Just for extra Irony Points, this is being done in the name of one of the supposed free-speech-maximalist DEBATEMEBRO types.

Not that I ever thought that he was genuine about it, either, but FFS. If anyone ever wants to see one of the biggest cases of conservative “free speech maximalism” in action, it’s someone like fElon and the way he runs Xitter.

fReE sPeEcH

It’s hilarious when I would see cons trying to do this “liberals can’t meme” narrative they were all telling themselves and trying to foist onto the world.

These dumbfucks are almost always terrible at anything related to comedy.

100%. This is what these pieces of shit always do.

The conservatives and their party, the Republicans, are destroying this country, and are backed by extremist radicals like the Seven Mountains Mandate and Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and the authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans and so on.

These people need to be named. Talking about some nebulous thing like “the United States” in a headline without naming the guilty is just helping the enemies of the country. Sure, not too far into the article this current administration is named, but why not put that or the Republicans in the headline?

Hard to really quantify. They could be all over the place; I only tend to mostly read a few communities. I’ve found strategic blocking usually tamps down on any noise.

Censored by what?

Well, there are people like PEDOnald, however. Same with Lutnick.

Still seeing ZERO consequences for those two.

Well, Kamala cackled and there was the genocide, so I so tots had to stay home and/or vote for a bullshit party. Or at least do so much bitching about the Democratic Party that I convinced others to take that course of action!

And I don’t feel the least bit sorry for it, because I’m Morally Superior! Toodles!

–More than a few conversations I’ve had with a few maximalist contrarians. Some of it IRL, unfortunately.

It should “open the door” to all of these motherfuckers spending the rest of their lives in prison, FFS.

Truuump gud aht 'conomy.

That’s what so many of these dumbfucks said.

Really, he rode the coattails of the black President’s economy and then completely bobbled things during Covid. If they think that’s doing great on the economy, I just don’t know what to say because he completely screwed the pooch on doing the very basics of handling a pandemic.

And the types of assholes that adore him wrote things like The Unhumans and act like they were somehow repressed in 2020 because of Covid.

As in, they think they were especially singled out for whatever fucking reason, as conservatives, by Communists (which they see everywhere) and were punished in some way.

Instead of everyone wresting with how to deal with a goddamn pandemic, FFS. But these people who dumber than a bag of hammers will vote for him again because voting for Democrats is just gay or whatever.

Meanwhile, the rest of us need to Burn The Lifeboats

https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2019/06/burn-lifeboats.html

He’s really PWNING TEH LIBZ.

And by that, I mean, he keeps showing his whole ass.

Leftists online

Engaging with some of these types you are referencing has always been hilarious. At least online, where I can just ignore them.

I ran into dozens of these types in the everyday (classes, parties, dorm rooms) during university in the days before social media (not including USENET and BBSes). Now I seem to see them all the time, mostly online. Wayyyy back in the day, you’d see them on USENET and would quickly identify which were not really worth reading or talking to. Some even got fired up enough to run their own bulletin boards, LOL, so they could pull a BoingBoing style regime loooooong before BoingBoing’s BBS did their heel-turn into utter insanity, but it was just themselves and maybe about 5 regular users, so once you got a feel for what the BBS was about, you could nope out of their message boards and just look at what files they might have…

These days they seem to come in clumps. I end up just blocking the ones that are overly obnoxious. What’s hilarious is that many are indeed quite smart, but seem to lack enough emotional intelligence to realize the spiral they are in and pull themselves out. It’s not quite a Dunning-Kruger, but similar.

I only know a few of these types IRL (thank goodness) and they are draining AF. The only ones that are worse to deal with are the redcaps. They were weirdly happy about Donvict 1.0 and some of them seem to be even more excited about 2.0. They think they are right somehow about it all. It doesn’t matter what the outcome is, they seemingly delight in it and how they are “above it all” by voting Green Party or staying home.

Shouldn’t that be what every public servant does?

EXACTLY. These motherfuckers should all be as easy to find and look up as any officer, or seeing real estate records, etc.

We PAY these motherfuckers salaries. Why they are permitted to run around unidentified and have zero accountability is just plain wild.

If they knew what they were doing was moral and legal, they wouldn’t have this supposed “need” to be masked up. They are not masked up at the airport for some reason.

I thought doxxing someone was doubleplusungood, but the administration wants to punish someone and doxx them for naming public workers? There is nothing to “doxx” when you work for the public.

Or is that only for pieces of shit like the libsoftiktok lady? Remember all the conservative tears over that bitch?

I have no idea how or when “boomer” became shorthand for reactionaries, LOL. Used to be it was short-hand for “hippies”, maybe yuppies later.

Yeah, but it’s maximally contrarian, which is cruise control for cool on the intertubez.

The scientist has spoken, everyone.