It’s really crazy how he is being treated as if he was a high ranking military officer or an elected politician. He was just a hateful guy with a podcast.
This is the face of extremism- falling over each other to be the most subservient and loyal to the cause. It’s groupthink in a nutshell, they egg each other on and compete to be the most extreme because if you don’t shout hard enough then maybe you’re a traitor.
This is how you get nazis and holocausts.
I was about to post the same thing.
Its a fucking charade. a desperate downward theatrical spiral to show who can be the most ridiculously “True to the cause” because the person/persons who show the least effort will inevitably become the out group.
It is not just about being a traitor or not. This attempt at declaring this guy a martyr is basically trying to prove you are one step more extreme than him on a meta level so you can absorb his influence and supporters to your being.
It’s because conservatives legitimately don’t actually know the difference any more. There are several people in my town who have their flags at half mast.
They think Donald Trump is a great leader, and they probably see him as a great “military officer” too.
The rules have changed.
It’s like seeing those crying people in North Korea after Kim Jong Il died, it went on for months and was so over the top theatrical. It’s how indoctrination works. The most extreme view becomes the line which if you don’t exceed excludes you from the group and makes you a target.
The thing is, he’s a nobody. But it only takes one of the cultists tearing their hair and making him out to be a martyr for the next to try to outdo it to show how even more patriotic they are, and it snowballs into this moronic shit where you get hundreds then thousands then tens of thousands then hundreds of thousands then millions of people basically canonize some random asshole.
They’ve lost all grip on reality.
You sure that wasn’t for 9/11?
Yes, sadly. The same people still have it at half mast, and it’s 9/12.
People around here have also never put their flags at half mast for 9/11, they actually don’t put their flags at half mast for literally anything at their houses. Post offices, schools, government buildings, and some businesses, yeah. Houses, no.
So this is extremely performative for certain conservatives.
Wait people have full on flagpoles in front of their houses? That is not normal human behavior, I must emphasize that.
Oh definitely! Plus, tons of people who don’t have a full-on flagpole still hang a flag outside their house at all times.
The people who live across from me put up a comically-tall flagpole after Trump won last year… the first flag on it was a Trump flag. They now have an American flag up all the time (and it’s currently at half mast).
They’re all totally bizarre. Rarely have bad Americans announced themselves so clearly, right in front of their houses.
Oh yes. I can think of several houses with them.
I know one that has the US flag at the top, then a Trump flag right below it. Every time I go by the house it’s there.
The sad part is we don’t even know anymore. It’s probably a mix of both
We havent viewed good people as good for society for some time and times have been good enough to only focus on petty shit. So they want to pretend that they have been special and amazing just for complaining constantly and making large amounts of money as that is what we say is useful to society.
They need to lie to themselves that what they are doing is good to keep themselves as self hyped as they can. Look at how Trump keeps worrying he is rightfully going to hell. They need to tell themselves and apparently the rest of us that what they are doing is good for the world cause they dont want to do anything else.
He was brainwashing kids and pushing Shitler approved propaganda
He was just a hateful guy with a podcast.
To be fair, given how Lemmy is filled with posts about this guy he wasn’t “just a guy”. Must be even more scary on more popular platforms. Really, you better stop praising him.
Because he was a racist who was treated like he is going to resurrect today.
Fucking clown world
TIL. Thank.
Nothing says “cannon fodder” like this over-the-top response to his death.
I think when senator McCain, the veteran and hero, died, they insulted him.
Oof. MC Cain was a vet and a pow. Hero is a bit far. He got shot down on a mission he wasn’t supposed to be on, in a plane any other pilot wouldn’t have been allowed near after crashing 3 prior to that and his demand was only possible because his daddy got put in charge of Vietnam after he was captured and told the enemy his dad was in charge.
It’s like one of those rare times where nepotism and ego actually worked out ok.
He saved the affordable care act with his thumbs down mavrick move. I’d say that qualifies
No that’s a political ploy and apparently one you bought and regardless we’re talking about his military career.
Okay but he was a lot more civilised than his successor…
That’s not heroic that doesnt even imply he’s a decent person just less shitty then the one before.
You can bend over backwards to call the guy a hero but you’re going to have to chop that definition down until your cashier is a hero because they didn’t steal your change.
I don’t think I called him a hero?
You didn’t but that also means you aren’t following the conversation.
True. My lemmy client is crap. Doesn’t show the full context. Sad!
They can use his corpse to build a fountain with the water shooting out his neck.
So they can hide the Epstein Files in his casket?
Did she spray-tan herself pink to match the dress? I can’t tell if that is a natural skin tone
She’s turned that carnivore diet pink.
This would be a good remembrance statue
Why not, he lied everywhere else he went
What a disgrace
Someone please play yakety sax while this is happening
Or sad trombone
Or any other number of sonic shitposts
Carotid Artery Charlie: he lived by the shitpost; he died by the shitpost; his memory will be made fun of in shitposts.
I was wondering where the urinal was in DC
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Oh, nancy, being loud and obnoxious like kari lake isnt going to get you on TRUMPS favour.
She won’t even be able to get close on her knees anymore, I doubt the 79 year old still gets hard
if he takes cialis.
Gross.
