• Yuri addict@ani.social
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    What the fuck man i thought this was an onion article cause the headline is too good to be true

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    Anyone else hoping that a video surfaces just so we can make the conservatives watch it? Bonus points if he refers to the couch as Flipper while borking it.

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      Anyone else hoping that a video surfaces just so we can make the conservatives watch it?

      The new Rick Roll is inserting footage of JD Vance fucking a couch in between scenes of Hunter Biden fucking a prostitute.

      Once Republicans regain power, these will be the only two legal forms of pornography.

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      Put that shit up on a screen like what happened to the old and wrinkled Italian regime. Tifa up there screaming, giving heart attacks to poor old men, that scene was so obscene.

      Now imagine the travesty, bunch of out the closet conservatives projecting their desires, watching what transpires as JD Vance has a relationship with an entire set. They’re the ones that must bear witness to that.

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      Double bonus if he shames and belittles the couch for not getting pregnant, and says if it were up to him, it would not be allowed to vote

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    Why do people care?

    How did we come to the culture where personal life of politicians outside their direct political convictions matters?

    Not only is it a manipulation that has no relation to somebody’s political performance, it also makes opposition dependent on criticizing a person - something that recently fucked up Republicans themselves as Biden stepped down.

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      I think the Dems found the:“why not both?” meme when it comes to politics against the maga Republicans, who gave up on competing on policy years ago. They’ve only been competing by creating these dumb “culture wars” and ad hominem attacks of opponents. There is no principled position, there is no good faith arguments, there is no limit to their hypocrisy.

      The Democrats have been getting beat on messaging for years too.

      What I think we are seeing now is a sea change. The Democrats have wildly popular policy and positions on most things. They win on policy.

      And now they arent letting the Republicans get away with being “weird” hypocritical unprincipled lunatics that lack substance. They aren’t ceding the field on the “manipulation” that Republicans have been engaging in for years. Call them weird. Call them old. Call them criminals.

      If they hit below the belt, hit back. If they stay on the high road, meet them there. But as soon as they want to mudsling, slap em in the face with a well deserved mud pie.

      When democracy is at stake you can’t afford to lose an election because you wanted to avoid calling a couch-fucking creep, weird.

      I’ll also add, I think the reason you are seeing such a ground swell in Democrat support and a dogpile on JD Vance is the pent up frustration of years of Dems being doormats and not squaring up and fighting back.

      This is how you beat a bully. You have to bloody their nose. Turn the other cheek sounds great but you quickly run out of cheeks. Fight back.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      Why do people care?

      Because the right is constantly being self-righteous while attacking people for being queer. If those same puritan-minded people who want to criminalize LGBTQ+ people also fuck couches for fun, everyone deserves to know about it. They don’t stay out of our personal lives, why the fuck should I afford them any privacy? They don’t respect our humanity, why should I respect their dignity just because couch-fucking is victimless?

      They’re the party of “family values”, let’s put their party position under the microscope.

      it also makes opposition dependent on criticizing a person - something that recently fucked up Republicans themselves as Biden stepped down.

      The mistake Republicans made wasn’t in standing against Biden, it was in failing to stand for anything else. If J.D. Vance drops out of the election, I am not going to be out of political ammunition. In fact, J.D. Vance should and probably will drop out and I’m not worried about if he does, because Trump isn’t going to choose a good running mate no matter what.

      In fact, changing the running mate after the RNC destroys their argument that it is somehow improper for Democrats to change their nominee before the DNC, so while they play checkers, we’re playing chess.

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        You think he will drop out? I’m not sure what’s going to happen - our political situation is beyond sane prediction - but I feel like dropping out would be admitting a mistake, and I just don’t see either Trump or Vance wanting to do that. I feel like they will ride that decision right into November.

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          I feel like dropping out would be admitting a mistake

          Trump got famous running a reality TV show where he feigns business acumen by firing people.

          It is well understood in the real world that constantly firing people is a sign of poor leadership. You either aren’t hiring productive employees, or you’re too eager to terminate under-performing employees. That didn’t matter in The Apprentice, because people view firing people as authoritative behavior, and they love it.

          So when Vance backs down (and he will because he’s toxic to Trump’s approval rating), it will be presented as Trump smartly firing his inferior running mate in favor of a superior job candidate.

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        I was going to ask the same question. Why should we care. But you have a good point. If the right is saying "we must look into the bedroom " then the left might as well join in. It won’t fix anything. But at this point, make the idiots squirm.

      • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com
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        You hit the nail on the head. It’s their blatant hypocrisy and stupidity, and it’s time to make it hurt to be stupid.

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      I like the idea of this bot but could you make the text a bit smaller? It’s pretty obnoxious ATM.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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        This is what I see:

        Maybe the summary tags aren’t working on your app? But I guess the “Thanks to…” section could be moved to the footer, too.

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          Most app clients don’t fully support formatting yet. I’m on Boost and neither spoilers nor superscript work.

          I don’t know the numbers on each app vs web clients, but I suspect apps are a significant portion. Ignoring their limitations is ignoring a good portion of your users.

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          It is particularly obnoxious on Sync for Lemmy…

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              Mlem dev here. It shows strikethrough, but not superscript. Lemmy has got a unique dialect of Markdown - in the current version we’re using a Github-dialect parser, which is close to Lemmy’s but not perfect. In the next update we’ve written a custom parser that handles all of Lemmy’s Markdown elements, including superscript and spoilers.

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    There’s a lot to unpack in that statement:

    “We don’t buy the hoaxes and believe the hype anymore,” he continued.

    Yeah, Fox sells them, not buys them. Get your facts straight.

    “Our eyes are wide open.

    Uh-oh. That sounds pretty woke to me.

    And if you’re gonna accuse someone of having sex with a couch, you better have video.” He then brought on a guest to discuss whether Harris has a chance at winning the election in November without further explaining his request for the video.

    Yes, because you want to see it…for totally normal reasons.

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      “Absolutely revolting claim! And where’s the proof? The video? I need to see that horrible, disgusting video before I believe these claims! Show m-us the video!”

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        I mean… they can’t possibly miss the joke, can they? It fucking racks my brain, the density of these fuckwits sometimes. The whole reason this is still a thing is because they’re saying shit like, ‘If you accuse some of X, you’d better have proof.’

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          It can mean cringe but it’s more similar to the word strange and can be good or bad depending on context. Someone who learns Elvish and wears clothes from the 1920s could be considered weird but interesting. Republicans are the kind of weird that makes you feel uncomfortable around them. “Why are they so concerned about what my children are wearing?” Kind of weird

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            Yes, and I feel like the Republicans as you describe them would aptly be called “creepy.”

            And I think “cringe” is often a feeling of second-hand embarrassment.

            “Weird” and “strange” are more general and synonymous with “unusual” and “peculiar.”

            None of that is in disagreement with your take, though

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Not to kink shame you, Jesse, but maybe keep what titillates you to yourself.

    Anyway, by now there’s bound to be porn with a Vance lookalike fucking a couch, so you’ll get what you need for the most part.

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        He never said he didn’t have a fetish where he watches people fuck couches. Many people are saying he has a fetish where he watches people fuck couches.

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          Thank you, now that you mention it I’ve totally heard about his couch fetish. A lot of people are saying it even in this thread.

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          I demand video evidence of him not having a couch fucking fetish

          I’ll play it next to the clip where he publicly requested a video of a man fucking a couch

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      Such a video is the job AI was created to do.

      Maybe not the Hero we want, but the Hero we deserve.

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    The AP was correct to pull the article. Nobody can definitively say “J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch” just that “J.D. Vance did not write about having sex with a couch in his memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’.”

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      My mother read the book, and tells me that the couch fucking part is absolutely in there.

      She also said he’s a bad writer and his book is mostly fiction, so the couch fucking is probably as true as him being from Appalachia.

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      We don’t even know he didn’t write about it. All we can definitively say is that the story about J.D. Vance fucking a couch did not appear in the published edition of Hillbilly Elegy.

      Did he fuck a couch? Did he write about fucking a couch? Only Vance can tell us for sure and he’s probably too busy fucking a couch.

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              I’m not sure but if everyone is saying it there must be something to it, dude definitely enjoys the chaise.

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                I disagree on that concept. Just because a lot of people are saying something doesn’t mean there is something to it. Should we look at it? Absolutely yes

                But there is a guy who made a comment that says his grandma (or maybe it was his mom can’t remember) read the book so I’d ask who else has actually read the book?

                Good example of group think: lots of people thought disco was good.

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                  I agree with you 100%. We should absolutely be asking why JD Vance would fuck a couch, if in fact he fucked a couch. And why so many people would be talking about JD Vance fucking couches if he didn’t.

                  It doesn’t really change anything for me but I don’t think I’ll be letting that guy around my couches. Not because I honestly think JD Vance fucks couches but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

                  edit: Personally I don’t want to read the kind of filth a couch fucker would write so I haven’t read the book but I have it on good authority that people are saying JD Vance admits to fucking at least one couch.