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Betty Bowers: How to Tell the Taliban & Republicans Apart... (Original Post) Pluvious May 2023 OP
With Republicans.... DFW May 2023 #1
Yeah, this is the messed up fuck we Cha May 2023 #2
Taliban wear keffiyehs gratuitous May 2023 #3
Twitter covers up a Venn diagram as "potentially sensitive content"!? WTF SunSeeker May 2023 #4
The rules for getting stuff hidden on twitter seem to have skewed against the "left" plimsoll May 2023 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Abolishinist May 2023 #6
One comment was "Talibanjos" hahahahaha MomInTheCrowd May 2023 #7
Two steps forward NJCher May 2023 #8
superb distillation bringthePaine May 2023 #9
Twitter replies: Rhiannon12866 May 2023 #10
The beards kimbutgar May 2023 #15
Yes. That! mjvpi May 2023 #17
The masks keithbvadu2 May 2023 #21
talibornagain.jesria. pansypoo53219 May 2023 #11
Betty forgot the parts about lying, projecting and deceiving.... KY_EnviroGuy May 2023 #12
I liked this comment in the Twitter comments. NNadir May 2023 #13
You can't. Mad_Machine76 May 2023 #14
looks like one of the same, to me. republianmushroom May 2023 #16
Yesss! This is what's needed - more COMPARE & CONTRAST images Ozzi May 2023 #18
K&R LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #19
Not really apart then BSdetect May 2023 #20
Kick. n/t Upthevibe May 2023 #22
Yeah, not a lot of difference to choose between... Wounded Bear May 2023 #23

plimsoll

(1,667 posts)
5. The rules for getting stuff hidden on twitter seem to have skewed against the "left"
Sat May 27, 2023, 11:44 PM
May 2023

I suspect it was the "Their version of Jesus" comment that got it in trouble. It's disparaging Christianity in their minds. All the rest of the stuff is fine.

Response to Pluvious (Original post)

mjvpi

(1,387 posts)
17. Yes. That!
Sun May 28, 2023, 12:26 PM
May 2023

I’ve tried to look at the pictures of the unidentified 1/6 perpetrators and keep an eye out in Montana. Sheesh, the beard. The off color American flag T-shirt. They all look alike.

Listen to me…..the liberal bigot.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
12. Betty forgot the parts about lying, projecting and deceiving....
Sun May 28, 2023, 01:05 AM
May 2023

which is how they get away with all the other stuff......

Thanks for sharing, Pluvious.......

NNadir

(33,464 posts)
13. I liked this comment in the Twitter comments.
Sun May 28, 2023, 09:48 AM
May 2023

Ryan Stetson
@Grown2Hate
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9h
A Venn diagram needs to be hidden for "sensitive content"? And Liberals are the "snowflakes"? 🤣 Excellent work as always, Betty.

Ozzi

(17 posts)
18. Yesss! This is what's needed - more COMPARE & CONTRAST images
Sun May 28, 2023, 12:58 PM
May 2023

graphs, statistics, maps, slogans, messages, charts, visual scenarios etc.

Compare & Contrast Political people, party history, finances, crime, agenda, bills & backgrounds. At all levels where RW extremist (or any extremism) infiltrates in any untruthful divisive, fearmongering way. Compare people, parties, states and even countries (see my other posts) Keep it simple but real. Put your messages in front of as many eyes as you can. Especially where Rural and Red States citizens might see.
Show what a future extreme Republican/MagaRump/Bigoted/1% rule world that has ties to Russia China etc....might look like. Then compare it to a real Democrat democracy where there is less guns, more trust, less fear and where there are quality human & environmental protective support networks. More worker freedoms and rights. More time to recreat and reflect. A more aware and educated and happier electorate. Discuss what people might want for their children. How their children feel. Next Generation needs.
Here in Australia, we are fined if we don't vote. Its not a lot but the 95$ vote turnout means the Leadership, Leaders and laws are more reflective of the wider communities and of what the community want and believes in. I was a low income but University educated single parent and now my well educated children have businesses, good income and security. One of the businesses has multiple staff.and thrived in its first year, also the first year of the pandemic. I have free health care with private health care as backup. Pay less than $10 for prescriptions and feel no fear when I shop,bank etc. ny don't worry when my grandkids go to school. There's less guns so almost never an mass shootings. Im older now but I have help if I want to keep working and help if I don't feel up to it. That 95% voter turnout helps keep those rights and freedoms in place.
But certain Right Wing Fascist elements are slipping through borders. Last week there was a 15yo school shooter (no one hurt and was stopped safely almost immediately as he fired at the school from the carpark). Iv never read such a thing happening here before. The last Government leader tried to grab power, probably illegally by hiding the fact that he was in charge of more Government Committees than the public knew about. That is under investigatin withut a mass uproar but it still happened and that kind of thing is rare. Our ASIO has warned of increasing fascist ideology. I think there is an uptick in racist/sexist crime. I worry about your democracy, your debt ceiling and your 35% fascist/midguided Right Wing voter sub-group. I want you to have more public schools, infrastructure, institutins, more trust and less fear. I want you to have clean air, clearn water, happier and higher voter turnout, easier voting and less Repub cheating and voter interference. I wish Rupert Murdoch was never born.
So im glad to see such images promoted. I have only just started to do posts, (long and badly worded) but my motivation is to get ideas out that might help move your electorat to vote for Democrats. I live well here so use my Country as a compare and contrast. During the pandemic, we had state border lockdowns as vaccines were being developed. So for the first full year where I live, my family moved freely about the city without masks! When masks and vaccines were required, the majority of Australians didn't fuss. That;s trust when trust is needed. Thats good Governance. Thats 95% voter turnout. Thats good Election messaging.

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