Lemmy, what conservative fearmongering do you find laughably incorrect?
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
The recent protesting in Los Angeles. It was actually small, organized, and nonviolent.
It was a little bigger than the protests that happen nearly every year but the conservative media portrayed it as the entire city being in full riot mode.
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
Trans women are coming into the ladies' to... listen to me pee? Still not sure what they're allegedly doing in there.
Lesbians are also hearing me pee and that makes me uncomfortable (/s). The real solution is obviously requiring everyone to wear ear plugs in public restrooms.
Also wondering about correlation between pee-play fetishism rates and American conservatism? I hypothesize there is a strong correlation given how seriously they treat pee sounds heard between the genders and sexes.
Don't kink-shame the conservatives with their pee-play fetishes! Wear earplugs!
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Trans women are coming into the ladies' to... listen to me pee? Still not sure what they're allegedly doing in there.
Lesbians are also hearing me pee and that makes me uncomfortable (/s). The real solution is obviously requiring everyone to wear ear plugs in public restrooms.
Also wondering about correlation between pee-play fetishism rates and American conservatism? I hypothesize there is a strong correlation given how seriously they treat pee sounds heard between the genders and sexes.
Don't kink-shame the conservatives with their pee-play fetishes! Wear earplugs!
We have an amazing bar near me that has an "all gendered restroom" that would make my rural family members cry out in fear. A sink in the middle big enough for 15 people to wash their hands. On one side is urinals, the other stalls, and all are fully enclosed and lockable individually. The horror
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
That college professors are turning young people into communists.
Dawg, I can’t even get them to read.
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
Public services are the devil, and "giving people stuff for free" will make them lazy slobs. Especially when those people go to Libertarian towns and wonder why there's no trash pickup schedule or no firefighters.
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Public services are the devil, and "giving people stuff for free" will make them lazy slobs. Especially when those people go to Libertarian towns and wonder why there's no trash pickup schedule or no firefighters.
I grew up in a small suburb just outside of a major city, overall a pretty liberal and urbanized place.
The town had it's own garbage trucks, all the years I lived there I never remember them missing a trash pickup. The neighboring towns didn't have their own trucks but still provided municipal pickup just contracted through some company and they were similarly pretty good.
I now live towards the more rural end of that same county. I'd still consider it to be in the suburbs, but it's a much less densely populated area, with some woods and a handful of small farms around, and while still fairly liberal, it definitely skews more conservative than the town I grew up in.
So this town does not provide trash service for its residents. It's pretty much up to everyone to make their own arrangements with any of a half dozen or so trash companies in the area.
And it's an absolute shit-show. They're all constantly missing trash pickups, constantly raising their prices, one time the company I was with got bought out by another company and they decided they were going to stop providing residential pickup service in my area so I had to find another company to take my money, and because we have all of these different companies with different pickup schedules it seems like anywhere you go there's constantly a trash truck slowing down traffic.
Because the libertarian dipshits in my area would rather pay more for worse service than abide by a smaller bump in their taxes to get reliable municipal services.
Similarly a lot of roads in my area are bullshit tar & chips instead of proper paving, it doesn't last long, loose stones are always getting kicked up, the motorcycle riders in my area complain that they're dangerous, etc.
A lot of my town is on wells and septic tanks instead of city water and sewer. There are allegedly plans to expand the parts of the town that can get hooked up to the municipal water and sewer lines, but they've been saying that at least since I moved here about 5 years ago and I haven't seen any real progress on that. I am hooked up to the municipal lines, but I have some friends who aren't and are hoping to get hooked up to it, and every time they ask they get told that their street is on the list to get hooked up but no one seems to know when, so they're constantly juggling whether they want to do some overdue maintenance on their aging septic system or if it's worth toughing it out until they eventually can get hooked up.
And probably the worst is the police department (InB4 ACAB) it's a part time department so they're not actually on duty overnight or most weekends and our area gets covered by state police when they're not on duty (which I believe the town actually pays for)
Now if there's any town that could probably get away with just not having its own police department, it's probably mine. I work in the county dispatch center, I know what their workload is like, if they handle a dozen incidents a week, including traffic stops for speeding tickets and such, they've had a busy week.
But of course most of what does happen in town is overnight and over the weekend, because that's when people are home. We don't exactly have a lot of businesses in town, so most people are just straight-up not around during the day.
The state police coverage is terrible. They cover a pretty large area of other semi rural departments without their own police or part time departments like mine, so often when they're needed the only available troopers are a couple towns away.
They also will only enforce state laws, and won't bother themselves with any local ordinances, so if you have, for example, a noise complaint, you're SOL, because odds are your neighbors are having loud parties and shooting off fireworks after the local police are off-duty for the night. They might be able to cite them for it later, but no one's gonna be going out to shut them up right now while you're trying to sleep.
No one likes the state police coverage, but they also don't want to pay the taxes it would take to have an actual full-time police department. A couple years ago there was talk of joining up with a couple neighboring towns that are currently covered full-time by state police, to form a full-time regional department that would cover all 3 towns, but those other towns also didn't want to increase taxes to pay for it.
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
An oldie but goodie, how the tea party fucks always ranted about FEMA death camps. It was beyond absurd.
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An oldie but goodie, how the tea party fucks always ranted about FEMA death camps. It was beyond absurd.
The irony is just hilarious. The magas who screamed the loudest are now silent...when their turnip is doing exactly that.
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We have an amazing bar near me that has an "all gendered restroom" that would make my rural family members cry out in fear. A sink in the middle big enough for 15 people to wash their hands. On one side is urinals, the other stalls, and all are fully enclosed and lockable individually. The horror
My conservative parents flew in/out of SeaTac in Seattle and gasp the absolute mind boggling grossness they had to endure by knowing there was a non-gendered restroom in the airport???
If I rolled my eyes any harder, I'd have to put out some missing posters for they'd have rolled away.
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
experiencing <x>-war. trade-"war". immigration-"war". drug-"war". "war" against country <y>.
and nobody ever criticizes who is the war-freak in the room. this war story is getting old.
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My conservative parents flew in/out of SeaTac in Seattle and gasp the absolute mind boggling grossness they had to endure by knowing there was a non-gendered restroom in the airport???
If I rolled my eyes any harder, I'd have to put out some missing posters for they'd have rolled away.
Oh my god, did they have to be in the same building as one?! The horror
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That college professors are turning young people into communists.
Dawg, I can’t even get them to read.
How popular are the Landau & Lifschitz physics lecture in US universities? One of the classic physics textbook is a Soviet one.
And actually, I liked this aspect of the cold War over western Europe where you could get translation of both Feynman and Landau textbook to learn your courses.
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experiencing <x>-war. trade-"war". immigration-"war". drug-"war". "war" against country <y>.
and nobody ever criticizes who is the war-freak in the room. this war story is getting old.
The chasers war on everything got pretty wild for a while
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The irony is just hilarious. The magas who screamed the loudest are now silent...when their turnip is doing exactly that.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Everything conservatives cry about ultimately is a projection of their own wants and desires.
FEMA Death Camps evil? Not when Trumps making deathcamps in the swamps.
Healthcare Death Panels? Not a problem, when its republicans dictating that women have to die from miscarriages.
"WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" Republicans are thinking of children, alright.. Which is why you shouldnt leave them alone, unsupervised, with any children.
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I grew up in a small suburb just outside of a major city, overall a pretty liberal and urbanized place.
The town had it's own garbage trucks, all the years I lived there I never remember them missing a trash pickup. The neighboring towns didn't have their own trucks but still provided municipal pickup just contracted through some company and they were similarly pretty good.
I now live towards the more rural end of that same county. I'd still consider it to be in the suburbs, but it's a much less densely populated area, with some woods and a handful of small farms around, and while still fairly liberal, it definitely skews more conservative than the town I grew up in.
So this town does not provide trash service for its residents. It's pretty much up to everyone to make their own arrangements with any of a half dozen or so trash companies in the area.
And it's an absolute shit-show. They're all constantly missing trash pickups, constantly raising their prices, one time the company I was with got bought out by another company and they decided they were going to stop providing residential pickup service in my area so I had to find another company to take my money, and because we have all of these different companies with different pickup schedules it seems like anywhere you go there's constantly a trash truck slowing down traffic.
Because the libertarian dipshits in my area would rather pay more for worse service than abide by a smaller bump in their taxes to get reliable municipal services.
Similarly a lot of roads in my area are bullshit tar & chips instead of proper paving, it doesn't last long, loose stones are always getting kicked up, the motorcycle riders in my area complain that they're dangerous, etc.
A lot of my town is on wells and septic tanks instead of city water and sewer. There are allegedly plans to expand the parts of the town that can get hooked up to the municipal water and sewer lines, but they've been saying that at least since I moved here about 5 years ago and I haven't seen any real progress on that. I am hooked up to the municipal lines, but I have some friends who aren't and are hoping to get hooked up to it, and every time they ask they get told that their street is on the list to get hooked up but no one seems to know when, so they're constantly juggling whether they want to do some overdue maintenance on their aging septic system or if it's worth toughing it out until they eventually can get hooked up.
And probably the worst is the police department (InB4 ACAB) it's a part time department so they're not actually on duty overnight or most weekends and our area gets covered by state police when they're not on duty (which I believe the town actually pays for)
Now if there's any town that could probably get away with just not having its own police department, it's probably mine. I work in the county dispatch center, I know what their workload is like, if they handle a dozen incidents a week, including traffic stops for speeding tickets and such, they've had a busy week.
But of course most of what does happen in town is overnight and over the weekend, because that's when people are home. We don't exactly have a lot of businesses in town, so most people are just straight-up not around during the day.
The state police coverage is terrible. They cover a pretty large area of other semi rural departments without their own police or part time departments like mine, so often when they're needed the only available troopers are a couple towns away.
They also will only enforce state laws, and won't bother themselves with any local ordinances, so if you have, for example, a noise complaint, you're SOL, because odds are your neighbors are having loud parties and shooting off fireworks after the local police are off-duty for the night. They might be able to cite them for it later, but no one's gonna be going out to shut them up right now while you're trying to sleep.
No one likes the state police coverage, but they also don't want to pay the taxes it would take to have an actual full-time police department. A couple years ago there was talk of joining up with a couple neighboring towns that are currently covered full-time by state police, to form a full-time regional department that would cover all 3 towns, but those other towns also didn't want to increase taxes to pay for it.
Damn, dude literally went from Gomorrah to Sodom
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
Antifa is coming for your small town to wreak havoc.
Fucking morons. Antifa doesn't give a shit about you rural rubes. They're fighting fascists in major urban areas, dumbasses.
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What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
All of it. Fuck em all.
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Antifa is coming for your small town to wreak havoc.
Fucking morons. Antifa doesn't give a shit about you rural rubes. They're fighting fascists in major urban areas, dumbasses.
The same people condemning BLM and Antifa are the ones that would have called the Civil Rights Protests "riots/looting"
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The same people condemning BLM and Antifa are the ones that would have called the Civil Rights Protests "riots/looting"
The same people condemning BLM and Antifa are the ones that would have called the Civil Rights Protests “riots/looting”
Exactly right. In fact:
Here they are in all their glory. Asshole shitheads. I'd sure like to meet these bigots face to face to share my opinion of them.
