Current Affairs Culture wars & The rise of grifting

[tsubaki]

I hope that's river water in the UK.

the Thames, I think

 

[Rita_Poon]

the Thames, I think

Awesome, finally something good from 14 years of neglect...

 

[Amw79]

I enjoyed the juxtaposition of “I’m not crazy” and “They’re full on vampires”.

Two sentences never seen together outside a hammer horror movie.

 

[Moomin]

The news about boycotting of "woke" Toyota USA is not mine. I only commented that "cultural war" news to add theme-related information. In 2019 Friedkin financed the campaign of Republican Texas governor against imposing gender ideology in the schools which push mutilation and sterilitation of children and because of it far left activists started a smear campaign against him accusing him of transphobia. I followed that chaos. At the time woke were even more dominant than now. There were censorship on twitter against people fighting wokeness. Wokeness was the default, unquestionable mindset everyone were expected to respect and follow. Twitter mods weared "stay woke" T-shirt as elon musk showed. In that context Friedkin was destroyed by the woke machine.

 

[verreauxi]

Did you know that "Twitter mods weared 'stay woke' T-shirts as elon showed." Since Russian is their first language, I guess "weared" is a decent attempt, so I shouldn't really pass judgment.

But do get a kick out of the fact that it's 2024 and people still use "woke" unironically as if woke is some diabolical entity like Lex Luthor.

 

[verreauxi]

Only one adorable day left until this [checks notes] massive social revolution kicks off in DC.

 

[Wizard]

Fact checked by his producer in about a minute

 

[LostLegend]

Fact checked by his producer in about a minute

Two of the dumbest rocks on the internet there.

Also, top marks for crying about “tHe LeFt” whilst wearing a Pink Floyd tee

 

[Amw79]

Fact checked by his producer in about a minute

The sad thing being, he won’t have changed his mind at all, and will carry on believing that there’s some massive differential where all donations go to “the left”.

 

[bluelife]

Forgot it was grift con today. Looking forward to the clips coming from that

 

[verreauxi]

Forgot it was grift con today. Looking forward to the clips coming from that

They are live-streaming it on jointheresistance.org... otherwise known as cringethecringeistance.cringe

 

[Rita_Poon]

Thankfully JER wont be haunted by this.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Fact checked by his producer in about a minute

How do people who are so unbelievably stupid get such big platforms?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

How do people who are so unbelievably stupid get such big platforms?

Rogan was right place in the right time. Quickly found a target audience. If it wasnt him it would be someone else. I don’t particularly begrudge him his success but he knows he has a huge following and is continually pulled for talking [Poor language removed] but shows no remorse or accountability and carries on regardless.

 

[Rita_Poon]

How do people who are so unbelievably stupid get such big platforms?

targeted to a specific audience.