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Journal by aristarchus

Oh how easily we slip into tyranny! You are aware, are you not, that we Greeks had two different words for "king", depending on how they "got to be king, because I didn't vote for you." The two words are, Basileus (Greek: βασιλεύς), and Tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos). Basileus is a legitimate king, whether by birth or by election. Tyrants, um, come to power by other means.

So here we have it. Yet another aristarchus submission has met it's appointed fate, and highly unusual, the eds, (OK, Takyon) provided a justification, beyond the fact that it was, after all, an aristarchus submission.

We're sorry, your submission "MAGA hats are offensive and there’s nothing we can do about it" was declined for the following reason:
There’s nothing we can do about it -takyon

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Yeah, right, resubmit. One thing about being the target of a programme of censorship, you learn to recognize sarcastic encouragement. Not bloody likely, as janrinock of olde would say. There was nothing they could do? How about doing your job, editors, like, editing something. Throwing back to me what I thought was a perfectly cromulent submission, and expecting me to divine from the fact that there was nothing you could do, that there is something that I could do? Boggles the mind, it does.

Point is, if you wear a MAGA hat, you hate American, you hate Native Americans, which includes the TMB, as lovely and native as he is, and you hate immigrants, which all but the Native Americans are, and you are probably a Catholic Prep School Douche, like Brett Kavanaugh. There. I said it. Catholic preps school boys are fun! And recruits for Opus Dei and the Alt-right. And Takyon seems to be in cahoots (just because I like to use the word "cahoots") with them. #freearistarchus!!!!

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday January 25 2019, @08:00AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) on Friday January 25 2019, @08:00AM (#791660) Journal

    Yes, our beloved Tak grew frustrated and his frustration beats... sorry, bad term... trumps everything. Even the fact that both TFA shows how fractured the American society has become and why there's that impotence feeling against it.

    Some selection I saw as insightful (from an awful FryDay, with 42C, down under):

    Quartz:

    Do two different Twitter searches and you will see what I mean. Search just for “MAGA hat” and you will see all kinds of people—including, it seems, Alyssa Milano and Cher—claiming that the cap is a stand-in for racism and bigotry. Search for “MAGA trigger,” though, and you will find another set of people: Those who are amazed, and perhaps a bit satisfied, that the hats piss some people off. “It’s just a hat!”

    Vox story:

    Why is the Covington Catholic controversy still the nation’s biggest story?
    ...
    ... It’s been four days since the initial incident, which had nothing like the policy significance of the still-ongoing shutdown fight. Still, it’s the most divisive and talked-about issue in American public life right now. Why?

    The answer is that the Covington videos are kind of Rorschach test, showing each side seeing what it wants to in a way that’s more revealing about their own worldviews than the actual incident.
    ...
    These are the sorts of divides that define our politics today: ones centering less on policy details or bread-and-butter problems than on a series of competing moral visions about who is marginalized in American society and who wields real power.

    There is a tremendous amount of social science suggesting that partisan identity in the United States today has become a kind of master cultural signifier: Being a member of good standing in your social group requires being on the right political team. As a result, our politics has become an increasingly bitter competition for power where the stakes seem existential: If your party loses, then your group itself is at risk. Everyone sees themselves as the vulnerable ones (some are clearly more right about this than others).

    The Covington controversy touched on some of America’s most powerful identity-based hot buttons. It continues to dominate the headlines because it, more than the vast majority of actual policy fights, hits on the real issues that motivate people politically. It is an example of the way identity is not just one force in American politics today, but the fundamental one.

    Painful to see a society reduced to a tribal conflict, no matter how much others like like to believe they are still civilized [soylentnews.org].
    Waste enough time and effort in inconsequential institute, guys, and China first (maybe others later) will take an unchecked lead in this world. You'll have all the time to blame each other's tribe for this waste, especially if you don't take now the time to see the beam in your own eye.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 25 2019, @09:26AM (2 children)

      by c0lo (156) on Friday January 25 2019, @09:26AM (#791674) Journal

      Waste enough time and effort in inconsequential institute disputes

      Fucking autocorrect.

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
      • (Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Friday January 25 2019, @05:08PM (1 child)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 25 2019, @05:08PM (#791878) Journal

        Fucking autocorrect.

        Does have an "Off" switch :-)

        --
        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @07:43PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @07:43PM (#791955)

          Bout, thein houw willl Ie speell thangs korectly?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:02PM (#791969)

      Why is the Covington Catholic controversy still the nation’s biggest story

      Because the leftist media wont stop talking about it

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Friday January 25 2019, @01:59PM (23 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Friday January 25 2019, @01:59PM (#791731) Journal
    How dare they! How dare those filthy little people express an opinion contrary to yours, even if they do it silently, just by wearing an innocuous hat?

    "Point is, if you wear a MAGA hat, you hate American, you hate Native Americans, which includes the TMB, as lovely and native as he is, and you hate immigrants, which all but the Native Americans are, and you are probably a Catholic Prep School Douche, like Brett Kavanaugh. There. I said it."

    Yes, you said it, but it's still transparently false on its face. It's exactly this sort of ludicrous overreach that convinces people you can't be reasoned with and there's no point trying. If that's really what you think then you're simply too stupid to live, and the best thing those around you can do is ignore you and let Darwin do his job.

    If, as I suspect must be the case, you are not actually that stupid, then you must be consciously doing evil. Deliberately dehumanizing those who disagree with you. You know what dehumanization is, and you know what it means if you're doing it. There's no need for me to continue.
    --
    If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
    • (Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 25 2019, @05:48PM (21 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday January 25 2019, @05:48PM (#791900) Journal

      Arik, I don't think he's dehumanizing them. Just the opposite: what makes these people frightening is that they are entirely human, that ANY of us could theoretically become this way with the right circumstances.

      I have to agree that the MAGA hat is the new white hood, in the same way that politicians mostly stopped calling people "nigger" in the 70s but switched their rhetoric to things like "forced busing" and "thugs" and "urban youth." The words are different but the song is the same. These smirking, overprivileged little shits are free to have their opinion; they are not free from the consequences of said opinion. I view it as a very good thing that they're suffering for their assholery.

      Put another way, it's not about the hat, it's about the reason for the hat. You wear the hat if you want to send, or at least broadly agree with, some very specific messages.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Friday January 25 2019, @06:57PM (11 children)

        by Arik (4543) on Friday January 25 2019, @06:57PM (#791934) Journal
        He wasn't smirking. He was confused and uncomfortable. He was just standing there waiting for his bus and didn't understand what was going on. First the "Black Hebrews" went nuts on them and then here comes this guy with the drum marching right up into his face for no apparent reason, he's actually trying to disappear. This is why you can't trust a still photo, you can go through most videos and catch a frame here or there that 'tells a story' that simply isn't true. You really didn't know that?

        And the message? "Make America Great Again?"

        How exactly is that a message that needs to be censured?

        It's interesting that you draw a parallel to the 70s, and it's interesting how completely you seem to misinterpret the parallel. You see our enemies switching rhetoric - but what actually happened was we won. Racism ceased to be something that 'white' folk of any social standing would openly tolerate or endorse. The right moved to center on that issue - they were forced to, if they wanted to continue to hold offices. So, yes, there was a shift in rhetoric, but you completely misinterpret its significance, and as a result you keep fighting a war that's over.

        And not you personally, but y'all in the broader sense, people who think in this way in general, run a real danger of rekindling the racism that was down to smoldering coals by insisting it's an issue when it's not. The clickbait culture really encourages this. You have people just absolutely assuming the worst in every case, in ways that are intellectually dishonest, in ways that are broadly harmful to everyone that buys into them, but they keep doing it because the outrage draws the clicks and the ad revenue. And you definitely have people on both the extreme right and the extreme left doing this, they feed off each other. You have to see that this extreme polarisation is harmful?

        As an example, how many police shootings have BLM demonstrated on over the past couple years? I haven't kept track and didn't find an authoritative answer with a quick search, but I'm thinking it's between a dozen and two dozen roughly, maybe more, but I've actually looked into roughly that number at least. And out of them, two, precisely two, were really good cases for the cause. John Crawford absolutely shouldn't have died, the fact that no one was even charged in his death is an abomination, and that's a case where you could get a lot of rednecks and Trump voters to agree with me, at least if you had them in a witness box to show them what happened. Aiyana Jones probably could have been prosecuted successfully too.

        The rest of the cases? Again, I don't know all of em, but I've looked into over a dozen and most quickly turn out to be nonsense. It's unfortunate any time that a citizen has to be killed but if you've ever lived in a slum you know that it does happen with depressing regularity. Just because a white cop shot a black man, in and of itself, doesn't mean there's any racism or injustice involved. If you're demonizing the pale-skin that's risking his life to walk that beat and try to keep the peace rather than addressing the underlying reasons that slums exist and people are trapped in them then you are NOT helping!

        The apparent inability or unwillingness of BLM to make that sort of distinction appears strategic at this point. It helps to rile up their fund-raising base. It absolutely does not help to bring the center back on board for positive changes; it does the opposite. It convinces the center that the left are all a bunch of loonies who can be safely ignored instead.

        When someone says they are opposed to "forced busing" view "thugs" as a threat and perhaps even have concerns about "urban youth" in general, and you turn around and translate that in your own head into "he hates n*****s" YOU are the one injecting racism! All of those things can be viewed with legitimate concern by people who are not racists! All of those things, in point of fact, are regularly listed as concerns of individuals whose skin is BLACK, can you get your head around that at all?

        I've lived in slums. I've lived in black slums, I've lived in white slums, I've even lived in brown slums. EVERYONE in those places is concerned about thugs, they really exist, and if you have anything at all they could kill you for it. They might even kill you for sport, or because they just did too much meth and mistook you for someone else. They're just like cops, only with even less accountability and no training at all! ;)

        And anyone whose child is being forcibly bused across town to go to a school where they are a minority, rather than being left in their own neighborhood, might have some doubts about the wisdom, fairness, and beneficial affect of the policy. Even black people, even brown people, etc.

        Can you really not see that this is true?

        --
        If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
        • (Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 25 2019, @07:54PM (10 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday January 25 2019, @07:54PM (#791963) Journal

          The Klan and their kind never disappeared. They just went underground. You're a fool to think that something like that will disappear over the span of not even 50 years of civil rights legislation, much of which has been opposed from the beginning in the very places racism was worst.

          Don't you fucking DARE accuse the (sane elements of...) the left of being the ones to "rekindle" racism. How dare you. You are doing the exact same thing as saying people who run womens' shelters are responsible for domestic violence. I'm trying really hard to give you a pass here because I seem to remember you saying you had some kind of high-functioning autism-spectrum disorder, but even you can and should know and do better.

          The rest of your post is missing the point entirely. Yes, thugs exist in every color, but most people who use the word are either 1) rappers or 2) a particular kind of racist who wants to say "nigger" but can't for the reasons you (poorly) outlined in the first couple of paragraphs of your reply.

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 2, Troll) by Arik on Friday January 25 2019, @09:13PM

            by Arik (4543) on Friday January 25 2019, @09:13PM (#792012) Journal
            "The Klan and their kind never disappeared."

            They had declined to the point of utter insignificance and irrelevance. Are you familiar with Daryl Davis? You should be.

            https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes

            "You are doing the exact same thing as saying people who run womens' shelters are responsible for domestic violence."

            Wtf?

            Where and how do you think I said that?

            "Yes, thugs exist in every color, but most people who use the word are either 1) rappers or 2) a particular kind of racist"

            So you assert, but that's contrary to my experience and contrary to the experience of many others as well.

            Perhaps you should consider the possibility you're making a hasty generalization based on stereotype. What's another word for that?

            Oh yeah, prejudice.
            --
            If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
          • (Score: 3, Disagree) by Arik on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:29AM (4 children)

            by Arik (4543) on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:29AM (#792162) Journal
            I won't ask you to sift through over 2 hours of raw footage, I actually went to some trouble to make it really simple for you.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZTDIoywwGk&t=124

            That link will start you at 2:04 and if you watch it to ~2:58 or so carefully that's enough to make it clear that your narrative is bullshit.

            They don't surround him, he marches into them and they mostly step out of his way to allow it. That kid didn't get in his face - he was standing in the same spot and the guy marched right up into his face. And he's not smirking - he's doing his best to project a friendly smile while coming off more geeky and uncomfortable and just plain confused.

            Again, context is everything. And you will need to watch most of over 2 hours of raw footage to get a good grasp on that. But the 54 seconds I was kind enough to arrange for you to easily take in are more than enough to show you that that was NOT a smirk.
            --
            If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
            • (Score: 3, Troll) by aristarchus on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:12AM (3 children)

              by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:12AM (#792199) Journal

              You're missing the point, Arik. It is not about this particular incident, it is about people wearing MAGA hats, and how by wearing those hats they are acting as provocateurs. Now no matter what else, we have Catholic school boys, already up to no good, attending a march to control women, and for some reason they are wearing Trump MAGA hats, when Trump is not even Christian, let alone Catholic. So take a look at the totality of the situation, not just what you want to see in a video.

              • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:19AM (2 children)

                by Arik (4543) on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:19AM (#792204) Journal
                I don't have a MAGA hat and I never missed it, until now.

                I might have to call my guy in China and order a crate, just for entertainment value.
                --
                If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
          • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:25PM (3 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:25PM (#792321) Homepage Journal

            You're nucking phutts. The left is indeed rekindling racism. The same Democrats that spawned the KKK. Racism was largely disappearing. Not gone, but getting harder to find. Did I tell you about the summer that the KKK did a membership drive, right here in Arkansas? You know, Arkansas. Part of the South. Maybe not the "Deep South" that people use to refer to Alabama and Georgia, but definitely South. All the KKK met was opposition. Regular old rednecks laughed at them, and mocked them. No, I'm not talking about UA grads, or SAU, or educated people at all. It wasn't necessary to find people steeped in university ethics and liberalism. Just plain old rednecks, from backwater towns laughed the KKK out of town.

            Then, the SJW's along with all the divisive identity politics went to work, trying to make white people feel guilty just for being white.

            Yes, the left has absolutely fostered racism, and blown the coals back into glowing life.

            If it isn't stopped, the glow may well become a fire again.

            But, we've discussed some of this shit before. You're batshit crazy, and won't understand any of it.

            The BEST THING you and all the left can do about racism, is just leave it the fuck alone. Let a few more Kardashians whore themselves off to any Big Black Buck that will take them. As much as I despise the Kardashians, they have done more to fight racism than all the SJW whores wandering this nation, trying to find fame and fortune battling their idea of racism.

            --
            Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:50PM (2 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:50PM (#792392) Journal

              ...you. Cannot. Be. Serious.

              This "Democrats are the real racists 'cuz they started the Klan hurr hurr hurr" meme lost all validity in the Civil Rights Era; by that point the parties took opposite positions. Prior to FDR, or at least Cleveland, I'd likely have been a Republican. Post-Eisenhower? Democrat all the way.

              And if you actually think you can sit there and use the phrase "whore yourself out to some Big Black Buck," with fucking capital letters. and accuse *other* people of racism, especially when you follow it up with that drivel about how *that* is "fighting racism," that's not only racist as hell itself, but shows some truly bizarre attitudes you have toward black men and their sexuality.

              I bet if I go through your browser history it'll be full of "interracial cuckold" porn. A lot of it, since this seems to be at the forefront of your thoughts even on a site like this. Do you feel inadequate compared to Big Black Bucks (TM), Runaway? Do you have a tiny penis by comparison, or just in general, is that it? Jesus, and you call me nuts...

              --
              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
              • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 26 2019, @07:11PM (1 child)

                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 26 2019, @07:11PM (#792405) Homepage Journal

                You shouldn't have drunk so much Kool-Aid.

                “I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

                ~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One

                https://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-relentless-conservative/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995.html [huffingtonpost.com]

                Did LBJ really say that? Well, Lefties deny it, and righties don't actually have a recording of it. But, yeah, I'm satisfied that he said it.

                Let’s look at another quote attributed to “Great Society & Civil Rights Hero” LBJ:

                “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

                Tell me - was Senator Byrd a fucking racist, or was he not?

                Let me put your perceptions in a better light: Around 1963 or so, the Dems figured out that they had to APPEAR TO pander to minorities, to win their votes. That is when the narrative began. LBJ made the best appearance of all, and succeeded into suckering a lot of blacks back onto the plantation.

                Put down the Kool-Aid, and take a red pill, alright?

                --
                Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @11:20PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @11:20PM (#792478)

                  Put down the vodka and grow a pair of balls mmmkay?

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @07:33PM (8 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @07:33PM (#791950)

        So your reaction upon seeing a MAGA hat is the same reaction a racist has on seeing a black man. Got it. You're a bigot and refuse to see your political opponents as individuals, but rather as representatives of a hated and untrustworthy group.

        • (Score: 3, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 25 2019, @07:48PM (4 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday January 25 2019, @07:48PM (#791960) Journal

          My reaction on seeing a MAGA hat is "I really hope this asshole is just ignorant and frightened instead of actually malicious, but given what I've heard politically out of other people wearing this, I'm going to have to assume the worst for my own protection."

          Race and skin tone are genetic. Politics is a lifestyle choice. I wish I could say it's surprising that someone on this site would be either too stupid to know the difference or too evil to care, but alas...perhaps you have the MAGA Hat Inside, as it were?

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @09:51PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @09:51PM (#792041)

            Ah, so because it's a choice, you can dehumanize them all you want. So women in revealing clothes are sluts, blacks wearing New Era caps and Nike shoes are gang members, police are racist murderers, Muslims are terrorists, AC's are russian shills and logged-in members are sockpuppets.

            • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:57AM (2 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:57AM (#792226) Journal

              You appear to suffer from reading comprehension issues. The hat has a certain meaning coalesced around it. All choices of attire do, some to a higher degree than others. My flannels and steel-toed workboots, for example, say "lesbian" rather loudly, though less so here in the Midwest than in my hometown in NYC. The New Era caps and Nike shoes may, but do not necessarily, represent gang membership. Police have a racist-murderer problem, for damn sure, but they aren't *all* racist murderers. Some few Muslims are terrorists, though rather fewer than the kind of people who would wear a MAGA hat in the US :) Some ACs are Russian shills, and the sad thing is, they might not even know it. And who knows, some logged-in members may be sockpuppets; we'd need to see their IPs and mod history over time to verify.

              We know for absolute certain you're a trolling asshole though.

              --
              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
              • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @01:00PM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @01:00PM (#792269)

                Was I trolling you? Certainly. Did you deserve to be trolled? Fuck Yeah. Why? Because you're engaging in the same behavior you claim to be abhorrent. This constant hypocrisy on all sides of mainstream politics in the US is just infuriating, and why so many of us just stop caring and disengage from politics.

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:42PM

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday January 26 2019, @06:42PM (#792385) Journal

                  For the love of God, no I am not.

                  You were talking about things like race, which is genetic and which people do not have control over. I am speaking of political leanings, which are very much a "lifestyle choice" in the preferred words of the right-wing. They are as different as chalk and cheese. If you want to fight for justice, make sure it's actually justice you're fighting for before you swing your fist.

                  Furthermore, if you actually take the time to read above, what i said my reaction on seeing a MAGA hat was is along the lines of "probably an asshole, hopefully just ignorant, maybe willfully so, and in any case I have to protect myself from someone who deliberately chooses to be like this." CHOOSES. Again, one's political views are a lifestyle, not an inborn part of them, and anyone wearing the hat is at the very best ignorant of what it actually means.

                  --
                  I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:32PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:32PM (#791985)

          Ah yes, gaslighting, the favored sport of trolls, narcissists, and idiots.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @09:06PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @09:06PM (#792007)

          MAGA hat isn't a skin color. It's a swastika. Damn things are made in China anyway. So, you're a putz!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:12AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:12AM (#792200)

          You are suggesting we check if they have a valid voter ID card?

    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:44PM (#791994)

      Welcome to how liberals have felt for the last, I dunno, 200+ years?

      "If, as I suspect must be the case, you are not actually that stupid, then you must be consciously doing evil. Deliberately dehumanizing those who disagree with you. You know what dehumanization is, and you know what it means if you're doing it. There's no need for me to continue."

      Well gee shucks gosh darn tootin wallaby! Where have we seen this behavior before? Oh right... and now that the shoe is on the other foot suddenly it is oh-so-important to consider people as individuals.

      You hypocrites are just too much, as a group you defend neo-nazi murderers, downplay the very real racism that still exists and is a real problem for actual people, and then when you get 1/100th of the same treatment you whinge like spoiled brats.

      Fuck off, YOU can't be reasoned with. YOU can't admit there is widespread racism, YOU refuse to compromise on anything yet play the victim all the time. FUCK YOU! Gaslighting jackass.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:35PM (#791762)

    Perhaps the same solution as with Janrinok?

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:36PM (#791848)

    When my submissions get rejected, I just bite the heads off a few chickens, kick some puppies, and drown a couple kittens. If I'm really irritated, I may need to diddle the choirboys.

    - Brother Flamboyant

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @04:41PM (#791852)

    Make America Pussy Again

    - your favorite CTRL-Left sock

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @08:35PM (#791986)

      I would think you would like that, then you would get grabbed all over by Trump.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Friday January 25 2019, @05:07PM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Friday January 25 2019, @05:07PM (#791876) Journal

    I also had a submission recently that was changed without my permission. I found a story about alt-right Orcas going on deadly hunger strikes because they were so triggered by environmental policy that has increased pink salmon runs over the last decade. The "editors" decided this was too insightful to allow it to get to the main page and instead changed the underlying premise of the summary. But they aren't so smart, they still posted it as a politics article!

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 25 2019, @05:24PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 25 2019, @05:24PM (#791890) Homepage Journal

      That's some funny shit right there. You should be punished for it.

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      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @05:20AM (#792206)

        He already has to be Sulla. Additional punishment would be superfluous.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by cmdrklarg on Friday January 25 2019, @07:07PM (6 children)

    by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 25 2019, @07:07PM (#791938)

    MAGA... a meaningless slogan for people who don't think.

    I'll never forget watching the coverage on election night; they were interviewing a man and a woman, both Latino. They asked them "why do you support Trump?"

    "He'll make America great again!" they answered, both with stupid, unthinking smiles on their faces.

    "How will he do that?" the interviewer asked.

    "It'll be great!" they answered, with the same stupid expression. No thought, just two simpletons regurgitating what they were told.

    So yes, wearing a MAGA hat sends a message, all right. I don't think most of them are consciously racist, but I do think that many are (willfully) ignorant and overly trusting of certain authority figures. That goes hand in hand with religious conservatives nicely. I even think that a good number of them support Trump simply because he had an (R) after his name on the ballot. I've even read that some support Trump just to "piss off them libruls!".

    I'm sure that many of them are otherwise intelligent, but when I see non-wealthy people with MAGA hats on their heads it tell me that they don't bother to use the brain that evolution gave them.

    My $0.02, YMMV

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    Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
    • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday January 25 2019, @08:02PM (1 child)

      by NewNic (6420) on Friday January 25 2019, @08:02PM (#791968) Journal

      MAGA wearers are racist, misogynistic, ignorant bigots.

      And some, I assume, are good people.

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      lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @09:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @09:12PM (#792010)

        And what a pair of gams! Oh baby! How many kilos they hold?

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 25 2019, @10:08PM

      by Freeman (732) on Friday January 25 2019, @10:08PM (#792046) Journal

      It also seems like on the spot TV interviews are made by people picked specifically to send a message. I might also say, that most smart people wouldn't want to do an on the spot TV interview.

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @10:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @10:22PM (#792053)

      So yes, wearing a MAGA hat sends a message, all alt-right.

      FTFY

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:31PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:31PM (#792325) Homepage Journal

      So, I gather that you don't like Latin voters? You DO realize that Latinos are pretty conservative in their values? The only goal they have in common with Democrats, is to get more Latinos into the US.

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      • (Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 28 2019, @08:24PM

        by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 28 2019, @08:24PM (#793207)

        Where in my post did I say that I didn't like Latinos? I probably could have left out their nationality I suppose. I remember it that way because that was the whole reason they in particular were being interviewed.

        So, you gather incorrectly. The voters I don't like are the ignorant, unthinking ones, regardless of their color or creed.

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        Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @10:35PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @10:35PM (#792062)

    Stop being triggered by nothing. When a MAGA person puts on a MAGA hat they do it because they are happy with how they perceive things going. For these people its a celebration of lower taxes on the poor and lower-middle class and less foreign entanglements. When the left sees the MAGA hat they imagine Hitler. Its not the people wearing the hats fault that those triggered are seeing something that doesn't exist.

    Stop being so sensitive and do what everyone else does when they see something they think is stupid, ignore it and move on. Curse under your breath if you want, shoot up a finger if you are so inclined to be that insane, but move on.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday January 26 2019, @01:31AM (1 child)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday January 26 2019, @01:31AM (#792138) Journal

      So, we can infer that you did not read the article linked in the rejected submission? You should be modded Redundant.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:42AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @03:42AM (#792164)

        Dude,

        In view of the controversial discussion https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=19/01/25/0435205 [soylentnews.org] I am hereby submitting my resignation. Please withdraw your hand from my ass, so that I may find some other meaningless task in life. And, please give back my MAGA hat. I'm considering moving to Fox News. I'm tired of being a sock puppet, and want to try my hand at being a talking head.

        - Archiestarchie

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:31AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:31AM (#792557) Homepage Journal

    Anyone who hates me has no taste anyway. Ditto for wearing a bright-ass red billboard-style ball cap. Really, are they trying to look like Forrest Gump?

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
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