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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago

Sure, just like we created a story about him fucking a couch to bring attention to what a weird little choad he is.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are a billion ways that people are suffering. You can talk about any of them. Inventing new ones doesn't mean you care. It means the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Especially if your lies are demonizing a group of people who have certainly faced their own struggles.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someone's taking the piss out of it on google, got a laugh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I wonder what it's like to be a Haitian living in Springfield right now, seeing people relentlessly posting uncritical memes about the former president's racist lies, while various schools, businesses, and government offices are closed day after day due to threats of violence...

Can't log in anymore without seeing weird photoshops of cats and dogs being cooked and eaten. TikTok is covered in people dancing to remixes of Trump's racist comments. I'm sure this is all helping /s

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"If I have to create stories so that ~~the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people~~ we win, then that's what I'm going to do."

Yea, we already knew that JD, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right? I get that some middle America feels slighted, and I’m all for preventing the hollowing out of small town America, but I don’t see lying xenophobic scapegoating being the answer here. That’s how you get nationalist parties and paramilitary “cultural enforcement” groups.

Instead, I see a need to foster and fund community organizations and civil engagement. Improved infrastructure and green spaces. More affordable housing - bring people back into the towns rather than the outskirts of it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They think it's "smart people's" fault, and those college educated, holier-than-thou smarty pants folks with their big words and fancy wine-sippin' need to be punished. I think a lot of them know they're being misled, they just don't really care.

They know we hate Trump, and so that's a good enough indication that he must be the solution. Very simple-minded stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

In philosophy, ressentiment (/rəˌsɒ̃.tiˈmɒ̃/; French pronunciation: [ʁə.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃] ⓘ) is one of the forms of resentment or hostility. The concept was of particular interest to some 19th-century thinkers, most notably Friedrich Nietzsche. According to their use, ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed toward an object that one identifies as the cause of one's frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one's frustration.[1] The sense of weakness or inferiority complex and perhaps even jealousy in the face of the "cause" generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one's frustration. This value system is then used as a means of justifying one's own weaknesses by identifying the source of envy as objectively inferior, serving as a defense mechanism that prevents the resentful individual from addressing and overcoming their insecurities and flaws. The ego creates an enemy to insulate themselves from culpability.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At what point is the libel? Could every Haitian living in the US join a class action to sue vance?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

At no point would anything Vance says be considered libel.

Slander however...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I've never heard of a class action libel suit before, I don't think it's a thing. Seems like libel is saying specific damaging things about a specific individual. But IANAL, I just watch a lot of Legal Eagle.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

What a horrible response. Wtf is wrong with that party.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Doesn't "so hungry they eat cats" indicate the failures of the food safety net and the suffering of the immigrants? I don't get why this story would make anyone with an ounce of empathy less sympathetic to immigrants instead of more sympathetic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Because it's not about making immigrants more sympathetic. It's about racism.

Racism.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What we perceive as food safety net failures is just another active weapon in the class war.

Everyone will wring their hands and say 'What can we do it's the economy!' when it is rich people actively trying to erase who they consider as undesirable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They aren't trying to eliminate the poor. The rich want them desperate enough that they "choose" to become slaves.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really is a scathing indictment of our country that, even if the allegations were true (they aren't), the proposed solution to the problem Republicans have offered up is to deport all of the people back to their home country rather than just... I dunno. Making sure they have other means of feeding themselves.

What the fuck has become of our society?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

What the fuck has become of our society?

Mass media manipulation, constant class war, a legacy of ultrapatriotism, and crippled education has turned us into a nation of people arrogant in their own ignorance and fed up with how shit the world is today.

Mass media keeps us all at each other's throats, stirring up hate and violence for views, and those media owners are almost all old conservative white men who will gladly court fascism for lower taxes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah Vietnamese people ate dogs, cats, rats,etc. But not in the US. In Vietnam, during the war. Only because the war caused food scarcity.

An old Vietnamese man explained to me they didn't kill their pets. But if their pet died, they would give it to their neighbours to eat, and their neighbours would do the same if their pet died. Because no matter how hungry they got, they wouldn't want to eat their own dog.

Both sad and strangely heartwarming. I wonder if this is where these stories originated from.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So this is surely enough grounds to sue, if not criminally prosecute, this cunt.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If someone gets hurt I hope they do. Because they do this maliciously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll take the Alex Jones's defense... "I'm not responsible for what our supporters do. I just say false things until our supporters actually feel like they need to do violence to save the country."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, and how did that work out for jones.?

Although he's still out there, his assets should be garnished down to the social minimum.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So he thinks we've already forgotten about his furniture kink?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

WHAT YOU SAY !!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“If you think my Haitian stories are bad, just wait until I start making up stories about Jews. I get most of my “news” from this website called 4chan. Ever heard of it?”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That silence in that clip was so fucking loud. The reporter was in disbelief for a good 2 mins.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

If the American people are not suffering, I am just gonna say they are suffering so the media pay attention to their nonexistent suffering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

If I Vote for the Guys Making up Stories to Scare me my life is going to GREATLY IMPROVE!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I have been to Springfield, Oh. I delivered heavy equipment to the city administrators. The place has no drama.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not until now where they've been getting bomb threats to SCHOOLS and HOSPITALS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

repugnicunt terrorists that will face zero consequences...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He practically said, "I've been bullshit*ting you."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

LMAO! We would have an easier time paying attention like we're trying to without all the lies and distractions from the evil class.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is unbelievably irresponsible.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You mean the same suffering of the American people that the American people are doing to the American people because you riled up the American people with bullshit about the American people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought his boss hated "fake news"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Imagine a President Vance. Compare to a President Waltz. Either would be possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

When you're in a hole, dig harder!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well, I can do that too, couch fucker.

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