You know I’m really sick of repeating the “face-eating leopards party” jokes, but let’s call a spade a spade here
I can dig it!
Sorry, I’m not into documentaries.
Walter Hill is such an underrated director.
Ironic. Though historically not, “calling a spade a spade” has become associated with race and derogatory undertones in the US in the last 100 years. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade
Aw fuck. Man there isn’t a single figure of speech left in American English that I don’t find out is actually a racist dog whistle that I never knew about
Well goddamn, I apologize for its use.
Don’t apologise, it’s a phrase people use and you weren’t being racist. Euphemism treadmill is slippery by definition, if we’re all mates there’s no need to get too into language policing.
No need to apologize, I happened to have said it a year or so ago and then had a…wait a minute, down the Internet rabbit hole and here we are. The purpose of mentioning it is that it wasn’t originally or historically ever offensive and probably outside of the US wouldn’t raise an eyebrow today, but since I do live in the US when I read more about it I committed that one to memory.
I recently had a phrase come to mind a family member used to say as an intensifying adjective, such as “God damned” in “call the God damned police!”, but the intensifier my family member said growing up was “cotton picking” as “get the cotton picking car out of the way!” I’m from pacNW US and only decades later had my brain tripwire catch on that it was clearly derogatory towards either slaves or at best those who did low-paid agricultural work when my family member was growing up. How that phrase made it into his family’s vocabulary is a wonder in the PacNW with no agricultural ties nor family history anywhere near the US south where you might expect it to be more common. Point is, we all have things that we absorb from the language around us, I just try to generally be cognizant of roots and context but it’s difficult even when you try sometimes!
We don’t repeat neutral and boring phrases as much as the juicy remarkable ones.
As a rule of thumb, we should be less uppity about… Blah
You’re right and wrong
It reads angrier than I intended
I internally delved (pun unintended) into this a long time ago, knowing that “espada” means sword, and indeed is the reason of that suit in the standard playing card deck, afaict.
Wait, growing up in the Midwestern US, we’d call that a shovel, but the thing we’d call a spade would more rightly be called a garden trowel…
I’m questioning so much right now…
A trowel is a type of spade, a spade is basically a shovel but has a different shaped blade
Is there “Leopards ate my face” on lemmy? Just asking because that’s where this belongs.
It isn’t even “Ate my face” so much as folks who were sold a bill of goods by conservative propagandists
- Family Values!
- Christian schools!
- No crime!
- Patriotic Unity!
- Entrepreneurship and an Honest Work Ethic!
only to get there and discover
- Spousal Abuse! Child Abuse! Rape! Intense Misogyny!
- What kind of nerd needs an education? Get a job you stupid kids!
- Lawlessness!
- Deep misanthropy wrapped in the American Flag!
- Scams! Price gouging! Poverty!
Turns out a liberal is just a conservative who has been mugged by reality.
Or some conservatives are just liberals that genuinely don’t hear the dogwhistles.
Turns out a liberal is just a conservative who has been mugged by reality.
I’m stealin’ this. Oh God, am I stealin’ this.
There is but only mods can post there. 🙄
I was wondering why I never saw it trending. Seems like we should see it everyday on Lemmy.
I never thought the leopards would eat my face.
What I’m wondering about is, are they “Conservative” as in they believe government is bad and taxes are bad and they are shocked, shocked I say to discover that there’s racism happening in this establishment, or are they full on fascist “Conservative” and racist as fuck themselves and they just didn’t realize they were one of the minorities they were supposed to hate?
They are “conservatives” because they think they are better than other people.
No joke, there is an immigrant in my state running the the GOP primary on the platform that immigration is broken and we need to fix the border.
When you talk to these people, it literally is about how it’s okay because they are the good race. It’s those at the border that are ruining America.
He talks about how his parents came here legally and how legal immigration is okay.
My brother in Christ, do you not realize that the GOP is trying to make it illegal for any immigration to occur? You’re pulling the ladder after you, oh I’m sorry, your parents climbed on the ship. Now you’re telling everyone below that they are dirty and lazy for not making it up without a ladder.
That candidate is caught up in the very specific idea of “legal” and “documented alien” for methods of immigration without realizing that the racism inherent in the system will make it virtually impossible for anyone to meet legal qualifications for entry. Often the racism is hidden in the unwritten parts like the fees required to submit paperwork and the pressure for legal representation - all things that cost money and is designed to keep our the poors.
That candidate has no idea what nuance means and will run things like a tyrant, confused by a lack of clear morality.
I highly suspect that he very much knows the nuances of the system and doing what every Republican does: using racism to get elected to gain power and influence.
He doesn’t care if people get hurt so long as it’s the right people.
But they’re one of the good ones. Massa loves the good ones 😭
I know that a lot of immigrants from the Philippines are super anti-abortion and tend to align with Republicans because of this.
Conservative immigrants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
…I really dislike how often this link is relevant to current events.
Israel outdoes these lesser kapo organisations by several orders of magnitude - they’re even managing their own genocide (with the blessing and support of white supremacist empire) at the moment.
If I recall correctly, there is at least one Nazi organizations that now now likes Israeli’s. I am mentioning this simply to point out how fucked up and wrong Nazi’s are. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-10-19/ty-article/richard-spencer-gives-israel-as-example-of-ethno-state-he-wants-in-u-s/0000017f-db4d-df9c-a17f-ff5df3da0000
If neo-nazis were to gain control of any western country today, the very first middle-eastern country they’d foster “international ties” with would be Israel. Why? Birds of a feather, of course - why wouldn’t they want “good relations” with the world’s best-funded pack of kapos?
It has literally already happened - the National Party in South Africa (you know… of Apartheid-fame) had put away all their overtly nazi paraphernalia as soon the liberals allowed them into government, but that didn’t stop these neo-nazis from being the first among all the Commonwealth nations to send high-ranking diplomats to Israel in the early 50s.
Israel was literally Hitler’s idea. He wanted to ship all the German Jews to British Palestine. The final solution was the backup plan, so this kinda tracks.
Balfour declaration?
Pretty sure the idea for an actual Jewish return to what is now Israel predates Hitler by a fair bit
Conservative viewpoints:
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We just want to deny people abortions, not experience racism.
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We just want to pay no taxes and let infrastructure crumble; we still want weed to be legal.
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We want to be able to subjugate women, not pay for war profiteers.
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We just hate gays, not black people.
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We just want jobs; why are all these billionaires fans of our party?
See the thing about leftism is that it’s usually internally consistent. Authoritarianism cannot be internally consistent. Nobody wants ALL of the things fascism claims to represent; in many ways it’s not even possible.
Nobody wants ALL of the things fascism claims to represent; in many ways it’s not even possible.
Because it’s not a thinking ideology, it’s a feeling ideology. This has been studied and proven that conservatives lean more reactive and emotionally sensitive.
See, the human brain doesn’t work the way most people think it does, we live with the misconception that we use our brains to decode the world, to solve problems and figure out solutions and analyze situations.
This is NOT what your brain is doing. Right now, and at all times, your brain is scanning how you feel, all your physical and emotional sensations, and it’s constantly creating stories to explain those feelings, ever shifting and constantly reporting these subtle ideas for why you are experiencing things.
About 100,000 years ago this was a fantastic survival tool. If you see huge paw-prints by the watering hole, you will figure out in your head why you’re scared, you will invent a simulated future where the creature that lives nearby will eat you, so you avoid that watering hole.
Now our world is massively complicated, but our brains are still wired to do the same thing. It takes an emotion or sensation and just wraps a story around it with ease, and the funniest part is the story doesn’t have to make sense, it’s just how the brain assembles information and synthesizes results. This is why you have anti-vax doctors and nurses and scientists who suddenly become Flat Earthers. They aren’t using logic and reason, they are scared of something and their brain supply the rationalization. Be it a huge paw print, or a newspaper headline about climate change, it makes people feel the same thing, and react the same way.
Scared of everything, mostly within themselves, which is so abhorrent, they can not countenance the very things they fear are themselves. Hence the infinite, horrific projection.
See the thing about leftism is that it’s usually internally consistent. Authoritarianism cannot be internally consistent.
You should see hexbear.
Even ignoring that, “leftism” is a little too broad of a term in this context. There’s too many conflicting ideologies that agree with each other 90% of the way.
That’s still not like the right, though. That’s more a mish mash of ideas that make no sense together whatsoever. It’s hard to square what the gospels are on about with having billionaires around at all, for example.
That’s more “leftism” than leftism. Tankies are a whole nother animal.
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Wanna bet they won’t have connected the dots?
Probably too white washed to realize
California, as always:
Best state in the Union.
Not for affordability. That’s because of the weather and Boomers who bought houses for $200K that are now worth $1 million +.
If you already own a house and like living in it, you have no costs besides maintenance and property tax. Property taxes in California are limited by Proposition 13, so they’re minimal.
That means that plenty of boomers are just hanging out in houses with huge opportunity costs but no real costs. They could rent them out for a ton of money, but they don’t need to. Thus the rental market is limited.
Also the fact the many areas in California actively fight against construction of new homes. Especially anything more then X stories tall. They get killed because so and so celeb/Richie doesn’t want to ruin the skyline.
You get shit like mansions renovated into 4+ family homes because they can’t tear it down to make a 8 unit complex.
Rent control is also pretty robust, so while it’s painful at first, over time renting gets easier relative to inflation. I think renting is still financially optimal over buying in most areas, and that’s before considering roommates.
But yes. They don’t call it a housing crisis for nothin
There are several sites out there that compare
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mortgage, borrowing costs, repair costs, property tax, a fund for known maintenance, a fund for repairs that insurance won’t cover without penalizing you more, and home resale value
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paying stupid rent and putting the difference from that above into the dumbest of minimally-performing stocks.
After 5/10/20 years, we pretend we’re gonna cash out from both options and compare cash on hand after each.
There are really few scenarios where the bungalow owner comes out ahead.
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Lately in terms of politics I think it’s probably Minnesota
ROFL In a way I am sad for them, to be that silly to not realize conservatives are racist bigots who revel in punching down!
Ya rly!
Quite rly*
Not sure how this is “US Authoritarianism” but okay…
In any case, two things could be at play: either the family is truly conservative and thought white conservatives will accept them; or they are playing the respectability politics. If it is the former, many say most immigrants would be conservative voters (because many are religious and entrepreneurial), if it weren’t for conservative politicians and base demoraphics in their new country being racists. If it’s the latter, we all know those who present themselves as “one of the good ones” are grifting and acting in self-preservation. I have a mate who posts far-right stuff online and supports Trump, even though he himself is a brown immigrant (I suspect his father–who isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed-- may be influencing him as well).
Those who play respectability politics are acting in self-preservation. This is actually a tale as old as time. As one user here pointed out, there was a Jewish organisation who are Nazi supporters. During World War 2, Jewish elders and organisations in Europe actually gave names of their members to the Nazis. They thought they could save themselves or more lives if they cooperated. Hannah Arendt covered this tidbit of history in her book on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, from which the famous term “banality of evil” came from. Of course, the book caused controversy not just because it posits that evil people feel casual of their actions, but also that it brought the taboo that several Jewish leaders in Europe have enabled the facilitation of the Holocaust.
For the record, I am not trying to be anti-Semitic with my post, I’m only explaining the result of playing respectability politics in the case of anti-Semitism and Holocaust.
I am scratching my head thinking how on earth anyone could think you are being antisemitic… Strange times indeed.
I think the fact that there are so many bigots out there being disproportionately vocal and often working to recruit others to their way of thinking with couched language and dogwhistles make it too easy for some people to assume that anyone speaking negatively of an oppressed group is a bigot.
The trick is usually identifying whether the negativity is about “all” of a group, or just some of them, but subtlety can be challenging in a text only format at times, especially if stuff ever gets taken out of context.
Lol thanks for understanding.
A lot of people mistake dry explanation of why things happen as making excuses.
Fascism isn’t really an ideology, it’s really just an emotional manipulation. Get power through any means necessary. Use any lie or emotional manipulation you can to get people to help you gain power. You can go through Umberto Eco’s 14 points but it all boils down to using emotions to get power.
In the social media age there’s algorithms that will identify whatever emotion you want to feel and give you an endless stream of that.
You get a social media stream to make you fear and hate a particular group. But the algorithm is sophisticated enough to filter out the content that’s manipulating others into hating and fearing your group. What small signs get through that filter can be passed off as just a joke, nothing serious. So you might feel you’re part of the tribe that hates and fears LGBTQ, Black people, muslims, etc, without realizing that the group you feel a part of also hates and fears you.
Sure this happened in the past, but I feel it’s much more common now than before. Like every second person I talk to (both online and in RL) is part of some some group dedicated to hating some other group. And everyone hates liberals.
There’s a lot of corruption in my government, at national, state and municipal levels. Not every citizen is corrupt (many are, how else would you survive without being shunned/blackballed? Unless you already gained stability some miraculous way --lotto, large inheritance?) and your post boils down to something I’ve been pondering for a few months: those who disapprove corruption without calling out benefit from corruption. It’s the madam/working girl, bully/bullied mentality. At least in my area, I don’t think it’s fear of life and limb, since most people I see are willing to risk life and limb on corruption, but I guess there’s a difference between going out relatively quickly rather than being tortured to death.
I hadn’t thought of it that way before! I guess that some folks either try to work with the system but succumbed to it before they realise it; or they gave up entirely and join.
A favor here, blind eye there. Then people have something compromising on you, so you do another favor and another,; there are mouths to feed. I’ve said it before, selling our souls is seldom done in one dramatic moment, but rather incrementally.
The leopards eating faces party finds another member (victim) .
A link to the actual videos instead of a random guy talking about it would have been better but I’m not really sure what it has to do with authoritarianism either way…
I did a quick search and apparently it’s just bait.
If they’re talking about the video in this article, they don’t mention racism at all. Sure, that could’ve been a reason, but the tweet implies some sort of epiphany that didn’t happen.
Of course. Posts like this are such trash. I have no idea why people upvote unsubstantiated claims from random screenshots
They may not mention racism specifically, but:
”We decided after 3 years in Idaho, we are going back home," the family stated. “We wanted to move to a Conservative state, but we realized what it would mean to fit in.”
They continued, “It would mean we would need to be judgmental. We would need to gossip about others. Have our kids forget how to say please and thank you. Talk bad about new people moving here for a better life.”
Explaining why they initially moved away from California, they said, “Left California because of politics but forgot there are other kinds of politics to consider…”
Caveat emptor alles. Devil is in the details
You know I had the exact question they were expecting when I read their Twitter handle.
