Fuck, the wanted to hang Mike Pence.

I'd say its more weaponized ignorance. He knows what happened and why. He's a current racist that doesn't want past racists cast in a bad light. His ilk define critical race theory as being critical of racism and they don't care for it.

When I grew up we bullied gay children until they killed themselves. I'll take cancel culture going too far over that any day.

It started out a term teenagers on twitter used for when one of them discovered racism exists and corporations want to make money. Then conservative adults discovered it and started saying it instead of "the gay agenda."

Hearing actual senators use it is so embarrassing. I'm waiting for when they form the no cap caucus.

The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can't really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.

Tankie is a term British communists used against other British communists who didn't oppose the USSR invading Hungary in 1956. These days its pretty much any Marxist-Leninist.

Light? That you?

Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.

You got down voted but you're right. Tankie is the new form of commie after that fell out of favor. Western "champaign socialists" (another term I hate but it kinda applies here) use it to criticize people from countries that actually have had socialist experiments. Most of the leftists globally are not western and would fit under the standard western definition of tankie. But if you've never come close to overthrowing your own government, are you positioned all that well to criticize someone elses revolution while you sit comfortably in the imperial core?

Poor countries face challenges that rich countries can't imagine often from western interference and revolutions are an ugly business. No Castro was not Santa Claus but he was a marked improvement over Batista.

And how do you expect us to do that, revolt? Because it turns out elected officials are reluctant to make significant changes to the system that elected them from which they profit handsomely.

How the hell was Johnson a communist?!

Just because something is a social construct doesn't mean it isn't real or important.

Billionaires aren't really citizens of any country. They're kind of small nations unto themselves.

Landscaping crews tend to pull trailers though. I imagine that's why.

No animal shows anywhere near the range of neuroplasticity of humans. Humans can exist comfortably on almost all biospheres on earth and even space thanks to the technology we developed. Including the technology of language which features the word intelligence which we use for the way we grow and adapt. That's what we use our brains for and what we specialize in. We don't use our brains for sonar the way bats do, but that isn't intelligence.

Does that make humans inherently superior or give us the right to render the planet uninhabitable? No, of course not, and animals are smarter than many people give them credit for. But calling animal intelligence comparable to that of humans simply isn't accurate.

In the twisted heart of people like this is that they genuinely believe in their inherent superiority. White people persecuting black people is just the natural order of things. Accusing them of atrocity for that is racist, like making fun of a black person for their hair. He just can't come out and say that.

I seriously doubt he feels guilty.

Simon R. Greens Deathstalker series is pretty much what you're describing. Very much space opera, melodramatic and big on action. They're not incredibly well written but lots of fun.

Two jewish men are sitting on a bench in Israel reading newspapers. One of the men, reading a newspaper in Hebrew, notices the other man is reading a newspaper in Arabic.

"My friend," he exclaims. "How can you read that trash! Don't you know its all lies?"

The other man puts down his paper and replies, "I used to read your newspaper and I'd get depressed. Its all bad news. Now I read this paper and it makes me happy. We run all the banks, we run Hollywood, soon we will take over the world!"

Old joke

Yep, and once you platform enough nutcases no one else wants to be associated with or listen to you.

Dictatorship at the time didn't mean necessarily authoritarian, it just meant government. Someone always dictates however they may be elected. He felt the people dictating should be the working class.