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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Stephen Miller is a beta cuck who won’t accept my challenge to a fight.

*Note I don’t believe in this beta cuck nonsense, I just want to piss him off so he’ll agree to let me beat him up.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago

He's about as likely to follow through as Musk was when he actually challenged Zuckerberg to a fight

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This guy is such a little dweeb.

I wonder how many swirlies he got in junior high. Seeing him being super douchey and "edgy" in that video on the bus tells you everything you need to know about this asshat.

[–] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You don't think this guy was as deeply embedded with bullies as possible?

Have you seen his school rant about leaving messes for janitors because it's their job to clean?

That's not the style of a weird autistic kid being bullied, he has just been empowered in his really wormy style of evil and privilege.

I hate how much I'm seeing the current administration used for the argument "we need to bring bullies back" when the bullies are often the wealthy privileged who look down on the weird peasants and their lack of successful social signaling.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, what is it with this trend lately of disparaging the victims of bullying, blaming fascism on the bullied victims?

The fascists are the bullies.

And even if people want to say that bringing back bullying would prevent fascism, that still makes no sense, because if you honestly believe that bully victims become fascists, then wouldn't that mean bullying people just creates more fascists?

But the reality is, the bullies were always the privileged jerks or dodged accountability while projecting and casting blame on anyone who stands up to them. Those bullies grow up to become fascists.

Anyone who says "bring back bullying" needs a solid punch in the face along with every other bully. Maybe that will reduce the number of people who grow up to become fascists.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We use the word "bullying" because the real word gets your post removed. Play the fuck along.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. If you're advocating for bullying, then you might as well be a fascist. You can't walk like a fascist and talk like a fascist, and then claim you're not really a fascist just because you're not one of those fascists.

There are no good fascists. And there are no good bullies. And I won't play along with your attempts to normalize either of those things.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Moral relativist cowardice. Performative high-road bullshit. Neither makes you a good person.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Taking a principled stance on something isn't cowardice, nor is it performative.

And I don't care whether you think I'm a good person or not, because you advocate for bullying. You can burn in hell with the rest of the fascists for all I care.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay. When they’re loading you and the people you care about into a van or onto a train, you can comfort everyone by telling them about your principles.

They’ll thank you, really.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That isn't relevant. Just because fascists are seizing power doesn't make bullying okay. It makes bullying especially bad. You're ignoring the fact that the fascists are the bullies.

You're basically saying I'm a goody-two-shoes for being against bullying and fascism, and trying to use hypothetical scenarios about the extremes to which fascism can descend in order to shame me about being against it.

Completely warped logic on your part.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You’re complicit. You’re too comfortable. You’re a coward. And you sound white as hell.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

Just because I'm against bullying doesn't make me complicit or comfortable with fascism, and it doesn't make me a coward either.

I'm also not sure what my race has to do with it. But if you want to bring race into it, then think for a moment about what you're advocating for. "Bring back bullying" can be used by white supremacists as much as by anyone else, so if the klan starts going around terrorizing black communities, just know that this is what you wished for when you said "Bring back bullying."

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, when I see him? I could easily see him getting bullied in the school I went to, at least. It could be that Miller benefited from some kind of protection afforded him by either the status of his parents or teachers/staff watching out for him, I have no idea.

In the school I went to? If some dipshit went and made that speech, with that demeanor and self-entitled attitude? I could easily see him getting aggressively bullied later, and it wouldn't be "cyberbullying", either, LOL.

I am pretty sure that most of his cabinet and Pumpkinhead himself were terrible bullies, but I do wonder if certain people like Miller never learned any lessons about writing checks with his mouth that his ass couldn't cash.

I do wonder if someone who wasn't white banged some girl he liked and he never got over it. He seems like a gigantic pussy with a huge chip on his shoulder about foreigners and non-whites.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the school I went to? If some dipshit went and made that speech, with that demeanor and self-entitled attitude? I could easily see him getting aggressively bullied later

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, pretty much exactly that.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago

The. Man. Went. On. TV. With. Spray. Painted. Hair. On.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Notable that he had a debate in high school on how it shouldn't be the responsibility of students to clean up their trays in the cafeteria. He argued that the school should hire people to clean up after them. He has always been like this.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

"Hi, I’m Stephen Miller, some of you may or may not know who I am," Miller says, smiling. “We’re not talking about that right now. I’m the only candidate up here who stands out. I would say and I would do things that no one else in their right mind would say or do. Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up our trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's because he's a fucking psychopath.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

yup. dude is a genuine nutcase racist dirtbag

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Will no one rid us of this turbulent ~~priest~~ Stephen Miller?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Last I heard, he had moved to military housing because people wrote mean things in chalk on the street in front of his house.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago

Sounds like he is receiving free housing in a high security gated community. A very expensive perk which I doubt he is paying income tax on.

[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 days ago

If people knew where he lived and that's all that happened to him, he should consider himself extremely fortunate.

[–] MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What kind of absolute psychotic mess of a human being must that woman be?

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If you watch an interview with her. Then one of him, that have very similar mannerisms. It’s creepy as fuck.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I would love to have a clear shot on that smug little prick

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] frunch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The likeness is uncanny!

[–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

(unilateral violence on a maximum scale == The failing flailing bitch method. I pooped my pants in the high chair and spilled my plate on the floor method. Kick the dog beat the child method.) These people are some of the most vain and superficial apes that have ever lived on this planet.. Very emotional queens... You don't look tough but you got some strapped idiots surrounding you. The normies are starting to see the cracks. What a chapter. People will celebrate the day these people die. Meanwhile our "enemies" are stoic asf mogging these turdz... like 90% home ownership like we doing it wrong. Pho_sure just another closure

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In case you're not really understanding who this guy is. The fake laugh that leads to screaming starts at 42 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dmC7DEICSA

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

I hate the guy too but we really need to stop calling projecting screaming.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This neatly illustrates why I'm an anarchist - because institutionalized authority has made it such that the United States - a nation of 340 million people - is engaged in overtly destructive and internationally criminal violence and brutality not because the people have demanded it or even desired it, but because a handful of fucking psychopathic pieces of shit have managed to fight and claw and wheedle and lie their ways into positions from which they have the authority to make it so.

And that is, by any reasonable measure, insane.

Any system that allows for such a thing rather obviously should not exist. And that the United States, with its intricate system of checks and balances and its guaranteed freedoms and its strictly mandated adherence to the rule of law could reach this point clearly demonstrates that the problem is not how authority is institutionalized but merely if it is. If it is, then it can be, and sooner or later will be, abused for the questionable benefit of a few and to the detriment of all the rest of the world.

So it quite simply cannot be institutionalized. That's the only sane approach.

So all that's left is to wait for humanity to grow the fuck up - to evolve psychologically, sociologically and philosophically to the point that they no longer have or feel a need to have some institutional mommy and daddy to tell them how to and how not to behave.

Maybe in another few centuries...

[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes, I would also prefer we become a land of 10,000 warlords.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not anarchism at all.

[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And who's going to tell that to the warlords?

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anyone who isn't trying to live out a Mad Max wet dream

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a good way to get yourself killed by said warlords.

[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think that's a conversation best led by the most popular warlord, he can get all the other warlords to understand.

So no one gets confused, we'll give that warlord the title of King.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 days ago

Thanks I guess for providing an example of one of the ways in which humanity needs to grow the fuck up - reach a point at which we generally actually think about things that people actually say rather than just being bitter slaves to our preconceptions and prejudices.

Hopefully your kids will do a better job of it. Or maybe their kids.