Hussein. πͺ
They just love saying Obama's middle name like it's some kind of gotcha. What they don't seem to get is it doesn't mean anything unless you're a racist piece of shit.
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Hussein. πͺ
They just love saying Obama's middle name like it's some kind of gotcha. What they don't seem to get is it doesn't mean anything unless you're a racist piece of shit.
Barack Obama is clearly the cousin of Saddam Hussein, the 20th hijacker on 9/11.
"Hitler was a socialist! It was in the name!" "China is communist! It's in the name!" "North korea is communist! It's in the name!"
"Kamala harris is a communist! She is with the democratic party, but that does not mean she is one. π€‘" "Trumps wouldbe-assassin was not a republican. He might be registered as such, but that does not suit my agenda π€‘." "Everything i read or hear, i see as fact or not based on what helps me most π€‘"
These people are absolute fucking clowns and it's impossible to talk or argue with them because they are not grounded in reality. It is exhausting.
"Cheesecake is cake! It's in the name!"
Cheesecake is not cake? Have i been living in a lie my entire life?
It's a pie and/or tart. I'm sorry to have to tell you this and strip more of your innocence away.
When my family puts candles on one, sings "Happy Birthday" to me, and slices it up for everyone, then it's a cake.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.
I can't imagine being a voting-age adult and not immediately understanding that these people are full of shit? You don't even need to know what specific words mean to see what they're doing. It's so fucking dumb and childish.
I canβt imagine being a voting-age adult and not immediately understanding that these people are full of shit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Try huffing leaded car fumes for 20 years first. Then immerse yourself in Reagan-Era propaganda for the next 20. Finally, miss out on the biggest bull market in history because you put all your retirement savings in canned tuna and collectible gold coins like all your very wealthy online friends told you to.
Now you're in your late 60s, your kids and grandkids never talk to you, you're scrapping by on Social Security after five years of killer inflation, and all you can do every day is sit in a dingy suburban ranch house watching "Mexican Muslims Have Caravaned The Border And Stolen Our Jobs" every waking hour.
There's a Trump rally in town. All your friends are going. And the booze is free. Who are you voting for in November?
Could you imagine of Adolf Hitler named and said thjngs that were lies with the purpose of manipulating people and getting in power? Thankfully, we live in a timeline where he cant lie
Conservapedia, like the incel wiki, are windows into parallel universes and both are proof, that ours isnβt the worst timeline after all.
It almost looks like incredibly well done satire
Poe's law.
Hitler was just really passionate about giving free healthcare to Jews, LGBT, intellectuals, Romani, slightly swarthy people, etc etc.
Infamous liberal
Adolf Hitler
So...half the conservative base agrees with a librul?
Their opinions on reality are not consistent. They will warp their minds into whatever twisted shape is required if they get to hurt the "other" (whoever that happens to be this cycle)
When it comes to their opinion of Hitler, their mind is shaped like an unbalanced dumbbell. He's a hero and a villain at the same time, but he's really only going to stay a villain to them for as long as it is necessary.
Their opinions on reality are not consistent.
I'm constantly reminded of that 90s (I think) country song. "You've Got to Stand for Something or You'll Fall for Anything."
Many of them just keep falling for the next lie, even while the previous lies are being corrected. They never stop for a minute and think the place they are getting their info from is bad.
Have they listened to Bill Maher lately? I don't think he's liberal anymore.
How is this list organized? It seems like they randomly wrote names down as it came to them.
It's a Wiki, so you can just pop in and add a bullet point however you like, assuming you have an account.
This probably was crafted by a small pool of die-hards who dropped a name on the list any time they found out someone existed who made them mad.
It's specifically Conservapedia. They once tried to make their own translation of the Bible because they thought existing ones were too liberal.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:The_Conservative_Bible_Project
Edit: almost forgot. The guy who runs it is the son of anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly.
Was not expecting the abrupt pivot into barely relevant bible study.
It's an internet encyclopedia built for and by conservatives. Literally everything on there abruptly pivots to barely relevant Bible study.
In order to understand it you have to understand its creator: Andrew Schlafly: heβs an electrical engineer and lawyer and his mother is Phyllis Schlafly, a lawyer famous for her militant opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the constitution that reads:
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Phyllis wasnβt just some opponent of that amendment, no she was probably the primary reason it failed.
In short: thereβs no reason why that website should be in any way sane just as thereβs no reason its founder should be in any way sane. He really likes to critique physics theories that he doesnβt understand by citing philosophy and theology.
You just gotta love how Richard Dawkins comes before Hitler, Stalin, and Mao...
"Yeah the guy brings facts to the table, can't have that, that's the worst, that's like worse than Hitler, man!"
Every single republican is also a liberal. It's the dominant ideology of capitalism and its state.
The difference is that the liberalism of republicans is more "classic" in that it's heavily mixed with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, etc.
even they should know the difference between librul and commie, right?
No, liberal, commie, fascist, are all just interchangeable terms for "people I don't like"
They literally don't
The people who curate the site? Absolutely. The people who frequent the site...? ehhhh
Richard Dawkins... Ahahahaha! Dude is BFF of conservative right winger Ayaan Hirsi Ali!
Hahah - I thought this was a joke, I canβt believe itβs a real thing. It reads like an angry fundie 14yo wrote it.
Don't forget: Satan is a Leftist