#conservative idiots

[moonage-gaydream]

I'd say that conservatives who think this way are dumber than dirt, but that'd just be an insult to dirt.

And that's not even the icing on the cake. Get this:

Uh oh, y'all! Looks like someone's never played Mario Kart before... 😆

[antalnuts]

shaking my ass in an alpha male way to make the pain go away

[guavagyal]

Facebook and Twitter have too many stupid ass conservative people on there who think Don Lemon, Joy Reid, Hillary Clinton and other neoliberal ghouls are communists.

I fucking wish they were even a smidge of leftist. instead, they just pandering to us during election times & ditching us as soon as it's over.

and the thing is, I fear people are just gonna continue being more conservative and stupid until they're putting anyone not cis, straight, or white in concentration camps. most of these see fascism as the end goal, and too many damn leftists and liberals are fucking blind to that. they think appealing to them & talking to them will stop it. most of these don't want to see the reason in anything, they just wanna be outraged enough to hurt innocent people.

[lady-raziel]

hilarious that with each new day that passes a new bit of dirt from JD Vance's past gets discovered and plastered over the internet...it's almost as if this is why presidential campaigns have always announced their running mates well before the convention...so that if glaring issues with a candidate came to light quickly there would be time to replace them on the ticket before they were officially locked in...it's almost as if certain things in political campaigns were done for a reason, donald...because the very same critical failures had happened before...but no i'm sure you and your guys attempt to recreate a fantasy version of history while ignoring all the reasons that history was a disaster will work this time...because you are built different and the 10000th time trying fascism will work like a charm...

[generalelectionmusings]

I can picture the scene…

“Don’t you know who I am, I was Prime Minister, don’t ya know. This is preposterous”

[bumblingbee1]

I blame the 2010s Anti-SJW era for the state of the current socio-political climate

[freakoutgirl]

truly astounds me how people use some of their precious few moments in life voting for trump

[animentality]

[speakercrab666]

Republican Green Day fans just now realising American Idiot is about them has gotta be the funniest thing i've ever fucking seen. like my guy they are a pop punk band. they be popping and punking. they've BEEN popping and punking. who the fuck did u think they were talking about????????

[angelsdean]

i probs will never have kids but if i did i would love to introduce them to all the fun cartoons and educational shows i grew up with and never let them know a cocomellon or whatever current nonsense exists. this is precisely why i probs shouldn't have kids. i would construct a reality for them so hard like, no baby those shows your peers watch aren't real<3

[thingstrumperssay]

[sandinmybed]

can i be fr for a minute?? sending abuse to people online for holding different views than you is not activism and in fact actively hurts your cause. most people are not extreme in their viewpoints, you can give them a new perspective if you're willing to spend some time explaining shit. if someone is saying something you disagree with and you rush in there to condescend to them and call them disgusting and subhuman and dont even TRY to explain calmly why their views are harmful, they're going to shut you out instantly and double down on their views.

most people are simply genuinely ignorant to the issues they're talking about - they just pick their views up from the news and the world around them and express opinions because that's what every person does. if you run in there and tell them they're scum for it, what then? if someone does that to you, are you going to think "maybe i should do some research" or are you going to think "this person is an asshole, im blocking them." a lot of you think you're activists and then refuse to do any kind of actual WORK to support your cause.

[theconcealedweapon]

Why are Trump supporters so angry about Billie Joe Armstrong saying "I'm not part of the MAGA agenda"?

Did they think he was part of the MAGA agenda before he said that? Did they think a song titled "American Idiot" was supposed to be a patriotic song?

[utilitycaster]

Wow your Orym tags really are an eye-opener. You are totally right and now I understand the bitterness about this character a little better. I've seen a lot of "...but C3 is supposed to be this and that" takes and I guess a lot of people think they are owed a certain storyline?

Yeah. People feeling as though they're owed a certain storyline is not new nor exclusive to Critical Role; it's been pretty common in fandom for years (see this excellent post that I still think about). But the particular blame being placed on Orym is a fun new twist on this theme.

I'm sure there's people who hate Orym for other reasons; shipping wank is another very common form of entitlement to a particular storyline. I must admit when it comes to Twitter I think some people just yell random lies out into the void to hear their own voice because there is no underlying logic to any of it. But I do think a large number of people who have been blaming Orym for everything for what is now the majority of the campaign are doing so because he has consistetly refused to entertain the idea that Ludinus makes any valid points from the start, and the narrative has pretty much only rewarded him for that.

A lot of people really thought that Campaign 3 "all bets are off" didn't mean like, messing with the narrative structure (they hate when that happens by the way. they acted like Downfall and the Solstice Split and the fact that this has been a very plot-driven campaign rather than one about character backstory are all fucking violations of the Geneva convention the way they carried on, and I say this as a person who can complain) but rather that Critical Role, a D&D-based fantasy, would shed those pesky two previous campaigns of canon (unless of course earlier canon helps them make a point. I truly cannot believe someone made like 5 alts and harassed me and all my mutuals for an entire evening over hypocrisy for...liking one ship more than another when these idiots exist) in order to become some kind of deeply pathetic "French Revolution Except Instead Of Kings It's Gods" historical re-enactment.

We're at the point where like, nothing has validated them and everything they've claimed the gods have done, Ludinus or the Weave Mind have done like, tenfold. As mentioned, the people who were like "oh my god STOP SAYING HUBRIS anyway obviously Bells Hells would NEVER see the gods as relatable" just watched Laudna and Imogen be like "wow, they're flawed and conflicted and a fucked up family just like us." I shit you not, I saw someone criticize FCG's relationship with the Changebringer because "he had to work for it" as if that's not like...how literally all relationships work if you're not an utter black hole of entitled self-absorption. The Kreviris Imperium wants to straight up colonize all of Exandria but they turn a blind eye. There's someone out there talking about putting Rashinna's head on a pike for being willing to endanger the poor Ruidusborn children that...Liliana (probably to some extent coerced by Ludinus to be fair) could have left alone to live out their lives on Exandria. People genuinely channel some anti-abortion "but What About The Disabled Children? Shouldn't Pregnant People Be Forced To Carry And Parent Them" style arguments at Alma's "hey, we have people delay birth for like half an hour so their children don't have The Psychic Migraine Disorder That Made Imogen Possibly Suicidal". The arguments have devolved into "well, canon isn't real" and "but the status quo" as if there aren't ALIENS FROM SPACE SPEAKING AT THE DRAGON VATICAN. How STUPID do you have to be to think that wouldn't change the entire world. Or, to get back to this ask, how desperate are you to maintain the illusion that you are going to get a wish-fulfillment campaign that never once existed? So yeah. They blame Orym because otherwise they have to blame literally the entire cast, and themselves.

[darthmatthewtwihard]

I understand the conservative backlash against Star Wars.

In the old days, the hero was from a backwater patch of dirt, jealous of his friends who joined the army, shot small animals for fun while racing his beater in the sticks, had no idea who his dad was, and kissed his own sister.

In the new shows/movies, they just can't relate to the characters anymore.