An American status game.

It's not what you believe, it's not that you believe, it's how committed you are to what you believe... and the harder it is to believe, the greater the kudos there is to be gained.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 4:07pm:


Lizard brain window lickers.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 6:55pm:


Maga cultists make insane look normal. 

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 7:08pm:


I know. I heard Elon and the big fella going on about it for months. They even pretended women competing in Olympic boxing matches were men. They ran an entire campaign on this.

Ever get the feeling you've been farmed?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 10:18pm:


I see. So you're saying Trump based a presidential campaign on corporate email signatures, are you?

Strange. Next you'll be telling us they gave him his story about immigrants eating pets. Or they're responsible for making him believe they stole the 2020 election the Republicans were too scared to say he lost.

I don't know, Meister, it's a pretty tough sell. There was Karmala, trying to run a campaign on saving America from exactly the predicament it finds itself in now. And there was the big fella, wedging her on manufactured culture wars.

I think we need an image that sums it all up in one clear message, don't you?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2025 at 11:16pm:


Excuse me, the person you so disrespectfully refer to as Trump, dear, is the Fuhrer - otherwise known as Daddy.

Oh, you can deflect and deny and pretend it's this or that, but do you know?

It's exactly what Elon said it was when he gave his Nazi salute.

It's exactly what the old boy says it is when he defends paedophilia and says he does so for "political" reasons.

It's exactly what FD says it is when he defends the biggest authoritarian cult since the 1930s and doesn't give us any reason at all.

Freeeedom, innit.

Karnal wrote on Aug 4^th, 2025 at 4:38am:

Righto, reductio ad Hitlerum, then...

The fact is, part of the American psyche is godist... nationalistic, socially arch-conservative godists who are prone to religio-driven 'indigenous American berserk', as Phillip Roth put it.

The choice of a self-identifying son of Appalchia as VP, whose contempt for his people is blindingly obvious, has augmented the popularity of a strident social head kicker who'll bring down 'godist wrath' on 'the indolent, the shiftless and the godless enemies within'. Who'll be their retribution... Who'll 'loose the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword'...

Yankists are not like us.