Boom. Voted. Social media virtue signal announcement complete. COMMEND ME FOR MY PARTICIPATION!!!
I SOMETHING SOMETHING DEMOCRACY!

Honest question: Why is 'populism' demonized in politics, when populism literally just means that a political figure is popular among the people? Shouldn't any democratically elected leader be popular among the people? What's the alternative, 'un-populist?' Popular among the establishment? I don't get it.

They say 'Hitler was populist.' Yeah, Ok, that may be true, but then again, so was every leader in history that came to power due to popular support from the people! Should we reject political figures that are popular just because historically there have been mistakes? Should we forego the process of elections altogether and just let oligarchs select our political leaders for us?

Another honest question:

Since when did 'right wing conservatism' become associated with fascism?

Conservative political ideas involve the separation of government and corporation. It espouses the idea that government should be small, limited, and unable to take an active role in the policies of private businesses.

That is exactly OPPOSITE to fascism, where government and corporations merge and cooperate to carry out each other's goals.

When you see the political factions today that identify as left, like the Biden admin, having several instances where giant corporations like those of big tech openly ADMIT that they are taking marching orders for censorship directly from the government, is THAT not more fascist by definition?

You have fascists censoring free speech through government coersion or incentives of private corporations, and more fascists in media corporations announcing in news and TV defending such practices by claiming that 'private corporations don't have to follow the same laws as government,' when its government instructing them to do it in the fist place! THEN, they accuse anyone who rejects this on principle as being part of the 'fascist right wing conservative populist extremists' etc!?

If you know the meaning of the word 'fascism,' then this doesn't even make sense! Large government and corporate collusions in government is a LEFT thing that the left is doing as we speak, so why are conservatives and right wing people being labeled 'fascist?'

There's a case to be made for so-called 'right wing' politicians like Bush as being fascist... but then, they weren't really right wing nor conservative! they expanded government, expanded corporate collusion, and removed regulations on government limitations while expanding government control of private businesses... So they were right wing in rhetoric only.

I guess another argument could be made for right wing religious authoritarianism... but that isn't fascism! The word for that is 'theocracy,' and sure, it's fine to be against theocracy, but call it what it is! Conservatives do have a propensity to be religious, however, theocracy is not conservative. All government in America should be within a separation of church and state.

Fascism. on the other hand, is something else entirely! Fascism is being practiced first and foremost by those who are accusing others of being fascist throgh state funded propaganda and broadcasted at the behest of government agencies through private corporations! That is fascism!

Question is, the democrats and leftist socialists are intentionally skewing the meaning of the word fascism while practicing fascism, then actively and aggressively accusing conservatives who ardently oppose fascism of being fascists! why is that?!

There's a little donut spot open all night near my house. With a random late night sweet tooth, I took a trip there to get a donut, maybe a sandwich or something.

When I get there, the little old Asian dude behind the counter seemed spry and friendly. The picture menu on the wall featured all sorts of donuts, and what was listed as "Asian sandwiches."

I ordered the number one, BBQ beef sandwich. I asked the guy "So, what kind of 'Asian' is this sandwich?" And he replies, "Asian sandwich! Don't worry, you'll like it!"

So I respond saying "I'm sure I will, but just out of curiosity, what part of Asia does this style of sandwich come from? Is it like... Korean BBQ or something?"

The guy gave me sort of a quirked eyebrow and a half smile that was cryptic and hard to read. He then smiled and said "Vietnamese."

I said "Ah, alright! Sounds good!"

After picking out a few choice donuts to bring home to the ol lady, The guy proceeded to ring me up and with a thick accent said,

"Your sandwich will take about ten minutes. While you wait, read this."

From behind the counter, he pulled out an old yellowed page from a newspaper. He used his hand to highlight the sections that he wanted me to read. "Read from here to here, (flipped the page over) and then read all of this here."

Not really knowing what to expect, I said, "Ok, sure, I'll give it a read then."

He said "Yeah! Yeah! You read! Sandwich will be ready shortly."

So I sat down and proceeded to read the analog version of the story published in the link below:
https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.com/business/2013/dec/06/donut-rambo-cambodian-refugee-finds-success-friend/

By the time I was done, I was grinning from ear to ear!

I approached the counter to pick up my finished sandwich, and as I picked it up, I said "Hell yea, man! Fight the commies! America needs badass dudes like you!"

Smiling bashfully and looking down and to the side, he said "thank you, thank you."

I'm a fan! This is my go-to donut shop from now on! Aside from this guy being an American legendary badass, the donuts are some of the best I've tried too!

I forget who it was that said it, but there's this famous quote that goes something like "Never attribute to conspiracy what can be attributed to incompetence."

Me personally, I don't know about that quote. I don't really like it. I prefer a quote by Tsun Tsu from the art of war:

"An enemy can give you no greater gift than to underestimate you."

I don't feel like giving any gifts to conspirators today.

If you find yourself in a debate with someone about the whole Disney movie race-swapping thing. Stop. You can smash the whole debate with a single question:

Just ask them how happy they'd be if the race-swap was in reverse. I'm willing to bet good money that they don't answer the question.

Like, they will refuse to answer the question. I haven't seen one person on the left of this whole thing answer the question yet!

Don't make any other arguments, don't let them change the direction of the debate, just stay on it. Make them answer!

I'm telling you right now, they just won't!

That's probably because they know that their whole argument about 'equal representation' and 'equality,' along with all of their flowery woke ass principles are built on a double standard, and therefore intellectually dishonest.

To answer that question in a way that shows favoritism to one side or another would expose their hypocrisy, as well as their propensity towards racial discrimination... The very thing they are bitching about others doing.

They can't say that they'd be fine with it, cause it would negate their whole premise, and would probably be a lie that they couldn't keep a straight face telling.

They can't say that they're not fine with it, because it would out them as hypocrites and prove that they are discriminating!

So they just can't answer it, and they won't! LOL!

I can answer the question very easily. If they race-swap characters only for virtue signaling and identity politics, it's cringy AF in any direction. See? Not so hard.

They won't do it. They won't answer.

Lol. Try it yourself if you are bored! It's interesting to see them try to wiggle out of it.

It's almost like no matter what answer they give, you can end with a big ol:

Alright... Everyone's commenting on it so I gotta weigh in my 2 cents: Calling out the new little mermaid movie for race-swapping the main character in what is obviously a hollow and obnoxious virtue signal is wack.

If you wanna recreate a popular character from an old movie, respect the source content.

If you want diversity for the sake of diversity, make a new character. Make a new story. Make your own shit. Don't take SOMEONE ELSE'S work and use it to make some kind of statement or virtue signal.

Don't take a Danish fairytale from the 1700's and start swapping out everyone's physical appearance 'just because we don't like white people anymore' or something,

Is Disney really so creatively bankrupt that they can't make a new story to fit their sudden change of world view? I guarantee that if they did, no one would be bothered. They'd probably embrace it. But no, they wanna be sure and make it a point to show the world that they are actively removing white characters from stories written by white people in white cultures, and in white regions of the world retrospectively because white people suck, and anything good they may have achieved must be taken from them and appropriated for the 'oppressed' because we *aren't* racist! oh no, everyone else is! It's not racist to discriminate against someone for being a particular race as long as that race is white. right?

Like, they are the ones hyperfocused on race to the point that they have to deliberately change the race of old ass characters from storybooks in this contrived manner, but YOU are the racist for thinking it's wack.

Are they so adamant about diversity that they will just start race swapping characters in stories that take place in settings where it doesn't even make sense?!

How would these SJW's feel if if FOX made a recreation of Pokehantus where Pokehantus was played by Angelina Jolie?

How would they feel if they remade Mulan starring Sandra Bullok?

You'd never hear the friggin end of it!

I'd argue that its racist that Disney has to race swap a white princess instead of just making a badass black princess in a new movie with her own story!

I'd argue that its racist that Disney decided to make 'black Ariel' for the little mermaid, but still felt the need to change her hair color to be closer to the original character, even though the original character's natural hair color was red, but a black woman must change her hair color to be red!

If you wanna make black Ariel, why not just let her be black Ariel?! lol Why you gotta be like, 'we wanna make black Ariel, but she still has to have red hair because deep down we know that we're just race swapping an established red-headed character over our state of being creatively bankrupt pieces of shit who have nothing to offer something that was already great and care more about our woke ideology and identity politics than we do about the classic story we are recreating!'

and then accuse anyone who calls it out as being a "racist?!"

Yeah, sure, its the audiences fault that your movie sucks and no one wants to sit there and be brow-beaten with woke nonsense.

They just did exactly the same thing with the Tolkein remake of Rings of Power, or the Marvel franchises, and then hide behind accusing their audience of being 'racist' to divert blame away from the fact that they failed to honor a timeless masterpiece by injecting their own ideals along with acting, writing and storytelling that is mediocre at best!

Time and time again, they take classic old stories and characters, decide they want to remake it for 2022, and their big creative contribution to the project is 'we're gonna make it more diverse and probly feminist or something!'

Dude, no one cares about that! We are bludgeoned over the head with identity politics in everything we see these days! We revisit nostalgic old stories of fantasy to take us away from these troubled modern times. The LAST thing anyone wants is more modern times in their medieval fantasies!!

We would even put up with it to some degree if the source material were at least respected, or done some kind of justice, but its not! Yall just hired some armchair Marxist writer fresh out of college to recreate Tolkein -- TOLKEIN! Or you brought back an iconic movie from the 90's and your only visible contribution thus far is to completely change the cultural representation of the main character!

Like, enough already! We get it! You all hate white people! You wanna cancel white people from every field of society, economics, media, art and literature in which they were once prominent, and then call anyone who questions it the racists!

Fine, if thats what you wanna do, but don't be surprised when the fans of the original work that you are using for your propagandist money grab, (who also happen to be the majority of people that would even be interested in such a remake in the first place,) happen to reject your bullshitty poor retelling of a story that they memorized every word of its original!

If you don't like Tolkein, you think his work is 'problematic' or whatever, then don't make a Tolkein show! Make something else! Make your own shit!

The original little mermaid is PLENTY problematic in a lot of ways by today's standards. If that bothers you, fine! Then don't make a little mermaid remake! No one even asked for this!

BUT, if you ARE gonna remake something, make a REMAKE, not a completely different thing, then act surprised when fans of the original are not on board with it, and then try to mask your own failures and bad decisions by accusing them all of being racists!

Don't just decide that 'Superman is now gay, Spiderman is now black, and Wonderwoman is a trans woman,' then expect everyone to applaud your '*creative genius!*'

It's bullshit!

They did some race swapping on the new Game of Thrones, and notice that no one is upset about it because (firstly,) the new GOT is actually GOOD, and 2, They did it in such a way that it makes sense and works with the story, and then, they don't mention it in any kind of modern context AT ALL. The new GOT isn't focused on modern identity politics or racial profiling, it's focused on a live-action adaptation of the works of revered writer, James RR Martin, with respect to the SOURCE MATERIAL, and everyone loves it! Go figure!

If you wanna take something that people already know and love and do a modern remake that's well received and successful, it's quite simple. It's not rocket science. All you need to do is take all of the advances in film, media, special effects, visuals etc that we have in 2022, and use it to tell the SAME STORY. Done! You'll be slanging burger king cups and action figures for the next 20 years!

But no. You can't let it be. You have to impose your own ideas on people through the use of other people's ideas and demand that everyone loves it.

Well we don't. Sorry.

There. That's my rant on the topic. Probably not a popular or PC opinion, but I hope you all enjoyed it any way.

Stay tuned for my next project. Its a TV series about the life and career of Mohammed Ali, starring Shy Lebuff as Mohammed Ali. If you don' tlike it your just whitephobic. (see? I can make up words too!)

Unbelievable! lol.

I'm here to speak up for one of the most marginalized and unrepresented groups in the world: the Leprachauns.
The Leprachauns used to be one of the most proud, financially sovereign and independent groups on earth. They amassed huge deposits of wealth in the form of pots full of gold which they would keep stored away at the end of their rainbows.
The rainbow and the four leaf clover were symbols to represent indigenous leprechaun culture, as these were sources of their leprechaun magic and prosperity.
Until one day, when the LGBTIAQ+(whatever) came in and stole their rainbows. The rainbow had been ruthlessly plundered from the Leprechauns, cutting off one of the main sources of their magic, and destroying their natural stores of wealth, that no longer could be hidden at the end of the rainbows.
So what happened to the Leprechaun's vast stores of gold? No one knows for sure... Some say that with no place to hide their wealth, they were forced to deposit it in the central banking system, where through inflation, then deflation, the value of their vast stores were plundered and dissappeared.
Others say that with no place to hide their gold, it was simply stolen from them at gunpoint after the police were defunded in democrat run areas.
Others still believe that it was taken by the vatican, never to be seen again.
SInce then, the leprechauns have become dependent on the system, in poverty and squalor, and have diminished in number significantly.
I mean, think about it... When is the last time YOU saw a leprechaun?! They have all but vanished!
I put fourth the notion that we reclaim the rainbow for the once proud but now decimated leprechaun communities who have nothing left but three leaf clovers, as their lucky charms have also been appropriated and exploited by capitalist profiteers like Kellogs and General Mills.
I stand up and speak out for the leprechauns, because if I don't... Who will?!

I find it interesting that the word 'Nazi' is an abbreviation for 'National Socialist Party of Germany,' while the socialists were the first people who the Nazis rounded up after taking power.

If you ask a self-proclaimed socialist about that today, they will say 'oh well, the Nazis weren't REALLY socialists, they just used the socialist rhetoric to garner support.. but they never actually intended to implement socialism. It's totally different now. REAL socialism isn't like the Nazis.'

All I can think is 'No, the Nazis were the real socialists... and the gullible "socialists" are their useful idiots as well as their first victims.

The Nazis took power by spurring on socialist rhetoric, Marxist ideologies, class warfare, race warfare, propaganda etc... then, when they got their way, the socialists and workers unions were the first ones to face the wall, even before the Jews.

A similar occurrence happened in Mao's China, with the useful idiots to ushered in the CCP at the time known as the 'red guard.'

Same deal: They were the foot soldiers for communism, and also the first to be publically executed at its hands once it no longer needed them.

I guess authoritarian snakes view radical revolutionaries as a liability or something like that? Who knew... right?

They think it would be different this time... They call for things like 'tax the rich,' 'free health care for all,' 'free government funded education,' and vote for the guys who use those talking points to garner their support, but never actually give it to them.

No, they just continue to expand the military police surveillance state, call to disarm the population, force medical experiments on everyone, destroy any and all who speak against their stateist propaganda, and support an increasingly aggressive centralized authority of giant governments and corporations while you all laugh and cheer the persecution of people who call it out...

This is basically how it went in every instance of socialism taking over a country, exterminating those who honestly wanted socialism, then in short order becoming some crazy blend of communism and fascism. All of them nightmarish and with much blood shed.

Its almost as if true socialism is just this unattainable utopia that psychopaths promise gullible people to get them to follow along with their absolute statist insanity and murderous power grabs.

But the socialist forces of today are not at all the same, right?

Yea, sure... Todays socialist forces are COMPLETELY different, right?