Demonized already, by the Christofascists, PC would be an unacceptable word. the "Power Christian" is to make clear he isn't "woke". Ensuring he is indeed politically correct.
Four of those seven people are press covering the event.
Of the remaining three, two are die-hard MAGA enthusiasts getting high on hate, and the third is a dementia patient who has no idea where they are or who's on stage.
Populist culture puppets paid for by billionaires' coordinated influence machines. Aren't they all now? Seeing what I see now, I've questioned every single band that ever rose to prominence on any national stage because we had a few folks from my local music scene we knew OF and met but they never played one regional nor even required gig locally and did NOT earn their local organic gig stripes before their rise to national prominence.
Rage Against the Machine allowed to exist from a few public park gigs to full stadium/record label signing tours makes way more sense in today's hindsight 20/20 because I always questioned how truly organic their meteoric rise was. I really want to believe in Tom Morello being authentic but already I'm too betrayed by the machine's mechanism of co-option to trust any manufactured rage against it that rose from within it now. IDK anymore and that's the point. Anyone got a sanity check against me for this thinking?
It’s kind of unbelievable to me that people are even able to still use it, it’s a complete slopfest. Everything good about old twitter is completely gone at this point
I was ten in 1976 and y’all would not believe what a coast to coast extreme party it was for the entire year. Drawers filled with souvenirs!! There was so much!
Nice, I was -9, but I'm so glad you guys had a good time. I imagine they handed out free money, groceries, and houses. Doctors just randomly circulated amongst the crowds checking people's health...
Rome lasted a thousand years, and has become a benchmark for nationalist regimes that imagine they're ushering in a new golden age (right before they run out of money and attack Poland). NSDAP was notorious about aspiring to a thousand-year reich which they obviously did not achieve.
The US is making similar golden age noises.
Checking Wikipedia, the British empire was ~450 years, so I'd be interested in examples of ~250 year reigns.
Britain still exists as a polity, but the British Empire no longer does, so we say the British Empire lasted such-and-such number of years, because it's already a thing of the past.
If we're talking about how long political systems last, it's going to get very abstract if we count different political systems as one just because they had the same capital (and sometimes not even that), or the same imperial core, or the same ethno-culturo-linguistic citizenry (or rather, first-class citizenry).
It gets increasingly difficult to define continuity if we start claiming the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire were actually the same political entity.
I get that. I only mention it because what people think of as Ancient Rome should include the Republic too, but if you want to be strict about defining only the time it was an empire then that’s fine. America often gets referred to as an empire but it technically isn’t one in the original meaning of the word, however it’s probably the closest it’s ever been to being one today.
I was stuck in a traffic jam just outside DC on 4 July 1976. At the time it was the second biggest traffic jam in US history (Woodstock was worse). We could see the fireworks in the distance.
Same here. We Canadians partied right alongside you in 1976. It was awesome. I looked forward to the blast that America at 250 would be. What a sad waste of potential the US has become.
As a musician, I always support other musicians, but I'll make an exception for MAGA musicians. You thought you'd get MAGA cred from the massive crowds, and it would be worth losing your fan base of decent, moral people.
Except there were no massive crowds, so all you did was lose whatever fan base you had.
Mmm, yeah, nah. This is undercommitment to the facial hair. He needs to either shave it off or go for broke and try for a beard. The hair on his scalp looks really good, but the facial hair makes his face look tiny and has the fullness of the early stages of trichotillomania – or of a chronically underwatered lawn.
I wear a beard to strengthen my jawline and hide the double chin I sprouted in my 30s. I trim it the way that I do to maximize that effect. This dude seems to have done the exact opposite.
for sure yeah. But it's still yet another of a million data points showing just how inauthentic every single goddamn thing coming from those people is.
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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 136 pts · 53d
Strong PC Principal vibes. Makes sense he turned into "Power Christian Principal" after the MAGA shake-up.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 52d
He didn't need to change his name. Being a Christofascist is what's politically correct now.
III@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
Demonized already, by the Christofascists, PC would be an unacceptable word. the "Power Christian" is to make clear he isn't "woke". Ensuring he is indeed politically correct.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 52d
I know, I'm just pointing out that since they took over the government, being an evil asshole is now what's "politically correct."
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
You coming at Jesus bro
I'll kick your ass jesus bro
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 110 pts · 53d
Hey, those 7 people are having a pretty OK time right there.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 60 pts · 53d
Four of those seven people are press covering the event.
Of the remaining three, two are die-hard MAGA enthusiasts getting high on hate, and the third is a dementia patient who has no idea where they are or who's on stage.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 53d
Okay, and where is his security detail? Did he escape them again like he did in the roof?
kboos1@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 53d
But to be fair, does anyone know who's on stage?
peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 52d
Populist culture puppets paid for by billionaires' coordinated influence machines. Aren't they all now? Seeing what I see now, I've questioned every single band that ever rose to prominence on any national stage because we had a few folks from my local music scene we knew OF and met but they never played one regional nor even required gig locally and did NOT earn their local organic gig stripes before their rise to national prominence.
Rage Against the Machine allowed to exist from a few public park gigs to full stadium/record label signing tours makes way more sense in today's hindsight 20/20 because I always questioned how truly organic their meteoric rise was. I really want to believe in Tom Morello being authentic but already I'm too betrayed by the machine's mechanism of co-option to trust any manufactured rage against it that rose from within it now. IDK anymore and that's the point. Anyone got a sanity check against me for this thinking?
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 53d
No the other two are there for a grindr date.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 52d
Thankfully it won't crash this time
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
That’s just Donald Trump
elvith@feddit.org · 3 pts · 53d
Those two are also security, I guess?
iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app · 94 pts · 53d
I know it's off topic, but I wish people would stop using Twitter. Nazi bar and all that.
thecommonistagenda@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 52d
It’s kind of unbelievable to me that people are even able to still use it, it’s a complete slopfest. Everything good about old twitter is completely gone at this point
justaman123@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
It's crazy how little those good things meant to most people who were on twitter
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
Throw Facebook (and anything Meta related) onto that list.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 53d
I was ten in 1976 and y’all would not believe what a coast to coast extreme party it was for the entire year. Drawers filled with souvenirs!! There was so much!
And now? This.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 53d
Nice, I was -9, but I'm so glad you guys had a good time. I imagine they handed out free money, groceries, and houses. Doctors just randomly circulated amongst the crowds checking people's health...
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 7 pts · 52d
And the CIA wasn't staging coups left and right in South America while flooding Black neighborhood with crack cocaine
MML@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 52d
So like did that begin on exactly Jan 1 1980 or what?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 2 pts · 52d
I should have put /s
justaman123@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 52d
Most empires last about 250 years so this is fitting
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 52d
Rome lasted a thousand years, and has become a benchmark for nationalist regimes that imagine they're ushering in a new golden age (right before they run out of money and attack Poland). NSDAP was notorious about aspiring to a thousand-year reich which they obviously did not achieve.
The US is making similar golden age noises.
Checking Wikipedia, the British empire was ~450 years, so I'd be interested in examples of ~250 year reigns.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 52d
Not true. Byzantium lasted a thousand years. The Roman empire lasted no more than 500.
As for the rest, well, fuck fascists.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
If you add the Roman Republic too its another 500, but I digress.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 51d
We were talking about empires.
Britain still exists as a polity, but the British Empire no longer does, so we say the British Empire lasted such-and-such number of years, because it's already a thing of the past.
If we're talking about how long political systems last, it's going to get very abstract if we count different political systems as one just because they had the same capital (and sometimes not even that), or the same imperial core, or the same ethno-culturo-linguistic citizenry (or rather, first-class citizenry).
It gets increasingly difficult to define continuity if we start claiming the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire were actually the same political entity.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
I get that. I only mention it because what people think of as Ancient Rome should include the Republic too, but if you want to be strict about defining only the time it was an empire then that’s fine. America often gets referred to as an empire but it technically isn’t one in the original meaning of the word, however it’s probably the closest it’s ever been to being one today.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 51d
Basically this:
Only I'm not sure if that's referring to Rome or the US...
modus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
This one died about ten years ago.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 52d
I was stuck in a traffic jam just outside DC on 4 July 1976. At the time it was the second biggest traffic jam in US history (Woodstock was worse). We could see the fireworks in the distance.
Worstdriver@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
Same here. We Canadians partied right alongside you in 1976. It was awesome. I looked forward to the blast that America at 250 would be. What a sad waste of potential the US has become.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 52d
I fucking hate it. Facist, nazi, racist assholes ruin everything.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 52d
As a musician, I always support other musicians, but I'll make an exception for MAGA musicians. You thought you'd get MAGA cred from the massive crowds, and it would be worth losing your fan base of decent, moral people.
Except there were no massive crowds, so all you did was lose whatever fan base you had.
MAGA entertainment is for losers.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 53d
Mmm, yeah, nah. This is undercommitment to the facial hair. He needs to either shave it off or go for broke and try for a beard. The hair on his scalp looks really good, but the facial hair makes his face look tiny and has the fullness of the early stages of trichotillomania – or of a chronically underwatered lawn.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 53d
Close, but this is about the lawn reflected in the glasses I think
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 53d
It is. Doesn't stop me from appreciating how terribly his facial hair fits his face.
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 6 pts · 53d
Yeah, they can shame multiple things at once.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 52d
Looks like he was growing a Hitler stash, but the middle wouldn’t fill in so he let the sides grow in more, and they didn’t either.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 52d
I had something like that from 12 - 14 when the goatee finally filled in. If it hadn't I'd have shaved that awful mess off
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 53d
That's what he did. Look at that mustache, I'm female and I can grow a more mustache than this.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
I wear a beard to strengthen my jawline and hide the double chin I sprouted in my 30s. I trim it the way that I do to maximize that effect. This dude seems to have done the exact opposite.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
I think it's the double chin and the patches of hair that kind of screw everything up
Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 53d
"Hello Wyoming!!!"
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 53d
whole state showed up
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 52d
Both of the security guards must have been challenged keeping all 7 people away from the stage
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 52d
Tens of people there.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
no, I don't think there are!
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Eleven.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 52d
That’s one tens.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 53d
New laws coming into effect banning the use of reflective glasses near any public event. They're dangerous.
sleepmode@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 53d
This is probably mean but someone get this fool a mustache brush for the love of Jesus.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 18 pts · 53d
I'll be charitable. It's probably a technical rehearsal.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 53d
for sure yeah. But it's still yet another of a million data points showing just how inauthentic every single goddamn thing coming from those people is.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Maybe. But the regime posted it as an example of how fun the event was. And they later took that specific photo down.
justaman123@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 52d
The matrix being absolutely right about the 2000s being the high water mark of American culture still feels me with angst
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 52d
I'm sorry, but no. You can't say anything before My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the high water mark. Gotta be at least 2010.
justaman123@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
Just to clarify I'm not saying the matrix was a high water mark. In that movie it literally said the 90-00s was the peak of humanity.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 52d
He looks like he would play a pedophile in Reno 911
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 52d
Method acting.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 52d
That's a sound check. There's no way they didn't even get a dozen Nazis to show up.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 52d
Who is this?
modus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 52d
Rodney Sneertooth. Virtuoso mouthbreather and facial hair afficionado.
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
That god awful mustache burf🤮
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 52d
I don't know who that is.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 7 pts · 52d
Nobody does.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 52d
That’s like 8 people?! Wow, this is such a flop.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d
There are dozena of us! Dozens!
Only there arent.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 5 pts · 53d
"There are nearly a dozen of us!"
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
There are dozen of us. Dozen!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 52d
"There's half a dozen of us. Half a dozen!!"
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 52d
We just misinterpreted how the event was billed: 250 was the max number of people they were expecting.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 53d
Sound check?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Could be. But the regime posted it and seemed pretty excited. And they later took that specific photo down.
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 52d
That's not the saddest mustache I've over seen, but it might be the ugliest.
knife@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
is that shane gillis?
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
I swear if i click on this again and see that stupid fucks face again ill go crazy
sleepmode@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Oh no.