Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated following the death of Pope Francis on Monday.
"Today there were major shifts in global leaderships," Greene wrote on X just hours after the pontiff died. "Evil is being defeated by the hand of God."
Greene's remarks came after Rep. Nancy Mace's (R...
If only it wasn’t so trivial for her to trick people into giving her attention and publicity.
Ignoring people with power does not negate their power. Don’t confuse powerless online trolls with powerful societal figures. Please, please don’t.
Really? “Oh pleeeease, you dunce, I know it’s difficult for people like you to understand, but powerful people are powerful”.
You are defending engagement with what equates to a soap opera for politics. You are actively defending people memeing about what some politician said - in this case even about something that is completely irrelevant to anyone but deluded religionists - which is just a lot of lies in every instance anyway.
Why don’t you promote engagement with shit they DO instead?
Are you deliberately fueling this pointless meme bullshit about political theater to make people feel better about themselves, in order to prevent them from doing something about the actually bad things that are going on outside of their doors right fucking now?
Or was that just some masturbatory eruption to satisfy your condescending impulse to snortleingly correct the defective thinking of some mentally inferior fool on the internet?
Why is my reply so heated? I see two possibilities:
And I give you the intellectual benefit of the doubt and say you are doing it deliberately.
People like you have been distracting the public discussion like this for as long as I live, and you try to make people criticizing the distraction look stupid, while elevating yourself.
“Pleeeeeeeease don’t be a dummy, my dearest friend and buddy, pleeeeeease!”. FUCK that.
We see preparations for concentration camps, actual genocides, the implementation of total surveillance states, the enactment of police state enablement laws, dismantling of human rights of every level, a burning planet, techno-oligarchs, so called “centrists” buddying up with fascists, territorial-/resource wars… and you defend people talking about SOME CUNT TALKING ABOUT SOME DEAD ASSHOLE WITH A TALL HAT? IN A POLITICS SECTION!
What the fuck!
If you say “Hey buddy, don’t harsh on our stupid time, let us only talk about dumb stuff this year”, I might just think “sigh Ok…” and dejectedly walk away, having my lack of faith in humanity validated once again, but your way of defending it is actually revolting to me.
Yeah stop giving fucking morons like this attention.
That’s the main problem in the world right now. Smart and genuine people are completely ignored and loud morons get all the attention.
“Hmmm what should we make an article about today? This scientist that found a cure to a rare disease, this philanthropist that saved thousands?” “Nah let’s write an article about this batshit insane moron that keeps screaming bigoted and racist things”
Making people angry = views/clicks Making people happy = no one cares
It’s kinda a two sided coin though. If you don’t pay attention to her, she will likely get by doing even more unhinged things with fewer repercussions than she has now.
It’s on us for reposting and upvoting them. No engagement algorithm is egging us on here on Lemmy.
Rawstory tends to lean into this, and there’s plenty of science out there to read… But sadly rage bait works.