This catches people off guard, but it's an old story in right wing. Pat Buchanan, William Safire, Ben Stein, and Diane Sawyer were all unrepentant refugees of the Nixon White House. The story of the American right has been a 51-year campaign of revenge for the Passion of Richard Nixon.

its an open secret that conservatives believe in 'corrective' rape to discipline independent women and 'redemptive' rape as proof of manhood its the logic underlying the common frattboi rape joke/threat "shes only a lesbian because she hasnt had sex with a real man (like me)"

There seems to be confusion about what I'm saying here, so I'll be even blunter: Charlie Kirk's main argument, which he built his empire on, is that young women should be punished for feminist wrongthink with public, sexualized humiliation. To honor him is to endorse sexualized abuse of girls.

Nick Fuentes slams the organizers of Charlie Kirk’s memorial.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Prior to his communist witch hunt, he slandered American interrogators and defended the Nazis who killed unarmed American troops at Malmedy.

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

The visceral horror of seeing merchandise for a concentration camp at the same stand as shirts that say freedom is just so gut-wrenching Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn’t believe in germ theory and drove his wife to suicide

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

one of the reasons they are invulnerable to criticism is that an entirely neutral description of their personal conduct, and their conduct in office, sounds like deranged slander.

Explaining basic facts about the awfulness of Donald Trump and his associates makes you sound like an insane person with an axe to grind.

Thing about the transnational ultra-right-wing — Trump as much as these guys — is that they endlessly bang on about protecting Western civilization and then immediately turn around and say that their ideal sociopolitical system is based on a literal theocratic absolute-monarchical slave state.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

in hindsight it was perfectly predictable theyd turn it into just another trump rally: nuremburg meets wrestlemania

charlie kirk was a toe-headed, mouth-breathing r*t*rd who failed to get into west point and convinced himself a black lady stole his spot bc hes a special whittle white boy whos entitled to rule and get treats and made vindictive ressentiment his whole personality and life mission until he got got

A big reason why we're in the mess we're in is bc for years we have been told that we need to treat Trump voters like innocent little children who dont mean it instead of adults who made an active choice w their vote to be shitty while telling themselves theyd never face any consequences from that

Military history has been a series of "The army with superior logistics needs to be lucky once; the enemy without must be lucky every time" moments that nobody wants to learn from because logistics is an email job.

The man is a disciple of Khorne, no matter what he says he is.

a lot of what's going on is that Pete Hegseth is a monster who can only get an erection when thinking about rape or murdering civilians.

Charlie's legacy is repression, and perhaps, now that his loudest acolytes are screaming it on live TV, some of the abject fools who posted so much nauseating fanfic last week might rethink their role in abetting it

He's younger than them. He's their imaginary son, not their imaginary dad.

i think its safe to say that american conservative evangelicalism is a heretical, quasi-profane offshoot from proper christianity

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

In an alternate universe the new atheists would have spent their time fighting against this ridiculousness instead of demonizing immigrants, trans people, Muslims, feminists & the left. Instead they joined hands with this manufactured victimhood stuff.

The success of multi-ethnic liberal cities violates the belief that racially homogenous, conservative places with white people (however they choose to define that) at the top are the best. That's why they're trying to destroy those places.

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

These are the MAGA equivalent of ISIS execution videos

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

This is worth a listen. I’ve never before grokked that conservatism is a disposition (not an ideology), that a lot more people are conservative than will own it, and that “centrism” is not an ideology or coherent belief at all. Centrists are conservatives posturing as “the adult in the room.”

My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

We're +570%.

"come here kids i'll tell you the secrets THEY won't let you talk about. get ready for [the most boring ass boomer racism and sexism you've ever encountered]"

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

“Jimmy Wales rebuilt the library of Alexandria using nothing more than nerds’ need to correct one another”

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

"those who worship strength and control are enemies of freedom and empathy"--charlie kirk

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Yes, heaven forbid politics ever be disturbing or confusing. The world is famously always comfortable and comprehensible and unchanging. This says a lot about the Conservative mindset.

im tired of pretending these people are my equals, we tried letting them live their gross, inbred little lives in peace and they keep tryinf to kill us anyway oppress the yokels tbh

He spent over a decade on camera, there’s over a decade of publicly available material he made himself but no usable quotes! I noticed it when random people were making memorial posts on instagram but for a professional media team to also come up empty handed!?

when they used to say "twitter isn't real life," what they meant was they thought progressive viewpoints were overrepresented there.

i don't think there's anything more to this than an ignorant and adolescent need to destroy but to the extent that there is, it's that a closed-off country of poor, low-wage workers is easier to control with imposed hierarchies (see: the american south, 1890 to 1965)

Every day is like a cross between “Who Goes Nazi?” and “…the Aristocrats!”

Free speech is genuinely precious, the “free speech” debate (“it should be illegal for libs to be mean to me”) was just about destigmatizing bigotry and confusing the issue so as to provide a pretext for actual state censorship