Whats going on.....

[Ashley]

Oh my god so crazy ..I think some people have too much time on their hands to talk about this stuff!

[Mr. Marty]

It is a fcking distraction from the fast that they cannot stop the relief package in the Senate. This is the new Republican platform, no help for those that really need it but willing to piss and moan about something that is not under their control and provides no help or solice. They just want to instill fear and division. The COVID relief bill does not do that and they cannot stop it....so toss out bullshit and shinny objects.

[Lasagna Pirate]

It is a fcking distraction from the fast that they cannot stop the relief package in the Senate. This is the new Republican platform, no help for those that really need it but willing to piss and moan about something that is not under their control and provides no help or solice. They just want to instill fear and division. The COVID relief bill does not do that and they cannot stop it....so toss out bullshit and shinny objects.

That’s Neanderthal thinking.

[Mr. Marty]

It is a fcking distraction from the fast that they cannot stop the relief package in the Senate. This is the new Republican platform, no help for those that really need it but willing to piss and moan about something that is not under their control and provides no help or solice. They just want to instill fear and division. The COVID relief bill does not do that and they cannot stop it....so toss out bullshit and shinny objects.

That’s Neanderthal thinking.

I saw something referring to Neanderthals from the right wing propaganda channels but I did not pay attention.
What was that all about?

[Trobador222]

What's an Ass Pussy?

[wushuman]

My little cat friend is, every time you stroke her she tries to get you to stroke her butt. I just don't do that shit, she understands - but she still tries, little ass pussy she is.

I am well aware how strange this sounds. It is all true though.

[wushuman]

...and of course when she comes in from the rain...

wet ass pussy

[Trobador222]

...and of course when she comes in from the rain...

wet ass pussy

This explains everything!

[Lasagna Pirate]

What's an Ass Pussy?

Isn’t it a CD/trans thing?
Aka boy pussy.

Idk I’m super straight.

[Lasagna Pirate]

It is a fcking distraction from the fast that they cannot stop the relief package in the Senate. This is the new Republican platform, no help for those that really need it but willing to piss and moan about something that is not under their control and provides no help or solice. They just want to instill fear and division. The COVID relief bill does not do that and they cannot stop it....so toss out bullshit and shinny objects.

That’s Neanderthal thinking.

I saw something referring to Neanderthals from the right wing propaganda channels but

Biden’s commented on Texas going fully open Was that it was “Neanderthal thinking”.
Does he even have a Twitter account? Jesus.

[Mr. Marty]

Hmm. Ok. Not sure any of this shit helps but I guess it does not matter now.
Wet cat. Grab it.

[Citizen Dolly]

Lazy re-post of old FB rant:

Anyone throwing around the term "cancel culture" is, consciously or not, peddling conservative propaganda. The phenomenon it represents is simply good old fashioned protest and boycott and is as old as civilisation itself, and is ubiquitous across the political spectrum. There is *no* difference whatsoever between students trying to stop fascists being invited to speak on university campus' and Christian conservatives trying to get "Life Of Brian" banned from cinemas, or the Sex Pistols banned from playing gigs. That is obvious with a moment's thought. The point of re-branding it as "cancel culture" is to try and depict it as something peculiar to the modern liberal-left, symptomatic of alleged intolerance and "snowflakiness". By demonizing it and making it an issue in the press all of a sudden, it allows the Right to marginalise and de-legitimise left-wing ideas and perspectives. That's its purpose.

Much the same is also true of "political correctness", which really has no meaning whatsoever outside of intra-Left discourse. When leftists criticise others on the Left for saying and doing things (generally racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic things) which contradict their professed egalitarian beliefs, then *that* is political correctness - and it is entirely legitimate too, I'd say. When leftists try to make those arguments to people outside of the Left, then that's just propaganda (also legitimate); in the vanishingly rare instances where leftists have sufficient power to *force* their ideas on people outside of the Left, that's just politics, and its legitimacy varies. The only difference here between the Left and Right is that, arguably, the Right has no moral dimension and so it really has no purpose in trying to encourage people to live up to their ideals, and consequently, the first instance (actual political correctness) is absent. The propaganda and political instances are very much the same though. Again, the purpose of the Right picking up and deploying the phrase is to de-legitimise the Left by presenting it as totalitarian and puritanical.

In summary, I think a large part of why we're getting so brutally fucked over here, and why the Left is unable to do anything about it, is that we're allowing the Right to frame the narrative and control the discourse. While leftist ideas are continually undermined, misrepresented and marginalised, right-wing ideas are allowed to pass unexamined, given a gloss of being "just common sense" as distinct from the high-flown and hare-brained notions of the Left. And key to this is the Right's weaponisation of language: buzz-phrases like "political correctness" and "cancel culture" are being systematically used to derail any opposition to this capitalist-fascist hellscape that we're sliding into. And I really don't know what to do about it.

[Lasagna Pirate]

The Right is controlling the narrative?
What.

[Lasagna Pirate]

[wushuman]

It's all just a show, red vs blue, just like football. Oldest trick in the book,. Whoever is in charge YOU'LL be getting fucked, don't you worry.

[Citizen Dolly]

The Right is controlling the narrative?
What.

Clearly. You think Rupert Murdoch is a communist?

All of these media conglomerates are capitalist organisations. They're inherently right-wing. The same is true (though for different reasons) of the various state broadcasters like the BBC: in the case of the BBC, the fact the government controls the funding - and appoints the Director General - leaves the BBC entirely at the mercy of the government. Again, in the case of the Beeb, they try to obscure this fact with a very loaded version of "balance" where comedy and light entertainment have a vaguely "left/liberal" bias while news and current affairs are preponderantly right-wing. Hell, many of the senior editors and journalists at the BBC are literal card-carrying members of the Conservative Party. You can see the bias of the current affairs department in, for example, the fact that UKIP were invited on to Newsnight 9 times more often than the Green Party, despite the fact they had the same number of MPs.

At any rate, few if any of the social / cultural "issues" that get any media attention are actually being pushed by the Left. These conflicts are actually between liberals and conservatives, and they're both right-wing positions. It's only in the warped and stunted political culture of the USA that liberalism can be seen in any sense as "left-wing" - and that's merely relative to the far-right tendencies of American conservatism.

I suppose the only other thing to add is that if some company "cancels" dealings with some "problematic" figure then that is actually just consumer capitalism working as it's supposed to, ie, businesses responding to customer demand. It's kind of absurd to suppose that entertainment businesses in particular have any great moral or political agenda: they're merely calculating that they can make more money by not dividing and alienating chunks of their potential audiences.