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[–] 264 points 1 year ago (16 children)

A broken clock...

Happy that this particular lunatic is right on this particular issue.

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  • [–] 157 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I'm going to guess that Russia doesn't want us to enter the war.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm guessing everyone with a brain doesn't want the US to go into Iran. It's like these people didn't learn anything from the last quarter century (and Vietnam before that).

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to mention the terrain of Iran would prove an order of magnitude more difficult to overcome. Afghanistan was already very difficult for our military, imagine MORE mountains

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Yep, huge country, difficult terrain, largely homogeneous culture that goes back to the Persian Empire, homegrown weapons industry that can build their own drones and missiles. This is going to be more difficult by orders of magnitude.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Learn things? With our education system??? Buddy! What do you think this is??? A different country? Who's this other country you're thinking about??? They sound like someone we need to go to war with! Do they have oil?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You don't need an education system, just past lived experience. Trump himself regularly lies about how he was always against the Iraq war. It's just one letter off, should be pretty easy to work out what would happen if they did the same thing again.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Then why would Krasnov be doing it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    after all that trouble they went to get military aid to be diverted from ukraine, indirectly via trump. probably realized the war near thier own country could destabalize the region which can draw in russia, possibly pakistan,india and china.

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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is a ''The worst person you know just made a great point.'' moment, isn't it?

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That was not on my bingo card

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Before you get too excited, this was an interview with OAN, and that she thinks people should be paying more attention to OAN

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (23 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Kinda. MTG is ragging on Fox News, sure, but she's also both-sides'ing media outlets on the left with her full quote:

    We have propaganda news on our side just as the left does

    She's fishing for people to agree with her which legitimizes her claim that left-leaning news networks are just as untrustworthy as Fox News, which is an untrustworthy news outlet, but she doesn't say shit about Breitbart or OANN or any of the other right-wing superspreaders of misinformation.

    So, she is a broken clock that's currently pointing at the correct time, but she did it in a way to sneak in an untruth or two in there hoping that people would pick up on that and amplify the message.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Look, fuck this racist asshole Marjory. But liberal news sources are also largely garbage. The NYT, for example (well respected by liberals) is constantly giving voice to reactionaries, lying by omission, supporting US imperialism and just generally upholding the status quo, even when it means normalizing/legitimizing fresh horrors from republicans.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I prefer "stopped clock," since broken clocks can often continue ticking, albeit at the wrong speed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    A broken clock, whether it ticks too fast or too slow, is still right at least once every 24 hours, I think.

    The only exception would be one that ticks correctly but is not set to the right time (does this count as broken?)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah but the full saying is "a stopped clock is still right twice a day"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Where in my comment did I ever suggest that I don't understand this?

    I was just reflecting on the comment that I was responding to, which was specifying that a broken clock may be running fast or slow, instead of being stopped.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    If a 24-hr clock is one second slow per day, its correct once every 236 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was thinking of an analog clock with 12 hours and no distinction of AM or PM... but if we're talking 24h clocks you are right.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it ticks faster than time than it would be right more than once (24hr time) a day, the faster it ticks the more times it will incidentally be correct (perhaps there is an allegory here..)

    A clock that ticks slower than time would be right less than once a day, but it can never....

    I feel like I need a simulator to understand this relationship actually....

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I was thinking of analog 12hr clock with no distinction between AM and PM

    I wonder if your 24hr clock example would be more intuitive as frequencies and phases?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I was also visualizing the round analogue clock face, but didn't want to muddy the water by saying "twice" when I guess it's technically only once, just no am/pm delineation.

    I am puzzling over this at work now. I guess a fast clock could be right almost infinite times a day if it ran fast enough, but a slow clock can only be as slow as a whisper faster than stopped, which would mean it could be right alllllllllllllmost twice a day, but never twice a day.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I oppose war in Iran because war is detestable.

    You oppose war in Iran because you want troops in California instead.

    We are not the same.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    [while] Speaking to former Rep. Matt Gaetz on OAN

    😑

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know things are really fucked when you find yourself saying "hell yeah" to statements by mtg and tucker

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    A republican being anti-Fox News? That's a bold strategy.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I have heard some people refer to Fox News as being, and I quote, "liberal."

    In fairness, these people are part of the MAGA crowd, so I assume they can't actually read and have no idea what the word "liberal" means.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    During Trump's first term, Fox pushed back just slightly on some of the shit he was trying to pull. Turned out even Fox wasn't entirely comfortable with Trump being president. However, this backfired and pushed some viewers to OAN because Fox had spent the last couple decades training their viewers to hate anyone who even slightly opposes a Republican president. Of course, that increased OAN's profile, which got them on Trump's radar. Trump loves them because they won't stop sucking his dick, so he promotes them to his followers, so now a bunch of people that used to religiously watch Fox now religiously watch OAN and think that Fox isn't conservative enough.

    They made a monster and it slipped its leash.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Saw polling where even Trump voters only have 25% support for attack on Iran, and majority of all demographics oppose by over 50%. There is a huge disconnect between zionist supremacist media and politicians, and American people. Not just war, but marjority of Amercians have unfavourable view of Israel despite absolute political/media dominance to "educate them".

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    What exactly is this woman’s platform?

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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    "brown people can fuck off and deal with their own brown people shit"

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You should print this on a bumper sticker and sell it in Texas.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man I would be so rich if I just didn't have a moral compass

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Isn't it fascinating.

    Like the other day I learned just how easy it would be to make an AI "character" and sell "nudes" to men on only fans.

    Like if all the people scalping the Switch 2 had any clue how much they could make doing that, I'd be able to buy a Switch 2. Then I could do it too to make money to buy the Switch 2 games.

    But unlike scalpers, my empathy prevents me from telling people there's sex in the VIP room.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well it might make a few bucks there but it's a pretty disgusting concept. I don't really understand how there are so many people utterly devoid of empathy.

    I always assumed it was an innate human trait and that someone needed to have it abused out of their brain or have some kind of mental illness. Is it even possible that this many children being mistreated so badly or have undiagnosed mental illness? That is both a shocking idea and hard to believe.

    The alternative is that it's a learned trait and the parents and educators of these people have failed them so spectacularly that they can't even begin conceive of their inability to identify with another person. The cognitive dissonance required to see a person that doesn't look exactly like them as not a person is astounding.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There probably is a lot more abuse and bad parents going around than you might think

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Urgh yeah but the scale is crazy. I want to believe that maybe a lot of her supporters are just stuck in an information bubble. That all they see are sound bites that seem level headed and reasonable with no counterpoints.

    But how is it possible that they miss all of the batshit evil shit MTG and her pals spew. It's not like she's not in the news all the time literally spewing hatred and nonsense, how are they missing all of it?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    "Keep me in power and, more importantly, the spotlight"

    She's an attention whore. Nothing more, nothing less. It's why she married her pedophile husband: he gave her attention when she was underage.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Kind of fitting that an abuse victim with Stockholm's Syndrome is the de facto mascot of Republican women.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    See, by my nature I usually make a joke as a reply to everything.

    But that statement......man. It's hard to justify making a joke about rale/abuse victims and pedophila.

    Can you just talk about J.D Vance instead? Remember the meme where he fucks couches??? Now THAT I can work with!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you could sum it up in one word: isolationist.

    This means low/no immigration, limiting cultural access to 'home grown' culture and expelling anyone that doesn't conform to whatever her idea of 'American' is. The only 'good' part of that stance is that this also means they don't want to sign up to the traditional penchant for military adventurism you'll typically see from the right.

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