Time to hate them back?

[Horace]

His book Outrage Inc was good. He's a fun listen on his podcast, though I tend not to listen to conservative stuff. I'm mostly more amused by left-leaning rhetoric.

[Mik]

Well, I like him, but he's family, so...

But he's pretty spot on here regarding what is happening.

[Loki]

Fake news.

2,000 people a day are dying because they won’t take the vaccine and somehow its now the government’s fault, the same government that is paying 20k a hospitalization for unvaccinated people.

Stop the nonsense.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mik said in Time to hate them back?:

Well, I like him, but he's family, so...

But he's pretty spot on here regarding what is happening.

But an utter failure with providing a solution. There's an enormous majority out there who want nothing to do with this struggle. Conservatives win them over quite easily by being the group preaching actual tolerance. If they want to win, and have a country to be a part of by the end of this, need to lean into their individual liberties rhetoric and leave the hate for the other group. Let them expose themselves for the assholes they are and the middle will turn their backs on them. Mutual hatred leads to body counts.

[Jolly]

@loki said in Time to hate them back?:

Fake news.

2,000 people a day are dying because they won’t take the vaccine and somehow its now the government’s fault, the same government that is paying 20k a hospitalization for unvaccinated people.

Stop the nonsense.

Link to video

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Time to hate them back?:

@mik said in Time to hate them back?:

Well, I like him, but he's family, so...

But he's pretty spot on here regarding what is happening.

But an utter failure with providing a solution. There's an enormous majority out there who want nothing to do with this struggle. Conservatives win them over quite easily by being the group preaching actual tolerance. If they want to win, and have a country to be a part of by the end of this, need to lean into their individual liberties rhetoric and leave the hate for the other group. Let them expose themselves for the assholes they are and the middle will turn their backs on them. Mutual hatred leads to body counts.

I think we passed that point awhile back. We are on an inevitable slide of not if, but when.

I do think one thing that could turn things around, is not curtailing the First Amendment, but strengthening libel and slander laws, including for public figures. When news gets back to Joe Friday reporting, with multiple sources and the end of political commentary inserted into true news, the pot will bubble a lot less.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Time to hate them back?:

I think we passed that point awhile back. We are on an inevitable slide of not if, but when.

We really haven't. Like at all.

Almost nobody cares about this shit. They're still filling their tanks up at Exxon and driving to work.

[Jolly]

Until they don't have anything to put in the cars they don't have, to not get to the job that layed them off.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Time to hate them back?:

Until they don't have anything to put in the cars they don't have, to not get to the job that layed them off.

Well yes when the world ends like that, I'll allow that there will be a higher likelihood of violence, but placing car manufacturing, energy distribution and the entire global economy at the feet of liberals is a bit much.

[Loki]

@jolly said in Time to hate them back?:

@loki said in Time to hate them back?:

Fake news.

2,000 people a day are dying because they won’t take the vaccine and somehow its now the government’s fault, the same government that is paying 20k a hospitalization for unvaccinated people.

Stop the nonsense.

Link to video

Here’s a new trick for you. Regeneron is a conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies. I know its a tough one because first it was Teh government being a shill and now the government is withholding. One trick pony can handle that.

[Jolly]

Why yes, you are a one-trick pony.

Who thinks of COVID vaccines during sex.

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Time to hate them back?:

@jolly said in Time to hate them back?:

Until they don't have anything to put in the cars they don't have, to not get to the job that layed them off.

Well yes when the world ends like that, I'll allow that there will be a higher likelihood of violence, but placing car manufacturing, energy distribution and the entire global economy at the feet of liberals is a bit much.

I'm not placing all that at the feet of liberals, but I am saying a fractured society can disintegrate under pressure. Look at Germany under the Weimar Republic, when brutal inflation hit.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Time to hate them back?:

I'm not placing all that at the feet of liberals, but I am saying a fractured society can disintegrate under pressure. Look at Germany under the Weimar Republic, when brutal inflation hit.

Well, sure. It can happen. What I'm saying is that we're not in the Weimar Republic yet and we shouldn't treat it as a foregone conclusion.

[LuFins Dad]

@loki said in Time to hate them back?:

Fake news.

2,000 people a day are dying because they won’t take the vaccine and somehow its now the government’s fault, the same government that is paying 20k a hospitalization for unvaccinated people.

Stop the nonsense.

Why are you saying the government is paying for these hospitalizations? Insurance is paying for these hospitalizations as are the patients. A friend has shown me his bills.

[Doctor Phibes]

@aqua-letifer said in Time to hate them back?:

Well, sure. It can happen. What I'm saying is that we're not in the Weimar Republic yet and we shouldn't treat it as a foregone conclusion.

We've only just survived The GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2008 PEOPLE DEAD IN THE STREETS!!!!!11!, and already people are getting a hard-on for the next one.

Misery loves company.