Dawn at Toomush Orchard Park... that's a MoonViewer on the right, an absolutely functional and useless piece of art that allows children to watch the full moon coming up. The other sculpture is a water ballast from a now-extinct all metal boat...
"Woke" means what we used to call, having manners, such as treating all people decently, not just the members of your tribe. The Republicans hate that. (They used to call it PC, or politically correct.) The Republicans always use it as a pejorative.
Gas lighting is when they lie in your face and say something that (actually happened) never happened: such as, Biden won the election, or if confronted with the proof of it, say it was misunderstood. Fox is doing that in this cartoon. Lying, to stir up the rubes to cause societal division.
Dear Ethereal: Thank you! Your descriptions are well thought out. I think the reason I am so stubborn about "woke" and "gas lighting" is that neither term seems to have any logical derivation. Some time ago I watched the movie "Gaslight" and for life of me I could make no connection to the new usage.
I once had a GF (with a PhD no less) who said "Jim, language is organic." I replied "So is poop."
I dislike "woke" because grammatically it sounds discordant to my ear. And it is twisted into a pejorative. Just like the word "liberal" has been. Here is a link to a gaslighting explainer of sorts, published about people who we thought would pretend the former guy wasn't as bad as he actually was. published before his ouster.
I guess I mentioned Bradenton in another post sometime and it caught your eye. The witness protection program put me here for the anonymity of the urban sprawl. We are not alone! I've met several people on my block who are virulently anti-GOP; we all fly under the radar, though.
Since this Wonkette story is pretty old I don't suppose many people are reading this except you. "Out East" is a lot. I'm across from the State College of Florida.
BTW, the little photo is NOT me. I use it on my g-mail for friends who get the joke.
I'm in University Park surrounded by ex-military Fox-heads, (who are no doubt armed to the teeth.) my husband (who is Canadian) thought it was a pretty subdivision and we hate golf, but we love our house . He got to pick the location (by 75 so it was convenient for travel) and I got to pick the house. Small, but with a pretty pool in the backyard.I hate to admit this but I can't quite make out your profile pic, mine is me, though.
I would love a pool boy, as I am the maintenance person!It will be a while before we visit up north, even though we are twice vaxxed and going for a half/caf booster soon. We keep our heads down as well.I'm just happy to know there is another Wonker in town, makes me feel less alone.
This is a little easier to understand if you take a couple of bong hits and then binge-watch season two of Rick and Morty, but what we have here is two distinct universes. In one universe where the Tucker Carlson mentioned above resides, the people who sh!t in the speaker's office and mercilessly pummeled police officers with their own riot shields were just rightfully concerned patriots, who may have gone a little too far, or were maybe just right. In the other universe, the people doing said shi!ting/pummeling were actually false-front-black-lives-Antifa-domestic-traitor-terrorists who are soon to be feted in a made for Der Sturmer special produced and hosted by the self-same Tucker Carlson. Now, its important to understand that these two distinct universes also exist at the same time and in the same space, however, enlightened conservatives, meaning those with the lowest levels of CRT, can move through and between the two universes as effortlessly as zero mass neutrinos raining through the earth's core and then out into space. Unfortunately, to those of us with inferior minds cabined by the set-piece reality of reality, this might seem less like two distinct universes and more like two completely contradictory beliefs. If this is the case for you, take another hit on the bong and ceremonially burn anything written by James Baldwin and you might catch a glimpse of the truth man.
This complicit behaviour for the sake of being op-positional has been my opinion about the RW agitators for some time.
Remember those awful kids that went around and said: "So-and-so has cooties. Ew!"
Now every kid with half a brain knew there was no such thing as cooties. They also knew the mean kid was saying this this to be mean, to bully, and as a way to assert power over another, but using a 'stupid' lie to do it. Shame is the key component. Some kids went along, despite knowing it was a lie, afraid the shaming might come for them.
If the target said: "I don't have cooties," they always said, "Liar!" and "Prove it!" More voices added deludes them into believing they are in the 'right'.
It's a simple example, and yes, juvenile. But as someone who's done my fair share of dumpster diving on the right, I can tell you it works pretty much the same. 1) Someone comes up with sheer nonsense out of thin air, then 2) a bunch of keen rabble-rousers champion it. 3) If it catches on, they run with it. If it doesn't, they try another. And another. Shame remains a key component.
We should recognize a vast majority know they are lying (even to pollsters), and they would rather die than admit it.
I agree with the sentiment, but I question your use of quotes. Are you implying that Dems voted for Stein, or Repubs, or whom?I am a true independent and am a progressive liberal, who certainly did not vote for that Russian plant.
I also know that quite a few faux progessives, fake liberals and looney leftists were amongst the Steinkampfers, and the majority of them were definitely registered Dems.
Love Tom Tomorrow! I met the real Tom (Dan Perkins) back in 2010 at a lecture, and he was great. I'll bet ever he couldn't've imagined how much worse it would be 11 years later.
Dawn at Toomush Orchard Park... that's a MoonViewer on the right, an absolutely functional and useless piece of art that allows children to watch the full moon coming up. The other sculpture is a water ballast from a now-extinct all metal boat...
From the Toomush collection...(I get the reference. Sergeant Pepper's was an iconic event in my lifetime)
"Woke" means what we used to call, having manners, such as treating all people decently, not just the members of your tribe. The Republicans hate that. (They used to call it PC, or politically correct.) The Republicans always use it as a pejorative.
Gas lighting is when they lie in your face and say something that (actually happened) never happened: such as, Biden won the election, or if confronted with the proof of it, say it was misunderstood. Fox is doing that in this cartoon. Lying, to stir up the rubes to cause societal division.
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Dear Ethereal: Thank you! Your descriptions are well thought out. I think the reason I am so stubborn about "woke" and "gas lighting" is that neither term seems to have any logical derivation. Some time ago I watched the movie "Gaslight" and for life of me I could make no connection to the new usage.
I once had a GF (with a PhD no less) who said "Jim, language is organic." I replied "So is poop."
I dislike "woke" because grammatically it sounds discordant to my ear. And it is twisted into a pejorative. Just like the word "liberal" has been. Here is a link to a gaslighting explainer of sorts, published about people who we thought would pretend the former guy wasn't as bad as he actually was. published before his ouster.
https://forge.medium.com/pr...
I live in Bradenton, too, out East so we are neighbors, sort of.
I guess I mentioned Bradenton in another post sometime and it caught your eye. The witness protection program put me here for the anonymity of the urban sprawl. We are not alone! I've met several people on my block who are virulently anti-GOP; we all fly under the radar, though.
Since this Wonkette story is pretty old I don't suppose many people are reading this except you. "Out East" is a lot. I'm across from the State College of Florida.
BTW, the little photo is NOT me. I use it on my g-mail for friends who get the joke.
I'm in University Park surrounded by ex-military Fox-heads, (who are no doubt armed to the teeth.) my husband (who is Canadian) thought it was a pretty subdivision and we hate golf, but we love our house . He got to pick the location (by 75 so it was convenient for travel) and I got to pick the house. Small, but with a pretty pool in the backyard.I hate to admit this but I can't quite make out your profile pic, mine is me, though.
"I'm just a poor boy, from a poor family..." (Queen)
Do you need a pool boy?
Looks like the northern border is open again. You and the hubs can sneak over for a platter of poutine.
Just teasing.
I would love a pool boy, as I am the maintenance person!It will be a while before we visit up north, even though we are twice vaxxed and going for a half/caf booster soon. We keep our heads down as well.I'm just happy to know there is another Wonker in town, makes me feel less alone.
Radicalized Republican Terrorists. How can you solve the problem if you can't say what they are?
This is a little easier to understand if you take a couple of bong hits and then binge-watch season two of Rick and Morty, but what we have here is two distinct universes. In one universe where the Tucker Carlson mentioned above resides, the people who sh!t in the speaker's office and mercilessly pummeled police officers with their own riot shields were just rightfully concerned patriots, who may have gone a little too far, or were maybe just right. In the other universe, the people doing said shi!ting/pummeling were actually false-front-black-lives-Antifa-domestic-traitor-terrorists who are soon to be feted in a made for Der Sturmer special produced and hosted by the self-same Tucker Carlson. Now, its important to understand that these two distinct universes also exist at the same time and in the same space, however, enlightened conservatives, meaning those with the lowest levels of CRT, can move through and between the two universes as effortlessly as zero mass neutrinos raining through the earth's core and then out into space. Unfortunately, to those of us with inferior minds cabined by the set-piece reality of reality, this might seem less like two distinct universes and more like two completely contradictory beliefs. If this is the case for you, take another hit on the bong and ceremonially burn anything written by James Baldwin and you might catch a glimpse of the truth man.
It's not already?
This complicit behaviour for the sake of being op-positional has been my opinion about the RW agitators for some time.
Remember those awful kids that went around and said: "So-and-so has cooties. Ew!"
Now every kid with half a brain knew there was no such thing as cooties. They also knew the mean kid was saying this this to be mean, to bully, and as a way to assert power over another, but using a 'stupid' lie to do it. Shame is the key component. Some kids went along, despite knowing it was a lie, afraid the shaming might come for them.
If the target said: "I don't have cooties," they always said, "Liar!" and "Prove it!" More voices added deludes them into believing they are in the 'right'.
It's a simple example, and yes, juvenile. But as someone who's done my fair share of dumpster diving on the right, I can tell you it works pretty much the same. 1) Someone comes up with sheer nonsense out of thin air, then 2) a bunch of keen rabble-rousers champion it. 3) If it catches on, they run with it. If it doesn't, they try another. And another. Shame remains a key component.
We should recognize a vast majority know they are lying (even to pollsters), and they would rather die than admit it.
I agree with the sentiment, but I question your use of quotes. Are you implying that Dems voted for Stein, or Repubs, or whom?I am a true independent and am a progressive liberal, who certainly did not vote for that Russian plant.
I also know that quite a few faux progessives, fake liberals and looney leftists were amongst the Steinkampfers, and the majority of them were definitely registered Dems.
Who are you referring to?
Well, we have always never been at war with them!
Love Tom Tomorrow! I met the real Tom (Dan Perkins) back in 2010 at a lecture, and he was great. I'll bet ever he couldn't've imagined how much worse it would be 11 years later.