'Owning the libs' wouldnt be such a thing if they didnt open themselves up to this level of nonsense.
But it's not just "one tweet". It's a strategy that the right has embraced for years and years. It's the political equivalent of working the refs. They complain about bias and complain about bias, always portraying themselves of victims of such egregious unfairness (regardless of the reality), and before you know it we've got sitting members of Congress arguing that prosecuting people who rioted in the capitol building in an effort to overthrow an election is evidence of a "biased DOJ". At a certain point you have to call the liars out for being liars.
Ironically that's another strategy, which some people call "ironic <insert whatever>" but I prefer to call "a serious joke" because Pete Davidson of all people accidentally explained it perfectly. Couching an earnest belief in the trappings of a joke does not immune from critique one make.
Just because it's the Holocaust Days of Remembrance doesn't mean we need any of your final solutions.
Of course. But the point is, he’s deliberately trying to elicit the type of reaction from the outfits like the Washington Post that they reacted with, which is a reflexively long-winded op-ed over stick figures. That’s all. Not everything has to be a culture war battleground.
I’m just uplifting the voices of the voiceless. Besides, the execution idea is a different thread. This thread is the banning of the unacceptable party idea.
A billionaire with millions of Twitter followers and an unusually heightened spotlight on him at the moment does not post political memes just because he needs someone to share memes with now that his oompa-loompa slaves were rescued in an FBI raid and he's feeling lonely. He's doing it because he wants people to take the underlying message seriously, even if the surface is a joke.
I’m a bit lost on the oompa-loompa part. Speaking of oompa-loompas, holy shit. I had no idea he was 4’11”. No wonder he’s so mad.
I just assume that billionaires have a Wonka-esque harem of oompa-loompas that are required to wait on them and laugh at their jokes. Why else would you acquire that much wealth?
Bro, have you seen how cheap baby blood has gotten since Texas outlawed abortions? Shit is like oranges in Florida; just pick one up off the ground and squeeze.
Coincidentally, I hear that if you don’t squeeze too hard, you can get a guaranteed job teaching in elementary schools.
Al Franken calls it “joking on the square”. It was in one of his books. I think he explained it well. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kidding on the square
Ah, yes, poor Al Franken, who was forced by his own party to step down from his Senate seat because of a bad joke... Meanwhile, the Republican party* still has the GQP members in office. *In case anyone didn't know, I USED to be a Republican, back when the party was sane.
Same here. The Republican turned itself into a clown show that I will not support unless major changes are made.
There’s only so many times I can be told that the next election is the last chance to save our country. By either party.