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epicspongee [they/them or he/him] @midwest.social

1y ago

I love Twitter rule

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Remember when Obama saw the largest transfer of wealth away from black US citizens to the wealthy in the history of the United States?
Remember when he set the precedent that it us cool to assassinate US citizens in the open (as opposed to covertly) without trial?
Honestly I get being mad at "Obama's biggest controversy was the mustard"
- Obama’s biggest controversy was the mustard
  That's not what she said lol. Sorry as a neurodivergent person I get that this tweet might be hard to read possibly, but she's being sarcastic here. Maybe in poor taste, but it's a joke. She's well-aware of the shit Obama's done and isn't a fan of him.
  
  She says that Obama was bad. Everyone understands she was being sarcastic. Since she was being sarcastic it means that she is trying to say that Obama wasn't bad (because that's how sarcasm works).
- Are you so poorly educated that you think Obama was responsible for the crash that caused that transfer of wealth?
  
  Are you just looking to dunk without actually absorbing what was actually said? If so, go back to reddit.
  If you've actually misunderstood me, I never claimed Obama caused the recession. His policies after just massively looted the proletariat to benefit the bourgeoisie, and in particular looted black proletariat.
- Obama didn't start that, that was Clinton in
  
  Which one are you referring to?

it's such an unfunny joke I had to read it three times to even understand what she was trying to say
- Some people are unfamiliar with Obama's drones.
  
  or the genocide in Yemen, or his role as the deporter in chief, or that he engineered the largest transfer of wealth from the Black community to capital interests, or, or, or
  
  Some people are. This particular people has absolutely no excuse for such ignorance lol
- I didn’t post it because her joke was funny lol
  
  I figured, it just had me

People are still using that dumpster of a platform?
- People who have a large following and magic emojis next to their name will keep using it because it gives them their validation. Twitter celebs are really in a sad state of existence
- I got so confused reading this, my brainy hurt :(

I mean. It definitely carries the implication that Obama has done very little wrong whether or not you intended it that way. Natalie's inability to own up to mistakes is either a serious character flaw or she thinks that the murderous actions he took were justified.
- Or she is just pandering to her liberal audience
  
  Since she basically stopped making content, I'm a little surprised she still has an audience. Like so many otherwise curiously influential and interesting people, she's doomed herself to drowning in the social media space when everyone would be better off (her most of all) if she just logged the fuck off.
- Natalie's inability to own up to mistakes is either a serious character flaw or
  I don't think that that is a flaw she has is in question at this point tbh
- Studied Philosophy as a PhD. That's one of the biggest flaws a human could have.
  
  It's not really hard is it? "Yeah people are right about this." and then growing from it. I don't think I've ever seen that from her, not a single time. Everyone is always wrong except her, it is always the internet's fault, and she is perfect and right about everything.
  I have much more respect for people like Noah Samsen who has made mistakes with epic debatebros and just owned up to it like "Yep engaging with them was a mistake I shouldn't have done it and won't be in future". Just fucking learn from things ffs. Grow.

Its great that the Obama post got her dunked on by Ethereal Bisexual

Such an annoying reckless behavior to publicly Call Out a community you're supposedly part of like this. Every time someone does this, I get a clear mental image of a dog licking its own ass. Just shut up, having random slapfights and compulsive arguing are childish zoomer traits
- Time for her to make another 4 hour video about how she was 1984'd into deleting a tweet.
  
  That would require her making a video

that joke is so overused i don't even think the libs over at r/politics finds it funny anymore
- I used to think it was funny just because it WAS absurd that Hannity (it was Hannity right?) made a big deal out of Obama ordering "fancy mustard" and therefor being unAmerican. I thought it was a good commentary on conservative media's weird tics. But once I noticed that libs were using it (and tan suit jokes) just as much to absolve Obama of having "real controversies" and not just making fun of Fox News, it lost its edge for me.
  ETA: Also its really corny of Contra to engage in such an overused joke, beyond how lib she's being its also just really gauche.
  
  She's actively regressing into a chud.
  
  Tan suit Dijon mustard
  was amusing until I realized how much of politics is theater. It was just too blatant this time, but so much of American news is only slightly more serious than Dijon mustard.
  
  It may be gauche, but it is certainly not de gauche
- Libs on /r/politics only make jokes about the Ork-shaped Slavic Brainpan and how many indictments Trump is currently under.

can someone please explain why the word rule appears in titles so often
- its a
  thing from /r/196
  
  Ok, so it looks like stormfront is a website that promotes white pride. It sounds like there might have been a subreddit at some point based on that stormfront image.
  https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stormfront
  And /r/196 is a leftist meme posting subreddit that is trans friendly.
  https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196
  I'm using non-reddit links because I don't want to direct traffic to reddit.
  Can you help me find a source that shows, stormfront, a white pride website, influenced the 196 rule please? This seems like an important point to learn more about. I've been googling, but I haven't found any connection yet.
- It's a redditor habit.

twitter is really good at making words and phrases meaningless through extreme hyperbole rule
- Can I ask whats being made meaningless here? I hope you don't mean "war criminal". Because drone bombing a wedding is definitely a war crime.
  Maybe you mean Contra's joke though idk lol

Natalie should know better. But also... the really nasty shit under Obama was heavily under-reported and only ever seemed to penetrate media in a select few circuits. Casually tossing off a "What even did Obama do that was so bad?" is almost forgivable if you're not a terminally online 30-year-old who makes hour long YouTube videos about politics, history, and culture.
- Am I reading this wrong? I assume Natalie is making a joke about how people under report Obama's nasty shits
  
  I think she's joking about how people over-report his trivial shit. But it can be read as blithely ignoring the monstrous crimes Obama did commit while in office, because it echoes a lot of the liberal apologia of the administration that amounted to "The worst thing Obama ever did was wear a tan suit".
  
  You're reading it wrong, she's stating you can't make a moral equivalence between Obama and, say, Trump or something because supposedly the worst things obama did were silly.

What an absolute dumpsterfire of a comment section

Observation selection bias is an easy one the GOP likes to take advantage of. Eg: not testing for covid to show covid went down.
Also: drone strike civilian casualties.
- Not testing for covid to show it went down is the current strategy of the Biden admin
  
  Lol. Look at this galaxy brain equivicating there start of a pandemic with an endemic with vaccine.
  I mean, obviously the covid hospital occupancy rates would be identical if the actual case rate was the same.
  Oh wait...
  https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations
  What's that? Less then 10k vs over 140k? Definitely the exact same situation! /s
  Don't trip over yourself making excuses now

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