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Republicans are going to be Republicans no matter the race. These minorities will vote the hard R while running themselves ragged trying to justify it by mumbling "I'm white adjacent enough".
They won't leave, they'll just self-hate more.
Tokens get spent.
Very poetic.
How fucking dumb do you have to be to be part of a minority (read : non white) and be a GOP supporter.
They support a party that openly hate them and actively want to hurt them.
This might make me mean but I probably have even less sympathy for non white people, queer people and women that side with the religious right wing, white supremacist, patriarchal bigots and think they're not also on the list. Less sympathy for them than for magas, which is basically none as it is.
Token Republican minorities realize they are in fact token minorities, apparently having gone their whole lives somehow not realizing the most solid core of the Republican base is... white Christian racists.
This is exploding all through the right wing at the moment.
Ben Shapiro appears to be genuinely baffled that roughly half the Republican base under 30 likes Nick Fuentes more than him...
...he had a live discussion with his own employeees, including Matt Walsh, where Ben says it would be 'an Agatha Christie novel' to figure out if he were assasinated, whether it'd be from a far left or far right person...
... meanwhile Matt Walsh just cannot be arsed to give a fuck either way... because he is white, Christian, racist, and extremely confident in his...I guess just majestically un self aware world view, total fucking dead eyed sociopath, 24/7.
Mark Levin and Lindsey Graham are yelling slurs and profanities at Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, in public speeches at a fairly high level conservative event... evidently somewhere between baffled and terrified that they need to explain that Hitler was bad, Israel can do no wrong, and if you disagree, go fuck yourself.
(EDIT: Meanwhile, Tucker's interview of Nick includes Nick saying... that Mark Levin was the person who introduced him to the concept of white demographic decline as ... immigrants tend to have more kids... and thus Levin is actually the person who started Nick down the path of realizing that we should all just be as cruel as possible to non whites, because white good brown black bad.)
spicier content from a white trash guy who both truly understands and also truly despises white racists
(... also, in case it isn't obvious, 'Fuentes' is a hispanic name. Very literally, it means 'fountain', more contextually, as a name, it is Spanish for something like 'fountain of abundance/life'. His dad is a Mexican American, best I can tell, his grandpa was born in Mexico.)
(So if one wants to play Nick's own game... Nick is really just white-passing, now isn't he?)
(By Nick's own metrics... I'm French, Norweigan, German, Italian. And yes, its northern Italian. Pretty sure I'm more 'white' than he is, by his own metrics.)
(His fucking eyes aren't even blue, hair ain't even blonde. I'm much closer to the look of the aryan ubermensch than he is, but if you ever see me on the streets, it'll be dressed with a black and red emblem, maybe arrows, maybe an angry kitty kat... fuck do i hate nazis)
These fucking actual morons have been lying to themselves their whole lives that a massive chunk of the movements they are a part of, helped to grow and mold... that a huge chunk of their fanbase isn't actually just dumb asshole racist bigots.
They apparently actually do largely believe their own obvious bullshit.
And now, they seem to have only just realized this, at the very moment that the dumb asshole racist bigots may actually outnumber the older school, corpo suck off neocons.
This is uh, strategic level, almost a stupid as the Dems softwalking Trump's prosecution during Biden's admin, and also running cover for and aiding the Israeli genocide, which lead to an actual fascist takeover of the government.
Now, the Republicans have achieved that, we are not even a year in, and, well, we're on schedule for a Night of the Long Knives, an internal party civil war.
JFC, this is all so predictable to anyone with an understanding of politics and history that expands further than the last 40 years of the US... but, hedonistic myopia is apparently just what we do now.
Ben just realized he is part of the baddies.
This is why this will be over in the near future, these shots are tearing themselves to pieces, they can't share power, don't know how to
Good, but if you are a minority and you are still in the GOP at this point, you are a stupid motherfucker.
Just sayin'.
As a latina, I am so absolutely ashamed of how many latinos have been supporting the face-eating leopard. A lot of it comes from machismo within the culture, I hated that shit growing up
If I can armchair psychoanalyze for a minute, as someone who is a minority I do see that people within my community who have low self esteem seem to think that any kind of asking for help that doesn't relate to going all in on some kind of sigma grind set, fuck handouts is some kind of confirmation of their inadequacy.
It's kind of sad to see. I've seen a lot of people go down that red pill, weirdly ethnocentric road. Some bottomed out and came to their senses, others aren't there yet but hopefully will change course before then.
It all boils down to:
"Suffering is the highest moral good."
Just suffer because suffering is some flavor of good, and then later throw on some ruleset that specifices what kinds of suffering are more or less good.
Can suffering eventually build character, lead to meaningful realizations, growth, development of useful habits and ethics?
Yes.
But suffering for suffering's sake is pointless, destructive, a form of masturbation really.
Suffering because other people tell you its good for you, even when it uh, doesn't actually do anything good for you?
Well now you're actually something of an ideological cuck/masochist, despite all the exaggerated outward signalling toward the opposite.
Like, I'm a white trash dude, I've known poor latinos, asians, blacks, native americans... yeah, its certainly got different variations and specific details for different ethnicities and cultures, but it ultimately just boils down to 'suffering for suffering's sake is a moral good, that is tied into your worth as a man.'
Its an archetype of a moral/identity structure that is at least more than 'I am a worthless failure' for broken/broke men, as you say, with very low self esteem and self respect.
Unfortunately... it does not actually produce genuine self esteem or self respect, it produces contempt, a worldview where your worth is based on being 'better' in some way, than someone else...
It's not an inward originating worldview, based on actual deliberation and consideration, that, while more difficult to create, does actually produce a stable, model of the self, which thus then actually allows for real self esteem and self respect.
Everyone still in the GOP is either a Nazi or a nitwit.
Sure.
- racist attacks from their own politicians 'crickets'
- Racist attack from fellow voters 'a'ight Im out!'
Ridiculous.
Anyone going to tell him?
D'Souza dated both Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter so I think being hated for his ethnicity is his kink.
He dated Ann Coulter? I thought she told him to his face that she would never vote for him because he’s Indian. Or maybe I’m misremembering.
Answers the question I never wanted answered.
These MAGA minorities think "they're one of the good ones"
It's only a matter of time until they find out, like they always have in history, that the white ruling class doesn't give a shit about them, and will cast them to the wolves when they're done using them.
Tokens get spent
On that note, how's Enrique Tarrio doing these days?
You know, the frontman/figurehead leader of the proud boys, token minority, all the actual decisions are made by a shadowy council of I think 13 white dudes, 'elders'?
The snake begins to eat itself...
WHO are these gullible ass idiot minorities that support the Gop. do they even exist? I never see anything but a 'tokens' at shows regarding their conventions.
did you black, Hispanic, Jewish, middle eastern, European idiots think these rabid white people weren't ever only helping their white ass bullshit ass christian ass asses,well how about you ask your phone.
Hey Google, tell me about the last 100 years
do they even exist?
Unfortunately, yes. There's no ethnic, religious or otherwise group without two digit percent Republican support.
I mean, there was a group called Jews for Hitler, so…
But in all seriousness, there’s many reasons why.
Indian people for example are, sadly, a bit racist and very, very classist, and the higher-caste Indians kissing Trump’s ass think they’re in the same category as ‘white’ people.
Most Mexicans, on the other hand, were straight-up lied to. Many don’t speak English very well, and the Spanish-speaking news stations did some very liberal editing on their translations of Trump’s speeches, to make him sound coherent and sane. Seriously, if you speak Spanish check out the translations of his speeches; it’s not even remotely close to reality.
Former Cubans generally see anything called ‘communism’ as bad, and that’s how the Right has painted the Dems for a while now (never mind anyone with a brain could see that they’re nothing of the sort). A lot of them also really, really hate illegal immigrants, and so anyone who promises to get rid of them gets the Cuban vote.
Always interesting how collaborators honestly think they'll be exempt once they usher fascists into power. Vivek hasn't read much history apparently.
This leopard won't eat MY face; I let it out from its cage!
Also, really, Vivek should be happy. This is literally the free speech he supposedly fought for and the sort of speech Twitter was re-engineered to proliferate.
As we all know, it was never about "free speech", it was about "saying every racist/hateful thing without any consequences or societal pushback". They're actually just saying that out loud these days.
He also should be glad he could lose his cititzenship despite being born in the US.
Vivek has gotten obscenely wealthy by extolling a conservative worldview. I think be knows exactly what he's doing, even if it is entirely self serving.
If there's a minority that considers themselves Republican, they're too damn stupid for this to make a difference at this point.
Even if that’s true, it won’t last. These issues have long lasting effects and they’ll get pissy when the next administration doesn’t immediately fix it. Since they voted for this shit once we know they’re not intelligent or discerning.
I feel bad for his kids.
Yeah dipshits