F you, Taylor Swift!” shouted Megyn Kelly, “and f all of the people who want to see these children have body parts chopped off.”

For those not fluent in Republican crazy-speak, Kelly’s meltdown was triggered by Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris the night before, barely one hour after Trump all but face-planted on the debate stage. Kelly was especially triggered by Swift highlighting her appreciation for vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s support of LGBTQ+ rights.

Other right-wing commentators, like Ben Shapiro, took another approach: making fun of Swifties. “Note: if you vote for a particular candidate because your favorite singer is doing so, please don’t vote. You are too stupid to vote,” wrote Shapiro on X. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, threatened to impregnate her.

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“F you, Taylor Swift!” shouted Megyn Kelly, “and f all of the people who want to see these children have body parts chopped off.”

Weird

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Aren’t right wing Christian’s the ones really into circumcision?

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And the reason more than one woman has needed a hysterectomy after being denied a medically necessary abortion.

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Imma need the stats on this so I can throw it in someone’s face later.

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Why do you need stats? It’s not like they matter to Christians.

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In the U.S. it’s not necessarily a christian thing. But the ven diagram of people who circumcise their children in the U.S. and chrstians is very close to a circle.

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But the ven diagram of people who circumcise their children in the U.S. and chrstians is very close to a circle.

Sorry, but that’s not even close. Male circumcision is very commonly practiced among the Jewish and Islamic faiths as well as American Christians, who I guess just can’t resist a fad.

According to current estimations, approximately 30% of all males across the world— representing a total of approximately 670 million men — are circumcised. Of this number, about 68% are of Islamic faith, less than 1% of Jewish faith, and 13% are non-Muslim, non-Jewish Americans.

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God can we please leave this weird obsession with circumcision on reddit? You’re not wrong, it’s just such a weird thing to focus on all the goddamn time.

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It’s a bodily autonomy issue that has justifiably left a lot of men feeling powerless and angry. People are gonna talk about it.

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The current Republican platform is largely based on stupid easily disproven lies. I’m convinced our fall to fascism is caused by stupidity as much as it is hatred.

“Doctors are cutting little boys dicks off because they like the color pink!”

“They’re performing abortions after birth!”

“Haitians are eating all the cats and dogs!”

“They’re putting litter boxes in the school bathrooms!”

There’s really only two kinds of Republican: The evil ones who spread these lies intentionally, and the stupid ones who believe this dumb shit.

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Hatred is stupidity. Always has been.

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Hatred is also taught.

Its sad that kids are in MAGA as well due to this.

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Never underestimate how much destruction stupid people with power can cause.

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This is why evil rarely succeeds in the long-term: when you have that many self-absorbed fucks attempt to work together, it rarely yields anything useful.

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The current Republican platform is largely based on stupid easily disproven lies.

It’s worth mentioning that this strategy is straight out of the trolling playbook. The overall idea is to get everyone to waste their time arguing nonsense, making it impossible to discuss anything of merit. While the following article applies to internet forums, it’s not hard to see how any social media, TV, or radio, can spill over into our day-to-day discourse and have the same effect: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7573649/

In this case, the topic at hand meets multiple criteria for deliberate trolling. IMO, there’s little room for doubt that we’re being led by the nose and baited to waste valuable pre-election time:

  • Digression - Luring others into off-topic discussions by spamming, partaking in cascades or introducing tangential topics (e.g., as in [16]).
  • (Hypo)criticism - Excessive criticism of others, e.g. on their punctuation while possibly committing the same errors oneself.
  • Antipathy - Creation of a sensitive or antagonistic context through purposeful provocation, in order to manipulate others to produce emotional responses.
  • Endangering - Giving out poor advice under an innocent guise, and others are compelled to respond in order to protect others.
  • Shocking - Posting about taboos or sensitive subjects, such as religion, death or human rights.
  • Aggression - Deliberate and open aggressing of others into retaliating (e.g., by name-calling or foul language).
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I would love to see more of the Democrats platform displayed, argued, justified and rationalized, but there’s literally no reason to talk about any of that when the other side has less discussion than a headless chicken.

I hope the right can someday see how bad they are for policy in general.

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There’s really only two kinds of Republican: The evil ones who spread these lies intentionally, and the stupid ones who believe this dumb shit.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

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The litter box thing annoys me so much. Like, do you have any idea how quickly that shit would fucking go viral if it were true? Like, every damn kid would post about it online. It’s so fucking stupid!

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do you have any idea how quickly that shit would fucking go viral if it were true

But it was true! Just not in the way that was claimed: They had these litterboxes in case they had to barricade in the classroom for extended periods of time due to a school-shooter that the police didn’t bother to stop quickly…

So yes, it really is a fucked up story, just in a very different way from what republicans claimed.

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Nonense! There’s a third kind who is both stupid and evil. They may even be the majority.

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Megyn? How is that supposed to be pronounced?

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Actually, this name traces all the way back to the first cavewoman gynecologist. At the time, they named themselves based on their professions. Megyn is short for “me gynecologist”.

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멱윤

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Underrated comment.

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Throw me a bone. I don’t get it.

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Weirdo Republican Talking Head No. 3464592

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Remember when NBC hired Kelly in 2017, she gave Putin a platform to spread his propaganda, she got demoted, and then eventually fired for racism? Who could have guessed that she was just another maga conspiracy nut?

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Wow, I didn’t know Megyn Kelly was such a staunch circumcision opponent

Mud flaps down to her knees.

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“and f all of the people who want to see these children have body parts chopped off.”

As someone living in a country whey we don’t chop off the foreskin of little children, whereas conservative Americans love that chopping procedure, I find this statement slightly amusing.

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Not just little children, infants.

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Babies. They mutilate the genitals of their babies because they believe their god desires it.

It’s called mental illness. These people aren’t simply “weird”. They’re insane, a danger to their children, their communities, and their country.

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There’s some truth in this, but I think we should be mindful of nuance. Some parents do need to make decisions for medical reasons. Those reasons are often still exaggerated, and many parents aren’t making an informed decision. I’ve had friends that required the procedure after puberty, but I’m pretty sure they’ve said there was no way they could have known prior to puberty anyway. I don’t know anyone that needed it as a baby, but it can happen when obstructions develop in utero.

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They mutilate the genitals of their babies because John Harvey Kellogg thought it would prevent masturbation

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But that’s how you show God that your baby deserves to be in Heaven!!!

🌭🪓✝️

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I didn’t know we were doing genital checks at the Pearly Gates, God is a weirdo.

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Also, especially since your body remains on earth. Does your soul have genitalia?

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What did you think the “pearly” in Pearly Gates was about?

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Nah that’s how you avoid STDs and dick cheese tho… 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

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Wearing a condom and showering are how you prevent those. There are slight to moderate reductions in a few STDs/STIs, but wearing a condom is the actual prevention method instead of a coin flip. This isn’t to mention that cutting or burning a portion of a human off should probably involve some consent.

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Circumcision does not prevent STDs.
Bathing and showering is also a thing.

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The solution to athlete’s foot is to chop off your toes. Harder to get foot fungus without all those pointless crevices.

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They have a covenant with their diety about slicing up little baby penises and this is the shit they say. Incredible.

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Republicans: Cancel culture is ruining the country!

Also Republicans: You endorsed Harris? Kiss your Republican record sales goodbye!

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The hypocrisy is a feature

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… of non-autistic humans. Which is why I like systems not reliant on what somebody considers kind.

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Wait what? I can’t tell if you’re serious, but if so, I’d love to see research on the first part of your comment. If you were joking please feel free to ignore me.

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WTF does autism have to do with anything?

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No no no, you see, when the left does it, it’s cancel culture and literally communism. When the right does it, it’s voting with your dollar, literally capitalism. Not comparable at all!!

/s

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Which is hilarious since the main source of income for musicians ever since streaming took off is live shows and merch… albums are a vehicle to drive attendance at concerts, for which Swift is pretty good at packing stadiums full of people. Even if she loses 30% of her listeners, she’ll still sell out concerts and total revenue would likely be about the same because those seats will be taken up by other fans who would have otherwise missed out on the sold-out show.

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… Ben Shapiro accusing other people of not being smart enough to vote…

He should practice what he preaches and not vote, himself.

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He should vote, because everyone should vote.

Fuck Ben Shapiro, he’s some combination of idiot and willing stooge, but voting only works when everyone gets to vote. Unlike these right-wing fuckwits, I’m not willing to disenfranchise voters just because I perceive them as being less intelligent than me.

EDIT: I am shocked that supporting a fair and equal democracy seems to be at least sort of controversial around here. If you genuinely believe a given category of people should be disallowed from voting, please reconsider your values.

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Lol you vote for more dog food available, they vote people to die. Same same.

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*food dog, duh

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This is not a “both sides are the same” argument. Only that if you start to discuss who should and should not be allowed to vote, you are no longer creating a democracy. That is a dictatorship with extra steps.

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Yes, because telling someone to practice what they preach is disenfranchising them.

C’mon, now.

Voting is his right, it his obligation. If he wanted to show he’s not a total fucking liar and hypocrite…. He should chose to not vote because he’s definitely stupider than the vast majority of swifties.

To be fair, most rocks have enough intelligence to be smarter than him… and they’re inanimate.

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Never forget his hypothetical about selling your underwater home. Dude has the intelligence of the fish he thinks would buy it.

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No, but telling someone they shouldn’t be allowed to vote is saying you believe they should be disenfranchised.

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Shapiro is not an idiot, he’s arrogant. He believes that when the fascists and alt-right freaks come for every other racial, sexual and religious minority, including his own, they will spare him because he was on their side and he is special

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I can’t believe the leopard is eating MY face.

  • Ben Shapiro
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“I will impregnate her” -Elon Musk

“She will be raped by Venezuelans” -David Rubin

“Children’s Genitals!” -Megyn Kelly

Weird…

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