He’s already there dipshit. Look around you
Best reply.
I feel like the US is more like a Second World country. By “Second World”, I mean the countries that are more aligned to Russia than to NATO. That description now fits the US, unfortunately.
Happy cake day fellow
ex-RedditorlemmingAnd a happy cake day to you!
A country that has no national healthcare, a life-style of economic struggle and a dictator for a leader? Hmmmm.
Remember the days when an openly racist comment like this would mean the end of your political career?
For Republicans it actually boosts their poll numbers.
People want to be openly racist again. That’s what MAGA really means.
Magazis.
People want to be openly racist again. That’s what MAGA really means.
And on this one should think a bit further and realize that any action causes a reaction.
Maybe outright socially punishing racism shouldn’t have been the focus, and instead more effort should have been spent making sure more people know how, well, genetics work and also dream of stuff not involving racial difference, like future space travel or peaceful united humanity, that kind of thing. So that they’d make their own conclusions and have their own wishes.
So - they are tired of “the establishment” not making anything better, and that means they are also tired of some rules of public decency associated with that establishment. One of the reasons MAGA activism looks so gross - they want it to look gross. Because “gross” is not like that picture of “respectable politics”, so already better.
In general studying psychology of people who are your opponents is beneficial. And especially hard when you can’t make yourself respect them.
You lost me at “not socially punishing racism”.
Sorry but GTFOH with your racism apologism.
Republicans are also cutting education so fat chance getting these people educated also.
And that’s why you deserve whatever you get, because you are not even capable of properly reading a thought wiser than your whole fucking life, without even any pressure being put on you.
I said that if you punish people, they don’t go all “sorry uncle, I won’t do that again”, they go all “fuck you motherfucker, I’m getting a gun”. Is that clear?
So punishing anyone anywhere is a bad idea by default, there are very specific cases when there’s no better solution. Mostly when the other side can only be stopped by force.
Or a punch in the face?
or a shot to the head?
punch to the side of the head, I mean, obviously
Happy cake day.
Fingers crossed it’s extinction burst behavior.
Republican Representative Brandon Gill has told New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to “go back to the Third World” in response to a video of him eating with his hands.
I guess this asshole has never eaten a burger, chicken, hot dog etc. Fucking racist piece of shit.
He eats pizza with a knife and fork… allegedly
Shovels beer nuts in his mouth like some kind of grotesque beast
And it wasn’t intended to be eaten with them from the beginning. The dry fat rim is for holding it.
Straight from central casting, judging by his photo.
He’s Dinesh D’Souza’s son in law
Hell, I’ll eat anything with my hands if it means Americans can have universal healthcare.
Brandon Gill does, in fact, look like the kind of person who would eat a burger with a knife and fork.
In Russia it was impolite, actually, to eat chicken not with your hands. Can’t say why, maybe it’s the possibility of bones splitting and flying away, and maybe it’s that some of the meat remains on the bones, so some visible food gets thrown out. As a kid I would sometimes get looks (making my hands oiled and dirty I don’t like, being autistic and just because it’s inconvenient).
In any case I’m not sure someone’s eating habits affect their politics, unless demonstrating lack of basic hygiene or involving cannibalism.
I might start eating Doritos with a fork and knife just to be extra “civilized”.
NGL, I eat chips with chopsticks a lot. Prevents crumbs from getting all over the place.
remember, the super rich are the enemy of the people, not your fellow citizens from different backgrounds
The owning class is the only minority group that does you any harm.
It feels like this slogan is only repeated in left spaces, which then feels like a leftist version of centrists throwing trans people under the bus to chase conservatives. The people who are the primary purveyors of petty hate need to be the priority for the message before anyone on the left is going to feel like preaching tolerance for intolerance is anything but a way to smuggle bigotry into left political spaces.
Isn’t he in the US right now?
I chortled
What a racist piece of shit.
Go back to your redneck farm you fucking hick.
This guy’s wife had to declare that she doesn’t eat with her hands because her husband is so racist.
what a vile excuse of a human being. I hope she is devorcing this racist cunt
She’s probably a racist piece of shit as well. Like her father is Dinesh D’Souza. She was raised by racist piece of shit. She still married to a racist after experiencing what a racist man looks like for her whole life. She probably thinks the racism and bigotry are good character qualities.
There is nothing wrong with living in a rural area or being a blue collar worker. The last sentence there is unnecessary.
As someone who has been in both those demographics, this guy doesn’t represent me or the hardworking albeit sometimes simple people I grew up around.
Please don’t use those words as a cudgel. It drives those undereducated and uninvolved people to identify more with this asshole than the progressives that have more in common with them beneath the surface.
So you’re not even acknowledging the full fledged racism that is the topic in this little whataboutism speech you put together there?
Nothing about the racism. Not one word to nod to the overarching story here.
So which part of you missed that? The rural part?
US is currently burning wheat farms cuz the world has shifted off of cheap wheat for something more stable.
And the world knows which ones are the red states and are boycotting.
So You have two choices: take it personally or acknowledge a consequence of ignoring racism and self interest replacing it with apathy and revenge. Just know this: Neither will make a difference in the long run. You’re still headed to the same destination. So even now with at this point you’re begging to ignore it. Noted.
You’re just echoing the overall problem here by not even acknowledging the topic.
It drives those undereducated and uninvolved people to identify more with this asshole
Don’t even pretend you were ever an ally.
When Trump fucks up do you call him a fatty?
When a black judge says women belong in the kitchen do you say “go back to the plantation!”
A woman supports Trump. “Shut up cumdumpster, go make me sandwich if you want to be trad”
That guy brought up something said HERE ON THIS WEBSITE. Someone HERE threw out redneck for living in the sticks. You’re fucking dumb if you think people need to write an essay on what they think of a topic before they can point out issues in discourse.
See that? I don’t need to prove anything to call you out. I don’t need to call out racism to call out dumb posts.
Before you reply, make sure to write an essay about why it’s ok to insult unrelated groups of people in order to hurt an individual. At least follow your own weird rules.
It’s clear this guy is an asshole. You are frothing trying to make an enemy of me but read with a little more care. I was always an ally and you are here trying to divide us. I feel like you didnt understand my comment so I’ll repeat with emphasis.
It(Your use of redneck and hick as a pejorative.) drives those undereducated and uninvolved people(Single issue/peer sensative voters) to identify more with this asshole( The racist asshole that you somehow need me to clearly point out is both racist and an asshole.)
Read carefully.
So your plan to have him removed from power is what?
Genuine question since you don’t seem to want to win elections.
Obviously he’s a cunt, so winning against him should be a cakewalk then.
“Go back to the third world”
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“Go back to your recheck farm”
so only then it got offensive for you.
Only one of those things was said here on this site, in this thread, by a lemming that we can directly criticize.
Shouldn’t the space we occupy and the people we are immediately surrounded with be put above performative anger at external topics?
The politician said terrible things. Posting about it only goes so far.
A lemming said bad things. We can affect that.
It’s clear I thought the first was offensive as well. Lemmy is all righteous anger and no purpose these days.
so they raised a hog on a cattle ranch
What is this high school?
American government sounds more and more like the varsity sports team of America High
Pretty much.
Look up Jim Jorden on you tube to really see high school nonsense. He’s been at it for a decade.You mean Gym Jordan, who didn’t report on the sexual assault of teenagers under his care? That Gym Jordan?
It’s not even entertaining anymore. It’s pure cringe.
Think the overt racism is bad now; it’s only going to get progressively worse.
It’s the only way the right is progressive.
Words cannot describe the hate I have for the entire American establishment with the exception of Bernie, Zohran, and AOC.
Al Green and Katie Porter are another two that seem alright
That’s also true. I was just naming the first three that came to my head in the moment lol
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Show Kat Abughazeleh some love.
Ive heard of her. She’s running in my homestate so I will vote for her.
I like her. If I was American and lived in your area I would vote for her
Oh, I’m sorry. Which country is it again that can’t do UHC but can spend billions on blowing up rockets while people starve and or can’t find homes/shelter in this same “first world country”?
Is it India? Because that’s where Gill’s father in law, political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza is from. Maybe the D’Souzas can leave and take Gill with them.
Blatant racism aside, look around at the devastation wrought by repugnantcon policies buddy. Zohran is already in a 3rd world shithole, and he has the audacity to try to make it somewhat more tolerable for those in his city.
The term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that.
The majority of those countries were robbed by first world countries for centuries so anyone using the phrase without any moral reflection is intentionally not looking at the whole picture.
Gill married Danielle D’Souza, the daughter of conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, in 2017. They have two children and live in Flower Mound, Texas.
So Gill’s father and wife are okay but a foreigner with differing political opinions is crossing the line?
With the whole Glastonbury kerfuffle I’ve come to know more about this band called Bob Vylan. They have this lovely song, and it goes ike this:
I heard you want your country back Shut the fuck up I heard you want your country back Uh-uh, you can't have that The only place I know Stolen right under my nose By ignorant scum Tryna lay claim to a land that ain't theirs anyway Wait - what did you say? I heard you want your country back Ha! Shut the fuck up I heard you want your country back Uh-uh, you can't have that I heard you want your country back Ha! Shut the fuck up I heard you want your country back Well shit, me tooSmells like fear
His father in law is Dinesh D’Souza, the conspiracy theories guy. And like so many other hypocritical Republicans, is an immigrant who became a citizen in '91 after coming here with his parents and attending school here.
