What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[The Mighty Mollusk]

 

[Paladin]

Arizona congressman uses Attack on Titan intro to attack Democrats

A video parodying the introduction of Attack on Titan, with photographs of Republicans and Democrats photoshopped onto the military fighters and titans, was shared on Sunday by Rep. Paul Gosar.

www.jpost.com

Miyazaki was right; anime was a mistake.

 

[wonko the sane?]

So... Big Bird is a communist, and he's indoctrinating your children about vaccines...

 

[Rust]

We live in a time line in which the Republicult has attacked the integrity of Mister Rogers.
I cease to be surprised about the vacant, empty claims being made by those who solely exist in this world to seemingly make it worse for the rest of us.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Their whole rallying cry is [entity who said something I disagree with] is a total [communist/socialist/liberal/other word I heard is bad but don't actually know what it means]. Of course a guy whose entire message is about kindness and respect is against their goals.

 

[Rust]

Truly I say unto you, they have received their rewards in full.

 

[Covert Agent Rodimal]

Somehow they got their messages mixed up. They think it's Do Unto Others what you want then loot the bodies

 

[Paladin]

Right-Wing Host Dennis Prager Says Unvaxxed Are ‘Pariahs’ Compared to Gays During the AIDS Crisis (Video)

Obviously these assertions are untrue

www.thewrap.com

“During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, or the vast majority of people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would’ve been inconceivable.”

We don't HAVE to imagine because they ******* WERE pariahs, you disingenuous dipshit.

 

[Ironbite4]

AND HE LEAD THE CHARGE!

 

[Corvus]

“During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, or the vast majority of people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would’ve been inconceivable.”

 

[Covert Agent Rodimal]

I'm really starting to believe they actually do live in a different reality than the rest of us that keeps intruding on ours. They really believe the crap they are spewing.

 

[Anonymous X]

This is obviously Britain rather than the US, but I remember AIDS being used a reason against legalising the age of consent for gay/LGBTQ people – all the way back in space year 2001.

 

[Rust]

They've gaslit themselves into forgetting about their own hate the minute it became politically inconvenient to hold those views.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

For about four minutes until they find something else to hate. Then they totally hated that all along no really we swear.

 

[Paladin]

Virginia school board members call for book-burning amid planned purge of 'sexually explicit' books

In Texas, a state legislator wants to “investigate” hundreds of books in school libraries. In Kansas, a school district is pulling dozens of books off the shelves of libraries and forming a committee to decide “if the books contained on this list meet...

www.dailykos.com

We've reached this stage faster than expected.

 

[Rust]

One guy said burn them in a statement that reads like dramatic hyperbole (source: I also use dramatic hyperbole in conversation to convey emotional strength to statements), and another person responded with "Maybe look at them before we pitch 'em into the fire" in an attempt at de-escalation.

The situation is bad enough with banning of material, there's no need to conjure specters of even worse things out of the statements of two people.

 

[Covert Agent Rodimal]

To quote Doctor Henry Jones Sr.: I think goosestepping morons like you should try reading books instead of burning them.

 

[wonko the sane?]

That would require another generation, and investing the military budget into the education department.

And I question whether that would even be enough...

 

[Cradok]

Second, from a personal standpoint, this is all horrifying, almost literally Nazi stuff. When people talk about how the Nazis burned books, it often gets overlooked that it wasn't just 'burnt all the books', it was specifically targeted books based on racial, ideological and sexual discrimination.

I guess we've moved from 'almost literally' to 'literally'. Yee-haw(!)

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

The 1994 Rwandan genocide does not map directly onto America's current political crisis, but there are elements of it that do.

Prior to the genocide, alternative media had been blatantly spreading racist and genocidal propaganda for months, stirring up Hutus by telling them that Tutsis were vermin and that the Tutsis were going to conquer and enslave them all, so they had to eliminate the Tutsis first. This is obviously similar to the right-wing alternative-facts networks, who have been creatively finding every method under the Sun to argue that liberals and minorities are oppressing white conservatives.

When the Rwandan genocide began, the first victims were not Tutsi villagers: they were moderate politicians: anyone who would attempt to preserve the peace instead of inflaming the war that they wanted to happen. Similarly, the American right's attempt to take over the country was intended to begin by wiping out the moderates, ie- the politicians on Capitol Hill who were really not leftists at all, but who would not join their movement and help them take over. And they have been feverishly talking about and planning a "race war" for decades.

Is America on the verge of a Rwandan-style genocide? Probably not something that extreme. But the country's white-supremacist movement has been doing everything in its power to make it happen, and that should frighten you.