Raoul WegatMar 5, 2023
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆
The thing I’ll never get over is conservatives complaining they can’t say what they think anymore. Is there anything more inescapable in modern life than the ceaseless monotonous drumbeat of conservatives all telling all the rest of us everything they all think?
Mar 2, 2023 at 11:34amWeb
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Mar 2, 2023

Like, we know what you think. We know, OK? We fucking KNOW.

We know what you think about guns, about unhoused people, about climate catastrophe, about immigrants, about health care, about education, about trans people, about government, about democracy, we've heard about everything you think, OK? There is VERY little variance. We've heard it all. It's exactly whatever they say on all your little blogs and channels. We never stop hearing it all.

We KNOW.

We just oppose.

Show threadStacyMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat As with everything, they accuse others of doing exactly what they're doing. Pure gaslighting. They're the ones trying to restrict free speech and banning books left and right.
Show threadMyrha Cheval 🦆Mar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat But that's the key, isn't it? They want to say their monstrous, sociopathic, nasty garbage without anyone responding, "What the f*ck is wrong with you? That's sick."

In other words, they demand sole and exclusive access to the proverbial public square and all the megaphones.

Show threadSöllner Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat my parents were smart, they studied a lot in their lives, both got a PHD, and from 2016 they are like that, plus lately they support Russian invasion and every single thing Putin or the GOP party says, funny thing, we don’t even live in the US, I completely understand what you are saying and it hurts so badly man…
Show threadAgent Joséphine BakerMar 3, 2023

@JuliusGoat

...and they don't only TELL it.

Show threadMrsMigginsMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat they are upset because they've been droning on for years, but now people actually tell them they are talking offensive crap. Many middle aged men don't appear to have been told they're offensive and patronising in their entire lives, even though they patently are. Their monstrous coiffeured wives are similarly unused to being told they are insensitive and crass.
Show threadHere robustlyMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat
“We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. we do not destroy the heretic because he resist us: so long as he resist us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul.”
-George Orwell, 1984
Show threadHere robustlyMar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat Which was top of mind because I just listened to the most recent episode of Science Fiction University, which is about The Prisoner, where they talked about this section of 1984, and then went on to mention (among other progeny) LOST, because time is a flat circle.

https://www.sciencefictionuniversity.com/2023/02/ep-12-prisoner.html

Ep 12: The Prisoner

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Show threadSteveP - The DogfatherMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat seems to me The Former Guy unleashed them to say exactly what they think and be proud of it.
Show threadMugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat The most ironic photo in history: MTG speaking on the floor of Congress into a microphone reaching the entire planet via CSPAN while wearing a mask that says "Censored" (over her antivax rhetoric.) 🤦‍♂️
Show threadTanoujin MilestoneMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat I have a comparable problem: when the nazi in the council moves to open the window, we vote it down. Okay. But I cant breathe, I need Oxygen and the stench is about to kill me. Why doesn’t this dipshit limit their opinions to fascist related issues? The real problem is we have allowed them to join and talk. They should not talk at all. They should not even dare to whisper from beneath the stone in the desert they have hidden under.
Show threadHasufinMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat You might be a bit generous with the verb "think" here.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat so fucking BORED of them and their dull, shitty opinions on everything.
Tired of having them forced into our lives, we want nothing to do with them but they demand our attention.
Show threadSasyecatMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat They can't drop the N word or the F word ( not the one you're thinking ) without looking like exactly what they are, racist bigots. They think they have lost the freedom to be horrible but they are managing to do a really bang up job.
Show threadDaniel Schultz™Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat It's worse: it's the ceaseless monotonous drumbeat of conservatives telling us conservatives can't say what they think anymore.
Show threadJohnEvansMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat "no, don't be silent, let us all know. It helps me appreciate how kind I am."
Show threadWade WainioMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat What even is a conservative nowadays, anyway?
Show threadOGJester has movedMar 2, 2023
@wadewainio @JuliusGoat it’s become a hollow, meaningless word.
Show threadWade WainioMar 3, 2023

@OGjester @JuliusGoat It seems to mean "There is nothing left.

There are no compromises.

We are corrupt,

so get used to it."

Show threadLady Liberty 🗽Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat Makes me think conservervatives with their tunnel vision thinking are control freaks.
Show threadKrysalixMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat They think that people objecting to what they say is censorship. If you do not sign on to their views wholeheartedly, then they are being "cancelled". That's why they see no irony in banning books they disagree with. Freedom of Speech means no consequences for what they believe and suppression of all else that might infringe on their beliefs taking supremacy.
Show threadMishell Baker gladlyMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat They just mean they can't say what they think without consequences.
Show threadShawnMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat They are typical brats who always want everything both ways. They want to say racist and fascist things but also not be called racists and fascists. They want to claim fiscal responsibility while at the same time offering zero historical examples of succeeding. They want to say the sky is red and also never be corrected on a blue sky, sunny day. They just want to be right no matter what. Anything less is “silencing them.”
Show threadMaybeMyMonkeysMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat it is preemptive response to what they know to be an outrageous statement. They want to be able to spew without consequences.
Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat the things they want to say are classified as hate crimes.
Show threadMr GrudenkoMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat They're just frustated that they have a drumbeat, but no one is goose-stepping to it anymore.
Show threadaresMar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat

the only thing more inescapable, ceaseless and monotonous is referring to fascists as conservative

Show threadConantheYossarianMar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat

There is at least one thing that is just as inescapable; The ceaseless monotonous drumbeat of liberals all telling all the rest of us everything they all think?

The only thing MORE inescapable is THE RIGHT to ceaseless monotonous drumbeats... And marketing.

Show threadocdtrekkieMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat Maybe they should have less inherently offensive and nasty thoughts?
Show threadHelderwebMar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat

REPOST

The thing I’ll never get over is conservatives complaining they can’t say what they think anymore. Is there anything more inescapable in modern life than the ceaseless monotonous drumbeat of conservatives all telling all the rest of us everything they all think?

MY COMMEMT

The most powerful victims in the world.

Show threadWe're Not In Kansas AnymoreMar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat

#Gop #goplies #foxentertainment #gaslighting

Show threadJamie BoothMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat what they mean is people don't agree with my thoughts anymore. Which is a different problem to have....
Show thread🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 2, 2023

@JuliusGoat

As former Republican Ethan Gray points out, being GOP or Tory means the right to tell people what to do, ignoring the rules for themselves, & getting outraged when people tell them "no" or "eff off".

Republicanism is "I get to tell you what to do, you don’t get to tell me what to do"

https://www.salon.com/2022/06/09/after-jan-6-can-we-stop-pretending-are-the-law-and-order-party/

Republican conservativism has become fascism.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/conservatism-and-fascism-are-not-the-same-thing.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/assault-on-democracy/conservativefascist-relations-and-the-autocratic-reverse-wave/8ACE72179791FCC343DDFE0198DF3F65

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit#:~:text=Wilhoit's%20law,-The%20quotation&text=%E2%80%9CConservatism%20consists%20of%20exactly%20one,binds%20but%20does%20not%20protect.%22

Republicans claim to be tough on crime. Jan. 6 suggests that's another big lie

Salon.com
Show threadJ.H.NoyesMar 2, 2023

@Npars01

That's why I've always said that the Bible and the Constitution are the same thing to Republicans in that they believe those documents allow them to do whatever they want while demanding that we do whatever they say... and nothing else.

@JuliusGoat @Npars01

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 3, 2023

@noyes @JuliusGoat

Rachel Maddow says "Watch what Republicans do, not what they say."

They say they support the Constitution while voting for a man who calls for its destruction when Republicans lose elections.

Republicans *say* they follow the teachings of Christ while voting for a political party that hates the poor, despises the stranger, and let's the sick die without insulin.

Show threadWesDymMar 3, 2023

@Npars01 It's conservatism itself, distilled down to its one essential principle, as famously explained by Frank Wilhoit.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber

Show threadMatti AleveMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat A couple months ago, Jordan Peterson complained of being silenced in his op-ed in one of Canada’s two national papers. 🙄
Show threadBlakeMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat "they're trying to silence you? damn I wish it worked."
Show threadobscurestarMar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat It's true though! They can't say what they think because there's no thought process. It's just kneejerk reactionary stuff.
Show threadSlim Bill (He/Him)Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat the most interesting thing in all their ranting about what they think is how little actual thinking shows up in their rants.
Show threadStatmonkey 🙊Mar 2, 2023
@JuliusGoat It's as if they think their verbal diarrhea is supposed to be a spectator sport.
Show threadSteffen ChristensenMar 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat Perhaps they mean, "I can't say what I think without being responsible for what I say anynore"?
Show threadaethervision Mar 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat @juergen_hubert Further, how long has it been since a conservative had an original thought?
Show threadSasha FoxMar 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat I always assume they mean "I'll get in trouble if I say the N word in public these days"
Show threadDanMar 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat they so desperately want to be oppressed just to validate their sense that they are oppressed
Show threadPointlessSpikeMar 3, 2023
@JuliusGoat A lot of the time they're not complaining about censorship, they're complaining that people tell them they're pieces of shit.
If you say, "that's kinda racist" they'll scream that you're silencing them.
Show threadStina LeichtMar 7, 2023
@JuliusGoat OMFG, THIS