Archon8
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I cannot post links without my post being hung up for moderator approval, so here's a screenshot.
MAGA How Many?
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Kilroy Was Here
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Link the article anyway? Do you have a source that actually reflects the words you said? Because the teeny screenshot you posted does not have enough context, information, or actually say the words you said.
Akka
Moody old mage.
I can only lament the lack of perspective that can lead to such grotesque equivalence.
Okay, that one was hilariousKrav MAGA
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Kilroy Was Here
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Okay, so this one singular person was punished accordingly.
And?
And?
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And where was Biden condemning this evil act? Where was Kamala? My point was to say that there are reasons people support Trump that has nothing to do with him being a "cult leader." By all means, oppose his policies, oppose them all if you want. But the condescending attitude that his supporters must be racist or willfully ignorant is just... the reason why Democrats lost.
At the inauguration, Barron made a point of going over to Obama and shaking his hand. trump did not. Barron was raised by his mother, not trump's father. don't count on him being another Donald.
nvm
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
you wrote the following
the invoked premises of some wild takes is you as a trusted point of judgment; it is then fair to ask about educational credentials,
or, well,
whats your degree
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I have a master's in history but I was not a classicist, my focus was early modern Europe, particularly education theory. I can confidently say though that some of the dumbest people I have ever known in my life were in college, so I don't consider a degree to be an indication of anything other than someone having gone through the steps to get a degree.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
alright, so, going by that, how does-
... sure, then. most of your posts here are really strange, which is why i'm personally trying to figure you out. not as in strange opinions (i mean, they are), but as in you seem to write really concisely and clearly as to phrasing, but like, going one layer in, content is just weird & wild. a lot of it is rhetorical maneuvering (vaccine thread for one). reads like high media training and specifically established nomenclature and invoked rhetoric that's *insanely* anti-intellectual and would not have been picked up in any university i know, without it being paired with a lot of reflection as to what any of such usage would imply. but maybe i'm just a dirty european.
eg it is insane to me that anyone that would gleefully appeal to libertarianism, as in the actual tenets and not the strange expression it has been given in the states, and at the same time gleefully appeal to julius f* caesar - both with the assumption that such a position would in any way be framed as a good thing for an observer with even superficial knowledge of even, like... rome.
basically, i will trust your claims of credentials. that you compare trump to caesar and think this is good is buck wild. i know i can be hard to read - english is not my first language - but you may understand some trace as to why i think your position is confusing.
so regardless of how stupid academia is to you, i'll believe in your credentials. my second question would be for you to outline your positive relation with the comparison, and why we'd like it beyond culturally recognizing that julius caesar was indeed an important great mr. history man.
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It's really not that deep. One of my favorite shows was HBO's Rome, and I enjoyed the depiction of Julius Caesar as a populist leader. Following his great success as a leader, "Roman Deep State" tried to discredit him and drag him to trial on false charges, Caesar remained defiant and with his supporters effectively took control of the state. In doing this, he returned leadership to the people, as he cared for more about the common Roman than any of the wealthy elite Senatorial class, and enjoyed the overwhelming support of the military. The parallels are evident to me, but if you disagree or find the comparison distasteful then you are welcome to ignore it.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
you understand that this is wild coming from someone with a masters in history right
Lexicus
Deity
This at least is correct...
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Based on what I've seen, and this is all anecdotal, there are about 12 Americans in existence who actually want to make America great.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
I would echo @Klaus Hergersheimer here and say probably 10-15%.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
I gotta say, trying to characterize right wing sentiment as a personality disorder is bizarre. What personality disorder should we associate with all the guys just watching the deportations happen? As in, most people? Or is that normal, and the abnormal thing is watching Fox News talk about communists in the skools for twenty years and then coming to believe it? Maybe there’s another personality disorder for people too rich to notice inflation. Something like “ignorant cannibal’s disease.” Or another personality disorder for anyone who was OK with the empire while they bought a bridge about hope and peace while selling guns and bombs to Israel? That one might be my favorite.It's definitely a loose third. It's literally just the majority of people with rightwing authoritarian (personality (disorder)).
Right-wing authoritarianism - Wikipedia
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25% in 2021 had a "high" RWA scores and an addition 13% had low RWA.
The middle third of course think Biden is BORING and Trump made a dope fist and chanted "fight" after his ear took shrapnel so let's invade Greenland (you know, to lower egg prices).
Not sure if Trump is more like Nero or Caligula.
Both of them were complete BS!C narcissists, and both were into performative politics. I'm not as familiar with Nero as I am with Caligula, so I'll ask this: What sort of relationship did Trump have with his mother? Caligula loved his female relatives (a bit too closely in the case of his sisters), but Nero made multiple attempts to murder his own mother before succeeding. Did Trump throw any other relatives under the bus?
Hm... Leto II. Well, it's true that he hated the Bene Gesserit, which is as close to religion as that society got, unless you want to count the absolutely bizarre Tleilaxu. Mind you, Trump would approve of the Tleilaxu due to their view of women as incubators for offspring and serving no other purpose.
Trump rambles and babbles like Leto II, though, and figures nobody else has ever suffered as much as he has, nor done so much for an ungrateful humanity. And both of them chose to become what they ended up as.
It's a politician making promises, akin to what I read about this morning regarding the premier of my province turning on the crocodile tears about Jasper (a tourist town in one of our national parks; it burned to the ground last summer in a wildfire, while our premier was gallivanting around the province elsewhere, attending rodeos and going on holidays). The promises of housing and other supports are easy to make. But in neither of these cases should the people affected hold their breath waiting for those promises to be fulfilled.
That show took a great many liberties with real history.
