Garbage be gone : politicalmemes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

"The Garbage Man Can!!!"

I can't believe I can still remember that song, but it's what immediately popped into my head upon seeing this image.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah... I stopped having a favorite "actor-who-played-a-personification-of-rapacious-British-imperialsm" when I realized that they were acting as a personification of rapacious British imperialism.

[+] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You are the worst assistant ever and you're disgusting, Dwigt.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How is RFK Jr racist?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Better question:

Who is RFK Jr. and why should I care?

Until right this instant I never knew the guy existed.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll post here to request this information as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why, do your memories and Google not work?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-accused-making-antisemitic-racist-claims-covid/story?id=101323851

There's a lot more to go into beyond the most recent and obvious, but it involves his deliberate targeting of the black community with misinformation and a discussion of historical usage of Great Replacement theories, historical dogwhistling, and other kinds of nuance that someone asking honest questions might be interested in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

" I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews"

https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1680227322509635595

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, that's what a lying racist who doesn't know what he's talking about sounds like when he gets called out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah. In the original clip he only mentions Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese (nothing about Finns). He was shoehorning a conspiracy theory into conveniently chosen facts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Wait what brosnan endorsed that guy? Man he always seemed like a reasonable sort of chap. ☹️

[+] [email protected] -28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I actually completely agree with your perspective and also have no idea what you're talking about. Is Pierce Brosnan the historical figure in this scenario?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

He endorsed RFK Junior.

Also, there have been plenty of people throughout history who lived in "ignorant" cultures who weren't racist, misogynistic, etc.

Being afraid of the unlike is natural. Overcoming that fear, makes you civilized.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Remember, during American Slavery there were groups of people who were against the racism and slavery during that time...

It may not have been a massive movement but still.

It's not modern thinking

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

RFK

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

My personal completely unprovable theory is that when the Qanon crowd was getting excited about JFK Jr returning as a zombie to lead them to the promised land it got started from a discussion about RFK Jr and somebody made a typo that the rest of the clown show latched on to.

Or maybe they just didn't know the difference. Being clowns.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was a drive-by fruiting!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Will always remember when I was playing multiplayer GoldenEye in college and one of the guys said this as he was killing Bond (complete with accent)! RIP Robin.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hey wait a second... That's not Garbage! Garbage just did the theme song for one of Brosnan's Bond movies.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The World is not Enough

The song and the music video are pretty banger. And Shirley Manson is a legend / queen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

If you like Garbage's stuff and you love Shirley Manson, then oh boy check out Stephanie Cheape and Queen.

It was as if it was made as a love letter to Garbage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Good share! Thanks. And, yes, absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Hmm not a bad shout

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I kind of hate you, you posted a very good recommendation just to find out that her last single is from 2021.

I guess thank you anyway !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's a bit of a weird one, her star was rising pretty quickly at the time that came out - all over the Scottish media, seemed destined for bigger and better things... and then there wasn't any new material and she seems to be enjoying herself on TikTok now.

Good on her - would have liked to have seen more tracks off her though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It was actually my favorite one up until Writing on the Wall came and snatched the title.

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