The best way to deal with bluster and narcissism is the grey rock method.
That won’t work here because of FOX and the influencers will then be the only source for communication with the Trump administration.
The only thing that will work would be a general strike and Emperor’s New Clothes moment of huge protests in multiple cities with millions taking part.
That is the only non-violent road forward. And the USA might be too big and too trapped in a digital maroon-ing to be able to coordinate that type of civil action.
Laugh all we can. I agree. But there needs to be a nation-wide coordination of civil disobedience on a scale unseen in the USA ever before. It is going to require getting over differences that the Trump administration will leverage to divide and conquer.
No. The best way is with humor (assuming you don’t have a gun handy). Fascists hate being laughed at. They want to believe they’re the baddest motherfuckers in the room, and cry like little toddlers the second they think they’re not. (Mel Brooks proved this time and again in WWII)
That’s why the ‘stop being weird’ thing worked so well. That’s why Commander Failure had a breakdown to rival a tired four-year-old in his office after the US generals didn’t leap up out of their seats applauding him.
Mock them. Belittle them. Laugh at them. Tell them they’re weird. It will get under their skin like nothing else.
Here’s a free book about this, called Pranksters Vs Autocrats: https://d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/pdfs/9781501756078.pdf
I would pay to unread this garbage
Lol you didn’t read it.
Fascists hate being laughed at.
Sure, but how does this help?
That’s why the ‘stop being weird’ thing worked so well
Did it work? I count one orange fascist in the white house.
That’s why Commander Failure had a breakdown to rival a tired four-year-old in his office after the US generals didn’t leap up out of their seats applauding him.
So what? He’s still in office. He’s still ruining your social safety net. He’s still oppressing marginalized communities. He’s still crushing protests with military force. He’s still funding and running multiple genocides all over the world.
Mock them. Belittle them. Laugh at them. Tell them they’re weird. It will get under their skin like nothing else.
It might get under their skin but it will not help.
Fascists (or autocrats in general) will not leave the positions of power just because you laugh at them. They won’t even leave if the majority of people laugh at them or vote against them. Look at Russia. I’m pretty sure most of the country was laughing at Putin 15 years ago. I assume you know how it went after that.
They will leave only when forced out physically, or if there is a credible threat of imprisonment or death if they don’t. You need to have an organized and armed force on your side to do that. And neither the police nor the military will be.
Organize.
Join a union.
Join PSL or other parties that actually try to fight fascism.
For now (since revolution is pretty much impossible for a multitude of reasons) the most realistic way to force Republicans out of office is to make the billionaires funding them afraid. Make a realistic threat of a general strike, or even just block ports like the Italian port workers did, and Trump will be out of office in a week.
Yeah I’m gonna be real with you, no chance I’m joining a political party that is pro North Korea 🤷♂️ Otherwise you have a point though.
if only we can convince the railroad workers to strike again, that definitely got both Houses scared asf.
So… Wait.
It’s the exact way we deal with misbehaving children?
The book Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist is actually a VERY good source for what to do with narcissists when you can’t leave or grey rock them.
I remember watching these ads on latenight TV in the 90s and wondering, what kind of losers buy this?
oh, that kind of loser.
Who thinks that’s an improvement? But I recall those commercials as well as everyone making fun of them. Now one of the biggest fascists in North America went on tv with that crap at one point.
And the President of the United States allows him to run so many things. Crazy. I’m not sure Mad magazine could have wrote something so bizarre.
I’m upset about his height too. He’s 6 feet taller than he should be.
I’d go as far as saying he’s 12ft too heigh… That would put him close to 6ft under
Body shaming still isn’t cool. For every short Nazi, there is a short comrade.
Yup. People always come out of the woodwork defending body shaming bad people. Body shaming anybody perpetuates the ridiculous stigmas, and even if it makes bad people feel bad, it doesn’t result in them changing their behavior.
I’m pretty sure it’s just people that want to be assholes but have the wherewithal to understand they shouldn’t looking for acceptable targets.
Is this case he’s a healthy and very normal looking dude. He’s just min-maxed his personality and how he carries himself for immense goblin vibes.
I’m not defending the goblin, or the people noticing that adult goblins are 4 feet 10 inches tall, on average.
I’m a short overweight guy and don’t don’t take offense at all when people use that to mock bad people lmao
Your feelings are not universal and do not justify anything
You feelings are also not universal and do not justify anything.
Like much of the Republican administration, he is a small man, referring to his personality, not his physical form.
“Stephen Miller is a clown! I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he’s 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4 feet 10 inches, that he has taken that anger out on any other population possible,” the New York Rep. said.
Ah yes, definitely referring solely to his personality.
Just stop lying. Disingenuous.
I was, not AOC. You and I can take the high road all we like as outsiders, but AOC shouldn’t since it hasn’t worked for the Democrats for 15+ years.
Shockingly enough there’s more roads than ignoring blatant corruption and resorting to petty name calling.
The former doesn’t nothing, as we’ve seen. And the latter is generally used by shifty characters trying to distract from truly heinous activity happening behind the curtain.
Neither is particularly effective at actually accomplishing anything other than widening the already vast political divide in this country.
They went low and you went so high that nobody else can even see you anymore.
Of course this shit works. Trump won almost exclusively because his voters love that he’s a dick to people. Having higher standards than his voters is a good thing but that doesn’t change the fact that the argument you’re making here is categorically false. This is exactly the kind of language that resonates with the average idiot in America.
Lol no. People have been calling Trump variations of orange man and making fun of his hands, how fat he is, and his shitty suit fit since before he was elected the first time. It clearly doesn’t do Jack shit
Don’t forget his tiny mushroom penis, and his diapers!
There is a very specific mindset and set of values that it works with. The kind of people who just want to see everyone they dislike get fucked over. They dont want to see things get better, they dont want to accomplish anything. They just want schadenfreude.
As you might be able to surmise, this doesn’t end with a positive outcome.
Trump won specifically because he preaches division and fucking over “the other”. Trying to emulate him is antithetical to getting rid of him and his ilk.
AOC should have mentioned his tiny penis, too.
I think you’re underestimating the small penis. People with small penises gravitate towards republicanism.
I mean, they all are rumored to have deformed dicks
Trump’s tiny mushroom head
Elon’s deformed dick that meant that at least one baby mama needed artificial insemination (also so he can make sure every baby is male)
And Stephen Miller’s wife cheated on him for Elon so I can only imagine why that was a step forward
And none eat pussy to make up for it, you can tell they are shitty lovers
Typical inadequate and deficient republican men, then ?
I’ve said it often that the best way to deal with them all is laugh when they speak. It affects them on a level that few can sense. They feed off your anger but laughter hurts them.
Edit: best not beat. A little Freudian slip.
Get groups of teen girls to roast him mercilessly. Being considered laughably unfuckable by the most “desirable” females is one of their triggers.
What you said is so offensive on so many layers.
Maybe as an adult YOU could step up against this admin and stop thinking about and using teen girls at all. They don’t need to be part of your thought processes, they have algebra homework to do.
I was thrilled as a teen girl to lash out at politicians. I turned 18 after GWB was elected so I had a lot of issues with that type of shit being out of my control. If I knew I could hurt them, at an age when I felt the least guilt over hurting someone’s feelings, I’d be up for it.
Great, again, maybe as an adult YOU could do something instead of volunteering others who are much younger with less informed consent of the danger they are in.
It’s giving Ghilisaine- teen girls are NOT your dolls to play with, regardless of who YOU were as a teen. They are not meant for you to project onto. Go do it yourself.
That’s fine, just clarifying that algebra wasn’t the only concern I had, politics affects them too
Great, and now you’re an adult so presumably you can go to town halls and call your representatives and do other political advocacy that adults do
Yes, I can? I’m not getting why you need to explain that.
How would I know what you do not state? All I know is what you’ve said in your comments, sending teen girls to engage online about and be in danger of associates of Epstein and Andrew Tate. Great idea btw
I can’t wait for the day that that vein explodes and strokes this fucker out.
Peewee German.
Thats comedy gold, mate. Comedy fucking gold! lol
Sure. These fucks are gearing up to declared all Democrats terrorists … but laughter at their height I guess.
Don’t underestimate the power of ridicule. This isn’t about laughing, but about changing the public eye’s perception, and that is powerful.
Yes, it is quite powerful, here’s a free book on that exact topic: https://d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/pdfs/9781501756078.pdf
This is such a fucking lib take
Driving off a cliff into fascism, laughing all the way
Yeah, I guess we should legitimize it instead by taking it vewy sewiously.
Fucking dork ass take.
I wish I could be this happy clapping my hands at distractions that don’t require a politician to do anything helpful. That’s just what Neoliberals do and it makes me concerned AOC is behaving the same as the loser Kamala Harris. She’s supposed to be a progressive.
Yes, I’m obviously a neoliberal and also an American because you decided it was so. Get your neanderthal-ass takes out of my face, honestly. Go read a sociology book and consider changing your username to match that stinking attitude while you’re at it.
Oh ok so you you aren’t invested and informed on US politics it seems, and you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Seems like you don’t know the first thing about the person you’re taking to. And yet here you are.
Go back to reddit with this bullshit.
If we call them weird enough, then they will get discouraged and stop committing crimes like Swiper from Dora.
XD
Free book, Pranksters Vs Autocrats: https://d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/pdfs/9781501756078.pdf
Stephen Miller looks like the bastard son of Vladimir Putin.
great grandson of that EyeTalian feller…
People need to start making fun of this tiny bald bitch more
Hey fuck steven miller, but anyone who mocks someone over something as superficial as their height is a prick.
Your right, we should only mock people about their skin color.
I personally don’t care how we mock them as long as it is effective. If it hurts a few people’s feelings then that is a price we have to be willing to pay to help defeat this administration.
I’m not saying modern Conservatives have small dicks, but they sure do give off little dick energy.
Can we please stop the body shaming.
Attack them for their character, not their genetics.
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That’s why you call them weak
And weird
I was writing a novel but I really don’t give a shit. I respect you have a different opinion. I don’t give a shit. This PC bullshit needs to stop. Stop focusing on the words people use and focus on their actions.
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Um, no, this is not a political W. It’s one of those things that is cathartic for some people but godawful for optics. Cheer this on if you want the left to look anti-male and hypocritical.
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Liberals are not “the left” but yeah this is completely unhelpful
I’m sure it’s because of his upbringing, and a direct result of his parents inflicting trauma on him, but this man is a monster. He needs to be punched in the face.
