Culture Wars

[kalm]

So point out all of that republican legislation that directly supports the middle class long term.

No

Go read back a couple of pages and ask yourself…What the heck am I talking about?

No because you can’t. So then it’s insults to cover your ignorance.

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Things the left has lost it's shit over:

• Sydney Sweeney: good genes/jeans ads
• Kendall Jenner: Pepsi protest ad
• Chick-fil-A political/religous positions
• Hobby Lobby political/religous positions

Things the right has lost it's shit over:

• Dylan Mulvaney: Bud Light can, Nike ads
• Disney: political positions and LGBTQ+ content
• Target: Pride merchandise
• Gillette: the best a man can be ad

I'm sure I've missed some but the message stands - both sides lose their shit over stupid things. MAQA yahoos went apeshit over a can that was a gift to Dylan Mulvaney and not even available to the public.

[BDKJMU]

Things the left has lost it's shit over:

• Sydney Sweeney: good genes/jeans ads
• Kendall Jenner: Pepsi protest ad
• Chick-fil-A political/religous positions
• Hobby Lobby political/religous positions

Things the right has lost it's shit over:

• Dylan Mulvaney: Bud Light can, Nike ads
• Disney: political positions and LGBTQ+ content
• Target: Pride merchandise
• Gillette: the best a man can be ad

I'm sure I've missed some but the message stands - both sides lose their shit over stupid things. MAQA yahoos went apeshit over a can that was a gift to Dylan Mulvaney and not even available to the public.

Not over a can. It was Bud Lite paying a mentally ill dude pretending to be a woman to promote their beer when their core demographic was blue collar, rednecks, and frat bros.

[BDKJMU]

Speaking of Bud Lite, ABInBev stock:
66.73 3/31/23 (Day before Mulvaney promo)
61.37 closed yesterday

How much higher would ABINBev has numerous brands. How much higher would their stock be if the Bud Lite albatross wasn‘t there?

There‘s one way they could rectify the biggest blunder in the history of marketing that left sales of Bud Lite still down 30% as of earlier this year
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/business/ ... -downfall/

Hire Sydney Sweeney to promote Bud Lite. Would be brilliant.

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Things the left has lost it's shit over:

• Sydney Sweeney: good genes/jeans ads
• Kendall Jenner: Pepsi protest ad
• Chick-fil-A political/religous positions
• Hobby Lobby political/religous positions

Things the right has lost it's shit over:

• Dylan Mulvaney: Bud Light can, Nike ads
• Disney: political positions and LGBTQ+ content
• Target: Pride merchandise
• Gillette: the best a man can be ad

I'm sure I've missed some but the message stands - both sides lose their shit over stupid things. MAQA yahoos went apeshit over a can that was a gift to Dylan Mulvaney and not even available to the public.

Not over a can. It was Bud Lite paying a mentally ill dude pretending to be a woman to promote their beer when their core demographic was blue collar, rednecks, and frat bros.

It was a stupid marketing move on the part of Bud LIght but from a "losing their shit" perspective the similarities between the right over Bud LIght and Dylan Mulvaney and the left over Sydney Sweeney are pretty close. They were idiotic things to get your panties in a wad over.

[BDKJMU]

Shocked! Shocked I tells ya!

BDK…might want to find some new sources, bro.

LoL no.

[BDKJMU]

Shocked! Shocked I tells ya!

BDK…might want to find some new sources, bro.

It's playing out exactly as I said. Use their stenographers at MSNBC, Yahoo, Newsweek, WaPoop, Rolling Stone, etc. to manufacture and amplify an outrage and when it doesn't stick, claim it was a right-wing conspiracy.

Even a New York Times columnist wrote an article telling all the progtards to quit losing their shit and stop being little crybabies.

Do These Jeans Make My Ad Look Racist?

Just take the L people.

Yep.

[kalm]

It's playing out exactly as I said. Use their stenographers at MSNBC, Yahoo, Newsweek, WaPoop, Rolling Stone, etc. to manufacture and amplify an outrage and when it doesn't stick, claim it was a right-wing conspiracy.

Even a New York Times columnist wrote an article telling all the progtards to quit losing their shit and stop being little crybabies.

Do These Jeans Make My Ad Look Racist?

Just take the L people.

Yep.

Insecurity masquerading as strength. They get called out and defend themselves. Shocking…I mean…strong!!!

[UNI88]

The stupidity of Bud Light alienating their customer base by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney bears a strong similarity to elon musk alienating the Tesla customer base by partnering with donald trump. Dylan Mulvaney and donald trump have that in common.

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Rubio decries ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ performance, says anti-Christian attacks are nothing new

During an interview on EWTN’s "The World Over" published on Thursday, host Raymond Arroyo asked Rubio if he would ever support bringing "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo’s performance of the show to the Kennedy Center, as Rubio is a member due to his ex-officio status.
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Some Christians have voiced concern about Erivo, a bisexual woman, playing Jesus.

Is having a bisexual woman play Jesus really an anti-Christian "attack"?

Is lil' marco just getting his panties in a bunch?

[BDKJMU]

The stupidity of Bud Light alienating their customer base by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney bears a strong similarity to elon musk alienating the Tesla customer base by partnering with donald trump. Dylan Mulvaney and donald trump have that in common.

Was Trump paid to promote Tesla?

[UNI88]

The stupidity of Bud Light alienating their customer base by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney bears a strong similarity to elon musk alienating the Tesla customer base by partnering with donald trump. Dylan Mulvaney and donald trump have that in common.

Was Trump paid to promote Tesla?

Did musk's voluntary relationship with him alienate their customer base? They were both self-inflicted wounds.

[BDKJMU]

Was Trump paid to promote Tesla?

Did musk's voluntary relationship with him alienate their customer base? They were both self-inflicted wounds.

Yeah but it also brought on some conk customers. Bud Lite clearly didn‘t gain many customers from the woke crowd to offset the losses from their traditional base.

And comparing the owner of a major company endorsing a POTUS candidate in an election year a major company‘s marketing dept paying some internet freak to endorse a product is apples to oranges.

[UNI88]

Did musk's voluntary relationship with him alienate their customer base? They were both self-inflicted wounds.

Yeah but it also brought on some conk customers. Bud Lite clearly didn‘t gain many customers from the woke crowd to offset the losses from their traditional base.

And comparing the owner of a major company endorsing a POTUS candidate in an election year a major company‘s marketing dept paying some internet freak to endorse a product is apples to oranges.

How many MAQA yahoos traded in their Rams, F150s, Silverados, Tundras, etc. for Cybertrucks? How many were considering it but changed their mind after the musk/trump spat?

musk did more than endorse trump. He was a major funder and a part of his administration. They were tied at the hip.

You're splitting hairs over the differences, they were both self-inflicted wounds.

[Caribbean Hen]

Yeah but it also brought on some conk customers. Bud Lite clearly didn‘t gain many customers from the woke crowd to offset the losses from their traditional base.

And comparing the owner of a major company endorsing a POTUS candidate in an election year a major company‘s marketing dept paying some internet freak to endorse a product is apples to oranges.

How many MAQA yahoos traded in their Rams, F150s, Silverados, Tundras, etc. for Cybertrucks? How many were considering it but changed their mind after the musk/trump spat?

musk did more than endorse trump. He was a major funder and a part of his administration. They were tied at the hip.

You're splitting hairs over the differences, they were both self-inflicted wounds.

Not even a handful.

[Bobcat]

I have had a Tundra for decades. Never thought about an electric truck they are not practical in any way.

[kalm]

Rubio decries ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ performance, says anti-Christian attacks are nothing new

During an interview on EWTN’s "The World Over" published on Thursday, host Raymond Arroyo asked Rubio if he would ever support bringing "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo’s performance of the show to the Kennedy Center, as Rubio is a member due to his ex-officio status.
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Some Christians have voiced concern about Erivo, a bisexual woman, playing Jesus.

Is having a bisexual woman play Jesus really an anti-Christian "attack"?

Is lil' marco just getting his panties in a bunch?

I’ll bet little Marco was never an XTC fan.

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ChristoFascist Whackos!

[Bobcat]

Hes not wrong. Zero talent

[BDKJMU]

[UNI88]

Dana White says UFC will host first-ever White House fight on July 4: "It is definitely going to happen"

The Ultimate Fighting Championship will stage a historic fight at the White House on July 4, 2026, marking America's 250th birthday with what would be the first professional mixed martial arts event ever held at the presidential residence, UFC CEO Dana White confirmed Tuesday.

"It is definitely going to happen," White told "CBS Mornings."

White said he spoke with President Donald Trump Monday night about the event and plans to meet with Mr. Trump and Ivanka Trump at the end of this month to finalize details and review venue renderings. A source familiar with the planning confirmed that the White House expected the event to happen.

Having an event like this at hallowed ground like the White House is okay but having a having a bisexual woman play Jesus is a problem?

Is trump looking to Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos and Kim Jong-il for inspiration?

[Bobcat]

What did Saddam, Marcos and Il do to the trans community? But Trump!

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Showed My Photo In Congress And Called Me A Monster. Here's Why I’m Fighting Back.

Needless to say, her already highly unglued name-calling insinuates claims about me that are patently false. She is correct that I once appeared on the public television program “Let’s Learn,” reading my picture book “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish” — a playful parody meant to encourage kids to express their inner fabulousness. But the reality, as PBS CEO Paula Kerger made clear, is that the show was produced by local affiliate WNET, not by PBS itself.

Additionally, her rhetoric suggesting that LGBTQ-affirmative media is a form of “sexualizing and grooming … brainwashing and transing children” is not only false, but offensive. As I noted in my initial response: This rerun is tired and boring. That is, it is part of a well-worn playbook that goes back decades, as exemplified by Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” campaign of the 1970s, and which has sadly been mainstreamed by Republicans in recent years.
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It is in this spirit that revered scholar Rudine Sims Bishop famously described children’s literature as offering windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors. In this beautiful metaphor, she acknowledged the need for children to learn about the world around them, see themselves reflected and step into stories through their imaginations. Given that all children (and adults) are a blend of intersecting identities, we need diverse media to offer multiple points of view. Any attempt to suppress such heterogeneity is not only unethical, it is also incorrect and leaves children with a partial story of the world around them.

In my own childhood as a white, middle-class, Jewish, queer and genderqueer person, it was precisely through children’s books and television that I learned about the world. While I often had the privilege of seeing communities that looked similar to mine, I only rarely caught glimpses of queerness and gender diversity. (Still, in retrospect, queer authors and characters have always been present, but recognizing them required skills in reading between the lines.)
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Inherent in these understandings is a recognition of children’s autonomy — which Greene and her compatriots would rather ignore. Of course, children need guidance and care, but they are also already capable of curious and capacious thinking. It is hardly surprising that a politician like Greene, who seems to lack such skills herself, fails to see the strength of such imagination and independence. Instead, she attempts to bully others to think and act exactly like she does.

What is ironic about Greene’s attacks is that while she accuses public media, children’s authors and drag storytellers like myself of “brainwashing” children, it is Greene who wants to control minds through censorship. But drag can be an antidote. And that’s exactly why drag performers belong in public education and media.

As I have written previously for HuffPost, drag is not a form of indoctrination, but a deep practice of imagination. It does not represent “gender ideology,” but an encouragement to ask thoughtful questions about how and why we categorize people into boxes.

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ChristoFascist Whackos!

Viral CNN Segment Highlights Disturbing Christian Movement. Bible Scholars Have Thoughts.

“As a professionally and academically trained Bible scholar, I reject Wilson’s profound abuse of the Bible in order to promote the systemic oppression of women, people of color, and queer people,” said Mattie Mae Motl, whose research focuses on gender and sexuality in the New Testament.
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“It is a gross distortion of the Biblical text,” Motl said. “Moreover, these out-of-context passages about ‘submission’ and men being the ‘head of the household’ pale in comparison to the number of women, people of color and queer people who are explicitly celebrated for their faithfulness and leadership throughout the Bible.”

Theologian Brian Recker noted that patriarchal messages are not hard to find in the Bible, but emphasized that “patriarchy is the cultural background of Scripture, not its message ― certainly not the message of Jesus.”

“If you follow Jesus, you find something else entirely: liberation from systems of domination,” Recker said. “Jesus defied the patriarchy at every turn.”

He pointed to stories of Jesus breaking social conventions by speaking to a Samaritan woman, defending a woman’s right to sit as a disciple, including women in his traveling ministry and elevating a woman as the first witness to his resurrection. Looking at scripture, you can also find examples of the early church valuing equality and inclusion ― welcoming women as leaders, hosts, and deacons and even rejecting patriarchal hierarchy.

“Jesus was about love, justice and the uplifting of the marginalized,” echoed Malynda Hale, an advocate and executive director of The New Evangelicals, a nonprofit focused on promoting inclusivity, justice and compassion in Christianity. “To say women shouldn’t vote, and submit to their husbands, that they shouldn’t lead in the church, or that homosexuality should be criminalized are so clearly not the teachings of Jesus.”
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Levings described Wilson’s movement as co-opting mainstream Christianity by utilizing its language, while beneath the surface, adherents’ beliefs and behavior are far removed from Jesus and his core values of love, service and kindness.

“This is not evangelicalism by saving souls and bringing believers to them. This is declaring that members are part of the Christian elect, predestined to be saved and vanquishing their enemies without taking prisoners,” Levings explained.

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