Shit man, next year we're gonna be a decade old. Its also wild that you can trace the line of dominoes from us to the exposure of all the current day insanity, one event and regime-double-down at a time.
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I'd stopped watching TV in about 2008 and stopped following politics around that same time. So I was basically stuck on pre-Obama shitlib politics. The bits and pieces of current events I picked up through osmosis were all filtered through that lens.
In 2012 I was sitting in a restaurant on election night watching people toast Obama somewhat confused why a bunch of "liberals" were celebrating a guy who assassinated American citizens.
Then during Donglegate, Elevatorgate, and then GG I kept finding myself wondering (and sometimes outright asking) why my friends kept supporting such obviously stupid people.
"Why are you trusting what a 'journalist' says?"
"Why was this one rude thing Richard Dawkins said among thousands of rude things he's said actually bad?"
"Why are you trying to define some set of things that all 'good' atheists ought to believe in? I thought the whole point of atheism was finding your own path"
"Why aren't you allowed to make a private joke to a colleague at a conference? And since when are you against 'offensive' jokes?"
"Why are you of all people crucifying a nerd for awkwardly asking a girl out?"
I once heard someone describe this side of things as "most people here aren't conservative or right-wing. They're liberal nerds who expected the system to play by its stated rules and were surprised to learn it didn't."
That reminds me...remember Shirtgate? That poor guy got fucking roasted, for no reason.
The shirt, made by one of his friends, who is a woman.
Guy had just landed a probe on a comet or something but the focus was "Look at how he's dressed" 🙄.
Relevant.
I'd almost forgotten that one. Though I don't remember there being much controversy about it among my friends at the time.