kind-of-sort-of-almost-supports-your-claim-if-you-look-at-it-at-just-the-right-angle-in-just-the-right-light (but not really, it just is vaguely similar) supports something you said earlier. “HA! i told you.”

    You can always view/ignore the facts in such a way to confirm your position, if the facts are secondary to the narrative.






  • Considering plenty of women voted for trump, and this protest is only directed at men, it seems there is a very large exception being made there.

    If they said “none of the 4bs with any trump supporter regardless of sex,” that would be done without exception. But that’s not what is happening. It’s all men, regardless of their support for Trump. They are excepting guilty people, while including innocent people.

    And, sure, if I supported their misandric protest, I should be expected to have a reciprocal sacrifice. However, considering their protest is irrationally targeting me because of my sex, I’m not really hot on “doing my part” for something I vehemently disagree with.







  • If you are so intent upon discussion of this matter as being an issue of misandry, I certainly hope that you are as staunchly against misogyny and intend to do far more than just voting for Kamala to protect women in this country.

    Tu quoque fallacy.

    I will assume that you will consider this to be misandrist as well

    Well, you’d be wrong because I wholeheartedly agree.

    Trying to harp on the “misandry” part of this is not productive towards the goal of the protest which is the protection of women’s rights and lives against the coming onslaught.

    I’m not trying to harp on anything. I called out some misandry, and then a bunch of people have jumped in to defend that prejudice. All I’ve done is defend my position. You act like I’m following 4B people around making sure to shout misandry any chance I get.