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  • Another chapter in “ugh everyone is upset about current thing so I need to show how much smarter I am.”

    Biden providing weapons to Israel is fucking shitty and he has blood on his hands that will never wash off.

    Elon Nazi saluting is also fucking shitty and a sign that there will be more blood that won’t wash off over the next four years.

    So how in the fuck can you understand the seriousness of one and dismiss the other as a “hand gesture”? Fucking pathetic. Like if someone says “I am going to kill all non whites” and you’re all “oh why are you so bothered about sound waves in the air instead of [thing I care more about]?”

    Congratulations, YouTuber. You are indeed the smartest. Well done


  • The author seems to think that if we’re mad about the Nazi salute we aren’t mad about the other stuff. Like does saying “yes it was obviously a Nazi salute you dumb fuck” stop me from standing up for people’s rights or showing courage when it’s needed? Of course not.

    This is what happens to commentators when they have to say something that seems smart but actually have no point to make. The salute is a wake up call for the unengaged and an easy way to see what is really happening. But that doesn’t make for a holier than thou think piece so the author doesn’t give a shit.

    Debating it is pointless though. Just show people the video and if they are still connected to reality at all there is no discussion needed.




  • So a Nazi salute has to be totally historically accurate for you to see it for what it is, but you can “give your heart” to an audience with a hand raised and downturned and you have no issue with that explanation? If you give, your hand is generally upturned. That is the gesture. Golly gosh I wonder why he did it that way instead 🤔🤔🤔 total mystery.



  • Interesting link! Weird takeaway though. For one, it’s 67% consistently voting or not, 2/3 vs 4/5 is a big difference. Second, look at 2020. People who didn’t usually vote were most likely to vote then and they swayed dem. Probably because Trump was bad enough to make them more passionate about voting.

    This shows that about a third of voters are intermittent and therefore available if people get them excited enough. I’m not saying it’s a good thing (it’s not), I’m just saying it’s a thing. Acting like they’re not important is turning your back on the people who could ultimately sway elections.

    And that’s before we think about how many of the consistent non voters are apathetic vs how many just don’t have anyone they feel represents them.





  • Ironically for the old racist man we now have less white Europeans immigrants as before and more from Africa and India regions, at least in the area I live. I love it how it’s backfired on him.

    Yes! I really tried to explain this to people. One guy I saw on the news said he was voting Brexit to “get the Muslims out,” apparently completely unaware of how batshit insane it is to leave the European Union to reduce the number of non European people in Britain.

    My future, my son’s future, all now shaped in a more restrictive way because of people’s views like this.

    Yeah it fucking sucks. I left before the official Brexit date, in a year or two I will hopefully have an EU citizenship again. Most of my friends couldn’t have really done that so easily



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    Putin

    Trump

    Kim Jong Un

    Netanyahu

    All heart attacks, all at the same time. Play like Light except with world leaders. Undoubtedly I’m missing many, but I could add as needed. Minimal text size to leave space.

    No public statements so I’m harder to trace. Then I save the page. If a world leader pulls some horrendous shit, down they go.

    It would be flawed for the same reasons Light is, and it would be biased to my viewpoints, but I don’t care. I cannot imagine the world would be a worse place with those people dead. And eventually people would spot the pattern and then leaders might think twice.

    Although for the planet overall maybe it’d be better to use it for eco-terrorism