Are you saying that about here or the whole media thing it has become?
Because out there folks are definitely mocking him for his kink and using the excuse of hypocrisy as justification as why it's okay (or not even bothering to justify it at all.) It is a thing and to an extent, it normalizes mocking folks because of their kinks.
Dude's a Nazi and that didn't result in anywhere near the uproar and derision that liking Bigfoot did.
i do see the uneasiness in mocking someone's fetishes when really it's nobody's business and it's not a very progressive thing to do
not to the same degree, but it always grosses me out when a conservative politician gets outed as gay or whatever and the left just latches on gleefully mocking the person for being gay (ostensibly because they are a hypocrite)
but like
it's got to be a horrible life being a closeted gay conservative
i dunno
it's not really the same
but i can understand a similar distaste for the mocking
absolutely, not ostensibly. I couldn't care less if he draws bigfoot with a 20' donger, but I will absolutely call him out for it because he plans to give everything he has to make everyone else miserable over what their preferences are (aside from straight people obviously)
i guess what i mean is the "hypocrite" reason often gets buried under actually ridiculing the thing that doesn't really deserve ridicule
Yes. In the closet cases you bring up—whether real, as in actually confirmed cases, or just as alleged against all homophobic republicans—the gleeful reactions are unsubtly homophobic and the whole thing has nothing to do with a high minded concern for hypocrisy and everything to do with open season for heteronormative toxic masculinity.
Anyone who gloats over someone for being in the closet doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about and should wash their mouth out with soap.
(In other news: this very specific thing is a sore spot for me)
Re Bigfoot: politicians are unprincipled opportunists because that seems to be what wins, and so of course they would seize on some random Instagram post to kinkshame their opponent as some kind of sex pervert. I find it offputting and dumb but at least they don’t seem to be leaning into it?
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yeah, i mean, i am not at all offended or upset by the bigfoot shaming
i just, kind of get the uneasiness people might have with it
Are you saying that about here or the whole media thing it has become?
Because out there folks are definitely mocking him for his kink and using the excuse of hypocrisy as justification as why it's okay (or not even bothering to justify it at all.) It is a thing and to an extent, it normalizes mocking folks because of their kinks.
Dude's a Nazi and that didn't result in anywhere near the uproar and derision that liking Bigfoot did.
The guy's a nazi who wishes the south had won the Civil War.
Unfortunately, he's a Republican so being a nazi/confederate/white supremacist doesn't surprise people anymore. Bigfoot dong, though? That sticks in someone's mind.
I feel less bad about people kink shaming him when I realized that since he's a white supremacist he's probably using "Bigfoot" as a stand in for black people. Which is fucked up on like 6 different levels.
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Is there any reason to think that this guy is actually into Bigfoot porn, as opposed to the explanation his campaign gave, that it was just an inside joke with his friends that got poached off a couple insta posts to try to embarrass him?
Let alone that it’s actually a proxy for raceplay or w/e
Is there any reason to think that this guy is actually into Bigfoot porn, as opposed to the explanation his campaign gave, that it was just an inside joke with his friends that got poached off a couple insta posts to try to embarrass him?
Let alone that it’s actually a proxy for raceplay or w/e
Well no, but come on MM let me have this one. Just for a little bit ok.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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Basically this is the day that the Xanga generation always knew would come. This kind of thing is going to keep happening, to varying degrees, in increasing frequency from now on.
Of course, as Syndrome might have said, "When everyone's internet-freaky, no one is."
A Virginia judge appointed a special prosecutor Tuesday to look into a case of potential forgery and other election law violations after multiple suspicious signatures were found on a petition to get an independent congressional candidate on the ballot, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
But there’s a big twist: The signatures for that independent candidate, Shaun Brown, were collected by paid campaign staffers for the incumbent Republican candidate in the race, Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA).
Taylor beat Brown, who was then running as a Democrat, in the 2016 congressional election. Brown was subsequently indicted for fraud, a totally separate story, late last year. She announced her independent candidacy in March of this year.
What has emerged, potentially, is an effort to use fraudulent signatures to add an independent candidate to the ballot, in order to divert votes away from a legitimate Democratic challenger.
WAVY’s Andy Fox has reported that at least four names on a petition collected someone on the Taylor campaign’s payroll “appear to have been forged.” One of the forged names, according to earlier reports, is a dead man’s. Another is a woman’s who moved out of the state years ago.
“Declaring this state of emergency in advance of the anniversary and the related planned events will help us ensure that the state and the city have all available resources to support emergency responders in case they're needed," said Governor Northam. "Virginia continues to mourn the three Virginians who lost their lives in the course of the demonstrations a year ago. We hope the anniversary of those events passes peacefully."
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Effective the evening of August 10, 2018, the City of Charlottesville will establish a defined security area within downtown. There will be two entry points for pedestrians to access the security area. Law enforcement personnel will be positioned at the entry points at 1st Street S & Water Street and at 2nd Street SE & Water Street.
By order of the City Manager of the City of Charlottesville, the following items are prohibited within the downtown security area: BB Guns, Pellet Guns, Air Rifles or Pistols, Paintball Guns, Pellet Guns, Nunchucks, Tasers, Stun Guns, Heavy Gauge Metal Chains, Lengths of Lumber or Wood, Poles, Bricks, Rocks, Metal Beverage or Food Cans or Containers, Glass Bottles, Axes, Axe Handles, Hatchets, Ice Picks, Acidic or Caustic Materials, Hazardous or Flammable or Combustible Liquids, Skateboards, Swords, Knives, Daggers, Razor Blades or Other Sharp Items, Metal Pipes, Pepper or Bear Spray, Mace, Aerosol Sprays, Catapults, Wrist Rockets, Bats, Sticks, Clubs, Drones, Explosives, Fireworks, Open Fire or Open Flames, and Any Other Item Considered an “Implement of Riot.”
Bullet Guns: still OK, though! Spoilered for snark:
They're also apparently shutting down all Parks and Rec activities city-wide. Including swimming pools and such, which aren't located anywhere near the downtown area http://www.charlottesville.org/Home/Components/News/News/9710/635
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dog made out of guns is definitely the next step for boston dynamics' robot abominations
Also this doesn't mean resting on our laurels and not getting people out to vote. Vote. Get 10 people to vote and so on.
But Stewart is sitting with this poll at 26%. Sadly there have been only 3 polls but overall on RCP he is at 31.7%.
Virginia is not a close race. In a way this is almost a weird inverse of the governor's race last year that looked way closer than it turned out to be.
Also, friendly reminder that Virginia went Clinton, not Trump, in 2016, and hasn't elected a Republican to Senate since 2002 (when John Warner ran unopposed), and has only elected one Republican governor during that stretch, too. Once more not to rest on the laurels, but Virginia is not the state of our youth.
There's a poll out this morning with Stewart below the Crazification Factor.
It's amazing just how swift and drastic the shift blue has been for Virginia. Prior to 2008 we had consistently voted for a Republican presidential candidate for 50 years. Our state legislature was predominately Republican and we split Republican/Democrat on Senators, Representatives, and Governors. Now we have a Democratic Governor (second in as many terms), both Senators, a (stupidly) tied state legislature, and could wind up 8-4 or 9-3 in Representatives after this election.
It's kind of stunning really. Whatever we're doing right here needs to be replicated elsewhere.
I think it's mostly having a bunch of well educated people who work for the government move into Northern Virginia. Generally not a GOP friendly crowd. It's how Georgia will eventually flip (with Atlanta). And why the industrial midwest is going the other way.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
I don't think that explanation is exhaustive though. There are plenty of other states that have burgeoning urban and suburban populations that are certainly shifting the political balance, but not anywhere near as fast or as extensively. I think there is more to it than just what demographics alone would dictate. The state is still predominantly white (~70%).
There's a poll out this morning with Stewart below the Crazification Factor.
It's amazing just how swift and drastic the shift blue has been for Virginia. Prior to 2008 we had consistently voted for a Republican presidential candidate for 50 years. Our state legislature was predominately Republican and we split Republican/Democrat on Senators, Representatives, and Governors. Now we have a Democratic Governor (second in as many terms), both Senators, a (stupidly) tied state legislature, and could wind up 8-4 or 9-3 in Representatives after this election.
It's kind of stunning really. Whatever we're doing right here needs to be replicated elsewhere.
This would be North Carolina if it weren’t for the voter suppression
There's a poll out this morning with Stewart below the Crazification Factor.
It's amazing just how swift and drastic the shift blue has been for Virginia. Prior to 2008 we had consistently voted for a Republican presidential candidate for 50 years. Our state legislature was predominately Republican and we split Republican/Democrat on Senators, Representatives, and Governors. Now we have a Democratic Governor (second in as many terms), both Senators, a (stupidly) tied state legislature, and could wind up 8-4 or 9-3 in Representatives after this election.
It's kind of stunning really. Whatever we're doing right here needs to be replicated elsewhere.
This would be North Carolina if it weren’t for the voter suppression
I have hope that the dam will break there one day like it did in VA. You can only fight a demographic shift like these ones for so long until you're either no longer a democracy or can't get away with it anymore.
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"When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it,'" Stewart said. "You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history. This is the state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe. It's a state of the founders. It's the state of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
"But it's also the state of Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart. Because, at the base of it, Virginians, we think for ourselves," he continued. "And if the established order is wrong, we rebel. We did that in the Revolution, we did it in the Civil War, and we're doing it today. We're doing it today because they're trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture."
"When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it,'" Stewart said. "You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history. This is the state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe. It's a state of the founders. It's the state of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
"But it's also the state of Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart. Because, at the base of it, Virginians, we think for ourselves," he continued. "And if the established order is wrong, we rebel. We did that in the Revolution, we did it in the Civil War, and we're doing it today. We're doing it today because they're trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture."
Stewart is a full on carpetbagger btw.
He is a from Minnesota. Moved to DC for college. Stuck around to work in DC. He is a Northerner pretending to be a Southerner for support and power.
I say this as another carpetbagger myself. I am from the West and moved to VA to work.
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Are you saying that about here or the whole media thing it has become?
Because out there folks are definitely mocking him for his kink and using the excuse of hypocrisy as justification as why it's okay (or not even bothering to justify it at all.) It is a thing and to an extent, it normalizes mocking folks because of their kinks.
Dude's a Nazi and that didn't result in anywhere near the uproar and derision that liking Bigfoot did.
Yes. In the closet cases you bring up—whether real, as in actually confirmed cases, or just as alleged against all homophobic republicans—the gleeful reactions are unsubtly homophobic and the whole thing has nothing to do with a high minded concern for hypocrisy and everything to do with open season for heteronormative toxic masculinity.
Anyone who gloats over someone for being in the closet doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about and should wash their mouth out with soap.
(In other news: this very specific thing is a sore spot for me)
Re Bigfoot: politicians are unprincipled opportunists because that seems to be what wins, and so of course they would seize on some random Instagram post to kinkshame their opponent as some kind of sex pervert. I find it offputting and dumb but at least they don’t seem to be leaning into it?
i just, kind of get the uneasiness people might have with it
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Unfortunately, he's a Republican so being a nazi/confederate/white supremacist doesn't surprise people anymore. Bigfoot dong, though? That sticks in someone's mind.
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Pretty sure both is happening. It is gross, and also unsurprising. Politics ain't beanbag and all that. Hunter Thompson put it best.
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well .... one anyway
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I would think they go more for abominable snowman porn...
Yetis? For a big foot man? You sicken me moniker.
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Let alone that it’s actually a proxy for raceplay or w/e
I thought "he's just into it" was their explanation
Well no, but come on MM let me have this one. Just for a little bit ok.
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Of course, as Syndrome might have said, "When everyone's internet-freaky, no one is."
Assuming the person was pronouncing the name correctly, the "ck" is silent. Who knew?
It's John Bay-ner, not the other thing.
It's Deek Ar-may.
Fronk-en-steen.
If your last name makes people giggle or makes them uncomfortable, and you want to get elected, either pronounce it differently or change it entirely.
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always confused me why anthony weiner pronounces it “weener”
oh i guess for the pics
http://www.charlottesville.org/Home/Components/News/News/9716/635
This weekend, Charlottesville is restricting access to about 12 blocks of the downtown area.
http://www.charlottesville.org/Home/Components/News/News/9718/635
Bullet Guns: still OK, though! Spoilered for snark:
They're also apparently shutting down all Parks and Rec activities city-wide. Including swimming pools and such, which aren't located anywhere near the downtown area
http://www.charlottesville.org/Home/Components/News/News/9710/635
Who could have predicted this calami- BLAM BLAM BLAM.
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Doubly awesome because that's getting into "well why should I turn out to vote" territory for some Republicans which might help with the House.
There was an article in the Times about that very thing, unpopular top ticket R's hurting the bottom ticket ones, Stewart was specifically named.
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Moore almost won in Alabama after all
Virginia isn't Alabama.
Also this doesn't mean resting on our laurels and not getting people out to vote. Vote. Get 10 people to vote and so on.
But Stewart is sitting with this poll at 26%. Sadly there have been only 3 polls but overall on RCP he is at 31.7%.
Virginia is not a close race. In a way this is almost a weird inverse of the governor's race last year that looked way closer than it turned out to be.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/va/virginia_senate_stewart_vs_kaine-6321.html
It's amazing just how swift and drastic the shift blue has been for Virginia. Prior to 2008 we had consistently voted for a Republican presidential candidate for 50 years. Our state legislature was predominately Republican and we split Republican/Democrat on Senators, Representatives, and Governors. Now we have a Democratic Governor (second in as many terms), both Senators, a (stupidly) tied state legislature, and could wind up 8-4 or 9-3 in Representatives after this election.
It's kind of stunning really. Whatever we're doing right here needs to be replicated elsewhere.
This would be North Carolina if it weren’t for the voter suppression
I have hope that the dam will break there one day like it did in VA. You can only fight a demographic shift like these ones for so long until you're either no longer a democracy or can't get away with it anymore.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/politics/kfile-corey-stewart-southern-secession/index.html
Stewart is a full on carpetbagger btw.
He is a from Minnesota. Moved to DC for college. Stuck around to work in DC. He is a Northerner pretending to be a Southerner for support and power.
I say this as another carpetbagger myself. I am from the West and moved to VA to work.