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    I know the name Candace Owens only because I’ve heard several right-wing podcasters suggest that she’s a crazy person and they’re somehow embarrassed to be aligned with her in some sense.

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    Imagine being such a huge piece of shit that you’re actually banned from a continent.

    Queue Maga imbecile outrage about her First Amendment rights.

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        I love that you guys have banned her explicitly due to her shitty ass views. My heart is so happy that she can’t spread her hate there.

        Huge W, honestly.

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      First Amendment only applies inside the disunited states. Americans always try to impose their shoddy system to other countries though.

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    Black AND a woman simping for the far right.

    Having trouble thinking of something more gross.

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      9 hours ago

      I know you probably didn’t mean that but your sentence here suggests that you find black people gross.

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      she found out the grift is easier on the right than the left, she was originally trying to grift the left a long time ago, the left isnt keen on listening to influencers and giving them money unlike the right does, so she went full right with talking points.

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      Dont forget she sued her school for racism at one point too.

      I half remember her trying to push some app or something at one point that was just going to be a massive doxing tool. I think it was around the time of gamergate.

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        A guy I used to know, around 2016 started a weird descent in to conservative politics. It was understandable at the time, Clinton was genuinely an unlikable candidate and he was a morally dubious guy. So it at least made sense at the time. By 2017 he seemed to regret it and we all moved on.

        Then in 2020, holy shit. It took literally nothing to bait him in to a political diatribe half a notch up from gibberish. He had invented so many straw men to argue with that the second you mentioned anything even conceivably political, he’d launch in to a bizarre assault on the left.

        Thing is, he’d accuse me and others of loving Joe Biden even though x, y, z whatever nonsense he wanted to argue about. He’d even make up quotes. Things I’d supposedly said about Biden that proved I really liked the guy.

        I’m so far to the left that Marx might think I go too far. I don’t, and never have, liked Joe Biden. Joe Biden handed Clarence Thomas a seat on the supreme Court and openly defended him against his sexual assault allegations. He went to bat for that guy in a way that really makes no fucking sense, politically or personally, unless Joe Biden had done it too.

        I can’t name a Democrat I actually like.

        So every time I see comments like this, I’m reminded that conservatives just have a forest of straw men they’re arguing with, and any opportunity the bullshit that lives inside their head can find to spill out in to the real world they’ll take. Regardless of how idiotic it makes them sound.

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          I’m in a similar boat, but I have a couple Democrats in my state that I think are good eggs. For one, Tim Walz has been an amazing governor and I really hate what the Harris campaign did to him and his reputation. Also, Ilhan Omar and Peggy Flanagan are pretty nifty all around. Outside Minnesota, AOC seems pretty decent to me and I have high hopes for Mamdani (although, he explicitly identifies as a Democratic Socialist)

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          Pandemic broke peoples mind, being stuck inside, having to mask up, and the propaganda msm, and grifters had more time to expose people to the right. also the constant news about trump for 4 years have given too much exposure to people.

          a bunch of asian ytubers i used to followed were almost to the far-right, but had enough sense to be more humble, but only up til the pandemic, it broke thier minds, they turned thier frustation inward, stagnation of thier channel, thier problems with employees, which culminated in them firing a female employee, and now desperately tries to shill for the right wing audiences to stay relevent; its mostly incel asians and muslim men, plus a smattering parasocial female fans, eventhough they were very mysogynistic towards thier former female employees that disagreed with them. they even had TULSI gabbard on thier channel as part of the shill, just right before the election, this bitch trying to get exposure for the campaign for trump through them.

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        Yep, we all have matching hats, flags, shirts, and a 24/7 hard on for 1 pedophile politician and his band of protectors

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    I don’t consider myself a defender of Owens, and I often see her name associated with conservative, right wing publications.

    I have tried to watch her YouTube videos and from what I can make out, she comes to her own conclusions and simply is prepared to make arguments and defend her positions. I respect that even if I don’t necessarily agree with everything she says. She discusses current topics, and often walks audiences through her logic along the way.

    Australia suggests to deny her entry for various reasons - including that she’s divisive. This is a bit of whataboutism, and I’ll point out Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA (and Turning Point Australia apparently) was ALSO intending to travel to Australia prior to his assassination.

    I’m not fans of either, but I take note of the media focus, and lack of focus. I highlight that here for you too.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/charlie-kirk-was-set-to-visit-australia-before-his-assassination/RSQB2IOYJVCAZACRPAEOW2EO6E/

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      I mean granted, they always lose in court. Because they’re all dumb, just look at Trump. The hard part is GETTING them in court.

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        It’s actually quite impressive to lose a defamation suit as the defendant in America against a foreign president and his wife, and she’s expected to lose really bad in hers.

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          It’s the modern day American right wing. These mfs just talk hateful nonsense and shill propaganda. That stuff isn’t gonna work in court. Despite the many flaws of western court systems. Even they realize how dumb these MAGA people are.

          Trump found guilty, became a felon, would’ve gotten locked up if he lost the 2024 election.

          Trump says the 2020 election was stolen, proceeds to lose every court case on that.

          J6 rioters all found guilty, get locked up, Trump pardons them

          Klandace most likely is gonna lose too.

          A courtroom trial is literally a reality check for MAGA