I teach high school, and my students universally think it is cool and good. The very first comment I got after the shooting was “I think his neck just did that.” The administration had to send out a mass email asking people to tone down the celebration of violence. The kids are alright.
There is no such thing as a “normie” anymore
we are past that era
you should all realize that
Elaborate please?
I run into tons of them constantly, people who only know about marvel and have no knowledge of anything important or current except celebrities and meaningless bullshit, or who are just normal working class folks with too much work and too little time to give a fuck about anything not relating to their job, so I’m wondering if I misunderstand what you’re sayin
they have political views ,them not stating it doesn’t mean they don’t have them comrade ,it just means they don’t wanna talk about it
Their political views are comprised of vibes and assumptions they learned to make 30 years ago, like voting blue is good, and whatever they heard on nbc last, that’s kind of central to my personal definition of a normie, especially politically
like voting blue is good
that’s not a normie to me because these people are very small in numbers ,I guess its because me and you define the word differently
I mean it different from a “blue no matter who” mindset, Most folks around me seem to understand in a vague nebulous way that democrats are somehow good and nice, and if the tv says they’re still good an nice and the other guy is mean or unelectable they buy it unless they have someone in their life to talk them around, politicaly ‘active’ insofar as would probably vote, but completely alienated from the reality they are taking part in
Came across this song by Ben Caplan recently: The Flood
I keep thinking about this part of the second verse in particular:
After a dutiful lifеtime of dreams
Trickling riches and muffled screams
The centre can’t hold, it gyres to the extremesnice find
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
My sister in law - who’s typically a bit “reactionary” - beat me to the punch of sending my spouse memes on it. Like immediately lol I guess technically she’s staying true to being reactionary with those reflexes!
On the real though- she has a toddler who she had to recently teach about what school shootings are though - so uhhh yeah I get not caring that this shmuck got his.
reactionary
in what way
Racist generalizations about local immigrant communities, generalizations about homeless people - and generally buys in on the latest mainstream media talking points. Tends to be in agreement with most ML theses, as they’re working class, but favors bourgeois talking points over materialist analysis when reacting to current events
got it
the tiktok commentariat dragging the fash beautifully
Ahhahhinated
The criteria:
dark humor enjoyers when the target isnt a lgbtq, woman or brown:
And then they have the chutzpah to call for civility and empathy when they spent the better part of 10 months bashing empathy as a “New Age term.” (Kirk’s words)
they think dark humor is when black people are shot…
I just wanted an excuse to say slurs, but you had it to make it political
Met up with some very normie friends tonight, expected them to do the civility thing. Instead we laughed over calling him “Charlie Merc’d”
I’ve seen a few online commentators try to blame social media and make it out to be a chronically online thing. Ironically, the majority of people I know irl give few shits, and if they care, they’re happy because- surprise- black people on average feel existentially threatened by those expressing white supremacist talking points.
Thats a good one
When he got capped I told a normie I know and they said “who is that?”.
I feel like most the people mourning him never heard of him before 9/11
my elderly dad, with Fox News on: “Did you see this horrible killing?” me: “Wasn’t he a scumbag?” dad: “He had two small children. There was just a guy on saying how much of a good guy he was.”
The fucking Hate Machine, Fear Factory of Fox has (for two generations now?) utterly and completely brainwashed the tv-addicted, suburbanite, old folks faction. As much as we all know it it’s so pathetic and evil to witness in the numerous ways it gets decent people time and again to become debased fascist bigots.
After all the eulogizimg by the press and elected officials, they’ll be like ‘a great man died’
And normies really are not fucking with the “empathic” reaction coming from the soft left either
God that dude sucks, he seems like some weird tank made creation of neolibs
@CyborgMarx@hexbear.net please change the tiktok url to www.tiktok.com/@ohkrisn/video/7548556010693070102
shortened tiktok urls have by default tracking slugs in them
Done, thanks for the heads up
The only people I know who care about it are my hyper-online cousins and a couple of former college friends who went off the deep end a long time ago. All people who, if push comes to shove, will never personally pick up a gun to enforce the terror.
They can say all the shit they want and pretend to be persecuted, but I know that they are too comfortable to ever do anything but be insufferable to their family.
At my company we have department meetings every morning. We each say what we’re gonna do that day, and something we’re grateful for. I was bracing myself for a bunch of bullshit about Charlie, but only one guy said something out of like 20! We did still have our 9/11 moment of silence tho :/
Edit: is it possible to view tiktok videos without an account?
I also figured out at some point if you edit the url to remove everything after the “?” it usually works.
If I have to hear at an airline terminal again the thanking of the military for their service while allowing them to board early I’m gonna explode.
Probably audibly let out a groan of deep dissatisfaction, maybe even muttered “please stop this fascist bs.”
The experience is America in a nutshell
“Okay at this time we would like to board rich people.”
“Now that’s done, we would like to board the troops”
“Now we would like to board families with small children”
Yes, to an extent. You should be able to follow direct links and watch the video in a browser. If that doesn’t work, yt-dlp will download the video for you.
Honestly the Trump admin will just annoy normies about it enough that they are negatively polarized against Kirk.
Yeah just realized that the lib brain will luckily be like “oh trump likes him? then man bad” which in this case works fine
idgi
Yeah, I feel like I’m too old to grasp this video meme
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