KelvarCherry [They/Them]

Just following mistaken orders… mhmmmh mmhmhmm

Reagan’s political speech strawman of the black woman “welfare queen” was so memorable, it became a caricature of black women and black single mothers. Most people who recognize that stereotype have never listened to a word of Reagan’s speeches. For his campaign and the ones before and after, the Republican Party launched ads showing a black man’s mugshot and telling a tale of how this black man was let out due to Democrat rehabilitative prison policy, then went on to kill/rape white people.

The entire War on Drugs was a way to harass and suppress Civil Rights protestors (accused of storing heroin) and the anti-Vietnam War movement (for marijuana).

The Bush dynasty’s core policy was ripping aid from USAmericans in need and using it to terrorize the Middle East; and to strip privacy away from folks in the USA… oh and terrorizing people of color.

And let’s not forget the original Conservative insurrection in the USA - the Confederacy, who broke ranks over fears they might one day not be able to enslave black people. Did Trump Kill Conservatism? No more than a house is killed when its moldy ceiling crashes in on its rotten floor.

“Never waste a crisis” – neoliberalism 101

A sick population is easier to control. I know our oligarchs and 95% of the Republican party are networked with the best science-following doctors around.

Thank you for bringing this up. I’m liking both this comment and the one above.

I think sometimes in an effort to mock MAGA, we may over-legitimize doctors. They’re just people, just like us, and there is a looooong history of medical malpractice and systemic abuse—much by the same forces MAGA is allied with.

I’ve absolutely seen tons of astroturfed messaging saying “Let’s all wait for the midterms” since about when Trump took office. It has been the predominant message across so-called liberal media and so-called liberal groups. I have not heard that idea by anyone IRL. I have seen that message online stated many political accounts which popped up around January 2025 and caught the algorithm while everyone in the USA was rightfully freaking out about Elon’s Nazi salute, DOGE’s ransacking, and Trump’s absurd nominations.

The bible also says it’s just to stomp in the heads of your enemies’ infants, as long as sky-daddy tells you so as a voice in your head :)

^ this. The specific example in my mind was TikTok short-form manosphere content that flooded the internet in 2023.

It doesn’t even need to have fake views. Content tagged with rising extremist views will naturally foster higher engagement—some of it from the absurdity; some of it from the growing group of people who believe it. Andrew Tate was a large part of promoting violent misogyny and patriarchy. The views never changed; they just became far more familiar.

It’s not about quality. Most people use content just to fill a void. Look outside at the people around you. Just about everyone is looking at their phones on rides, listening to podcasts when walking. It’s just filler.

The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space. All the manosphere/trad-life/christo-fascist/slopaganda crap flooded the internet, and then it became the norm—not because it was convincing, but because it was recognizable. People parrot what they hear; And that’s especially true for the majority of unintelligent folks who wish to masquerade as intelligent. It just so happens the masses heard a lot of “women/people of color/queers are destroying our great white Christian society”.

There’s nothing about this that’s inherent to bigotry or conservative ideology; It’s just that USA conservative-aligned businessfolk bought up the outlets and skewed the scene a little bit in the favor of alt-right ideology. Over years that compounded, and now it’s seized the entire conversation. Perhaps lefties/liberals were hesitant to use those methods because they play to emotions, and not intelligence; But this is the reality of our current social sphere.

Read the whole thing. This is absolutely worth it. Every word.

Can’t believe the USA fell to such insufferable edgelords. Just kill me already please.

I’m still FUMING that the DOGE Gooners were allowed to demolish our entire government and not only did no one stop them, but the local police aided them in raiding random databases. I truly hope more than “BigBalls” get their face beaten in. I hope they’re all executed.

…I know half of my rage is solely because of their smug smirks while they did all of this.

those two details go hand-in-hand, do they not?

its creators, Alex Slater and Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix the problem.

FUN! How much ya wanna bet this was vibe-coded?

The whole media scape of the USA is a conservative echo chamber.

The medical system was already doing this (to minors and adults) for decades and Democrats and Republicans alike welcomed it in. Child trafficking also was common, often done by groups tied to the Mormon church. Then we’ve had ICE. I’d consider this bill on the verge of passing on the Senate date of March 9th.

Current law generally requires a child committed to the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services to be released after six months. The proposal would create an exception if the juvenile is accused of assaulting a staff member at a residential placement.

Six months and then can be extended indefinitely. I know minors have no rights, but JEEZ!! I fully expect this to be weaponized against trans youth and become an extension of the School-To-Prison pipeline.

I’ve heard this content classified as “traditional” but what I’ve seen of the manosphere+friends is something else truly terrifying. It’s a mix of cult-like masochism and rhetoric you’d expect of a mass shooter or bomber; and it’s public and widely-viewed, liked… I grew up Catholic and in “traditional values”. This stuff goes beyond “woman is the home-maker” and “a family is a man and a woman”; to “women are sex slaves and property that men dominate”. It sounds like the ideology of some vile hentai, and perhaps that’s where it comes from.

Hell…, some of this rhetoric IS from mass-killers. The New Zealand mosque shooter was inspired by “Great Replacement Theory” at a time where that ideology was relegated to niche crevices of 4chan. Now extremist racist/incel beliefs are a core part of the platform of UK Reform, USA MAGA, German AfD, and general pronatalist ideology. And those parties are rising or seized power.

Then you’ll shoot a process server serving an eviction notice. The real criminals you want are the CEOs of firms like Blackrock buying up all the homes; and of the corporations of ALEC—which is why they outsource the dirty work to local government workers or their ‘wagies’.