Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate running as a Republican for governor of Ohio, posted a Halloween photo of himself and his two sons on Friday. The post received a wave of xenophobic and racist replies, including one user who wrote, “I see this year Vivek went as an H1B immigrant here to steal your jobs. Very scary. Like the brown version of the Grinch.”
Token Republican minorities realize they are in fact token minorities, apparently having gone their whole lives somehow not realizing the most solid core of the Republican base is… white Christian racists.
This is exploding all through the right wing at the moment.
Ben Shapiro appears to be genuinely baffled that roughly half the Republican base under 30 likes Nick Fuentes more than him…
…he had a live discussion with his own employeees, including Matt Walsh, where Ben says it would be ‘an Agathat Christie novel’ to figure out if he were assasinated, whether it’d be from a far left or far right person…
… meanwhile Matt Walsh just cannot be arsed to give a fuck either way… because he is white, Christian, racist, and extremely confident in his…I guess just majestically un self aware world view, total fucking dead eyed sociopath, 24/7.
Mark Levin and Lindsey Graham are yelling slurs and profanities at Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, in public speeches at a fairly high level conservative event… evidently somewhere between baffled and terrified that they need to explain that Hitler was bad, Israel can do no wrong, and if you disagree, go fuck yourself.
These fucking actual morons have been lying to themselves their whole lives that a massive chunk of the movements they are a part of, helped to grow and mold… that a huge chunk of their fanbase isn’t actually just dumb asshole racist bigots.
They apparently actually do largely believe their own obvious bullshit.
And now, they seem to have only just realized this, at the very moment that the dumb asshole racist bigots may actually outnumber the older school, corpo suck off neocons.
This is uh, strategic level, almost a stupid as the Dems softwalking Trump’s prosecution during Biden’s admin, and also running cover for and aiding the Israeli genocide, which lead to an actual fascist takeover of the government.
Now, the Republicans have achieved that, we are not even a year in, and, well, we’re on schedule for a Night of the Long Knives, an internal party civil war.
JFC, this is all so predictable to anyone with an understanding of politics and history that expands further than the last 40 years of the US… but, hedonistic myopia is apparently just what we do now.
This is why this will be over in the near future, these shots are tearing themselves to pieces, they can’t share power, don’t know how to
Yeah dipshits
I feel bad for his kids.
Even if that’s true, it won’t last. These issues have long lasting effects and they’ll get pissy when the next administration doesn’t immediately fix it. Since they voted for this shit once we know they’re not intelligent or discerning.
If there’s a minority that considers themselves Republican, they’re too damn stupid for this to make a difference at this point.
Good, but if you are a minority and you are still in the GOP at this point, you are a stupid motherfucker.
Just sayin’.
Everyone still in the GOP is either a Nazi or a nitwit.
As a latina, I am so absolutely ashamed of how many latinos have been supporting the face-eating leopard. A lot of it comes from machismo within the culture, I hated that shit growing up
If I can armchair psychoanalyze for a minute, as someone who is a minority I do see that people within my community who have low self esteem seem to think that any kind of asking for help that doesn’t relate to going all in on some kind of sigma grind set, fuck handouts is some kind of confirmation of their inadequacy.
It’s kind of sad to see. I’ve seen a lot of people go down that red pill, weirdly ethnocentric road. Some bottomed out and came to their senses, others aren’t there yet but hopefully will change course before then.
It all boils down to:
“Suffering is the highest moral good.”
Just suffer because suffering is some flavor of good, and then later throw on some ruleset that specifices what kinds of suffering are more or less good.
Can suffering eventually build character, lead to meaningful realizations, growth, development of useful habits and ethics?
Yes.
But suffering for suffering’s sake is pointless, destructive, a form of masturbation really.
Suffering because other people tell you its good for you, even when it uh, doesn’t actually do anything good for you?
Well now you’re actually something of an ideological cuck/masochist, despite all the exaggerated outward signalling toward the opposite.
Like, I’m a white trash dude, I’ve known poor latinos, asians, blacks, native americans… yeah, its certainly got different variations and specific details for different ethnicities and cultures, but it ultimately just boils down to ‘suffering for suffering’s sake is a moral good, that is tied into your worth as a man.’
Its an archetype of a moral/identity structure that is at least more than ‘I am a worthless failure’ for broken/broke men, as you say, with very low self esteem and self respect.
Unfortunately… it does not actually produce genuine self esteem or self respect, it produces contempt, a worldview where your worth is based on being ‘better’ in some way, than someone else…
It’s not an inward originating worldview, based on actual deliberation and consideration, that, while more difficult to create, does actually produce a stable, model of the self, which thus then actually allows for real self esteem and self respect.
The snake begins to eat itself…
Sure.
- racist attacks from their own politicians ‘crickets’
- Racist attack from fellow voters ‘a’ight Im out!’
Ridiculous.
These MAGA minorities think “they’re one of the good ones”
It’s only a matter of time until they find out, like they always have in history, that the white ruling class doesn’t give a shit about them, and will cast them to the wolves when they’re done using them.
On that note, how’s Enrique Tarrio doing these days?
You know, the frontman/figurehead leader of the proud boys, token minority, all the actual decisions are made by a shadowy council of I think 13 white dudes, ‘elders’?
Tokens get spent
Anyone going to tell him?
D’Souza dated both Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter so I think being hated for his ethnicity is his kink.
Answers the question I never wanted answered.
WHO are these gullible ass idiot minorities that support the Gop. do they even exist? I never see anything but a ‘tokens’ at shows regarding their conventions.
did you black, Hispanic, Jewish, middle eastern, European idiots think these rabid white people weren’t ever only helping their white ass bullshit ass christian ass asses,well how about you ask your phone.
Hey Google, tell me about the last 100 years
I mean, there was a group called Jews for Hitler, so…
But in all seriousness, there’s many reasons why.
Indian people for example are, sadly, a bit racist and very, very classist, and the higher-caste Indians kissing Trump’s ass think they’re in the same category as ‘white’ people.
Most Mexicans, on the other hand, were straight-up lied to. Many don’t speak English very well, and the Spanish-speaking news stations did some very liberal editing on their translations of Trump’s speeches, to make him sound coherent and sane. Seriously, if you speak Spanish check out the translations of his speeches; it’s not even remotely close to reality.
Former Cubans generally see anything called ‘communism’ as bad, and that’s how the Right has painted the Dems for a while now (never mind anyone with a brain could see that they’re nothing of the sort). A lot of them also really, really hate illegal immigrants, and so anyone who promises to get rid of them gets the Cuban vote.
do they even exist?
Unfortunately, yes. There’s no ethnic, religious or otherwise group without two digit percent Republican support.
The number of “Latinos for Trump” at my gym which is in a fairly blue area was pretty disconcerting.
I think they felt patronized by traditional liberals who also took their vote for granted, which is fair, but they handled it in the worst possible way.
They’re not idiots. They were lied to, kinda like when student borrowers and wage earners supported the Democrats thinking Biden would lift a finger to help them out of poverty.
Nah, they’re idiots.
But Bien did lift several fingers to save student borrowers, though? It was blocked every time by Republicunts.
I’m not willing to give him credit for performative acts, especially after seeing a president actually wield power these last eight months. Honestly a little surprised you are.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me over and over again, I’m an idiot.
You just aptly described the two-party system and the people who vote for it. Cheers.
Vote FOR it, or vote IN it. Two different things. Pretty sure most people would love more choices to fit the many directions and not have to accept with “close enough” or “better than the other one”. As for voting in the system as it exists, there is absolutely the option to just not vote because you feel it’s a waste… but then you get what we have now, since most non-voters (for whatever reasons they didn’t) would have not picked Trump.
The real flaw: people who shout that voting is useless during a voting year, but then don’t try and improve the system during the off years with what’s there. Of course it’s the same voting dichotomy if no one bothers to change it before the next cycle. You get what you put in. I would suggest that it’s because of apathy between voting periods that’s the problem, people vote (or not) and then ignore politics until the next go around, and are shocked that it’s the same.
Believing anything a Republican says is in good faith makes you an idiot.
I dunno, he did say he would be dictator on day one.
…unless it’s something horribly evil. Then you know they mean it.
Same with Democrats, looking at their voting record. It’s why they’re fighting harder to stop Mamdani than the fascists.
That’s a bunch of bullshit. They are pick mes.
No they’re not. They were desperate and lied to.
Did you think when Bill Clinton was sent north to finger wag at Palestinian people in Wisconsin, or Obama was sent to finger wag at black men, that they’d still vote for the Blue bunch of idiots?
Y’all need to realize you need these people’s votes and act like it. Support the Mamdanis and Platners and AOC’s of the world.
The only thing I need from those pick mes is to be deported for FAFO.
You’re wrong, but that’s okay.
Let a little more specific.
If you are a black man and you voted for Trump, you deserve you put back in chains.
If you were a white woman who voted for Trump, you deserve to be made a brood mare forced in the kitchen.
If you are Hispanic, Asian, or Muslim, if you voted for Trump, you deserve to be on a plane, headed towards Angola.
I don’t have any expectations of White men. That requires me to actually have a positive opinion of them and based on the last 12 years, they haven’t done much to improve their reputation.
If you’re a tankie who decided not to vote at all, you deserve to be the very first one that the Trump administration eventually starts putting Americans in concentration camps just like what happened in Germany.
I have zero sympathy for pick mes. They had a chance to do good, receive support from other minority communities, and decided the holy Grail of whiteness was more important than solidarity.
I only have sympathy for black women, because they, first off, have been the only ones who’ve tried to hold Trump accountable, and they were the only group that significantly voted with common sense.
And as for the Trumpies suffering right now because of tariffs, no jobs, and now no food stamps, I’m enjoying watching your suffering while eating a bag of popcorn.
In a nutshell, spare me the Kumbaya shit.
They’re not idiots, but some are grifters, some have become disillusioned with Dems not taking their economic issues seriously and basically getting jaded and disoriented politically, and some are deeply insecure and just voting for whichever party seems the least gay.
Always interesting how collaborators honestly think they’ll be exempt once they usher fascists into power. Vivek hasn’t read much history apparently.
This leopard won’t eat MY face; I let it out from its cage!
Also, really, Vivek should be happy. This is literally the free speech he supposedly fought for and the sort of speech Twitter was re-engineered to proliferate.
As we all know, it was never about “free speech”, it was about “saying every racist/hateful thing without any consequences or societal pushback”. They’re actually just saying that out loud these days.
He also should be glad he could lose his cititzenship despite being born in the US.
Vivek has gotten obscenely wealthy by extolling a conservative worldview. I think be knows exactly what he’s doing, even if it is entirely self serving.
I’ve never been a supporter of the guy but my hat’s off for the kid in a gundam outfit holding some gunpla.
The photo itself is entirely innocuous, just a dude with his two sons on halloween.
He’s not wearing a Gundam outfit. It’s a set of Optimus Prime PJs :>
Take a political organization with no policies, no substance, only nationalist slogans and propaganda. It should be obvious that such an org, having no plan for real and beneficial change, will eventually turn in on itself because they need someone to blame for the lack of progress. And who did these guys think they would start with?
Assumed I was talking about the GOP? That comment easily fits the Democrats. Observe how they’re turned on players with actionable plans, Platner, AOC, Bernie, Mamdami, et al.
Ah yes, democrats. Known for their nationalist sloagn’s like “Support the troops” and “America First!” And “Make America Great Again!” am I forgetting any others? There has to be some around Reagan and Nixon’s time I’m forgetting.
The classic “Lock her up!” while crying about weaponized DOJ that is now going after anyone that sought justice against their dictator.
They say the same exact things you quoted without hammering them into slogans, same meanings though. Their voters aren’t as easily swayed by quickie little blurbs, they aim a little higher, longer sentences, but the messages still lack meaning. But maybe that’s why their messaging isn’t hitting? Would you argue the Democrats are winning the propaganda war?
You want to argue the Democrats have real policies of substance? Real plans to move our economy and society forward? Because all I see them doing is killing the tiny minority that have articulated plans. You want to argue the Democrats aren’t imploding? I gave examples I think we mostly agree on around here. You gonna address any other part of my comment?
Lemmy: We hate Democrats, but don’t dare compare them to the GOP! We’ll call you out for ‘both sides’ and nullify your opinion!"
I’m sorry, I’m still not getting it, can you explain a bit more about your viewpoints?
If you have nothing to add? 🤷🏻
“No thanks, picked out the bit I wanted to argue, got my ‘burn’, we’re done here.”
OK.
I dunno man, you seem to have a lot to say, wanted to leave room to fully express your views.
