It’s nice when the refuing-bullshit boot is on the other foot.
Yeah let’s talk about some stupid meme instead of real issues like single payer healthcare, inequality, and I dunno maybe the fact we just had the hottest ever recorded temperatures on Earth in human history.
Filling the narrative with this drama detracts from focusing public attention on real issues.
But I guess this Vance guy prob just needs to drink what plants crave and not talk like a fag and everything will be ok.
The average Murican voter cannot comprehend what you call “real” issues. This gossipy, high school, melodrama has much better chance to reach them
But I guess this Vance guy prob just needs to drink what plants crave and not talk like a fag and everything will be ok.
One, it’s not good to use slurs; even if this isn’t a situation about two men. Two, are you implying Vance’s a gay couch? Three, did you just assume that coach’s gender?
It’s not a slur. The saying is from the movie Idiocracy where society talks like that.
I was implying that Lemmy is in that state of Idiocracy where real issues aren’t discussed but calling everyone a couch fucker who you disagree with is ok.
real issues aren’t discussed but calling everyone a couch fucker who you disagree with is ok
I get where you are coming from. We have a few main factions on Lemmy (tankies, progressives, moderates/liberals, and trolls) and in JD Vance we all found something to laugh at together. Don’t rock the boat. Republicans don’t care about the issues. Democrats know about the issues; we are waiting on Harris to see her platform and which issues she cares about.
We can walk and chew gum, thank you
What the fuck man i thought this was an onion article cause the headline is too good to be true
Any hacker group willing to recreate that one Black Mirror episode but with a couch instead of a pig?
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You know, until recently I thought that the golden days of Internet activism were over and we were mostly living in times where it was ridiculously easy to get things censored on the Internet.
Then something as stupid as this gets this amount of attention because of Internet users having way too much time and energy to spread it. WTF
Do we still not have a risky click hero-user here yet?
I clicked it. Only softcore/censored examples until you use the generator yourself at the bottom of the page. You can read about the project first without getting bombarded by a user feed or something terrifying like that.
I think that only proves your thoughts. This thing blew up uncontrollably. Now try repeating this with some truly important point.
Oh fuck yeah spread it
Are there no actually serious issues in the world that it is worth spreading information about? I think there are.
More serious issues than a fascist trying to take over one of the world’s most powerful nations? Not really. If saying his VP candidate fucks couches is bothering them this much, please keep spreading that information.
There is no problem with the lack of information though. It’s the opposite, the internet is oversaturated.
Shit I forgot that we’re only allowed to talk about one thing at a time, and if someone makes a joke then all the other information dies.
Spread it like JD Vance’s couch cushions.
Why do people care?
How did we come to the culture where personal life of politicians outside their direct political convictions matters?
Not only is it a manipulation that has no relation to somebody’s political performance, it also makes opposition dependent on criticizing a person - something that recently fucked up Republicans themselves as Biden stepped down.
Why do people care?
Because the right is constantly being self-righteous while attacking people for being queer. If those same puritan-minded people who want to criminalize LGBTQ+ people also fuck couches for fun, everyone deserves to know about it. They don’t stay out of our personal lives, why the fuck should I afford them any privacy? They don’t respect our humanity, why should I respect their dignity just because couch-fucking is victimless?
They’re the party of “family values”, let’s put their party position under the microscope.
it also makes opposition dependent on criticizing a person - something that recently fucked up Republicans themselves as Biden stepped down.
The mistake Republicans made wasn’t in standing against Biden, it was in failing to stand for anything else. If J.D. Vance drops out of the election, I am not going to be out of political ammunition. In fact, J.D. Vance should and probably will drop out and I’m not worried about if he does, because Trump isn’t going to choose a good running mate no matter what.
In fact, changing the running mate after the RNC destroys their argument that it is somehow improper for Democrats to change their nominee before the DNC, so while they play checkers, we’re playing chess.
You hit the nail on the head. It’s their blatant hypocrisy and stupidity, and it’s time to make it hurt to be stupid.
You think he will drop out? I’m not sure what’s going to happen - our political situation is beyond sane prediction - but I feel like dropping out would be admitting a mistake, and I just don’t see either Trump or Vance wanting to do that. I feel like they will ride that decision right into November.
I feel like dropping out would be admitting a mistake
Trump got famous running a reality TV show where he feigns business acumen by firing people.
It is well understood in the real world that constantly firing people is a sign of poor leadership. You either aren’t hiring productive employees, or you’re too eager to terminate under-performing employees. That didn’t matter in The Apprentice, because people view firing people as authoritative behavior, and they love it.
So when Vance backs down (and he will because he’s toxic to Trump’s approval rating), it will be presented as Trump smartly firing his inferior running mate in favor of a superior job candidate.
I was going to ask the same question. Why should we care. But you have a good point. If the right is saying "we must look into the bedroom " then the left might as well join in. It won’t fix anything. But at this point, make the idiots squirm.
I think the Dems found the:“why not both?” meme when it comes to politics against the maga Republicans, who gave up on competing on policy years ago. They’ve only been competing by creating these dumb “culture wars” and ad hominem attacks of opponents. There is no principled position, there is no good faith arguments, there is no limit to their hypocrisy.
The Democrats have been getting beat on messaging for years too.
What I think we are seeing now is a sea change. The Democrats have wildly popular policy and positions on most things. They win on policy.
And now they arent letting the Republicans get away with being “weird” hypocritical unprincipled lunatics that lack substance. They aren’t ceding the field on the “manipulation” that Republicans have been engaging in for years. Call them weird. Call them old. Call them criminals.
If they hit below the belt, hit back. If they stay on the high road, meet them there. But as soon as they want to mudsling, slap em in the face with a well deserved mud pie.
When democracy is at stake you can’t afford to lose an election because you wanted to avoid calling a couch-fucking creep, weird.
I’ll also add, I think the reason you are seeing such a ground swell in Democrat support and a dogpile on JD Vance is the pent up frustration of years of Dems being doormats and not squaring up and fighting back.
This is how you beat a bully. You have to bloody their nose. Turn the other cheek sounds great but you quickly run out of cheeks. Fight back.
What is it with conservative hosts demanding porn?
First there was Rush Limbaugh pretending not to know what birth control is and now this.
Probably plenty of other examples in the meantime, but that’s the especially heinous one that immediately came to mind.
They want to see the couch’s outfit for themselves, of course. Perhaps it was asking for it.
Weren’t they obsessed with someone’s dick a few years ago?
Twice, actually. First that of Anthony Wiener and then that of Hunter Biden.
For a party of homophobes who claim to hate liberals, they sure seem to be hungry for some liberal cock 😂
The AP was correct to pull the article. Nobody can definitively say “J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch” just that “J.D. Vance did not write about having sex with a couch in his memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’.”
We don’t even know he didn’t write about it. All we can definitively say is that the story about J.D. Vance fucking a couch did not appear in the published edition of Hillbilly Elegy.
Did he fuck a couch? Did he write about fucking a couch? Only Vance can tell us for sure and he’s probably too busy fucking a couch.
Comment above yours states that it is in there
If everyone is saying it there must be something to it.
How many of those comments are just parroting others?
I’m not sure but if everyone is saying it there must be something to it, dude definitely enjoys the chaise.
I disagree on that concept. Just because a lot of people are saying something doesn’t mean there is something to it. Should we look at it? Absolutely yes
But there is a guy who made a comment that says his grandma (or maybe it was his mom can’t remember) read the book so I’d ask who else has actually read the book?
Good example of group think: lots of people thought disco was good.
I agree with you 100%. We should absolutely be asking why JD Vance would fuck a couch, if in fact he fucked a couch. And why so many people would be talking about JD Vance fucking couches if he didn’t.
It doesn’t really change anything for me but I don’t think I’ll be letting that guy around my couches. Not because I honestly think JD Vance fucks couches but it’s better to be safe than sorry.
edit: Personally I don’t want to read the kind of filth a couch fucker would write so I haven’t read the book but I have it on good authority that people are saying JD Vance admits to fucking at least one couch.
My mother read the book, and tells me that the couch fucking part is absolutely in there.
She also said he’s a bad writer and his book is mostly fiction, so the couch fucking is probably as true as him being from Appalachia.
JD Vance is too much of a coward to release the couch sex tape
#releasethecouchtape
It’s on Hunter’s laptop.
Two males? Are they buttery?
Why are they not releasing the couch sex tape? What are they hiding? Was there a loveseat involved?
It was a…convertible sofa.😱
Hide-a-bred
This got a visceral negative reaction out of me. Well done.
Are you saying the couch… was transsectional?
Because the couch was underage.
Gaetz was inquiring last I heard
Yeah no.
No yeah.
“Fox host demands” = “Child has on-air tantrum”
That sure is a weird-ass thing to ask for.
Those people are weird.
Not to kink shame you, Jesse, but maybe keep what titillates you to yourself.
Anyway, by now there’s bound to be porn with a Vance lookalike fucking a couch, so you’ll get what you need for the most part.
Now now. JD Vance only fucks couches when he wears eyeliner. Everyone knows that.
Such a video is the job AI was created to do.
Maybe not the Hero we want, but the Hero we deserve.
Did Jesse Walters have a fetish where he watches people fuck couches? I’m just asking questions here.
He never said he didn’t have a fetish where he watches people fuck couches. Many people are saying he has a fetish where he watches people fuck couches.
I demand video evidence of him not having a couch fucking fetish
I’ll play it next to the clip where he publicly requested a video of a man fucking a couch
Thank you, now that you mention it I’ve totally heard about his couch fetish. A lot of people are saying it even in this thread.
This is my favorite comment chain.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.I like the idea of this bot but could you make the text a bit smaller? It’s pretty obnoxious ATM.
This is what I see:
Maybe the summary tags aren’t working on your app? But I guess the “Thanks to…” section could be moved to the footer, too.
Most app clients don’t fully support formatting yet. I’m on Boost and neither spoilers nor superscript work.
I don’t know the numbers on each app vs web clients, but I suspect apps are a significant portion. Ignoring their limitations is ignoring a good portion of your users.
Mlem shows the full thing with giant header text.
Does mlem show other formatting like
strikethroughor superscript ?Mlem dev here. It shows strikethrough, but not superscript. Lemmy has got a unique dialect of Markdown - in the current version we’re using a Github-dialect parser, which is close to Lemmy’s but not perfect. In the next update we’ve written a custom parser that handles all of Lemmy’s Markdown elements, including superscript and spoilers.
It is particularly obnoxious on Sync for Lemmy…
It seems to be you should contact the app’s developer since the problem is with the app.
It looks pretty well considered in Voyager.
