States' Rights is a euphemism for the reactionary cause du jour. You can call them out for a contradiction, but at best they will just ignore you because they know and we know they're not talking about or concerned with the rights of states vs. federal mandate. Then there's always the threat that they will drop the euphemism and say that they want to punish promiscuous women and trans deviants. Trump has largely proven that the right doesn't have to watch its mouth near as much as they used to think. Rather than abandon their political identity, the majority of the "moderate" right will go along with the new framing. The only ones who lose out in this shift in rhetoric are women and trans people, who are now directly and publicly targeted not just by the reactionary fringes but by the right as a whole.
If you're wondering, yes, I absolutely lifted most of this from the Alt-Right Playbook, "The Death of a Euphemism"
oh no, why did they turn him into Jared Leto Joker
they were betting hard that it would be Cillian, weren't they? there's got to be like 5 of them
oh we're plenty angry, it's more that the corporate media has made a concerted effort to remind us that collective action results in a high risk of skull crushing by our militarized police
Legacy media is dying, and the hangers on are old corporate types with a "conservative" bias and agenda. The same shit happened at CNN a couple of years ago, right? Hyper polarization is not going away. It's the new normal.
2024 is going great, and I can't wait for things to get even better in October!
oh shit we're all going to die, aren't we
Yes, that horrible jackass. He might have good ideas on paper, but he was a miserable "candidate" whose only potential was to muddy up a shit show, and he couldn't even manage that.
can't afford to get my old man back fixed, but rich people dogs gonna live forever
This book was where the series completely left the rails for me. So fucking bizarre.
getting bird shit in my mouth. no, really. I have a recurring (but not frequent) "nightmare" about getting bird shit in my mouth through diverse accidents. there's even an incredibly vivid taste associated with it that I can recall when I'm awake. I'm guessing that toddler me took a gamble for science and wound up scarred for life.
Silly liberals, States' Rights are for oppressing minorities, not for preventing the rise of treasonous aspiring dictators with an R by his name
I'm not a good example, but I've burned off a lot of old parts of myself to keep things moving forward over the past ten years or so. I haven't had any friends in a long time. It is lonely, but I honestly would have expected it to be worse by now. I have routines that work alright for me.