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The phenomenon at large is called Hyper-Reality. If you say something vehemently enough and pervasively enough it becomes more real than reality.
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Knew this was coming. He survived the dindus chimping out for him calling himself a House Nigger and refusing to kiss the SJW rings.
When Cosby was taken out I fully expected some woman to come forward saying she got stoned with Maher and had sex, and that's retroactive rape in current year.
But Rose McGowan? X to doubt. Not even with a borrowed dick. Guessing she's going through attention withdraws.
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The pandemic and lockdown has accelerated the attention-craving spiral for foids everywhere. From the lowest lot lizard to the highest movie star.
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Isn't it amazing that the most anti-MSM admin in history that wasn't Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, or Teddy Roosevelt can somehow get members of the inner-circle of a man who, at the same time is decried for picking only sycophants and yesmen, to talk to them and not laugh at even giving a shithead journo the time of day? Really makes me think.
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I still think it's amazing how hard the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocating to "judge not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" has been torpedoed to ashes at this point because history's not going to see Obama as anything other than just the first black man to become the U.S. President, and literally, that is always the first thing people point out, proving this was always a race issue that they politicized to hell and back. Outside of watching shows and movies and reading comic books that came out during his presidency to even remember he was president, they can't really look back at his legacy because he doesn't have one now, unless they want to get into the social issues going on under him at the time, but what current year history book is going to delve into that? He can barely even be called the "sitting duck" president like with Herbert Hoover (of which it wasn't his fault), although I remember him being called one during his second term.
I don't think people want to admit to this at all, but I'm thinking the "shattering of the glass ceiling" or whatever it goes for minorities to be the leader of the free world as a testament of how far we've come has been pushed back a good generation or two. As long as race continues to be made an issue, there's a chance we'll never see another black president, let alone a woman, in our lifetime (or at least not until we have more old, grumpy Kiwis), or until everyone suddenly goes blind and therefore can't judge by the color of one's skin anymore. Probably have a better chance of a Hispanic or Asian (but they're white now) to become President than we do another black President.
Thanks, Obama.
I don't think people want to admit to this at all, but I'm thinking the "shattering of the glass ceiling" or whatever it goes for minorities to be the leader of the free world as a testament of how far we've come has been pushed back a good generation or two. As long as race continues to be made an issue, there's a chance we'll never see another black president, let alone a woman, in our lifetime (or at least not until we have more old, grumpy Kiwis), or until everyone suddenly goes blind and therefore can't judge by the color of one's skin anymore. Probably have a better chance of a Hispanic or Asian (but they're white now) to become President than we do another black President.
Thanks, Obama.
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I mean I don't like him, but even I can at least understand him.
Think about it. No matter what, Obama is going to be in the history books - or at least Trivial Pursuit - as one of those presidents people will actually remember. It's just going to be a guarantee.
And... just imagine that for a minute. Imagine if you know EVERYTHING you were doing at the job right now is going to be looked at by historians extra close compared to any of the 40 people who came before. At that point you can't risk doing anything wrong, so you end up doing nothing at all just to be safe.
That doesn't redeem his presidency, but I get it. Only Washington and Lincoln probably had any awareness of how much they would be watched looking back. And looking back - it seems Obama couldn't rise to the pressure like they did.
(Whether that has any parable to affirmative action, I leave to the audience to ponder.)
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Unfortunately for those who promoted that ideology, it only works for the person constantly saying it, it doesn't convince anyone else. If it did, the MSM wouldn't be on the way to single-digit approval ratings. Cults don't attract normal people and the temperature of the media these days is about as feverishly cultist as I've ever seen it.
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It’s California, it’s not really gonna change who wins
Arent his popularity numbers actually up, not dropping?
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I've been thinking this, but if we ever get a first woman president, I have a feeling she will be Republican. Now that's just my 2 cents. I wonder how hard Democrats will try to get her smeared, especially if shes a black woman.
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It'll probably be Nikki Haley in 2024.
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Will the Democrats run Bob Iger (the former Disney boss)?
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I honestly don't believe he was elected based on Affirmative Action at all, but I do believe there were some people who were guilt-tripped into voting for him because no one wants to be called racist by some random crazy person bringing it up out of the blue, and surely it didn't help that's the altar he was being lifted on by the media creaming themselves over the thought. The DNC itself, though, I'm sure had to pick their poison apple in the basket of Affirmative Action, and so it was either gonna be a black man or a white woman continuing on a presidential dynasty--well, Americans were getting tired of dynasties. Still are tired of dynasties.
The DNC really just played itself. Put all their eggs in one basket, I suppose.
Earlier, some younger Kiwis were mentioning stories of what it was like to be in school when Obama was being elected, and I honestly have a hard time remembering what it was like for me since I had been too busy focusing on school work and wondering what to do after graduation, so I hadn't paid attention to the buzz going around (I'm sure some students were excited at the thought). What I can tell you is that that was actually the year when I started noticing "race" for the first time. Like, as an actual concept I was noticing it when I didn't before (even during history lessons) because race was always brought up whenever Obama was being talked about and why it was such an important milestone to America's history that we vote in a black man into office. I remember thinking the whole election year "Why is everybody caring about this? Why are we making skin color such a big deal?" because I actually live someplace diverse, and ever since I was born I've always had diverse family members, neighbors, and friends and classmates, people of multiple colors were in every cartoon and show I watched, and I had never noticed everything around me was so diverse because it wasn't something I had ever cared to notice until the TVs and radios kept making it a big deal that it was hard to not notice. Hell, I didn't realize being black was an actual thing because darker-colored people were just brown to me no matter what because I thought they were just outside in the sun more than me.
So basically, 2008 was my "wake up call" or something like that in realizing there's such a thing as race. And that's when racial tension came to my attention, and I honestly have no idea if it was always that bad (social stuff going on in the '90s was something I had to learn about in hindsight), or if it actually got worse because Obama getting elected meant you couldn't even yawn in the direction of a television with his face on it without being called a racist. It's why I wonder if he was allowed to have the leeway of doing anything or not at all by the basis of him being scrutinized based on the color of his skin and not by his own works and beliefs.
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It works under certain circumstances. Some narratives are collapsing but others are still holding strong or teetering on the brink. I think the problem they had with it is that the hyper-reality they constructed was built around a total control of media, and the introduction of social media accidentally eroded the foundation in the heedless pursuit of more reach for their propaganda.
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That being said I do hate this stupid butterfly-effect-guilt shit.
"You exercised a freedom which then led to a tangentally related chain of loosely affected events therefore you're a murderer!"
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Starting to go back up since May 1st. The big hump where he was within MOE of being net positive was around March 26th, which was when CNN et all started pushing to stop showing his daily briefings live so they could start taking things out of context. ("lol he said drink bleach and shove a flashlight up your arse! Trust us, we haven't spent the past 4 years lying.")
Biden's supposedly polling +30 on Trump.
So why does no one believe he's gonna win?
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Does the RNC even have a Thatcher-like figure waiting in the wings? Because that's what you need to successfully navigate the perils of such a high position. The few high-profile women they showcased over the last decade or so did not impress, frankly. (Condi Rice, Sarah Palin, Ivanka(lol))
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Hmm... reminds me of a quote... something about liberty and security and the trading there-of... can't... quite... think of it...
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People were guilt tripped into voting for obama out of fear? I was in nearing the end of my elementary school days and starting middle shchool when obama was being elected and the only thing i remembered was the media not shutting up about michael jackson being dead. I didn't see too much politics, but i remember when obama was ever featured in something like a movie, anime, tv show, he was always placed in a positive light. Didn't bother me since i was a supporter of his since i was very young at that time. The only thing i look at obama now is with disappointment. I don't outright hate him, just disappointed.
I'm sick of the "trump supporters are cultists" mental gymnastics because the people calling them that acted like one during the 8 years of obama's administration.
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I do want to return to a general state of colorblind, which I feel we had around the late 90s to early 00s.
I grew up as the exact target demographic for something like Captain Planet. One of the things I remember about that show is that the show didn't really care about the cast's races despite being explicitly global. When the writers did bother to do backstory episodes they showed why the culture was good - and bad. As an example, Wheeler had a drunk dad that beat him but had a loyal street gang of friends. The show didn't disconnect the cultures from how they operated, nor did they refrain from showing how your personal responsibility was key to your good future.
For all its faults (and there were many) and the hokey writing (we're talking Thundercats levels of cringe) the general storylines in Captain Planet were executed well.
Shows like Captain Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog, TMNT, and X-Men also dealt with an important concept that seems absent in today's kids media: being different is simultaneously okay and irrelevant. The differences in physical form weren't what made a person. Acceptance isn't celebration, it's goddamn boredom.
Nowadays there's garbage like Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and the She-Ra reboot occupying an overwhelming part of pop culture, where superficial form, orientation, and color differences matter way more than ideological and personality differences do.
If you look at this era of showmaking, it all started vaguely around when Obama became commander-in-chief. I'm not going to say it's his fault, because it's not; rather, it's the heightened consciousness that everyone put on his skin color. This collective "oh my GOD he's BLACK" seeped into pop culture and honestly infected everything; the people that grew up on this toxicity have now become adults and are running rampant.
The most prominent example I can think of for how this has affected entertainment for adult viewers was in the show The 100. The show opens after the near-extinction of the human race. One character managed to be an extremely prolific sword fighter and leader of a huge union of tribes, essentially the POTUS of what remained of humanity. She also happened to be a lesbian. It was pretty well done, the occasional romance here or there, not really in your face or shown more than others in the show. She unexpectedly died near the end of season 3. Well, that was just going too damn far. In a show that featured off-screen nuclear deaths of 7 billion people and the on-screen graphic deaths of hundreds of others, killing the one random lesbian broke the internet. Suddenly, this was a #BuryYourGays moment and a travesty because surely the lesbian wouldn't be treated as an equal on this show. no no no, she should have been spared because reasons. It wasn't like it was mentioned once and never brought up again. The consequences of her death actually directly shaped the rest of the season plus the next one, and still has vestigial components today. It was an important story point that was well executed but none of that matters because of muh diversity.
The diversity quotas just make everything so much more annoying.
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What caused the big drop in April? Was it the fake news about bleach, or were people angry because he didn't reopen the nation by Easter like he was suggesting he would? Or was it the fake news about how he was going to overrule the constitution and steal state rights?