I use a version of Chat GPT where the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors are turned up 500%
ChatGED
"I identified as black for several years"...
I'm telling you guys, we are living in a simulation, and
aepps20
is the head programmer.
@dwalk31 as an African American who bought a hat..
There’s a good explanation of Republican “sea lioning” in today’s Post, in the context of the inevitable Dilbert meltdown:
Why is this important? Consider another, even more loaded question: Do you agree with the statement “all lives matter"? No one cognizant of American politics in the last decade would not recognize that statement for what it is. It’s not a comment about whether lives matter; it’s a rebuttal to the activist phrase “Black lives matter.” It’s not about all lives, it’s about the Black Lives Matter movement.
“It’s okay to be White” involves a similarly loaded, if less broadly recognized, context. After the phrase first emerged from 4chan, a site on which trolling is celebrated, Carlson defended it, characteristically suggesting that the racial division was being fomented by those who understood the troll as a troll.
“It’s a sort of rhetorical judo flip that works by willfully misinterpreting critiques of structural white supremacy or racism as an attack on the mere fact of being caucasian,” writer Julian Sanchez observed on Twitter. “And then stage 2 of the judo flip — which is the real point of the whole maneuver — is that when someone who understands what’s going on takes exception, the troll gets to gasp in horror to anyone who doesn’t get what’s up ‘Oh, so you think it’s NOT OK to be white?’ ”
Conservative politics are almost entirely reliant upon biased framing. It’s less a game of “insect politics” than “fishbowl politics”, characterized by both isolation and a contextual medium absent which they cannot survive.
It’s hard to overstate the degree of cognitive dissonance needed to advocate for
state menstrual monitoring while simultaneously claiming that those opposed “hate freedom” and support “government overreach.”
Issues, and even talking points within issues (e.g. the aforementioned internally contradictory Republican stance on COVID as both a deadly foreign bioweapon, but also
just the flu), must be taken individually, as self-contained debate prompts and not a cohesive ideology.
They are “reasonable” only when propped up against a deliberate distortion, stripped of vital context.
Overt politicization of school curricula may only be justified if you first believe that partisan propaganda and the suppression of history are a necessary counterweight against “liberal bias.”
The escalating militarization and impunity of the runaway slave patrol can only appear reasonable if police reform activists are painted as violent anarchists or hopeless naïfs.
Permitting everyone to tote around weapons of war only promotes “safety” if you believe you live on a battlefield.
Skewed, binary framing deliberately elides nuance, to the delight of the MAGA faithful who relish each culture war schism as a call and response through which they affirm their allegiance as “real Americans,” and to the perpetual exasperation of “neutral” officiants and “maverick” iconoclasts whose “objectivity” or exceptional uniqueness must be preserved through the creation of “third way”NYT/Tulsi takes that ostensibly reject “both sides,” lest they be tossed from their perch above the rabble.
In order for people like Scott Adams and Elon Musk to take pride in their affiliation with what was explicitly constructed as an oppressor class, they must believe that they are the “true victims” of a ravenous mob that despises them purely for the color of the skin - a premise with all the substance and durability of a soap bubble.
And this is where soundbite, conflict-focused coverage helps provide cover for the Right’s hyperbolic grievance machine. These are ideas that cannot withstand serious scrutiny. They can barely sustain the illusion of plausibility for the duration of a micro-debate, but their adherents can run out the clock by forcing opponents to play defense and attempt to reestablish terms like “CRT” which have been distorted beyond recognition.
Disney World Texas, here we come! DeSantis really didn't think this through.
Do you really think Disney’s going to risk setting up shop in Greg Abbott’s Texas?
What’s the Southernmost location outside California that won’t try to punish them for even the most superficial and cynical gestures of corporate inclusion?
DisneyWorld, Upper Marlboro?
Six Flags right now:
I got a response for that but it would get me banned from this thread. The audacity.
