Red Mosquito

McParadigm wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I guess I just don't see what the point is, really, outside of solidarity. I appreciate that, but I don't think it's going to do any political good.

Hopefully, it gets people fired up and actually involved. Solidarity isn't an awful thing either. Its also a good reminder that there are quite a few people who didnt fall in line behind Trump.

Sure, which I said I appreciate. But people seemed pretty fired up against Trump already and it didn't do shit.

One thing that really bothers me about the way people in democratic nations interpret modern politics is that there is an assumed "civilized now." In other words, we pretend separation from the stories told by history.

A lot of angry people like to compare Donald Trump to Hitler, because it is politically easy and they are fixated on the figurehead, but what they are really seeing is something much harder to accept as true: that people in a modern, educated democracy have proven as manipulitable as demonized, tightly compartmentalized groups from history...post-WWI Germany being the easiest reference.

Whether Trump supporters have grievances built in by real circumstances or not, they have shown us that no nation yet imagined has developed a populous fully protected from the group-think that allows false narratives to flourish. There are dozens of easily-disproved "stories" out there that more than half of them believe. And all of those stories are aimed at demonizing one "other" or another.

So much of their manipulated worldview has centered on the idea that they are the secret, silent majority that volume is now key. Demonstrations are necessarily part of the underwriting. You can see that in social media's Trumpbot freak out today, and in Sean Spicer's sulk. And it's hard not to notice that the media stopped discussing "why Trump won" today and started discussing, for the first time, just how preposterous and alarming his choices were.

McParadigm wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I guess I just don't see what the point is, really, outside of solidarity. I appreciate that, but I don't think it's going to do any political good.

Hopefully, it gets people fired up and actually involved. Solidarity isn't an awful thing either. Its also a good reminder that there are quite a few people who didnt fall in line behind Trump.

Sure, which I said I appreciate. But people seemed pretty fired up against Trump already and it didn't do shit.

One thing that really bothers me about the way people in democratic nations interpret modern politics is that there is an assumed "civilized now." In other words, we pretend separation from the stories told by history.

A lot of angry people like to compare Donald Trump to Hitler, because it is politically easy and they are fixated on the figurehead, but what they are really seeing is something much harder to accept as true: that people in a modern, educated democracy have proven as manipulitable as demonized, tightly compartmentalized groups from history...post-WWI Germany being the easiest reference.

Whether Trump supporters have grievances built in by real circumstances or not, they have shown us that no nation yet imagined has developed a populous fully protected from the group-think that allows false narratives to flourish. There are dozens of easily-disproved "stories" out there that more than half of them believe. And all of those stories are aimed at demonizing one "other" or another.

So much of their manipulated worldview has centered on the idea that they are the secret, silent majority that volume is now key. Demonstrations are necessarily part of the underwriting. You can see that in social media's Trumpbot freak out today, and in Sean Spicer's sulk. And it's hard not to notice that the media stopped discussing "why Trump won" today and started discussing, for the first time, just how preposterous and alarming his choices were.

i got bugs wrote:Here's an idea

Instead of being a part of the social event of the year, vote

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

Simple Torture wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

When I worked at Harvard, she bought like $500 of merch from the bookstore and then asked if we'd hold it behind the counter "for an hour or so" for her. She left it there for 3 days. She can rot in the burning pit of hell for all I care.

wease wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

When I worked at Harvard, she bought like $500 of merch from the bookstore and then asked if we'd hold it behind the counter "for an hour or so" for her. She left it there for 3 days. She can rot in the burning pit of hell for all I care.

She's a busy gal.

i got bugs wrote:Here's an idea

Instead of being a part of the social event of the year, vote

Bi_3 wrote:"Maybe sometimes you haven’t got the backing that you’ve wanted. You’re going to get so much backing, maybe you’re going to say, ‘please don’t give us so much backing. Mr. President, please don’t give us so much backing.’"

Trump to the CIA

wease wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

Sheer female perfection right there.

bada wrote:

wease wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

Sheer female perfection right there.

Used to be. Unneeded plastic surgery has been the downfall of many a Hollywood actress.

Simple Torture wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Strat wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:The women are going to be riled up because of the march. The men in their lives are going to see the change first, if they aren't feminists themselves already.

Naomi Judd gave a good speech today. "Nasty woman" means something totally different now.

*ashley

Ashley Judd.

When I worked at Harvard, she bought like $500 of merch from the bookstore and then asked if we'd hold it behind the counter "for an hour or so" for her. She left it there for 3 days. She can rot in the burning pit of hell for all I care.

McParadigm wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I guess I just don't see what the point is, really, outside of solidarity. I appreciate that, but I don't think it's going to do any political good.

Hopefully, it gets people fired up and actually involved. Solidarity isn't an awful thing either. Its also a good reminder that there are quite a few people who didnt fall in line behind Trump.

Sure, which I said I appreciate. But people seemed pretty fired up against Trump already and it didn't do shit.

One thing that really bothers me about the way people in democratic nations interpret modern politics is that there is an assumed "civilized now." In other words, we pretend separation from the stories told by history.

A lot of angry people like to compare Donald Trump to Hitler, because it is politically easy and they are fixated on the figurehead, but what they are really seeing is something much harder to accept as true: that people in a modern, educated democracy have proven as manipulitable as demonized, tightly compartmentalized groups from history...post-WWI Germany being the easiest reference.

Whether Trump supporters have grievances built in by real circumstances or not, they have shown us that no nation yet imagined has developed a populous fully protected from the group-think that allows false narratives to flourish. There are dozens of easily-disproved "stories" out there that more than half of them believe. And all of those stories are aimed at demonizing one "other" or another.

So much of their manipulated worldview has centered on the idea that they are the secret, silent majority that volume is now key. Demonstrations are necessarily part of the underwriting. You can see that in social media's Trumpbot freak out today, and in Sean Spicer's sulk. And it's hard not to notice that the media stopped discussing "why Trump won" today and started discussing, for the first time, just how preposterous and alarming his choices were.

LoathedVermin72 wrote: But who is going to be swayed? The false narrative Trump supporters believe certainly isn't going to be impacted by large liberal congregations in urban centers.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I guess I just don't see what the point is, really, outside of solidarity. I appreciate that, but I don't think it's going to do any political good.

Hopefully, it gets people fired up and actually involved. Solidarity isn't an awful thing either. Its also a good reminder that there are quite a few people who didnt fall in line behind Trump.

Sure, which I said I appreciate. But people seemed pretty fired up against Trump already and it didn't do shit.

One thing that really bothers me about the way people in democratic nations interpret modern politics is that there is an assumed "civilized now." In other words, we pretend separation from the stories told by history.

A lot of angry people like to compare Donald Trump to Hitler, because it is politically easy and they are fixated on the figurehead, but what they are really seeing is something much harder to accept as true: that people in a modern, educated democracy have proven as manipulitable as demonized, tightly compartmentalized groups from history...post-WWI Germany being the easiest reference.

Whether Trump supporters have grievances built in by real circumstances or not, they have shown us that no nation yet imagined has developed a populous fully protected from the group-think that allows false narratives to flourish. There are dozens of easily-disproved "stories" out there that more than half of them believe. And all of those stories are aimed at demonizing one "other" or another.

So much of their manipulated worldview has centered on the idea that they are the secret, silent majority that volume is now key. Demonstrations are necessarily part of the underwriting. You can see that in social media's Trumpbot freak out today, and in Sean Spicer's sulk. And it's hard not to notice that the media stopped discussing "why Trump won" today and started discussing, for the first time, just how preposterous and alarming his choices were.

But who is going to be swayed? The false narrative Trump supporters believe certainly isn't going to be impacted by large liberal congregations in urban centers.