Right wing nuts thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[bird]

Jeez. Lying nut bags. I am so tired of these liars.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Jeez. Lying nut bags. I am so tired of these liars.

I know Native Americans (and Donnell is one) feel a certain kind of way about Mount Rushmore (and if you know the history behind it they absolutely should) but demonic portal is a bridge too far

 

[LA - L.A.]

I know Native Americans (and Donnell is one) feel a certain kind of way about Mount Rushmore (and if you know the history behind it they absolutely should) but demonic portal is a bridge too far

A brief history of Mount Rushmore

South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore has a strange, scandalous history

Tourists flock to South Dakota’s massive presidential portraits. How they got there is a complex tale of land grabs, egos, and foiled movie scenes.

www.nationalgeographic.com

It was originally this:

Before it became known as Mount Rushmore, the Lakota called this granite formation Tunkasila Sakpe Paha, or Six Grandfathers Mountain. It was a place for prayer and devotion for the Native people of the Great Plains, explains Donovin Sprague, head of the history department at Sheridan College in Wyoming and a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. The mountain’s location in the Black Hills was also significant.

“It’s the center of the universe of our people,” Sprague says. For Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho communities, the region was not only spiritually important, it was also where tribes gathered food and plants they used in building and medicine.

Then this happened:

In the late 1800s, Euro-American settlers began pushing into the Black Hills, igniting a war with the indigenous population. The U.S. government signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, giving the Lakota exclusive use of the Black Hills. Within a decade, however, gold was discovered in the region and, in 1877, the U.S. broke the treaty and took over the land.

“What happened with the Black Hills is so clearly theft in relation to the U.S.’s own laws,” says Christine Gish Hill, a professor of anthropology at Iowa State University who has investigated the meaning of Mount Rushmore for Native Americans.

After that, settlers and prospectors poured into the region. In 1884, New York attorney Charles Rushmore visited to strike a deal on a tin mine, and, on a lark, Six Grandfathers was renamed after him.

Then this happened:

But Doane Robinson, a historian at the South Dakota State Historical Society, believed the state needed more to entice tourists. In 1924, learning about an attempt to carve the likenesses of Confederate leaders into the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia, Robinson launched a campaign to create South Dakota’s own mountain men.

Robinson envisioned an ode to the old West, with carvings of historic figures such as Lewis and Clark and Lakota leader Red Cloud. He reached out to Stone Mountain sculptor Gutzon Borglum—who would transform the granite mountain into what it is today.

Borglum had gained fame for sculptures honoring U.S. history—as well as his bombastic personality. In Georgia, he became involved with the Ku Klux Klan, which helped fund the Stone Mountain project. But Borglum soon began to clash with the Stone Mountain Memorial Association.

In February 1925, the association fired Borglum, citing mismanagement of funds and “his offensive egotism and his delusions of grandeur.” His sacking made national news when Borglum destroyed the Stone Mountain models and fled the state.

If anything, the mountain was once a portal of the truly egalitarian and community based communism of the Lakota's, but has since been transformed into a beacon of imperialistic/colonial capitalism. I'm not arguing which is better than the other, just pointing out what it once symbolized and what it has come to symbolize.

 

[MT15]

 

[bird]

I know Native Americans (and Donnell is one) feel a certain kind of way about Mount Rushmore (and if you know the history behind it they absolutely should) but demonic portal is a bridge too far

Oh, I certainly get the issue for Native people. Yup, the demonic portal thing is goofy.

 

[MT15]

 

[LA - L.A.]

That is hysterical and so typical.

 

[Snarky Sack]

That is hysterical and so typical.

That is horribly sexist.

What It Really Means When You Call a Woman “Hysterical”

It’s a dirty move when a romantic partner tries to shut down an argument by calling you crazy, and it’s downright dangerous when people in politics start doing it.

www.vogue.com

 

[DaveXA]

That is horribly sexist.

What It Really Means When You Call a Woman “Hysterical”

It’s a dirty move when a romantic partner tries to shut down an argument by calling you crazy, and it’s downright dangerous when people in politics start doing it.

www.vogue.com

I guess context isn't a thing anymore.

 

[Snarky Sack]

I guess context isn't a thing anymore.

Oh, there are "contexts" in which it is OK to use misogynistic terms?

Let me guess: Anytime you're bashing a Trump supporter, you can say anything you want in that context?

 

[DaveXA]

Oh, there are "contexts" in which it is OK to use misogynistic terms?

Let me guess: Anytime you're bashing a Trump supporter, you can say anything you want in that context?

Lol, hysterical isn't a misogynistic term.

Definition of HYSTERICAL

of, relating to, or marked by hysteria; feeling or showing extreme and unrestrained emotion; very funny… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

That is horribly sexist.

What It Really Means When You Call a Woman “Hysterical”

It’s a dirty move when a romantic partner tries to shut down an argument by calling you crazy, and it’s downright dangerous when people in politics start doing it.

www.vogue.com

That may be the dumbest thing you've posted.

I sincerely wish you good luck to you on your next deployment. However, if I was rating your performance on this deployment it would be a referral report leading to your dismissal from service.

 

[MT15]

 

[DaveXA]

Still the rabble rouser I see. Lol.

 

[MT15]

Still the rabble rouser I see. Lol.

Watching her read that is painful. She’s not the brightest bulb.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Watching her read that is painful. She’s not the brightest bulb.

In our weekly meetings at work the manager would hand out copies of a motivational article and we'd take turns reading a paragraph round robin style. You can tell that some of the new hires hadn't read anything out loud since grade school. Some were truly awful, I was embarrassed for them. One guy was so bad the manager told him to stop . MTG wasn't that bad compared to some I've heard

 

[MT15]

In our weekly meetings at work the manager would hand out copies of a motivational article and we'd take turns reading a paragraph round robin style. You can tell that some of the new hires hadn't read anything out loud since grade school. Some were truly awful, I was embarrassed for them. One guy was so bad the manager told him to stop . MTG wasn't that bad compared to some I've heard

That kinda makes me sad for them.