It’s literally the state religion of Maine to teach children that white Mainers are inherently oppressive, prone to mistreating minorities, and ready to load transgenders onto rail cars and massacre them, just like the Nazis.
Meanwhile, in reality, Maine always was a super-chill place where anyone’s been free to move to for generations without state discrimination. Getting the locals to accept you is different, and that’s true no matter where you go.
I just ran into Tony Atlas at the grocery store a few weeks ago. I used to run into him a couple times per week when we both lifted at the same gym. The dude seemed to love living in Lewiston/Auburn, all before woke DEI indoctrination like the video above were being mainlined into the public school students. Everyone around here speaks well of him and has for a long time. I watched him bench 405 about a decade ago. I think he’s around 70 now but he’s still a pretty strong guy.
He ain’t that old yet, and he’s doing pretty well for 71. He basically rebuilt his whole life in Lewiston after addiction struggles in the 80’s.
Fun fact about Tony’s wrestling gig in August: The smallest guy to ever tap me out has been wrestling with the Limitless promotion for a few years now. The little fucker got me in an armbar when I was trying to pass his guard.
The time frame you mentioned, 98-2002ish was when many of these issue were just beginning to gain mainstream traction. They were ideas people largely compartmentalized after hearing and continued on in the normal flow of the time.
fast forward and we see incongruent principle, and to use an American idiom, this town isn’t big enough for two Sheriffs.
“co-existing” is all well and good when it’s just a matter of discussing ideas, but application of those ideas in a shared space is exactly how we get where we are.
For a good example of how Mainstream media lies to you, my local TV station neglected to mention two documented facts about this shooter: He was in black bloc clothing (antifa uniform) and shouted “Free Palestine” as he opened fire and killed a guy in nearby Nashua, NH.
You do not hate the media enough. All they do is lie, often by omission like in this article.
As much as people will characterize this as hateful and divisive, I think the words needed to be spoken, even though it can be reasonably interpreted as hateful and divisive.
This is the FO phase of FAFO, and as long as no US Citizens are systematically deprived of rights by the Federal Government, I’m behind it. I think we’re witnessing a purge of Marxism that is unfolding in a uniquely American way.
There is no middle ground with Democrat positions like open borders, no voter ID, transgenderism, DEI, subsidizing drug dealers and calling it “harm reduction”, or nearly any of the media narratives they still consume, like the idea that Trump is Hitler reembodied.
What a lot of folks still don’t understand is just how tolerant Republicans have been for the last decade, or really their entire history, all while being called monsters for being in disagreement with any of the socialist revolutionary ideas I listed above.
What I’m observing is the emergence of the intolerant Republicans. Not of groups of people, but of ideas and the actual bad actors funding them through NGOs and captured government institutions.
We had all better hope we don’t have to find out what it looks like when Republicans begin to hate, meaning use the government to actively discriminate along the basis of race or religion. I see no indication that the left will do anything except scream “fascist” even louder while continuing their ridiculous efforts to gaslight the public.
I would sure have phrased that much differently. As long as the Progessive Left has been pushing left, they have condemned all Republicans (and all Conservatives) to the point that it silenced them in fear of being thought evil, without fail. It hasn’t been until the last decade that there was a Republican who aggressively pushed back and refused to be silenced.
You can look at it that way, but I think we still saw Republicans being pretty damn tolerant of leftists in public. The Kirk consequences, or “cancellations” if you want to compare it to what conservatives got “cancelled” for, are a new development for conservatives, broadly-speaking. As is the institutional warfare being waged to cut off funding for socialist revolutionary thinking.
Repealing The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act looks to be gaining traction, even as broadcasters who need FCC licenses to operate are canceling unprofitable propagandists whose job was to gaslight the public over public airwaves.
I think we’re witnessing the conclusion of our experiment in paying to have socialism pushed on ourselves, but it won’t go down without a fight. Hopefully in 10 years or so it will just collapse as a movement and become the latest chapter in the Democrats long and shameful history.
Then we can get back to arguing about public school funding levels, military budgets, annexing the Western Hemisphere, and voting rights for AI Chatbot spouses.
Where does your rhetoric go when you’ve spent the last decade comparing Trump to Hitler? In even more outlandish directions, that’s where.
The second woman in history to lose to Donald Trump just called him a “tyrant” and a “communist dictator” on Rachel Maddow’s show. She also endorsed an actual communist on the show, Zohran Mandani.
Comrade Trump has a nice ring to it. Why not run with it?
This is actually a good clip from MSNBC. She correctly labels MAGA “Christian Nationalism”, and correctly observes its ideological roots in Aristotle and the teachings of the founding fathers.
I’m unsure if she goes on to explain why American Christian Nationalism would be a bad thing, but the rhetorical game has been to link it to fascism and National Socialism on the basis of its Nationalism. Marxism, fascism, and National Socialism tend to lean more towards Plato in their thinking. Once again, I’ll pick Aristotle when it comes to public policy. He was Alexander The Great’s tutor, too, and that guy sure got a lot done.
The other aspect of this rhetorical propaganda trick to link fascism to Republicans is to never, ever talk about National Socialism or fascism as they actually existed - collectivist dictatorships that kept most revolutionary aspects of socialism that enables a government dictatorship, with all of their ideas wholly incompatible with nearly 2 centuries of American Republican political thought.
As someone who is still a 1990’s secular-progressive when it comes to my political beliefs, I’ll pick the Christian Nationalists any day of the week over the socialist revolutionary nut jobs driving policy and rhetoric in the Democratic party today.
Like when the purse swinging involved hissing “White Nationalist” at people as if it were a perjorative.
Then everybody went “Well, I’m white. I want whats best for my country. So whats the big deal?”.
So now they apply Christian to Nationalist. I think thats going to work out about the same as White did.
But apparently their wordsmiths think White, and Christian are bad.
If I were gonna make up words to call the other side that sound bad or inflamatory, I’d probably call them something a little more creative or interesting like “Notzhi” cuz fuck their pronouns.
