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DMX99 posted...

Are all the Chinese in the movie English speakers?

Couldn't tell you, but the actress who plays Mulan is in favour of the Chinese government cracking down on Hong Kong so

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Fam_Fam posted...

people go about their lives in the US in places in the country where they have ICE concentration camps. it's the same shit. boycotting a movie has essentially zero effect on people who have anything to do with the issues people are concerned about.

taking money out of some videographers pocket isn't going to help you get anything done.

And it's not okay in that instance either. People should still be criticising ICE and their shitty detainment camps for refugees. When detainees began to complain about unsanitary conditions in the wake of COVID-19, facilities responded by making prisoners scrub down their lodgings with harsh chemicals, without any PPE. America is absolutely engaging in human rights violations against refugees.

That isn't an appropriate deflection from what's happening in China, or from how Disney filmed in areas where genocide is actively taking place. To the point that they thanked specific government agencies involved in genocidal actions against the Uighur population. You absolutely should be more concerned about what happens at home, but it doesn't mitigate Disney's exploitation of a genocide-affected zone to film a movie that appeals to the same government bodies engaging in that genocide.

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Fam_Fam posted...

so what?

does it make a difference if it was filmed somewhere else?

it's not like they are genociding people do make room for the movie. what does boycotting it help?

Medium journalist Shawn Zhang, who claims to have mapped out the numerous camps in Xinjiang, wrote that if the "Mulan" film crew landed at the Turpan airport and traveled along highway G312 to the Shanshan Desert, "They could see at least seven re-education camps." Zhang told Taiwan News that "Re-education Camp No. 87" is located in Shanshan County a mere seven kilometers away from where the Shanshan Desert scenes were shot.

The group then pointed out that there are at least four internment camps and two prisons in [Turpan]. It added that there are four internment camps and two prisons in Turpan's Pichan County, while the prefecture-level city's Toksun County has one internment camp and a single prison.

This means there are at least ten internment camps and five prisons in the same city area as the "Mulan" shoot. The activists refuted the Chinese government's claim that internees in the "re-education" camps had "graduated" by citing satellite imagery from March to July of 2020 that shows the camps still in operation.

...To get to the area where the filming took place, the Disney crew would have passed "several concentration camps," some of which are visible from the highway. The ETNAM estimates that in some villages in Turpan, up to 80 percent of the Uyghur population has been detained.

Imagine if American filmmakers shot a Pied Piper movie in Germany in the vicinity of 5 political prisons and 10 concentration camps. Filled a couple underpopulated towns with extras to film the scenes of kids being lured away by the Pied Piper.

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Imagine trying this shit in the year of our Lord 2020

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

I hope Gstop sticks around another five to ten years.

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Yep. There are people younger than I am who have suffered from collapsed lungs, who drown to death on their own mucus.

Whoever started spreading the idea that COVID only kills the old is a malicious fuck stick.

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Musourenka posted...

I didn't see the other topic.

Whoops.

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Antifar posted...

In Pasco, however, the initiative has expanded. Last summer, the Sheriffs Office announced plans to begin keeping tabs on people who have been repeatedly committed to psychiatric hospitals.

This entire article was repugnant, but this is where it really crossed a line.

These people either recognise a problem, or are checked in to resolve a problem, with their psyche. They do their time, they sign out, and they go back to daily life.

Then, one day, a police officer shows up asking about a serious crime. They had nothing to do with it, and they say so. After an arbitrary amount of time, that police officer is satisfied and they leave the person alone.

The next time a crime happens, another police officer shows up. And the next time, and the time after that. Despite going through counselling, these people are now a target for the police to harass whenever something goes wrong. And that has a negative effect on their mental health, and contributes to them having slips and breakdowns in their mental health. It wouldn't surprise me if this made it harder to treat mental conditions that result in abnormal amounts of paranoia.

This is exactly what people mean when they say that mental health is stigmatized. The second someone finds out that something's not normal about you, they use that as a measuring stick against your actions. A violent crime was committed, or someone vandalised something? Better go hassle the local neighbourhood schizophrenic, he probably threw a fit.

This entire "predictive crime" idea was a massive waste of time, and it's resulted in a total lack of oversight regarding the police. They spy on citizens and write them up for non-violent dumbshit crimes some dipshit teens get up to on private property, and it makes it that much harder for criminals to get a fresh start since the police are constantly assuming bad faith and showing up on their doorsteps accusing them of something new.

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First question:

mD_atheist posted...

Why is it weird?

Second question:

trappedunderice posted...

What the fuck kind of topic is this?

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Yep, the Trump campaign is posting ads that are straight out of a dystopian setting.


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BlazinBlue88 posted...

You knew the exact two songs I was referring to. lmao
I'll need to watch the music vids so I can hopefully change my mind about those songs.

I don't even really like the music videos from those songs tbh, lol. Stylo, Superfast Jellyfish and On Melancholy Hill are where it's at for me.

Sweepstakes is still a hard sell for me, and White Flag took a few random plays for me to get into. It helps that the music that bookends White Flag is genuinely really good, and the verses are just really fun to vogue to.

If you were into the story angle of Gorillaz, you might know that - SPOILERS - Noodle died during Demon Days. The floating island from Feel Good Inc. was shot down in the music video for El Manana.

So this album's music videos addressed that by the addition of a "cyborg Noodle" character. Stylo depicted Murdoc kidnapping 2D, On Melancholy Hill depicted the band searching the perimeter of Plastic Beach along with the kidnapped collaborators on the album as well as Noodle and Russell's return to the narrative... and then nothing.

But Rhinestone Eyes was meant to have a music video elaborating on the Plastic Beach story too. The Stylo music video cost too much to produce, though, so it was scrapped. The music video would elaborate on how Murdoc and the grim reaper-looking motherfucker from Stylo met, and it bridged the story of Murdoc and 2D on Plastic Beach, and Noodle and Russell travelling to Plastic Beach.

But the Gorillaz YouTube channel put out a storyboard video for the song, and a fan spent years animating a music video based on the storyboards. You can see the video here: https://youtu.be/1-iPq3qWeQQ

Ultimately the story ended in DoYaThing, where the grim reaper-looking motherfucker lives with the Gorillaz, Noodle is back with the band and Murdoc is still an unholy, abusive prick.

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Caution999 posted...

I am asking you to ignore whatever editorial views are said in said sources.

So you're telling us to accept any news that makes Trump look good, and to ignore any news that makes Trump look bad. Gotcha.

If you want insular validation, go back to your discord server where you encourage people to post the n-word.

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TiffanyBlews posted...

If this person is transgendered, I can see why they wont allow it. Cant have a man that turned into a woman compete in an only woman Olympic sport.

She's not transgender, she's intersex.

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I heard about this through a post discussing intersex rights. She's faced this sort of attention for years now - she was born and raised as a woman, and no matter how you spin this, she is a female athlete.

If you're going to paint her as an unfair competitor, you would essentially have to rule out any intersex athletes. Ultimately, that's pretty discriminatory.

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BeyondWalls posted...

Are you bi? Do you have a problem with contracting STDs? Does the thought of being part of an HIV quarantine group scare you? Are you ok with people hitting on your girlfriend everyone you go and probably in your own house? Do you have a problem with her aborting your child so she can continue her career? Are you ok with her being gone days at a time while shes off having sex with other dudes? Do you have a problem with drug use and sketchy people being in your house?

Damn, you sound like a real bitch lmao

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Joelypoely posted...

Just had a listen and you're right, Humility is pretty good. The others aren't to my taste but I can see why people would like them.

Fair enough dude. Thanks for giving them a listen.

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I'm waiting for the D'Angelo Wallace video on this. Dude is probably one of the better content creators to have hit it big during quarantine. I dig his content, and I think he's an ethical and respectful dude.

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Joelypoely posted...

D, only their first three albums are good.

I get where you're coming from, but have you heard their latest singles? Humility from their last album was pretty good, and songs like Dsol, Aries and Pac-Man from their most recent album have been excellent.

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BlazinBlue88 posted...

What's your favorite album from them? Despite it having 1-2 bad tracks, Plastic Beach is my favorite.

My favorite album is definitely Plastic Beach. It took me a while to enjoy songs like White Flag and Sweepstakes, but the storytelling in this phase's music videos was impeccable, especially leading in from the Feel Good Inc./El Manana videos from Demon Days. I also just preferred the music from Plastic Beach than Demon Days, even though DD was my first Gorillaz album.

Song Machine Volume 1 is shaping up to be a close second though.

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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

Is it just like okay when the French do this? What am I missing? How are people cool with this?

D'Angelo Wallace is making a video on it, so I'm assuming there's a bigger story here that the public outrage machine has moved on from.

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BlazinBlue88 posted...

People also crap on The Fall but I love it. Gotta respect it for what it is. A quick album created by Damon on his iPad.

fwiw, I do really like The Fall. Detroit is a really fun, chill song, and I've grown to really enjoy Snake In Dallas.

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VipaGTS posted...

When were they not good? Granted their 2nd to last album was kind of a flop, but its just one album. Not enough to say they stopped being good all together.

I liked Humility a lot, but their other singles from the Now Now just didn't do it for me.

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I mean, you're not wrong. I was just disappointed that Humanz barely featured Damon Albarn, and the one song that he featured on the most heavily (Sleeping Powder) is my favorite song on the album.

Humility was the sign that Gorillaz were back, but I just didn't take to Tranz or Hollywood. Song Machine, in comparison, has been hit after hit after hit.

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What do you think?

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Alpha218 posted...

Nah, they dont even deserve that title even, because theyre douchebags who are holding concerts during a worldwide pandemic.

This is an unfortunate development.

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VonOrdelia posted...

Walking on the Sun is a good tune

Fuck yeah. This song is lit.

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NeonOctopus posted...

Man I hate big titties. Plz don't post pics of them in here!

Haha, take that! There's more where that came from, simp! Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

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JimmyFraska posted...

is it possible tc is a racist against subject of op

How is that possible? You can't be racist against white people

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https://pitchfork.com/news/gorillaz-detail-new-song-machine-project-featuring-st-vincent-the-cures-robert-smith-and-more/

Back in January, Gorillaz started sharing new music as part of a series called Song Machine. The series has featured Momentary Bliss (featuring slowthai and Slaves), Dsol (featuring Fatoumata Diawara), Aries (featuring Peter Hook and Georgia), How Far? (featuring Skepta and the late Tony Allen), Friday 13th (featuring Octavian), and PAC-MAN (featuring ScHoolboy Q).

Now, Gorillaz have announced a Song Machine full-length. The collection, titled Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez, arrives October 23. Further contributors include St. Vincent, Beck, Elton John, EarthGang, and GoldLink.

The first song on Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez is a new collaboration with the Cures Robert Smith called Strange Timez.

I'll admit that Strange Timez hasn't been my favorite song from this project, but every single song released so far has been decent or great. The fact that they have JPEGMAFIA and Elton John is fucking wild to me.

If you haven't heard any of the new Gorillaz stuff, I recommend Dsol, Aries and Pac-Man. This has been the best Gorillaz material since Plastic Beach.

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WhatsUpMyGuy posted...

it'll never cease to amaze me how adam sandler can consistently get all these former SNL greats to work on his movies when they all consistently are the same garbage every time

calling it right now adam sandler is one of the most powerful men in hollywood and it's going to come out he's blackmailing all these people

He pays for all of these people to get a vacation. The only caveat is that they have to phone in a performance in a Happy Madison movie.

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GentlemanGamer posted...

The topic was about Biden saying not to drink bleach, which he found hypocritical since he was fine with people voting in a pandemic.

Cool.

Drinking bleach is not analogous to being exposed to a pandemic-level virus. Even if someone says "you need to vote this election" during a pandemic, which is an admittedly fucked up prospect, it isn't in the same ballpark as encouraging people to cleanse their bodies by ingesting bleach products.

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s0nicfan posted...

Hopefully they'll respond by dropping footage of the concentration camps China continues to deny exist since they were filming in the same region.

I know that this is a self-indulgent daydream, but a part of me hopes that filming for Mulan was an excuse to record human rights violations.

I don't actually believe that's what happened. I think Disney would exploit a genocide if it meant they got paid. But I want to believe that there's some sense of justice left in the world

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Ruvan22 posted...

This is a really well thought out and balanced post. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but applaud you for being able to look for the the larger reasons/factors of what happened.

I mean, it's been at least 19 years since my dad left. I don't know exactly when this happened, but I remember my dad's reaction to 9/11 so I know it was after that.

I've dealt with a lot of shit that's arguably more traumatic than what I described in this thread, and I've actually been able to get closure on it so I consider myself to be pretty lucky. I appreciate the sentiment though, thanks for posting.

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I'm worried that they're gonna find this guy stuffed in a barrel that's been thrown into a swamp, or that there's gonna be some miraculous change against him that gets him brought in for a few days before they find him hanging in his cell.

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This is why "just do what the police tell you and you'll have nothing to worry about" is such a brain-dead rhetorical device. Even when you follow an officer's instructions down to the letter, there'll always be a chance of some shitbag pinning a crime on you that you didn't commit.

This is why people don't trust the police. This is why people post "ACAB" in response to every story of police misconduct.

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Patriotism is "I'm proud of the country I live in, I believe in the basic principles that make this country great in my eyes, I consider this nation to be a part of my identity". To a degree that's fine, but taking that too far blinds you to the bad stuff that your country is responsible for.

Nationalism is "my nation is a bastion of greatness that other nations can't hope to match, and we are weakened by outside influences and people who seek to stifle the expansion of our greatness. There is my nation and there are outside influencers, and people who don't align with my image of my nation are an enemy that needs to be fought". It's basically national supremacy. Nationalism is a springboard into extremism, and overt extreme nationalism is a cornerstone of fascism.

The line where patriotism and nationalism blurs is where extremists are born. People who exhibit particularly heavy-handed elements of patriotism and nationalism should be considered at-risk, considering the crowd who panders to that worldview and attaches radical xenophobic rhetoric to it.

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teepan95 posted...

fucking Chad :D

It was actually awkward as hell, lmao. Honestly that's a part of my life I want to leave behind, but my hands were full and that boot needed to be opened, so

I'm definitely not an innocent player in this story - the start and end of my relationship with her can essentially be summed up as "any port in a storm".

I wish her the best on a basic human level, but I hope that's the last time I ever see her.

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At the time, I slept with the first person who expressed interest in doing me. She wasn't a great influence - throughout the time I knew her, she did drugs in an abandoned Mercycare building with people who were cutting class, and she fell through a window and fucked up a nerve in one of her hands. I think at the time, she was smoking weed laced with Panadol/paracetamol, which is stupid as fuck.

That relationship essentially ended when she took a bunch of mild painkillers I had for a bout of tonsillitis, and chased it with a bottle of vodka. She locked herself in my bathroom and kept passing in and out of consciousness. I also learned during my relationship with her that she had a kid before she met me, which she didn't tell me about.

Since the relationship ended, she had another kid with some other dude and she's moved from town to town throughout the state over the years. I saw her earlier this year in the carpark of a department store - I was carrying a homebrewing kit, and I got her to open a car boot because my hands were full.

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I decided to post it here instead of derailing that thread.

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As a kid I bought into a lot of deadbeat dad shit, because my dad hit my mum and moved out when I was 6 or 7. There was a big focus against violence against women at the time, and due to a lot of that influence I harboured a grudge against my dad for what he did. And rightfully so - that's a shitty thing to do.

But years later, I was talking to my mum while she was drinking, and she said that at the time she was giving my dad a hard time. Their relationship was on the rocks, and she said some really vindictive shit that she regrets - putting him down and stuff. And a couple years after that, I was seeing my dad and he was remorseful over what had happened, saying that my mum had been making some pointed comments that got on his last nerve for ages - after making similar snipes and jabs at him over the span of months, after he came back to her for the sake of me and my sister - and after he had been drinking one night, the anger just boiled over and he hit her while she was in bed. It was an occurrence that be wasn't proud of, and despite factors that might have led to that moment, he acknowledged that it was the wrong thing to do and he wasn't proud of it.

I think my mum was right for kicking him out and leaving him after he hit her, but I acknowledge that their relationship wasn't healthy between either of them - with nastiness from both of my parents levelled at each other - and while the culmination of that relationship was an act of violence from my dad, I think he was a man pushed to his limits by a relationship that neither of my parents were equipped to be in, and ultimately he made an extraordinarily shitty mistake which A) he regrets doing, B) my mother has forgiven him for, and C) he has never repeated. It still happened, and I'm not trying to be an apologist for domestic violence, as much as I'm trying to understand it in the wider context of the relationship that my parents had.

I don't believe in absolutes any more, whether it be Will Smith's on-screen dad being a slimy, conniving shithead trying to weasel into his son's life after abandoning him, or some saccharine stereotype of a parent whose marriage is on the rocks like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Sometimes dads are shitty, selfish people. Sometimes they're well-meaning people who are pushed over the edge. Either stereotype can reflect reality, and a fuckton of parental relationships are a lot worse than that even. But usually, there are elements of both mixed in, and there are elements of nuance in some relationships that deserve to be brought to light and evaluated in the bigger picture of a relationship.

Personally, despite the shitty things my dad has done, I love him. I love my mum too, despite her alcoholism and what I perceive to be a continuing cycle of emotionally fraught relationships. I don't condone what my dad did, but seeing as my mum has thought back on that occurrence and forgiven him to a point - at least to the point of dissuading me or my sister from holding resentment against him as we grew up, and to the point where she had a good chat with him at my sister's wedding this last February - I feel comfortable admitting that in the face of what I know now, I forgive him for what happened. He's not perfect, he's said some stupid shit that I've vocally disagreed with, but at heart I think he's a good man and I love him.

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Where pressing a key would yank the tail of a cat caught in the contraption, making it cry out? The idea is that each cat is arranged according to the tone of its voice, so you can play them like a piano.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_organ

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Cornhuskers posted...

The Kim family needs to go the way of Kmart and cassette tapes.

Active and popular in Australia, and enjoying a nostalgia boom amongst teenagers who enjoy the subpar performance over other, more accurate methods of relaying information?

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awesome999 posted...

ACAB! Kill the police division! Let anarchism take over! It's not like my political opponents have the most guns!

Is this account some unholy hellspawn of Awesome and Caution999?

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It's not too late to smother him with a pillow

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Fun fact, this song was actually a song about Belinda Carlisle's relationship with Colin Firth. The original name was "Heaven is a Place on Firth", and it was about the erogenous zone on his taint that made him get rock hard when someone tickled it with a feather.

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Medical interference is ultimately an aspect of religious freedom that I agree with, because even if it's stupid, it is ultimately a personal decision based on faith that impacts the individual and their feelings - and no-one else's.

I think it's harmful and short-sighted, and I feel bad for people who feel that the color of their soul is more important than a procedure that lets them live their life for a little longer. "Medicine bad" is such a shitty, backwards idea, and having that idea perpetuated by religion is extremely unethical. I think the world would be better off without these stupid ideas, but ultimately if this sort of thing conflicts with someone's personal faith - or personal wishes as a whole - they should be given the bare minimum amount of respect and they shouldn't be treated in a way that they disagree with.

One notable aversion to this idea is Scientology's aversion to psychiatry, because Scientology is a cult and they shouldn't be tax exempt. Fuck Scientology. I also have misgivings for spinoff religions from Christianity like Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, but at the end of the day, as long as they aren't hurting anyone, whatever. That's what they chose.

I don't agree with TC's grandma's decision, but it's that choice that should ultimately be protected under religious freedoms. That's a personal decision, for right or wrong, and that decision needs to be honoured.

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Fuck yeah, lmao

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Rathinor posted...

Grischnak is blocking me too. Dude needs his safe space, he's very easily upset

That makes three of us, lmao

Ultimately, even if Trump wasn't putting out vaguely radical rhetoric to burr up his voterbase like "Liberate Minnesota!", the efforts taken to turn Trump into a meme drove a lot of young men into spaces where they could be radicalised. His influence alone has driven young American men into hate groups.

Trump comes out of the gate with some brash, headstrong opinions about Mexicans, and supporting his 2016 presidential campaign becomes the new funny, edgy thing to do - so in response, some right-wing shitposters make Trump-worship a joke so some edgelord shitposters can throw around positive Trump memes and feel included in something that feels entertainingly taboo. This fosters a positive connection between otherwise apolitical or surface-level edgy shitposters and Trump's campaign, since everyone's having a good laugh over endorsing an edgy joke candidate.

Then, they pitch themselves against a common enemy - feminists and social justice types, and people who aren't vehemently against them, for example - and claim that Trump holds the same values against this group of people who are held in poor regard. Suddenly, your edgy memelords feel bonded to the right-wingers shilling Trump - like they share a common goal, and that they're fighting to express this shared truth.

And from there on, it's a rabbit hole - the Democrats are all corrupt and Trump is gonna put them in jail, there's a shadowy cabal of powerful figureheads dedicated to raping and killing children and only Trump and his most loyal supporters can stop him, liberals are destroying Confederate monuments that are hundreds of years old and trying to weaken white heritage to make it easier for immigrants to instill their beliefs into American culture and breed out the whites.

Even before Trump was advocating for his voterbase to "liberate" cities and states for enacting pandemic protection laws, his influence drove a generation of young men into the arms of far-right, white supremacist organisations.

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Rathinor posted...

Isn't the Mustard guy fenderbender? He's a hardcore Trump cultist

lol, isn't fenderbender known for wanting to fuck a horse

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There are no pan-asian supermarkets down in hell, so you can't buy Golden Boy peanuts.
Now Playing: Skyrim, Hand of Fate 2