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  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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    Sounds like my dad after he makes some horrible fascist comment about immigrants being scared or how he thinks black women are ugly or gay people are confused or something equally horrific and I open up about how shit really is bad for people that I know personally and his granddaughters are terrified.

    “Can’t we just talk about the good stuff?”

    Fuck fascists

    Arm yourselves they want you dead.

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      “I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”

      My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or have an air of pseudo-intellectualism when they say it. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say.

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    The fuck? The politicians I support most are Warren and Ocasio-Cortez but I would never describe my relationship with them as “I am in love with them” and I hope to god that they would never describe their relationship to me that way either. Why would he ever describe politician-supporter relationships as “in love”???

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Literally every President at every Press Conference ever.

    That said, didn’t Trump already purge the press pool and install exclusively loyalist journalists? It’s funny to see that he’s still complaining. Almost as though he’s forgotten the reason why the press pool exists. They’re not there to be your friend, they’re there to get the Hot Goss and churn the news cycle.

    You will never get a gaggle of reporters - of any ideological tenor - that won’t needle you and raise difficult questions. The only thing you get to choose is whether you badger you for being too Fash or too Soy.

    Treene pressed: “So some of your supporters are wary of the U.S. getting involved in another foreign war, and some believe that we should support it.”

    The split is happening inside his own party! You’ve got Tucker Carlson style fascists whining that US deployment to Iran means taking troops out of LA and off the US/Mexico border. They want their home grown campaign of civil oppression, not some <insert derogatory Jewish slur here> War on the other side of the planet.

    Of course his loyalist flaks are going to want to know what side he’s on.