Don’t forget the “small boats crisis”, that’s the conservatives in a nutshell right now :-(
See they’re barking up the wrong tree with gays and trans. No middle class conservative white family ever had their kid sit them down and say “mom, dad, I’m black”
Rachel Dolezal and Nuka Zeus would like to have a word with you…
For a party that thinks itself as a pillar of strength and power … they sure do spend a lot of their time in perpetual fear.
Discovery was IMHO the most inferior Star Trek, but they nailed this idea when they described the Terran empire. This strong, incontrovertibly evil, imperial monster was born of, and lives on fear. A version of humanity that gave up on trust or hope and became the worst version of themselves.
Wait I loved Discovery…
I felt it was leaning too hard into the grimdark and action for my liking. But that’s just my opinion, and there’s lots of room for taste. My husband’s favorite is Voyager and I think that one is less well regarded so to each thier own.
Hey, Voyager was my second most favorite!
Star Trek, unlike a lot of franchises, has a lot of allowance for taste while still being generally good. I think that’s part of its charm.
I feel the community is split between Voyager and DS9
2025: poor people (i think they already fear that one)
There’s a kind of always a constant undercurrent of hatred for the lower class with them. I wonder how far the GOP can push that before their voters realize they’re the butt of the joke.
What about 2024?
probably they will stick with trans people
“To get elected, pick a marginalized group and blame them for your constituent’s problems.”
Actually, 2020 was the Chinese and county clerks (who typically handle elections). 2023 was trans people and librarians.
Turns out bigots can multitask.
God, I remembered Asian hate. I remembered getting yelled at in Chinatown by a bunch of black people. Yo, we are sorta on the same team man. I didn’t create covid. I’m just here trying to survive, just like you.
This chart’s not wrong but I’d posit ‘muslims’ have been an easy go-to since 9/11.
Yeah, there’s usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.
There’s always an element of racism running as an undercurrent, so you can pick your Boogeyman du jour, be it Muslims/Arabs (they don’t differentiate,) central/south American immigrants, black lives matter, CRT, DEI, etc.
Then you can add some kind baseless moral outrage on top. Trans people existing, gay people wanting to get married, satanic panic, etc.
It’s really like a fear cake, I guess.
Yeah, there’s usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.
Truer things were rarely said.
I don’t consider this a shitpost.
I’ve been thinking about it and it doesn’t really qualify as a shitpost to me either, but I’m going to let it stay for now unless it turns into a complete clusterfuck. @GhostFence@lemmy.world, this isn’t really in the spirit of this community. A list of people Conservatives have fearmongered with isn’t especially amusing, which is kind of the point around here.
One thing I wish would have died with Reddit is this adamant OCD of “putting everything exactly where it belongs, and only one time until the end of time”. What if a post is both “wtf” and “shitpost” at the same time? You wouldn’t be able to post it to either because both would theoretically reject it as not belonging there. It would be trivial to find a reason for every single post made to this sublemmy to be removed because it violated some minute nuance of some kind of Platonic ideal form of “shitpost”.
Anyone who has ever tried to micro-organize a whole ocean of things ranging from files on a HDD to the complete stock of a supermarket will know being rigidly committed to a strict definition based structure is unfeasible and a completely non-working model.
I think it is pretty implicit that a post in this community should strive to have a level of amusement. I sure don’t find this post amusing, do you? It’s far too accurate and disgusting to be amusing.
People do not come to Lemmy Shitpost to get pissed off. That’s pretty much the opposite of why people come here.
First off you are just avoiding answering the actual points.
Secondly, you are illustrating the very issue with your answer. Let’s say I disagree. I might not, actually, but let’s say. Is there really an objective end to the discussion, or does it all just come down to personal preference? How many users have we got here, a couple of thousand? We are all going to disagree on the details, always.
My point is that it’s a shit system, and only encourages this type of nonsense argumentation in the comments of whether something belongs in the red box or in the blue box. It’s busywork for the simple minded.
Please explain why you think people want to be pissed off when they come to Lemmy Shitpost.
Please address the issues I outlined.
Nope. I’m not interested in your issues. And if you have an issue with my moderation, please take it up with the Lemmy.world admins. You can find a list of their names in the sidebar on Lemmy.world’s front page.
Also, I’m sorry you find my polite request to please avoid posting this sort of thing in Lemmy Shitpost in future so unreasonable. OP seemed fine with my request.
Understood!
Correct.
2025 - People with disabilities (?)
I don’t know let’s see in the next year.
Please do not give them ideas.
They don’t need them, I’m fairly certain the new thing to hate/fear is just taken from a raffle ticket out of a pile of different minority groups.
LOL that’s probably the right answer unironically. A damned grab bag of hate.
This is actually quite progressive. For decades they only blamed blacks, then also a few decades gays and “communists”. And now they actually have a new thing every year. They are moving forward with society, always staying up to date. It’s like conservatism, but for the fresh cool kids.
This isn’t even true though. They attacked Mexicans for marijuana usage back in the 30s, they blamed AIDS on gay people, etc.
We’re still getting blamed often. I haven’t in a month or two, but normally I listen to a podcast called Knowledge Fight which critically analyzes Alex Jones and a few similar grifters in a taking them in full context way(generally outlets miss the truly heinous stuff Jones says for quick soundbites, and he uses it as a defense to his audience).
Now you may think ol AJ isn’t relevant, but you still see right wing talking points come either early on his show or he repeats them quickly. He keeps basically a “rogues gallery” of people to blame for whatever, and BLM, Jessie Smollet, Obama aren’t always on the list, but at least one of them shows back up monthly, along with Antifa, Soros, Klaus Schwab, communism, Bill Gates, vaccines, trans people, gay people, China, etc
It’s not that they stopped blaming black people (and never stopped blaming queer people), it’s that they have so many buzz words to swap us out on rotation. They haven’t forgotten though. They still hate us.
As a policy wonk, I approve this message.
(i love you)
The 24 hour hate cycle.
This is the true state of the union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvGmOZ5T6_Y
What about the satanic panic, dugs, teen STDs (ok that one is fine to be worried about), violent video games, rock music…
My parents listened to conservative talk radio non-stop when I was a kid. I still remember listening to Micheal Savage scream about small meatballs at the restaurant being a liberal conspiracy and knowing how full of shit he was. I was about 11.
One of these things is not like the others 🎵
I didn’t choose to be a scientist. I was born this wa-hay.
Meanwhile, liberals:
2016: Trump
2017: Racism (also Trump)
2018: Russia (also Trump)
2019: believe it or not, Trump again
2020: COVID (also Trump)
2021: COVID and Racism
2022: Russia, again (also Racism)
2023: believe it or not, Russia (also Trump)They hate… Racism? How terrible!
/s
Trump living rent-free in the other party’s head is the reason he’s going to be re-elected.
Yes because hatred cannot be overcome by hatred, only by Love.
Well said. So in World War II and the Civil War, we should have just talked the enemy down, right?
Surest thou jest…
As long as atrocities in the past continue to justify atrocities in the present, there will be no end to atrocities.
Well if we did just try to talk them down we’d all be speaking German right now. Well, not me, my African American blood line would be extinct.
What’s wrong with speaking German? It’s the language of Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Einstein, Planck, Gauss, Leibniz, Hilbert, Marx, Nietzsche, Luther, Kant, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein… the list goes on and on.
Are you really gonna shit on all of that because of one failed Austrian painter with a funny mustache?
So you’re saying they hated hate?
No, I’m saying they generate fear about it. Which ironically leads to more hatred, not less.
It’s actually conservatives who play up fear as a tool; check out the article in today’s Tribune about it. Given that Utah’s majority lawmakers are gerrymandering conservatives, it’s remarkable to see an article openly and honestly criticize them as “the party of fear mongering.” Already they’ve passed bills targeting trans people using bathrooms and defining Utah as “sovereign with no ties to the U.S. government.” And it’s already early in the legislative session. A truly fucked up state.
Oh no, they abhor racism, I became racist!! Help!!
Had to look for what the hell was MS13… so, Wait, maras are americans?
2024 - Mexicans at the border (you know it’s already happening)
Issues at the border are only during presidential election year and it will never be for the whole year as the day after voting, conservatives stop mentioning it.
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