How The 'NPC' Meme Tries To Dehumanize 'SJWs'

[devil21]

FWIW, there is something wrong with every single one of the 6,894,793,251 people on the planet today, with the exception of devil21. That is why we should listen to him about everything.

Are you ok? Do you need to sit down or something?

You do realize the real person Roseanne Arnold/Barr has a long history of supporting socialist policies and being a Green Party and PRP (though the PRP shares some commonality with libertarians) party member, yes? She even ran for their Presidential nomination in 2012! Not sure what that has to do with me or why you're attacking me personally.

Yes, I always find satanists to be reliable life guides.

Wow. You're gettin' kinda desperate with the labels these days.

[devil21]

You ain't wrong about controlled opposition. The gov has been playing a game of Demosthenes/Locke for at least three decades.



Roseanne used to be a socialist, but her current Twitter feed has nothing to do with socialism. She says she's walked away from the Left:

I looked at her Twitter but don't see any mention of what she's walking toward. I do see a lot of ads for her paid special with some rabbi, however.

[Swordsmyth]

Wow. You're gettin' kinda desperate with the labels these days.

Am I?:

Well, some think the God of the bible is the bad one. Makes ya wonder sometimes whether it's not true.

You exposed yourself when you thought you had a chance to lure someone off the straight and narrow.

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

No, 2,000 TV and radio stations are not news corporations or newspapers. They are part of the entertainment industry: they are the stations that decide what gets aired in people's homes and in their vehicles.

They don't produce the programs. That's where the cultural power really is. And in reality, they have very little control over what they get to show, especially on TV. If I'm some conservative owner of an ABC affiliate, I don't get to say a damn thing when the network puts on a show about trans lesbians raising an adopted son. The days of local channels having a real say in what gets shown are largely a thing of the past. Arizona has a couple of unaffiliated local networks, but I think they're the only ones/

I am a big Tim Allen fan, from back in his Home Improvement days, but despite what he says, LMS's cancellation had nothing to do with his conservative leanings: the show went from over 13 million viewers in the first episode, to 6 million in the last ABC episode. It had already had a good six-year run. The idea that Tim Allen was silenced because of his politics is silly, because they gave him a voice for six years.

The show was still quite good ratings-wise, compared to other ABC shows that are still on the air, though. And it wasn't just his conservative politics. Right before the cancellation, they did an episode where Tim's character decries PC America and college snowflakes. Then the show is axed.

There are plenty of A-listers on this list. It's clear just from that list that it's not political suicide to be conservative in Hollywood unless you start calling black people ******* or apes.

There are two still living A-listers on that list, from what I can tell. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, both of whom are Hollywood legends who came up in a different time when Hollywood was at least somewhat less political (especially Clint). Where is the young, up-and-coming actor who's a conservative? There must be at least one; they're not all progressives. As I said, he's out there, but he doesn't talk about his politics. It would ruin him.

[devil21]

Am I:

You exposed yourself when you thought you had a chance to lure someone off the straight and narrow.

Being knowledgeable about various religious doctrines makes me a satanist? Along with my handle? LOL ok. But it's funny you say that since the libertarian torch, the torch of the Statue of Liberty, is the light of Lucifer. Oh noes! We're all satanists now!

[RJ Liberty]

Are you ok? Do you need to sit down or something?

You do realize the real person Roseanne Arnold/Barr has a long history of supporting socialist policies and being a Green Party and PRP (though the PRP shares some commonality with libertarians) party member, yes? She even ran for their Presidential nomination in 2012! Not sure what that has to do with me or why you're attacking me personally.

Don't sweat it, Devil21. I learned on online forums years ago (and you probably have, too) that personal attacks are just what people do when they run out of arguments. It's just human nature.


The Walk Away campaign aims to pull people out of the Democratic Party (a great goal, IMO). But Roseanne (the actress, not just the character) went much further: she didn't just walk away, she campaigned for Trump.

[UWDude]

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Are you ok?

You do realize

you're attacking me personally.



Wow. You're gettin' kinda desperate with the labels these days.

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[Swordsmyth]

Being knowledgeable about various religious doctrines makes me a satanist? Along with my handle? LOL ok.

The context of that quote was clear, you were trying to proselytize and lure someone to the darkside.

But it's funny you say that since the libertarian torch, the torch of the Statue of Liberty, is the light of Lucifer. Oh noes! We're all satanists now!

It never was "the libertarian torch", the statue was always part of the Luciferian progressive movement.

[devil21]

Don't sweat it, Devil21. I learned on online forums years ago (and you probably have, too) that personal attacks are just what people do when they run out of arguments. It's just human nature.

I didn't even engage with UWDude so it's kinda bizarre.

The Walk Away campaign aims to pull people out of the Democratic Party (a great goal, IMO). But Roseanne (the actress, not just the character) went much further: she didn't just walk away, she campaigned for Trump.

I've learned not to take celebrities at face value. Their brand is what they care about the most and marketing their brands takes priority over everything else. Roseanne herself stated she voted for Trump to shake up the status quo, not because she supported his policies. I don't hate her or anything, she even talked about Pizzagate. But her history is impossible to ignore and like most celebrities, maintaining relevance of their brand is paramount.

Just some food for thought:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/b...ngs-trump.html

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The context of that quote was clear, you were trying to proselytize and lure someone to the darkside.

lol.....sooooo appropriate

[RJ Liberty]

They don't produce the programs.

The local TV stations actually all produce the local content, which is what is aired the majority of the day. Broadcast TV stations in the US are forbidden from airing a network's broadcast 24/7.

That's where the cultural power really is. And in reality, they have very little control over what they get to show, especially on TV. If I'm some conservative owner of an ABC affiliate, I don't get to say a damn thing when the network puts on a show about trans lesbians raising an adopted son.

Actually, local stations have the power to veto what airs on their stations. This is why stations will pre-empt a show they don't like. You may remember 57 (of 200) ABC affiliates pre-empting NYPD Blue in the 1990s and early 2000s.

But that's the thing: even though station owners can choose to not air something, they usually will air it anyway... because it makes them money. The local stations, owned by Sinclair, are partnered with the Big Four television networks, and will mostly air whatever the broadcast networks want. It shows what bull541t this right/left "they control the media!" garbage actually is. Sinclair is conservative; ABC, NBC, and CBS are liberal. And they are partners.

Arizona has a couple of unaffiliated local networks, but I think they're the only ones

Nah, there's a ton of independent TV stations. (None in my area because I live in the sticks, but in bigger areas).

The show was still quite good ratings-wise, compared to other ABC shows that are still on the air, though. And it wasn't just his conservative politics. Right before the cancellation, they did an episode where Tim's character decries PC America and college snowflakes. Then the show is axed.

Shows get more expensive the longer they are on the air, as their stars make more and more money. If ABC wanted to silence Tim Allen, they could easily have done so in 2014, when the producers did an episode about Mike and his wife being attacked by liberals for having a conservative blog, exposing the truth about "tolerance" from so-called liberals. They could have done so again in spring 2016 during the debate episode, or during any of the other 100+ episodes where they discussed conservative topics.

There are two still living A-listers on that list, from what I can tell. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, both of whom are Hollywood legends who came up in a different time when Hollywood was at least somewhat less political (especially Clint). Where is the young, up-and-coming actor who's a conservative? There must be at least one; they're not all progressives. As I said, he's out there, but he doesn't talk about his politics. It would ruin him.

The only things that ruins celebrities' careers are public racist rants, like the Mel Gibson and Michael Richards incidents. Those take years to recover from. But simply being a conservative doesn't ruin a celeb's career in Hollywood, or we wouldn't have Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris, Adam Sandler, Sly Stallone, Adam Baldwin, etc.

[RJ Liberty]

I didn't even engage with UWDude so it's kinda bizarre.

It is odd, but IMO less odd than someone calling someone a "satanist" because their RPF username is "devil". Is Duke University full of devil worshippers? Is Arizona State University? Should I avoid deviled eggs due to their evil influence?

I've learned not to take celebrities at face value. Their brand is what they care about the most and marketing their brands takes priority over everything else. Roseanne herself stated she voted for Trump to shake up the status quo, not because she supported his policies. I don't hate her or anything, she even talked about Pizzagate. But her history is impossible to ignore and like most celebrities, maintaining relevance of their brand is paramount.

Just some food for thought:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/b...ngs-trump.html

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That article posits the theory that Roseanne pulled to the right to get viewers. But on Twitter, Roseanne was actually criticizing leftists like Obama, Valerie Jarrett, etc, during the summer, when that couldn't possibly have boosted the show's ratings. After she was fired by ABC for the "ape" comment, she could have apologized for any of her alt-right tweets, but she's been pretty defiant: "I thought the bitch was white" is hardly a socialist, PC response.

Roseanne, in the 1990s, was a populist voice for the working man (and woman); one of the few celebrities who was speaking about income inequality at that time. It's no surprise to me that she is now critical of billionaires on the left; it did surprise me when she started actively campaigning for billionaires on the right.

[timosman]

https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/structure/

DSA’s primary political leadership is the National Political Committee (NPC), a sixteen-person body which functions as the board of directors of DSA and is elected every two years by the delegates to DSA’s National Convention. Every DSA chapter is entitled to send a certain number of delegates to the National Convention, based upon the chapter’s size. There are also “at-large” delegates to represent areas where there are no active chapters.

The DSA Constitution:

requires that eight slots of the NPC be reserved for women, and that at least five of the NPC slots be reserved for people of color.
gives the NPC the power to charter DSA locals and commissions, as well as DSA’s Youth Section.
The NPC:

guides and leads the implementation of DSA’s major political and organizational goals, which are broadly defined every two years by the delegates to the National Convention
gives instructions to the national staff about how to carry forward DSA’s day-to-day work.
creates task forces and committees to guide particular areas of DSA’s political work.
conducts long weekend meetings four times each year.
elects five of its members to serve on the Steering Committee (SC). The SC can be emailed at sc(at)dsausa.org.
National Political Committee Members, 2017-2019

Contact the NPC at: npc(at)dsausa.org

[Swordsmyth]

[timosman]

[dannno]

[Swordsmyth]

[Swordsmyth]

[RJB]

That is pretty shallow. The rabbit hole goes much deeper than just that "orange man bad." Also, Red hat racist, too.

[jkr]

SO MUCH!

[acptulsa]

That is pretty shallow. The rabbit hole goes much deeper than just that "orange man bad." Also, Red hat racist, too.

That's the sad part. When both sides set out to dehumanize the other side, they dehumanize themselves.

It never fails.

[Danke]

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