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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 53 points 10 months ago (20 children)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 43 points 10 months ago* (19 children)

activist

Can't be that active at his weight.

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 57 points 10 months ago (9 children)

It's all dead weight.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 27 points 10 months ago

*laugh track*

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[+] Aneb@lemmy.world -6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Dead fat people looking for joke can't find anything funny about dead people, Republican or Democrat. Peak comedy, please do tell more fat jokes they are hilarious /s

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

TBH, my initial reaction was pretty similar to yours. I mean even ignoring the asshole self-righteousness of immediately judging someone's weight without knowing them as a person (and thus the challenges they may be dealing with), at that age most people are having too many health issues to justify being judgemental in that fashion. Particularly so when you consider that at the time this guy grew up we didn't have the understanding we have today (let alone level of public education) regarding how the human body worked.

But given what this person choose to do to others, I also realized that such disrespect was well-earned. So, yeah - i went with the joke instead. I'm sorry that offended you because I agree with where you're coming from, but in this particular case I'm not sorry for doing it as this guy was obviously an asshole in being so manipulative as to start an organization like this. IMHO he therefore disserves all the disrespect he's gotten (and then some).

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

This just sends the message that the validity of marginalized identities is conditional on the folks with those identities aligning with your beliefs, which is a double standard. You don't body shame someone in good shape because you disagree with their beliefs, you challenge and make fun of them on the basis of their beliefs.

Why should marginalized folks have to work any harder, on the basis of their identity alone, to earn equal standing with what you personally deem to be normal? This just gives away that you see these folks as "other" and only support them as far as they can personally benefit you.

And to be clear, I'm not just talking about fat people. Would you make dehumanizing jokes about Candace Owens or Clarence Thomas on the basis of their race? Why's it acceptable, then, to attack queer conservatives on the basis of being queer, or this guy for being fat? Why degrade your allyship just to go for low hanging fruit? Don't we want these things to become so normal that they cease to be questioned by even the most conservative parts of society?

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Spare me. Those assholes are the kings of double standards, and have beaten my spirit down to the point of giving back what they have been putting out because they refuse to be reasoned with in good faith discussions. I'm done beating my head against their walls, and if that makes me no better then so be it. You go ahead and be all high-minded for me because they've broken me.

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[–] Aneb@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Idk I'm kinda getting sick of this Lemmy bullshit, its not just you that's making these jokes. I'm not gonna say I'm more principled than you... but aren't we anti death penalty? I struggle to find where death > prison, skinny or fat. It might just be a personal preference that wanton death should be avoided, let him pay for his crimes with hard time. But I guess I've never been molested so maybe I should defer my opinion to someone that he molested. I know he is guilty unlike some death row inmates. I get we want to revolt so maybe I'm too weak to kill another person (lol its reminding me of Ruthlessness from Epic, where Odysseus spares the Cyclops and Poseidon wreaks havoc and tries to kill his crew - definitely not applicable but the theme of killing another to spare our lives is the vibe I get)

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[–] msage@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

You went way off into the deep end.

No death penalty, the guy voluntarily refused to listen to the best practices during a pandemic.

That's as close to a suicide as you can get. But in the dumbest most round-about way.

Which by itself would be sad. But he did his best to influence others to do the same.

So fuck him, his legacy and everything he stood for.

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[–] Aneb@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

Not to mention you're a .world and not even .ml it's a surprising stance. Maybe be less tankie?

https://youtu.be/gH5UMjMoTVI

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[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Hahaha weight jokes are funny and dont cause any harm to anyone who is overweight. Let's keep making fun of fat people because they are fat. Grow up, stop being a bully. I was thinking of a friend that committed suicide the week before graduating high school because she was laughed at for her weight. There's millions of other things to make fun of about a repubtard but make fun of his ideas and not his weight.

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Weight is too far but reputard is fine? Amazing.

You care because you have a personal connection, that's reputarded behavior.

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 10 months ago*

You're not wrong factually, but you certainly didn't need to sink even lower while making your point. Never mind Republicans have well-earned the disrespect because they've long been giving even worse.

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[+] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

the people thinking fat is healthy, has mental problems of thier own get help.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

Where did they write or imply fat is healthy?

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Being fat is a symptom of mental stress. Do you honestly think you're helping by piling on to that stress?

Those people you mention that claim being fat is healthy are obviously trying to cope with their stress. They're trying to find a way to feel "normal" despite all the external attacks on their person. Deep down they know the truth, but they can't deal with that until they deal with what got them there first. They need to fix the foundation of their problems before they can fix the additional damages it caused.

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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Shame can also be a motivator, it has an evolutionary role.

Being overweight is a series of choices. Not an immutable characteristic.

I’m a hard determinist, so I empathise with your viewpoint and it has merit, however, if you believe in free will, you believe the person has some agency.

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Trust me, no fat person needs your help to feel ashamed of themselves. Whether it's actually the case or not that there would be no other motivation to not be fat if there was no shame associated with it.

Also what difference does it make to you if someone else is fat?? It's literally none of your business, why make it into a problem that needs solving?

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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Dawg I’m fat too. We’re not a monolith.

It’s good to promote health. Light pressure applied with empathy can be a good thing.

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 24 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

According to Wikipedia, someone named Bill Montgomery - never heard of 'im, but then I don't travel in those circles.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

72 year old man founds a conservative youth organization. Talk about astroturfing.

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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

“Montgomery met Kirk when the latter was 18, after hearing Kirk speak at a small college.[4] Montgomery has been described as Kirk's mentor, including by advising him to start Turning Point USA rather than attend college.”

Nothing weird about that at all

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

72 year old Colonel Sanders cosplayer.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

These sorts of organisations always tend to be founded by rich, but not particularly persuasive individuals. They tend to find someone like Kirk to be the face of the organisation so they can reap the benefits without having to do any of the legwork.

I mean would you be interested in a random 87-year-old's political pronouncements?

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 point 10 months ago*

I'm guessing you meant to respond to @jballs@sh.itjust.works as I said nothing about the guy.

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[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, really to follow the theme, a third founder would need to die as a result of not having access to abortion, not themselves be aborted.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

The current head of Toilet Paper USA is a woman. J.D. Vance's demon spawn just needs to develop some complications in utero and the prophecy will be realized.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but she'll just have an abortion in secret somewhere. The rules don't apply to them lol.

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[–] jve@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Or die in childbirth

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[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 33 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Oh god...it all comes full circle and in 3s.

Erika Kirk killed by future husband JD Vance in some kind of immigrant/ice kink play.

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I want aware how badly I wanted this until now

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

For it to be full circle shed have to die due to restricting abortion access, probably having JD Vance's baby.

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Likely a couch was involved

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

She accidentally suffocates while JD pushes her face into the couch cushions saying "Stop resisting, you know you want it" while staring at che couch.

JD Kirks a Kirk is the title of his sex tape.

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Lol, the story would be better if both died by the couch.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I still think JD had Charlieboy killed

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

... where Usha is playing the immigrant, Erica is playing bad cop, and JD is playing good cop.

The intro is JD and the casting couch.

Like, just him and couch, and its framed as if the Couch is a person, got the cuts of the 'prior to meeting' interviews, the Couch is just a couch, JD is badly acting at being enthusiastic, as he normally is.

Cut to Erica as bad cop detaining Usha as she returns to her own home. She already has the keys, so she decides to detain Usha in the sex dungeon, located under a trap door near the outdoor stone/brick pizza oven.

Finished casting the casting couch, unaware either Erica or Usha are home, JD now hungers for cheese pizza, walks over to the backyard pizza oven... notices the trapdoor ajar.

He then walks in on Erica BDSM torturing Usha. JD is equipped with all holster, no pants.

JD begins to lecture Erica on the rights of the accused, Erica refuses to cease cruel and unusual punishment, JD is forced to draw down on Erica.

But he has a Sig P320, so, in their scuffle, it does an uncommanded discharge, which domes Erica.

A 4 Act play, in only 3 Acts.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 30 points 10 months ago

Between the Trump voter immigrants getting deported and anti vaccine people or their kids dying of preventable diseases, I don't think US ever before had any period where "it won't happen to me" was falsified so rapidly.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Tries to imagine what an "aborted baby voice" would sound like, can only come up with the "Cryptkeeper" skeleton on helium...

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I was thinking more Hellboy

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

There's that thing in Overlord.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (14 children)

i really hope charlie and erika kirk's children come out as lgbtq and starts a leftist equivalent to turning point usa.

in fact, is there a leftist equivalent to turning point usa?

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

a leftist equivalent to turning point usa

If there is, I hope they call it "Just Keep Going Global"

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

the name would probably be something along the lines of "the path forward"

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lmao. Who would fund it?

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

i was thinking of the democratic socialists of america and other socialist/communist organizations - oh and donations from supporters. it worked for the progressive news channel freespeechtv. seriously!

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Sure, not saying it's impossible to secure funding. Just saying that it would pale in comparison to what billionaires are able to throw at organizations like TPUSA and you can't expect it to be at the same level or grow nearly as rapidly as a result.

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Given that the US went through 2 wholesale leftist purges in its history and zero rightist purges, I would say that looking for an existing equivalent of any rightist phenomenon is asking a lot.

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[–] rwdf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There was something called The Gravel Institute, but it didn't last very long.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

why?

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Have you seen leftist in a room together? The only thing we love more than fighting right-wing politics is fighting each other.

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[–] rwdf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ran out of funding, I think.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have seen smaller ones, but it doesn’t really matter if they don’t have the virility of Turning Point.

Part of Turning Point’s whole pitch is to counter overwhelming “leftist” voices in universities and such. There can’t really be an equivalent to that unless US colleges get mega right wing.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

I have seen smaller ones

can you list from example?

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[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

The "un fuck America tour" which imploded earlier this year was an attempt at directly combatting TPUsa from the left

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago

if only someone did that again, but it DIDN'T implode. seriously!

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I feel like the joke doesn't really work, they are conservatives, drowning during baptism or something like that would've been more to the point

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

"all who take the sword will perish by the sword" is pretty spot on

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, like an anti-seatbelt activist dying in a car crash.

Or a anti-Obamacare person dying of a common infection.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

You do realize there is a difference between the way the left and the right approaches gun ownership and pandemic responses, right?

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Dying from abortion complications...

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

More like a minor dying from childbirth complications. But regardless, none of this works because they would never invite a woman to found a conservative media organization unless its explicit intent was to reach conservative women.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

Bari Weiss is running CBS.

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Found, not run. We're talking about founders.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's a very specific requirement. They (conservatives) invited Bari Weiss to run CBS. I think this shows they don't mind women being in charge of media organizations as long as they are loyal.

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

that's a very specific requirement

Not really when the topic at hand is Charlie Kirk and the guy that gave him a bunch of money to skip college and start TPUSA.

Aside from that, Bari Weiss does not own CBS. She was given her position by someone who can just as easily take it away, because whoever actually owns CBS decided it was convenient to their interests. Yeah she has a lot more power and agency than the rest of us, but she is still a subordinate. The spoils of her work belong to someone else at the end of the day.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 point 10 months ago

People that receive money from someone to fund an organization are also subordinates. I though you were saying that conservatives would not appoint a women to a position of power and Weiss is a example disproving that. Of course if you narrow it down to a very specific case of someone founding an organization it will be more difficult to find someone because there are simply not that many organizations being founded all the time. Women are totally being sponsored and promoted by right wing king pins (Candice Owens, Megan Kelly).