hatefollows:

rassoey:

shinybulbysaur:

so this billboard is up near my apartment

so i got curious and went on this website

and

ummm

UMMMM?

WHO DREW THESE

Love.

my brain: you should get a passport
me: tru. forms at the post office? get to it.
my brain: no seriously, you should get a passport

theonlylivingboyinnewyork:

997:

i hate this website

This is perfect

So we’ve already done memes and twitter pile-ons and now we’re into callout wars over rape culture. In the 30 days remaining before the vote, how else is social media going to fuck up our elections?

After all it WAS the Republicans who propped up victim culture as a counter to the passionate vitalism of the New Left. Ideas have consequences.

Edmond Booth

Atlas Pizza
Dvision St.
Portland, OR

2 years.

Sometimes I wonder why I punish myself by still reading Slate, the answer is occasionally you come across buried nuggets like this:

Sometimes the election’s psychic fallout takes less obvious forms. Silvestri, for example, has noticed a curious phenomenon among some of the millennial women in her practice: The rise of Trump has made them wonder how much they can reasonably expect from romantic relationships…

It’s not just that Trump reminds them of their exes. It’s that Trump’s success seems to validate the men’s behavior. “They had gotten themselves to a place of, This is not what I deserve, I deserve better, I can do better,” Silvestri says. But watching dutiful, responsible Clinton struggle to best Trump, “people are really backtracking and saying, ‘I made this move to be more empowered and be who I am based on my values, but now I see my ex writ large on the national stage, and everyone’s following him,’ ” Silvestri says. They start thinking that, for a woman, maybe being beautiful really is more important than being smart, assertive, and authentic.

The quote comes from a psychologist who, if you do some digging, has offices by NYU.

So, straight from the horse’s mouth: the mere nomination of Donald Trump is inspiring urban millennial elite women to give up on confrontational feminism in favor of charming femininity as a source of self-identity and -value.

A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America, a self-described “social welfare 501©4 non-profit” in support of the Republican nominee.

Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million. The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym “NimbleRichMan” on Reddit with a password given him to by the organization’s founders.

Nimble America says it’s dedicated to proving that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real,” according to the company’s introductory statement, and has taken credit for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a cartoonishly large image of Clinton’s face alongside the words “Too Big to Jail.”

Flashback to those innocent times four months ago when the notion that frog memes would play a part in this election was a lighthearted jest.

hatefollows:

pryathis:

shitpost-senpai:

Fucking why

Delete this now.

we’re over our skis now. no choice but to go straight through.

November 14, 1999

hatefollows:

Catchy as hell.

dontthink2:

rapgamekimmygibbler:

dontthink2:

this is what jill stein voters look like. 

oh my GOD

i hope ppl know this isn’t a pro Hillary post u all look like

one of the subtler crazy things about this election is how every worthwhile crank I’ve run across since the livejournal era, all the bits where I’ve been like “no, of all the weird shit on the net this shit is gonna be important”, are all banging into each other

I think a lot of it’s twitter, maybe in the open field quality will out, but seeing like Ian Welsh and Jacob “IOZ” Bacharach kibitzing about a dispute pitting Freddie deBoer, Jacobin, and Weird Twitter against Sady Doyle, it’s… honestly, it’s a little ominous when all the named characters and plot threads start coming together

course reading serious newspaper articles like “for more insight on /pol/ memes and their role on the alt-right, we reached out to VDare….” is fucking surreal

Whole election’s a performance art competition on the theme of “to whom does tomorrow belong?”

sevzem:

bloodandhedonism:

mtvnews:

Wait, were we just rickrolled?

judging from the rumors on how it was done on purpose for publicity, i wouldn’t put it past trump and his team, tbh

@kontextmaschine

this and we have an official spinner analogizing her to Twilight Sparkle. Meme magic.

I like to keep ragging on this one point about how John Kerry chose Amanda Marcotte as his internet outreach specialist in 2004 not because the tactics of it matter anymore but to choose Amanda Marcotte, fucking 2004 Amanda Marcotte, as OUTreach specialist meant that at that late date you

1) Knew the internet was Important

so to deal with that

2) Had heard of A Young on the Internet

2004! Christ.

2008 Obama was with the curve (which was something given national campaigns were traditionally run by elder lions), honestly these guys might even be ahead of it, completely yielding TV for memes

But more than anything, to be a success a Trump presidency would have to bury its charisma in institution for successors to draw on, and they’re already doing it without even having won and that’s impressive. Like, quick, what was Kerry’s slogan? McCain’s? Romney’s?

Shoulda put it on a hat