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Jason Paladino's avatar

Totally agree, but there absolutely is/was a concerted effort to “cancel” people over Charlie Kirk memes. Many lost their jobs. There is sort of a growing “wokeness” on the right, with the same people who built their careers crying about cancel culture now advocating cancelation.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

They’re certainly trying but it mostly seems like a laughingstock that people don’t take seriously

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Kevin Driscoll's avatar

🎯🎯

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John Smith's avatar

Just because we can say "retard" now doesn't mean censorship isn't still a problem. It's just got an alt-right veneer instead of a persnickety, obnoxious, temperamental woke veneer. And Zionist control of the public square is as bad as ever.

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Simple John's avatar

Along with AGI, "national security" is among the most tossed about, least likely to see a comprehensible definition, common phrases.

I was making the equivalent of $500K in today's dollars doing software for national security back in the late 1960s. I got out because we were nationally secure. A whole bunch of nukes told me so. I wanted more meaning to my career.

Thanks, Ken, for gathering us a grab bag of current vibes.

We, and especially our kids, live in a world where polite lying doesn't hack it - doesn't hack anything. The kids have had it with war. They've had it with school. They've had it with school shootings. They've had it with anything the grownies excuse using their media. Go ahead, make TikTok your media. We'll take to the streets with bullhorns.

Donald Trump is a living, breathing 6,7 and we love that he's absurd out loud.

Kids see grownies trying to "protect" them from the truth and they want these "adults" replaced with real parents. Real parents are recognizable because they do not lie.

The new vibes are the desperately needed truth. Long may the new vibes ring out.

Authenticity is the 2026 word of the year unless our current grownies get to choose.

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Patrick Morley's avatar

The “vibe” is essentially what constitutes the relationship between the people and power. Eventually it leads to China and Russian style governments that leave the 99% not concerned about anything but getting by, and as long as the government, any government democratic or otherwise has them believing they’ve provided just that - an economy that allows most to just get by - then they don’t listen to anything else. For instance, I’m guessing (and it’s only a guess) the majority of Russians don’t pay attention to the war Putin is raging because they’re just trying to get by (families of the estimated 500,000 dead Russian soldiers excepted) and have no other option but to focus their daily lives there. Meanwhile, .5 % that control the military do as they wish whenever and however they wish within their country. That is Trump’s ultimate goal - do away with democracy and do whatever he pleases unfettered by the people.

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Amrita B's avatar

It's gotten pretty bad. So what can we do about it?

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Peter Murphy's avatar

Some people may now think it's ok to say or write "r*t*rd"; I don't. Let's not punch down on the intellectually disabled, people. Matthew Yglesias may think it is ok, but he then chose to be a contrarian centrist, which is much worse.

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Cécile Stelzer-Johnson's avatar

Yes, "decorum is dead". Trump insulted his way into the White House. Women, Blacks, Muslims, a handicapped journalist, "woke" culture. He never holds his tongue but acts offended when someone attacks him.

Hey, if he lobs them, I feel under no obligation to play nice. He is still a Felon, impeached twice who would not have been elected without dark money coming from abroad, So yeah, It's too bad about decorum.

The guy is truly a very crass person, calling a former lover "horseface". He called undocumented immigrants all kinds of terrible words, and his chances of being a pedophile are 99.99999%

In every society, there are consequences for doing that.

Now he whines constantly about folks not being nice to him. He does not deserve "nice".

YOU WILL GET THE RESPECT YOU GIVE. You are not entitled to more. I only respect the people who do not disrespect me, and that will continue and I won't apologize for it!

My disrespect for him will continue until he stops. He is a liar and a cheat and a low life, artificially elevated by money.

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