I hate how many people are already starting in with conspiracy theories. She was sex trafficked as a teenager, for fucks sake. Then her whole life was dragged through the mud in public view while she sought justice. Countless people take their own lives every day under far less stressful circumstances.

She didn’t know anything that Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t know, and that bitch is still breathing.

My first thought reading the post was “what the fuck, they call off searches for humans long before 529 days.” Then I read the article, and read a bit about the island. This part stood out to me in an ABC article:

Kangala Wildlife Rescue said Valerie would often drop in to the rescue site, before wandering off for days.

So they knew she was alive, because they had surveillance camera footage of her wandering through the rescue site over and over. It’s not like they had search teams trekking through the wilderness for 529 days straight.

The point isn’t to convert the fascist. It’s to humiliate them

The point isn’t to make them feel humiliation

Make being openly fascist an embarrassing

Do you think about the things you say before you say them?

You can’t humiliate someone who has no shame. And with their firehose of falsehoods, you’ll only expose a small portion of their lies by the time they’ve already moved on. Nothing productive comes from waging a war of words with people who don’t believe in the words that come out of their own mouth.

Pardon incoming. Mark my words.

All otters are assholes regardless of their size. There was a case a couple years ago in Montana of a woman being mauled by river otters. They damn near ripped her face off and tried to drown her. And these weren’t even the roided out Amazonian otters. Just normal river otters.

NSFW on that link. There’s your warning.

Republicans would have to win two thirds of state legislatures with MAGA loyalists to even bring a vote to overturn the 22nd. There is no way that happens legally, and Republicans know it. If they plan on a third Trump term, my bet is they will either be ignoring the 22nd altogether, or enacting emergency powers to suspend the entire Constitution indefinitely.

I’m not trying to be a pessimist, but this is the same kind of logic J6ers used in 2021. They believed that the election was stolen and tried to invade the capitol as a result.

And if they had been right, it would have been justified. The problem is that they had zero evidence of a stolen election. Trump went to court over 60 times to get the election overturned, and never once produced a shred of evidence that the election was stolen from him, even when it was in front of judges he personally appointed. The January 6th rioters were basing their actions on nothing more than right-wing propaganda.

In contrast, Trump is openly signaling that he is going to ignore the Constitution (or unilaterally alter it) and run for a third term. A January 6th style riot would be justified in this case (if all legal routes fail), because if he is allowed to get away with this, what’s stopping him from just handing his fourth presidency to Donald Jr, then Barron, and so on?

Its been so painfully obvious this man’s been Putin’s bitch since 2016

He’s been Russia’s bitch since at least 1987.

This I agree with. However, I disagree with debating fascists. They don’t debate in good faith. Their aim in any debate is to wear you down by spewing more lies than you have the time or energy to debunk.

The amount of younger people that are sucked in hook, line, sinker, rod, boat, trailer and truck is staggering.

That demographic is a whole other problem that requires a whole other solution. Conservatives have spent a decade building the online right-wing pipeline with podcast bro’s and streamers aiming their content at young teenage boys. Now all those kids are of voting age, and a big chunk of them have spent half their lives being raised on manosphere bullshit that taught them that they are owed the world on a silver platter.

I will hand it to conservatives; they are frighteningly good at organizing and staying on message in ways that the Left can only dream of. If we could get half as organized as them, they’d never win another election.

One America News. They used to be a fringe right-wing conspiracy website. Now they have a “news” broadcast on cable TV and a presidential administration that boosts them. It’s basically your drunk Qanon uncle rambling about lizard people, but with professional production.

You should give his Wikipedia page a browse. It’s wild.

I was banned for up voting this image:

He’s the hype man. The Flava Flav of Prosperity Theology.

Let’s be clear: This type of person eats a very specific kind of potato salad that consists only of potatoes, mayo, and the tears of every customer service manager that dares cross her path.

Potato salad is like chili and meatloaf. It’s not a recipe so much as it is a formula with many variables. You can make it boring and bland, or you can make it exciting and delicious. There are no rules except for what’s in the name.

I love potato salad because I make it how I like it, which includes a lot of spices and vegetables and other stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever made it the same way twice.

In this past election, it’s kind of a non-issue. Both parties have always had it in their rules that if the nominee drops out after the primaries, the party can select a new nominee without holding another primary. And to be honest, it’s an understandable rule, at least within the scope of an overall shitty system. People generally aren’t going to show out for primaries, then watch a nominee drop out, then show out for yet another round of primaries, and then show out for a general election. It’s hard enough just to get people to vote once.

Prior to 2024 though, the DNC and DCCC putting their fingers on the scale to fuck Sanders and elevate Clinton is unforgivable.

Before I was banned, my highest up-voted post on Reddit was a clip of this woman babbling in tongues for God to intervene in the 2020 election.

HAHA fucking found it! I challenge you to watch it and not laugh.

I don’t doubt it. My comment was more aimed at the general idea that religious people shouldn’t be lumped together, more than at you specifically. Interestingly, as I scrolled past this post, I came upon this one. Here’s the linked article.

‘God has an order’: Head of Trump’s faith office says women must ‘submit’ to men

Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must “submit” to men.
During a Wednesday interview on Real America’s Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.
“God is moving mightily, and what’s so exciting to me?” White explained. “It’s especially among young people and men. Men are the fastest returning to church.”
Gruber agreed that “real men” were needed to take leadership roles.
“Absolutely,” White continued. “They are becoming the bedrock, which is how God designed… Because God has an order.”

It’s really difficult not to lump all Christians together when someone like Paula White has so much influence on one of the most powerful governments on earth, and there is no push-back from the Christian community as a whole. She preaches blatant bigotry from the seat of government, and Christian leaders and congregations are silent. It’s hard to disentangle the good from the bad when everyone is quiet.

Every movement against hate has relied upon allies. Women’s suffrage needed men, Civil Rights needed white folks, LGBTQ+ rights needs straight folks, and so on. We need Christians like yourself to be loud as fuck about this. I don’t want to lump you in with them. I want you to be the standard by which they are judged, not the other way around.