Indeed. The qons will call anyone with a degree an “elitist” [1], meanwhile, give the likes of Elon and the convicted felon, who are actual elitists, reacharounds. It’s almost as if actual meanings of words mean nothing to them.

[1] This does not apply to their own kind, even if they were born rich AF and went to Ivy League school(s).

Also, I’m afraid this is not just a “spike”, per se, but more like a prelude to much worse, including not just threats.

You have any good candidates to suggest?

I guess this is going to make people who felt poor feel richer, I guess?

Isn’t part of it about firing anyone that gets in their way? Schedule F provisions?

Just about all of them, FFS.

Right. The cons and the Republican Party are pathological liars. The “liberal media” would do well to remember that and be sure to point it out as often as possible instead of playing their bullshit bothsiderist game.

^ So much this. I wish I could upvote more than once. :)

Um, but even if that were true, how is donnie going to change the minds of millions of women? I swear, some people seem to think he has a magic wand or something. Like he’s going to somehow set up every incel with a bombshell that’s so very into him…

But Biden is a man. I wonder how many of the 11 million opted out for just that difference alone. Hard to ever know, I guess.

Weren’t the Gilead states [1] already doing measures like that under Biden? I thought people (sheriffs, deputies, “concerned” citizens) were watching certain roads that led to free states like Colorado.

[1] I still chuckle at a certain poster on Denver Post forums that would whine every single time I used that phrase, claiming there was no such thing. I’d ask him if he didn’t think his own con movement and Republican Party weren’t striving for exactly that kind of treatment. He never had an answer of course. But he’d go whining to the mods about it and how unfair it was to point out their own agenda.

Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable

Why do you think the wingers reacted so much to having loan forgiveness? Anything that educates more people is something they fear. Having people not being saddled with crippling debts after school only sends a message to others that maybe education is a path for them. The wingers don’t want an educated citizenry.

But they felt poor! That’s what is making them so rapey and weird! I mean, eggs cost what, $100 each now?

The thing is: Biden and the Democrat Party made them this way!

Maga is not sending their best. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.

If the real extremists get their way, none of these incel gamergate types will have any time for sitting on the couch anyway. They’ll need to be on the front lines of their actual civil war. If they thought having a few woke games or uppity women in tech doing reviews was ruining their day…

Well, he is an incel. A lot of that whiney bunch seem to think they are owed sex or something. Explains a lot of creepy winger behavior.

I have found that calmly locking eyes with someone that says something like that and asking them what that means tends to completely shake them. If it’s a group of them, it may work, or they’ll just resort to throwing lines that have been prewritten for them back and forth. Still, even then, asking them to explain what that means tends to blunt all their fun.

The key part is to not show any kind of emotion - innocently ask them what that means. Maybe even a slight smile. It totally ruins it for them. They want to feed off of outrage.

Dipshits like him obviously haven’t paid much attention to history, because if history is any lesson, even the True Whites are fodder for lots of (sometimes literal) backstabbing and purges and ideological witch hunts. I’m sure other wingers can and will find reasons to cast him out - the last name, as you point out, and also the fact that he is an incel/possibly closeted - I bet even a lot of unhinged wingers might find that a bit weird for him to say that dating women is gay.

Unfortunately, yes. They think the person in the WH sets the prices of eggs.

I’d love to see some Jordan Klepper type of interviews of these people asking some follow-up questions about what they believe the mechanisms are…

I thought that was actually a typical thing done in debating teams, too. Take a position, defend it, then, you might have to then take the exact opposite position and try with all your might to legitimately defend that position.

I wonder what the class was for. There is also the notion of steelmanning and maybe it was about that. I guess it all depends on what the point of the exercise was. I could see it actually being useful instruction.