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“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

The village authority on discernment has arrived; the same man who mistakes evasiveness for intelligence and smugness for proof.


1. Geeeee...I wonder if you are going to hide again. No..... Not Veghead. He Never hides in his usual safe space behind questions/demands. 

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

Who the **** is Ewan Palmer and why is he considered a credible source? 

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

It's the Era of *******...

It is indeed…


 
 

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

You got ‘em now!
 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 12:54 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 12:54 pm

This use of a rural imaginary to pursue fascist aims also recalls Nathanael West’s biting satire of the Horatio Alger myth, A Cool Million (1934), written some seventy years before Roth’s novel. In that story, an American fascist party emerges during the Great Depression under a former president named Shagpoke Whipple who reemerges from retirement, touting the genius of the self-help myth. Shagpoke is all self-making without any moral scruples. He raises himself up from fame/infamy, all the while screwing everyone over in his midst as he builds his National Revolutionary Party. (His name implies a double screwing: shagging and poking.) 

As he explains to the hapless, Candide-like hero of the book, Lemuel Pitkin, “The time for a new party with the old American principles was, I realized, overripe. [Shag’s infelicity with language is wonderfully comical. It’s overripe all right.] I decided to form it; and so the National Revolutionary Party, popularly known as the “Leather Shirts,” was born. The uniform of our “Storm Troops” is a coonskin cap like the one I am wearing, a deerskin shirt and a pair of moccasins. Our weapon is the squirrel rifle” (110). 

Addressing a large crowd from a soapbox Shagpoke rails: 

“I’m a simple man,” he said with great simplicity, “and I want to talk to you about simple things. You’ll get no highfalutin talk from me.” 

“First of all, you people want jobs. Isn’t that so?”… 

“Well, that’s the only and prime purpose of the National Revolutionary Party—to get jobs for everyone. There was enough work to go around in 1927, why isn’t there enough now? I’ll tell you; because of the Jewish international bankers and Bolshevik labor unions, that’s why. It was those two agents that did the most to hinder American business and destroy its glorious expansion. The former because of their hatred of America and love for Europe and the latter because of their greed for higher and still higher wages… 

“If America is ever again to be great, it can only be through the triumph of the revolutionary middle class. 

“We must drive the Jewish international bankers out of Wall Street! We must destroy all Bolshevik labor unions! We must purge our country of all alien elements and ideas that now infest her! 

“America for Americans! Back to the principles of Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln!” (111-12) 

The grade school use of the adverb there is just too much: “‘I’m a simple man,’ he said with great simplicity.” West just misses the Trumpian syntax: “If America is ever again to be great.” This would be even more terrifying for contemporary ears, but West takes no prisoners. He leaves no offensive stereotype unmined. The satire goes all the way down. It’s very much a product of its times.

https://s-usih.org/2016/12/the-plot-aga ... art-three/

Posting an article is not the same thing as making an argument. At some point you have to remove the training wheels of quotation and demonstrate that there is an actual mind operating the account.
 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 1:00 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 1:00 pm

It begins with actually reading what is posted.

Tell me what you don't get.

I read it. I was waiting for the part where you stopped being a courier for other people’s ideas and became a thinker.


1. Turn it on me ...again. Still won't post any thoughts of your own.

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 1:35 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 1:35 pm

We COULD exchange opinions....but yours is not informed by reading the book in question...in fact, but for me, you wouldn't know it existed.

"But for me, you wouldn’t know it existed’ is a very grand way of saying you use Google before speaking

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 1:45 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 1:45 pm

No..

It means what it says.

I read that book, the first time, nearly 50 years ago.

I read it to my daughter.

You can't read....consider how inferior that makes you.

So your argument is: ‘I read a book once, therefore I may now behave like a chandelier made of ego.’

‘I read it 50 years ago’ only explains the dust, not the insight.

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 1:49 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 1:49 pm

How many times did I just tell you I read the book?

You are so g'ddammned **** stupid..

You keep shouting that you read the book, which only confirms the one fact nobody was contesting. The missing piece remains your actual point...and thoughts of your own.

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 2:02 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 2:02 pm

How many times have I read the book?

You?

QED.

How many times have you any thoughts of your own on this book that you read? 

Yeah, there you go.

QED

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 2:37 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 2:37 pm

Stop evading.

You first. 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 2:40 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 2:40 pm

Answered.

Defended.

You're welshing....you must be a "christian narcissist"

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10/05/26. Time for you to take what you dish out, hypocrite boy.

Got to have these, because God only knows how many times you will evade with them:

1. “I answered the questions and gave my defense.” To which I reply with: Six months later. **** you.
2. Blame me for you evading for 6 months
3. Narcissist amnesia. 
4. Copy me.

 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 5:51 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 5:51 am

What does that mean, JuCo?

#blanklookeyesblinking
 

Blackvegetable » Today, 5:52 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 5:52 am

Maybe you should stop voting for it.

2 different subjects, **** ****…
 

Blackvegetable » Today, 5:37 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 5:37 am

You should.

That was from Larry…

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 9:13 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 9:13 am

Insight is not your jam, JuCo.

#****’t
 

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

And you are a fool teaching last generation added to become morons following ideas life isn't self evident time adapting in space by each heartbeat and decision moving forward so far.

Simple compounding behavior of characteristics choosing social character role playing on the world stage rather than staying honest about personal location in the atmosphere now.

Genetic location by longitude and latitude, character career by attitude and platitude pretending context means more than biological time alive.