He’s Schrödinger’s Brandon: Too strong and too weak at the same time. I wonder if there is an ideology that typically uses this tactic to define an opponent?
Fascism trait #8:
Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
Ur-Fascism by Umberto EcoThis whole piece is excellent, thanks for sharing
He’s Schrödinger’s Brandon: Too strong and too weak at the same time. I wonder if there is an ideology that typically uses this tactic to define an opponent?
There is, and the answer is as clear as the nose on your fascist.
Face! I meant face. Stupid autocorrect.
Oh sure, it’s clear to most, but today’s conservative minds need to carefully do some warm up stretches before they can absorb this truth, or they’ll tyranny ligament.
Not sure if this is sarcastic, so for thise who don’t know: It’s a common tatic of fascists.
It’s gotta be democracy because the Republicans are adamant they are defending it right?
I’m pretty sure the republicans recently explicitly said they don’t like democracy
Same as it ever was. The Nazis did the same thing with the groups they scapegoated, simultaneously an incompetent drain/liability and and a hyper-competent threat that cannot be ignored.
Critical thinking and reasoning must be taught, without that, people will follow their feelings anywhere, and those are easy to manipulate.
Starving public education into complete and utter ruins for half a century to cut rich sociopath’s taxes, and the rise of tens of millions of proudly counterfactual, willfully ignorant nitwits as a political force is not a coincidence.
Garbage in (refusing to pay to educate kids to critically scrutinize the information they take in), garbage out (The United States of duhhhhhhhhhhh).
Hell, Republicans have been doing this for decades. Remember all the lazy handout-demanding Mexicans who are stealing all our jobs?
The saddest part for them is, I’ve read about studies that say a better-educated populace is a more compassionate populace. Guess who will care for them when they are too old to care for themselves?
Also Sleepy Joe and over-caffeinated.
Democrats do the same thing to Republicans though, and people on Lemmy are even worse about it. I see posts all the time about how stupid Republicans are, right next to other posts about how serious of a threat they are to democracy or to _____ rights. These are games that politicians play and always have played because it solidifies and energizes their base. It allows the base to set aside differences between themselves to focus on a common enemy. Without a common enemy, they easily devolve to infighting. It’s one of the central tenets of Saul Alinskys Rules for Radicals, how to unify against a common enemy. And he was a Communist.
He’s too low-energy, he’s old! He’s too high-energy, he’s… uh… Whatever! Vote for the guy who wants to do away with voting!
These guys, I swear 🙄
The forklift moving the goalposts just broke the sound barrier.
Which is wild because forklifts really can’t go much faster than a brisk jogging pace. Not unless you strap a rocket to it. Coincidentally Rocket Propelled Forklift is my new band name
The forklifts at the sawmill I worked at went much faster than jogging pace usually, maybe 30km/h while loaded? Unloaded they of course can go quicker but safety and all. I think at jogging pace things would back up quickly at a decent sized sawmill.
That may not have been a forklift, but a piece of industrial equipment that looks and acts much like a forklift while not technically fulfilling all of the forklift checkboxes
Did you just move the goalposts on the definition of a forklift that moves goalposts?
Well done.
I actually laughed at that and had to explain this to my bewildered wife.
But there actually is a difference between forklifts and other powered industrial equipment that you also forks on. Logging and sawmill operations usually need more versatility than a forklift can offer and their forked equipment is usually closer to farm equipment than anything else.
Ha. Yeah, I went for the joke, but I actually used to work for a construction equipment rental company, and one of our common items was material handlers (i.e. boom forklifts). All that to say, I’ve driven one before!
But I stand by the joke. Glad you enjoyed it. Hope your wife did too.
Huh I didn’t realize that was a thing but after some googling it appears forklifts rarely go over 18mph. I’m guessing it was more on the industrial equipment side since they were only for moving the piles of cut lumber around, but they may have only gone up to 30kph in the yard too and I just never realized. Thanks for helping me learn something new.
The qons have installed wheels on the goalposts long ago.
Ah, those times when reality reads like an onion article.
Fox News was ready to criticize Biden about his energy levels - they realized sleepy Joe wouldn’t land so they had to pivot. This is honestly feeling like 1984 satire, I expect to see footage from rallies were Trump supporters are quoted as saying “Biden is so angry and sporadic, I’m voting for Trump because he’s much more calm and composed” and the one guy that didn’t get the memo that they’ve always been at war with East Asia will hold up a “Sleepy Joe” sign before being shunned and photoshopped out of the rally.
I laughed because I thought it was an Onion article at first glance. Holy shit.
SLEEPY JOE HAS AWOKEN.
“Too woke! More sleepy please”
The “he was too partisan” comments annoyed the shit out of me. Republicans are nothing if not hypocritical snowflakes.
That’s why i stopped giving their words any weight. They’ll complain no matter what, so fuck em
“JOE BIDEN IS TOO (insert current thing Joe has done well)”
“Intelligible!”
“Knowledgeable!”
“Sane!”
“Capable of completing a thought!”
He doesn’t piss his stinky diaper as good as trump tho!
Not to brag, but I happen to be famous and one great thing about being famous is you can walk up to dumbass politicians and grab them right in the stinky diaper.
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Yeah, imagine if he had a tan suit or used mustard?
mustard is fine as long as it comes in a plastic squeeze bottle.
Republican media has convinced their viewers that Biden is basically constantly confused and just slackjawed and drooling constantly. They set expectations for him so low, when reality didn’t bare out their caracicture they had to pivot. I think the implication they are going for is Biden was dosed with something to make him seem coherent, basically the weekend at Bernie’s president. Dumb, but so are Fox News viewers, so I’m sure it’ll go over just fine with them.
That said, it did seem like Biden was yelling a lot. The few moments where he slowed down to talk about some somber topic came as a relief to me. To put a metric to it, I saw in Politico that the written version of his speech contained 80 more explanation marks than last year’s speech.
Their viewers aren’t watching the raw state of the address. They’re watching the sound bites, so the conservative media can sell it whatever way they want
I was watching it on C-Span and they said the previous SOTU speech by him had 0 exclamation marks
Well, what did you expect him to do when the other side is yelling stupidities all the time? When did a presidential debater had to tell the other side “will you shut up, man?” and call him “this clown”? When they run out of patience when trying to play by the rules, and the other side doesn’t.
Then, you see that a segment of the population is still sleepwalking into fascism. Not some “maybe” danger, actual danger (the contender tried to keep power by force, and yet he’s the main contender?!) Venezuela went through this. Look up the Hugo Chavez story.
The first two minutes of the speech was practically him saying “WAKE UP, AMERICA!! See what’s happening!”
It was about time.
The other side is a constant “NU-UH! NO U!!!” noise, and you felt “relieved” when Biden was speaking calmly?
I say, he should have used 80 more exclamation marks.
(Autocorrect turned your exclamation into explanation)
Gotta love these idiots’ logic.
GOP: “SLEEPY JOE!!!”
Dems inject him with Adderall or whatever juice to get him going.
GOP: “HE’S TOO POWERFUL!!!”
Biden: “muahahaha!”
honestly I hope he did take stimulants- by all accounts a river of lab grade amphetimines and benzodiazepines flowed through the trump whitehouse. gotta level the playing field
So many Americans on so many prescription drugs, if they need to pump up Biden, so be it!
Fucking Goldilocks over here.
LOL.
It’s wrong for someone to talk quickly trying to destroy people with facts and logic! No President should be allowed allowed to angrily yell at a crowd in a long speech! I need to watch Ben Shapiro and Trump for hours now because I’m so angry about these things Biden did!
I finally just watched it, and especially paid attention to verbal missteps that people are talking about ……
…… I saw lots and took way too long to realize YouTube search had given me the 2022 state of the union. Oops
…… back on track with the current one, and the President was on fire. So much livelier and more expressive than two years ago! Definitely kicked ass and laid to rest the idea that he is too old
Why are people still even talking about his verbal missteps? I ignore anyone who rags on his stutter. He’s got a legitimate medical condition, and he works hard in his speech therapy to talk as well as he does. It has nothing to do with his mental ability, as there are young people with the same issue.
Sure, however he also succeeded is coming across more confident, assertive, clearheaded than he had a couple years before. The rest of us can only dream of that when we get to his age
