• frightful_hobgoblin
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    American political discourse is designed to make my mind shrink.

    Every part of this is gibberish.

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    Oh no, this is like the site tagline that mocks me about how funny it would be if communism happened and I don’t get invited. Guys, please, I want to be a part of the communist revolutionisaac-cry

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    Lmao they’re deluded. I wish communism was doing half the shit in the US that these weirdos think it’s doing.

    Fuck the term “illegal aliens”. It’s so forced and dehumanising. I only see Americans say it and it makes me cringe every time.

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    it’s crazy how internet-brained the far-right are, they’re still obsessively fearful about their accounts getting throttled and shit like that whereas the left seems to have stopped being so fatally online in recent months. when eventually a real revolution happens in the west these people are going to be shocked when the revolutionary terror goes beyond social media and actually comes into their houses and arrests and executes them

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      Why do you think men with guns are at my door

      Why do you think I’m being dragged out into the street

      Why do you think they’re shoving me into a van

      Why do you think they’re putting a bag over my head

      Why do you –

      Because we’re in a communist

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          I meant it in a double sense. In the first place, like you imply, all the corporate media would censor revolutionary organizing and speech. Secondly, the actual revolutionaries will not be terminally online do-nothings; by definition, if a revolution is happening, it’s because of people who went outside and made something happen in the real world.

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    27 days ago

    “Why do you think the FBI is infiltrating churches?” I’d like to imagine they do it the same way they used to infiltrate communist groups in the 60/70s. It would be funny to see a church that’s just fedposting fedposting fedposting

  • i had to look this bozo up.

    she was the WH correspondent for ONA (a formerly obscure far right crank site that trump promoted when he got mad at Fox) during the trump admin, and then went to Newsmax (a more traditional, established far right crank site) when probably the biden team stopped giving OAN access lol. she was fired from Newsmax in 2022, after being suspended by twitter, for serious effort tweeting that the COVID vaccine was a plot by bill gates to do Mark of the Beast-style satanism by implanting bio-luminescent (Luciferase) trackers in people.

    last year she tweeted out that the COVID vaccine had caused a meteoric rise in breast cancer for women under 50.

    now she hosts a TV show on the Mike Pillow social media site called, no joke, The Absolute Truth. she has tons of other wacked out tweets, but those were kinda my faves.

    anyway, before she became a trusted source in news for the kind of people that inject bleach, eat horse paste, and think JFK Jr. is going to materialize from heaven to install Trump as president of earth, Emerald Robinson was an actress with experience in being tall, maintaining an incredible head of blonde hair, and reading prompters well enough to imitate an informercial wonderbra salesperson, an entertainment news anchor, the host of corporate promotional material segments.

    the existence of people like this is an indictment of many of the “prestige” televised news formats, because it’s pretty clear that if you have someone attractive, well groomed, and articulate say things on TV, lots of people will believe it. legacy media rested for so long on their exclusive access to technology and platforms that delivered the faces/personalities they chose onto the 1-2 screens people watched. it’s one of the reasons the onionTV and “weekend update” works so well, because it uses that simple format we’ve all normalized to be satirical. who would put a serious person in formal wear in front of a TV to read things in a professional tone if they were FAKE!? it’s for true facts only!

    anyway, now anybody conventionally attractive with like OBS, $400 worth of equipment, and a personal grooming budget can be on any screen, available 24-7.

    in the hell on earth / 30 years war podcast series, Matt said this thing about how the printing press had a destabilizing effect on the defacto monopoly the church had held on the written word and the ability to transmit cultural information, including peoples’ conception of the word of god with the bible being translated into languages of the common people but also printing press stories of peasant uprisings spreading quickly. he said it a lot clearer than that, of course. in effect, to see “god’s message” or “truth”, you no longer had to go to the church. of course, this was limited to people of means communicating with other literate people, but it was still a major shift in power and information distribution, taking centuries to fully unwind.

    then he drew the parallel to today, where the internet and its technologies had made gods of us all and one doesn’t even need to be all that literate to send or receive their truth to millions.

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      She was fired from Newsmax in 2022, after being suspended by twitter, for serious effort tweeting that the COVID vaccine was a plot by bill gates to do Mark of the Beast-style satanism by implanting bio-luminescent (Luciferase) trackers in people.

      The sad part is that’s not even the most batshit theory I’ve heard about the vaccine. I have an acquaitance who believes “the jab” turns people into nephilim.