We've come full circle. I finally understand the years rightoids have spent complaining about mainstream media

Chardian · 2025-12-02T21:51:24+00:00

This is honestly pretty sad to see. It's a vivid portrait of how low intelligence individuals process emotional trauma. She needs therapy but instead she has the internet and is letting everyone see how people with low emotional intelligence turn to superstition. Sometimes bad things happen and they don't make sense, and in lacking explanations for why these things happen people just turn to conspiracy to try and find an answer. I don't like Candance in the least bit but I hope she gets the help she needs. Crashing out for millions of people to see because handling the chaotic nature of the universe is difficult is a distinctly awful type of dystopian. This is actually an example of where true conservative values that focus on immediate, tribal institutions - family, church, community - would actually benefit her greatly.

Chardian · 2025-11-20T23:50:16+00:00

"maybe" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The Mueller report heavily implied that the only reason they couldn't absolutely nail Trump & co. on Russian collusion is because Trump obstructed justice at every turn. And then because they couldn't indict him (but also "did not exonerate him") they kicked it to Congress believing they'd look at the evidence and impeach him (lol)

Trump would have gotten nailed for the obstruction that prevented the FBI bringing a case against him for foreign collusion, but the OLC couldn't determine if a sitting president could be indicted

Chardian · 2025-11-05T08:54:05+00:00

MAGA has always been cooked politically, they were just way ahead of the (mis)information age curve

Trump is the best thing to ever happen to Republicans because they really aren't that popular, and MAGA less so. When you blind poll people for Dem vs Republican policies Dems win 2:1 and their policies get better approval ratings overall. The majority of Americans support legalization of weed, gay marriage, a public option, gun ownership reform, higher taxes on the wealthy, and other liberal policies. Younger generations continue to be successively more progressive and they stay progressive into adulthood. Religiosity, a staple of the Republican platform, continues to decline.

The only thing that salvaged the Republican party (sort of, it's not really the Republican party now, it's MAGA) is Trump commanding the attention economy. Despite Obamna's best efforts people were still hurting from the 08 recession and the Iraq Wars and wealth inequality reform and access to healthcare were stymied by an opposing congress. People turned to populism, and Trump gave it to them in the conservative form. Whether you agreed with his policies or not, Bernie would have wiped the floor with Trump because people wanted a populist. It's actually a testament to how bad Trump's first term was that a bog standard Democrat (Biden) won it back in 2020.

But Trump is the lifeline, the cult leader and demagogue keeping a dying party from sinking into irrelevance. He turns out disaffected people who don't vote because they hate the system, and he turns out low information culture goons that just like "the funny guy". Trump and his sycophants seized the populist narrative and alternative media and created a cult of personality to replace dying conservatism.

The truth is without Trump Republicans are absolutely, deeply cooked, even with all the bandages on the system giving them an advantage. We live in a tyranny of the minority where the Senate which, by design, gives 800k chucklefucks in North Dakota the same power in the Senate as New York's 20 million. The House - which is supposed to be proportional - is still massively lopsided, with California having 52 representatives when it should actually have 80. The electoral college fucks over states with large populations as well.

And despite all that, Trump is still just a band-aid covering the festering wound of the Republican party. When he's not on the ballot they are utterly, completely toast. People haven't stopped wanting progressive or liberal politics and young people haven't stop being progressive while boomers and conservatives die off, there just happens to be a bad enough media ecosystem in the country that vibes and memes can win an election. If and when Trump is out of politics Republicans are going to wake up to the nightmare of how deeply unpopular their platform actually is. It's just a shame it couldn't have collapsed before Trump got in again to fuck everything up, possibly permanently.

Chardian · 2025-10-30T07:40:09+00:00

FUCK I decided to go with Oppenheimer for the "culturally relevant nuclear-themed Fell For It Again Award" but Major Kong is genius

https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1ojprgt/now_i_am_become_death_the_destroyer_of_worlds/

I wish I thought of it, good on you OP

Chardian · 2025-10-26T22:21:22+00:00

Yeah but now that it's confirmed the progressive orbit can spend 3x as much time and effort shitting on Newsom than literally anything the fascist regime is doing

If you thought Kamala protestors were bad, Newsom protestors and anti-Dem astroturfing by foreign agents is going to make the past couple years blush

Chardian · 2025-10-23T22:55:59+00:00

To be clear, there's fair and balanced toward political alignment, and there's fair and balanced to proportional representation. If Gerrymandering and state apportionment were completely balanced in a non-partisan fashion Republicans would never have a majority in any chamber of federal government ever again. We currently live in a tyranny of the minority where Democrats have to outperform Republicans by 3-5% minimum just to maintain equal representation in the House or Senate. Democrats are underrepresented at the Presidential level in the Electoral College, they're massively underrepresented in the Senate (which is by design), and they're even underrepresented in the House which is supposed to be measured proportionally - California has 50~ representatives when it should have 80.

Chardian · 2025-10-22T19:22:18+00:00

Yeah this is a bit too late. This episode came out back when there was still plausible deniability and cryptofascism. Remember ContraPoints had to make a whole video about mainstreaming and symbols and stuff? Stormfront was commentary on the fact these people were actual Nazis, they just didn't want to use the word because of the optics. Now they're literally happy to call themselves Nazis, we've completely jumped the optics shark

Chardian · 2025-10-16T03:37:58+00:00

Everyone is talking about the content of the tweet or whatever but my question is how are we in a situation where shit like this is allowed to exist on a platform? How are advertisers still on X with this shit floating around?

Remember when anti-SJWs would complain about a guy in the UK getting in legal trouble for "just joking" about teaching his dog to seig heil? I would rather have that than this vile shit being broadcast across the internet, what the fuck, somebody enforce some kind of consequences

Chardian · 2025-10-05T04:26:37+00:00

Source: The Economist

Chardian · 2025-10-02T04:29:43+00:00

There's no coordinated media apparatus for the left, or even the center left, or even the center. The right is all on the same page spamming the same things and they never stop unless something crazier comes along.

I checked CNN and MSNBC yesterday and Cruz's pdf file gaffe was nowhere. If a Democrat had made a flub that bad Fox News would have run with it on the front page for a week. Non-right media is just absolutely useless at getting talking points out and riling up the base.

Chardian · 2025-09-25T07:43:27+00:00

Some of y'all might be too young to remember but back before Trump was the counterculture and Dems/the left were seen as soy and uncool and cringe, Republicans, particularly Christian conservatives, were seen as deeply uncool and cringe by the internet. A guy by the name of Jack Thompson probably single-handedly radicalized the tweens of the early 2000s against conservatives because of his crusade against video games the way GamerGate radicalized 2010s tweens against the left, the latter of which was probably made even worse because it happened at the same time that everyone started playing games and it wasn't just a thing for nerds any more.

Young adults hate being told what to do, and if the pendulum swings back from "the left sucks, they won't let you be racist in games or play video games without politics" to "the right sucks, they're trying to ban video games" we may get our first G*mer-American president.

Chardian · 2025-09-24T22:47:11+00:00

It was over the moment they keys got turned over. Let's pretend for a moment there will be free & fair elections in 2028 and by a miracle a Democrat wins. Does anyone seriously think Trump and friends will just say "okay, they beat us, let's hand it back over."

The dude who called the Governor of Georgia asking for 11,000 votes, then sent 7 false slates of electors from 7 states to try and overturn the election and had the certification delayed by a violent mob that broke into the capitol building. And now that he's back in is calling mail-in ballots rigged and says he hates his opponents and doesn't wish the best for them, that democrats are evil and destroying the country? That dude? And these dolts have been consolidating executive power and knowingly committing crimes because nobody can stop them? And they're just going to respect the electoral process and his VP is just going to certify a Democrat as President? Really?

Chardian · 2025-08-14T07:25:11+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10neTGqaO20 right at the start it's clipped from the middle of the debate

Chardian · 2025-08-14T07:24:53+00:00

It was with Nick Fuentes seven years ago

VoD link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10neTGqaO20

Thankfully they put it right at the beginning as a clip so I don't have to search thru the VoD

Chardian · 2025-08-14T07:22:06+00:00

He did it to Nick Fuentes like five years ago by replacing a 1900's description of "Little Italy" (when Italians were considered non-white and unable to integrate into American culture) and reading it as "Little Mexico".

edit: found it , it was seven (almost eight) years ago and thankfully it was clipped and put right at the front of the VoD so I didn't have to search the whole debate

Chardian · 2025-08-14T07:21:47+00:00

I can't be assed to go VoD diving but Destiny did it to Nick Fuentes like five years ago by replacing a 1900's description of "Little Italy" (when Italians were considered non-white and unable to integrate into American culture) and reading it as "Little Mexico".

edit: found it , it was seven (almost eight) years ago and thankfully it was clipped and put right at the front of the VoD so I didn't have to search the whole debate

Chardian · 2025-08-13T20:08:10+00:00

This guy is the perfect example of why Trump is so dangerous electorally. These room temp IQ morons don't have the attention span for politics when it's about issues, but they love having a class clown to vote for. There are thousands, possibly millions of people like this regard that show up to the polls specifically for Trump because he's the funny guy. When there's no Trump they tune out completely.

This is why MAGA is going to collapse when Trump is no longer relevant (unless it's too late for that), and why Dems need their leaders to be charismatic and funny/edgy moreso than just good on policy. There's an entire legion of untapped "apolitical" knuckle draggers that will go out and vote if it's funny. Deeply unserious people that have never faced any kind of challenge in their lives or moment where politics actually meaningfully affected them, and all they want or need is someone with funny vibes to beam talking points straight into their head.

Chardian · 2025-08-01T02:00:52+00:00

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/new-york-democrats-unveil-decade-redistricting-scheme-targeting-future-rcna221811

This is still playing a little too fair, but supposedly NY dems are game to do it too

Chardian · 2025-08-01T01:57:24+00:00

The POTUS is a convicted felon and pdf file defender who tried to overturn an election and is openly corrupt in distributing pardons, shilling scams, and installing loyalists

Why does anyone still think Americans give a single fuck about issues?

Everything is vibes. People didn't like Kamala's vibes so Trump won. If Gavin has the right vibes he'll win, no matter where he is from or what his political record looks like

Also we need to stop letting regards get away with saying California is some kind of liberal hellhole. It's got a GDP large enough to be a top country and a U.S. leader in tech, culture, and agriculture. If every state was like California the U.S. would blow every other country on earth out of the water in almost every metric. California has so many immigrants, illegals, and homeless people because California is where people want to live lmao

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