Little did they expect the black, gay, trans Muslim, with Chinese heritage, who was a former MS13 member, but who also got out of it and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps to start a career in science.
Panic grips the RNC, people screaming, foaming at the mouth, scrawling “the end is near” in the blood of an intern on the wall. Pure chaos.
This person chooses to support Donald Trump, and they’re temporarily okay
This comment made me wonder what happened to Caitlyn Jenner. I mean not enough to look it up but still wonder.
You got me curious enough to look and what a shitshow of a person working against their own self-interests. She’s a good candidate for !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world.
Aaaannnnd she’s already there, lol.
LOL didn’t see that coming! /jk
This is actually quite progressive. For decades they only blamed blacks, then also a few decades gays and “communists”. And now they actually have a new thing every year. They are moving forward with society, always staying up to date. It’s like conservatism, but for the fresh cool kids.
We’re still getting blamed often. I haven’t in a month or two, but normally I listen to a podcast called Knowledge Fight which critically analyzes Alex Jones and a few similar grifters in a taking them in full context way(generally outlets miss the truly heinous stuff Jones says for quick soundbites, and he uses it as a defense to his audience).
Now you may think ol AJ isn’t relevant, but you still see right wing talking points come either early on his show or he repeats them quickly. He keeps basically a “rogues gallery” of people to blame for whatever, and BLM, Jessie Smollet, Obama aren’t always on the list, but at least one of them shows back up monthly, along with Antifa, Soros, Klaus Schwab, communism, Bill Gates, vaccines, trans people, gay people, China, etc
It’s not that they stopped blaming black people (and never stopped blaming queer people), it’s that they have so many buzz words to swap us out on rotation. They haven’t forgotten though. They still hate us.
What about the satanic panic, dugs, teen STDs (ok that one is fine to be worried about), violent video games, rock music…
My parents listened to conservative talk radio non-stop when I was a kid. I still remember listening to Micheal Savage scream about small meatballs at the restaurant being a liberal conspiracy and knowing how full of shit he was. I was about 11.
This isn’t even true though. They attacked Mexicans for marijuana usage back in the 30s, they blamed AIDS on gay people, etc.
I don’t consider this a shitpost.
I’ve been thinking about it and it doesn’t really qualify as a shitpost to me either, but I’m going to let it stay for now unless it turns into a complete clusterfuck. @GhostFence@lemmy.world, this isn’t really in the spirit of this community. A list of people Conservatives have fearmongered with isn’t especially amusing, which is kind of the point around here.
Understood!
2024 - Mexicans at the border (you know it’s already happening)
Issues at the border are only during presidential election year and it will never be for the whole year as the day after voting, conservatives stop mentioning it.
While I’m in none of these groups, having survived the rock’n roll-, black mass- / satanic(1)-, killer videogame-, terrorism-, social justice- / SJW-, safe space-, socialism-/communism-, antifa-, cabal-, satanic(2)-, CRT- and woke-panic, I feel underrepresented.
2025 - People with disabilities (?)
I don’t know let’s see in the next year.
Please do not give them ideas.
They don’t need them, I’m fairly certain the new thing to hate/fear is just taken from a raffle ticket out of a pile of different minority groups.
LOL that’s probably the right answer unironically. A damned grab bag of hate.
For a party that thinks itself as a pillar of strength and power … they sure do spend a lot of their time in perpetual fear.
Discovery was IMHO the most inferior Star Trek, but they nailed this idea when they described the Terran empire. This strong, incontrovertibly evil, imperial monster was born of, and lives on fear. A version of humanity that gave up on trust or hope and became the worst version of themselves.
Wait I loved Discovery…
I felt it was leaning too hard into the grimdark and action for my liking. But that’s just my opinion, and there’s lots of room for taste. My husband’s favorite is Voyager and I think that one is less well regarded so to each thier own.
I feel the community is split between Voyager and DS9
Hey, Voyager was my second most favorite!
Star Trek, unlike a lot of franchises, has a lot of allowance for taste while still being generally good. I think that’s part of its charm.
And of things normal people can’t associate with being scary. I think that’s why everyone’s struggling to guess what’s next. What random thing will strike fear into them next? Birds? Greeks? Furniture that isn’t wood? Children’s book- oh, we had that one.
See they’re barking up the wrong tree with gays and trans. No middle class conservative white family ever had their kid sit them down and say “mom, dad, I’m black”
Rachel Dolezal and Nuka Zeus would like to have a word with you…
Actually, 2020 was the Chinese and county clerks (who typically handle elections). 2023 was trans people and librarians.
Turns out bigots can multitask.
God, I remembered Asian hate. I remembered getting yelled at in Chinatown by a bunch of black people. Yo, we are sorta on the same team man. I didn’t create covid. I’m just here trying to survive, just like you.
2025: poor people (i think they already fear that one)
There’s a kind of always a constant undercurrent of hatred for the lower class with them. I wonder how far the GOP can push that before their voters realize they’re the butt of the joke.
What about 2024?
probably they will stick with trans people
Gays got pounded even before 2016. W and his marry men of assholes were going after gays and gay marriage during his term.
Actually now that I think about it I’m pretty sure Republicans were scapegoating gays as far back as Reagan.
Phrasing? Are we still doing phrasing?
Heh pounded
Yeah whoever made this is young. The anti gay rhetoric was so much worse 1970-2000. Obama was against gay marriage in 2008.
Before 1970 it was barely controversial and everyone thought being gay was a literal mental disorder. Famous actor Rock Hudson had a sham marriage to a woman in 1955 because it couldn’t publicly seem too likely he was gay or it would ruin his career. He later got AIDS and asked his friend Ronald Reagan to save his life in 1985 but was rejected because helping a dying gay friend survive was seen as too politically controversial.
Calling any year when gay marriage was legal nationwide the bad year for gay people is absurd.
Don’t forget the “small boats crisis”, that’s the conservatives in a nutshell right now :-(
Will 2024 be old people?
Have we forgotten they wanted to sacrifice the old people to save the economy during covid.
With privatization of Medicare coming if Trumpert and company win they are STILL willing to sacrifice the old.
Other old people…they get free top notch healthcare for life while saying healthcare isn’t a right
More likely DEI. (Blacks, again.)
No, because they will get old.
Nah, too many of their voters are old people.
I missed out on any MS13 news, was there a specific incident that was focused on or just general fear?
Caravan of “thousands” of immigrants carrying organized gangs disguised as asylum seekers.
Or like fox entertainment likes to frame it: “the invasion of our southern border”.
Had to look for what the hell was MS13… so, Wait, maras are americans?
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