Conservatives Are FURIOUS That Indiana Jones Punched Nazis

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1. Hi Scottie;
   Words have meaning. There are a lot of people who are angry at their lot in life, at perceived injustices. That anger can come out in odd ways that some would find shocking to realize defines their position as something less than comfortable.
   In all seriousness, many people have very loose boundaries. They don’t know where they draw the line between what is acceptable and unacceptable, and further, find those lines very fuzzy when the one crossing that line is someone or some group they identify with personally or politically. In the end they are desperate to be right, to be justified in their anger and in the way they strike out in that anger. They may think that they are coming from a position of morality and ethics, but they are not seeking to improve themselves or their position so much as to destroy or downgrade those around them who don’t fit into their little tribe.
   This was the full on attraction of Trump. He was the most underqualified, incompetent, pompous, licentious and malicious person I could imagine running a 1st world nation, and there is no rational reason in the world he should have gotten anywhere near succeeding to the presidency. If you ask his followers, they can’t tell you a single thing he did well except undo the things his predecessors accomplished that they didn’t like -or- act like a buffoon that was somehow in kind with their way of thinking, which should have said it all. He built nothing, used his influence to only secure betterment for himself and his backers, peddled his influence for propaganda and fame without accomplishing any real substance to better the country. And, because the ‘leader of the free world’ could do it, it must be not only acceptable but the pathway to success. Far too many absolutely loved him for being so daring and having such an in-your-face style missing the fact that he used abuse and juvenile theatrics to mask his sociopathology.
   We need to remember that words have meaning, that what we stand for has meaning, and the people we stand with can be wrong.

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   1. Hello Randy. Well said, very well said. I often wonder how voters could find people like Greene, Jordan, tRump, and the other thuggish uncivil trolls who reject everything they either don’t understand or don’t like how it affects their lives. I wondered how they could accept and vote for these types as leaders or statesman who act like they are still in the elementary / middle school. Seriously if anyone of these people acted the way they do now when I was in school they would have been disciplined harshly and held back grades. But why do their voters vote for them? Because the voters that back them are the same as them. They want to act that way, treat those they disagree with the same thuggish way. They vote for jerks because they want to be jerks / are jerks as much as they can be in their life. These people railed against the idea of being PC because it required being civil and polite to people not like them or that have different ideas from them. They don’t want civil, they want what little power / privilege they once had or could get over others in their lives. They want that childish feeling of power they got insulting or pushing around the smaller or lesser kids. I think of the new people deeply maga people that moved into the park from blue states because of the hate spewed by DeathSantis. Those that fly the “Let’s go Brandon” flags and wear hate spewing tee shirts. The ones now saying that people like Ron and I shouldn’t be able to marry or have rights. These people don’t want to be respectful or nice, they want to be thugs, rude, deliberately disrespectful and hurtful.

      How did we get here to this point? Gerrymandering is how. By making ever safer red districts where republicans only can win and never lose, the more to the right the candidate, the more votes from the rabid right the candidate gets. Which forces the candidates ever further to the extremes until you arrive at the Republican Party of today, crazy town clowns packed into a political party. That is what gives the minority Republican Party that is losing voters every day to rule over the majority and push the deeply unpopular polices on the rest of us. Hugs

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      1. Hi Scottie;
         There is a concept in management in regards to the wear on facilities and equipment that declares that it is far more likely from neglect/being lazy than being malicious. But, a person looking at his destroyed machine is more likely to presume a saboteur than lazy neglect. There is also a concept that speaks loudly about the only defect worse than acting without thought is withholding action by overthinking. So, I throw myself on the fire a bit there, but my point here is that there are often less “evil” intentions than easy presumptions.
         In my first comment my less than well made point was not how horrible most republicans are but that people often strike out for varied angers, and in how poorly too many of us think out our own boundaries, how those boundaries can be more fluid than they would have ever considered, and how little people respond to a crossing of boundaries when done by one to whom they identify.
         In school, there were a few bullies. A few boys and girls who were popular, loud, relatively powerful, but mostly feared. The MAJORITY went along with the bully not out of a shared desire to hurt someone as to be not hurt, and the best way to not be hurt by a bully is to be on their side. People gravitate to the perceived stronger side out of weakness rather than maliciousness.
         Nazi’s have been with us in one shape or another for a very long time. It is my opinion that society has loosened some boundaries out of anger and outrage by some, weakness by others, a variety of fears and feeling overwhelmed mostly, and things that good people would not have allowed in the past are now allowed and encouraged because they share those angers, outrages, fears. People have lost who to trust: Can’t trust politicians, can’t trust the news, can’t trust the church – people feel they are being lied to and are desperate to be right, to be able to predict their future. For too many it is the danger of means vs. ends. It is the danger of people being lazy and not thinking out their own boundaries, their own identity, not being strong in who they are and for what they stand and so accepting the validity of something they wouldn’t have before all because some asshole stood up and told them not the truth but more what they wanted to hear. Out of desperation, they follow it.

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2. Well, I read this earlier today, and came back tonight to make sure I haven’t missed anything. I see comments, so I’ll post the question I had earlier? Didn’t Indiana Jones always punch nazis? I believe he did, not because I’ve seen any of the movies (I haven’t, and don’t plan to,) but because I’ve seen the meme “Always punch the nazi” of Indiana Jones punching downward on a nazi from (I guess?) the 1st installment. So, now, people think it’s political, and that they’re being picked on?

   It reminds me of when that Star Wars flick that came out during GW’s term (post plane crashes) that contained a quote to the effect that democracy died to thunderous applause. The rightwing went batcrap then about that, too.

   I gotta say it strikes me as them protesting too much. There is way too much nazi sympathizing and even promoting going on, especially in the USA, and I don’t like it one little bit. I do stand for the US Constitution, I do believe curtailing free speech is a slippery slope (notice our side doesn’t do it, while the rightwing puts people in free speech zones,) but I still wish there was a way to do what Germany did and still does, which is to not tolerate anything at all nazi-positive, Holocaust denying, and anti-Jewish (not the only group nazis decimated.) None of this should have gotten any farther than the tiki-torch march back under TFG.

   That’s how I really feel. I’ll get off my soapbox now. Grrrrrr. nazis. Fkn’ nazis.

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