Ohio Republican U.S. Senator J.D. Vance published a 1203-word diatribe Monday night filled with falsehoods and feeble hypocrisies, demanding that Democrats "tone down the rhetoric" while insisting he opposes "censorship." Critics are accusing the GOP vice presidential nominee of hypocrisy and gaslig...
  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    132·
    2 个月前

    Vance makes more sense as a Trump VP than Pence ever did. Just a big lyin’ sack of shit who doesn’t care about facts or reality, just saying whatever BS line serves his purpose in that very moment.

    Pence is a christian fascists fuck, but at least he has principals. They are misguided evil controlling ones, but the man at least has a backbone.

  • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
    724·
    2 个月前

    SLAM! JD VANCE BEEN SLAMMED! SLAM HIS JAM! SLAM EVERYTHING! SLAMMETTY SLAM SLAM IM A REPORTER I GOT NO VOCAM! ULARY SLAM!

  • BlackmistEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    Yeah, tone it down you Baby Murdering, Paedophillic, Freedom Haters!

    Otherwise who knows what our followers will be driven to do when we insinuate they should?

    • cuerdo@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 个月前

      Think of it as the society being the victim. The clearest example is when Trump started talking about Fake News. The goal is to devoid words of meaning, to reason based only on emotional attachment, to eliminate critical thinking. This guy follows the same strategy.

      Below a definition of gaslighting, I think it applies pretty well to the kind of society these people are leaving behind:

      Examples of gaslighting behaviors are denying something the other person knows is true, spreading rumors about them, and blaming the victim. The mental health impact of gaslighting includes feelings of powerlessness, confusion, isolation, disorientation, and low self-esteem

            • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
              1·
              2 个月前

              yes but I was refering to the definition of the commentator that you commented to. I mean in the movie he was actually taking her stuff and saying she lost it and such.

              • ravhall@discuss.online
                43·
                2 个月前

                There is only one definition.

                The term “gaslight” comes from the 1944 film Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton. In the movie, a husband manipulates his wife into doubting her own sanity by dimming the gas lights in their home and then denying that the lights are changing. The term “gaslighting” now refers to a form of psychological manipulation where someone makes another person question their reality.

                • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
                  1·
                  2 个月前

                  I get that and I was refer to what cuerdo had as not true he had as part " denying something the other person knows is true" which is what I see people doing. I feel something you say is against what I know is true and so your gaslighting. Its actually sorta turned around because its about someone lying about things they know are not true and manipulating things to make their lies seem truthful.

    • TheDannysaur@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 个月前

      I thought the same thing. People are obsessed with the word gaslighting.

      This seems more like textbook hypocrisy. Person doing thing talks about the harms of others doing that thing.

        • TheDannysaur@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 个月前

          … What?

          Is this some weird “victim mentality” thing?

          People love to use it because it got popular and grew to mean more than the original definition to the point where it just got generic to encompass a wide range of things. It’s the same as cringe.

            • reliv3@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 个月前

              By this metric, one can argue that we currently “misuse” a lot of words in the English language, but the reality is language evolves. Think about how the definition of “nice” has evolved from meaning “ignorant or stupid” in the 1300s to it’s current meaning.

              • ravhall@discuss.online
                23·
                2 个月前

                So gaslighting should change to what? Telling someone they are doing something that they feel they aren’t?

                You’re nice.

                • nomous@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 个月前

                  I’ve noticed this a lot the last 5-10 years. Nobody uses words wrong anymore it’s all “language evolves” and “language is descriptive not prescriptive.”

                  People are just using the word wrong.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      2 个月前

      No, not at all. It’s one of the most incorrectly used words, usually just as a synonym for lying. This is especially egregious as it’s being used as a synonym for hypocrisy.

      • ravhall@discuss.online
        11·
        2 个月前

        I just feel when words change to mean different things very rapidly in society, words no longer have meaning and communication is shut down.

        This word isn’t even 100 years old, and its origin is quite documented. In fact, it’s a literal reference to the title of a play/movie.

        Imagine changing the term “stepford wife” to mean something like powerful married woman who takes charge of her life.

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          2 个月前

          It doesn’t bother me so much because I am pretty good at figuring out what people mean from context.

          But, and this is quite judgey, it does lead me to believe the person is not much of a thinker and almost certainly not much concerned with researching to make sure what they’ve heard is actually the truth.

  • Kalysta@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 个月前

    Yeah. The guy who has incited bomb threats against Hatian-Americans saying to tone down the rhethoric. You first, asshat.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 个月前

    Classic manipulative bully behavior. Antagonize and abuse a victim until they react with hostility. And then play the victim and implore for peace so the victim looks like the aggressor. Though Vance is such an incompetent sack of shit that it’s following nobody who’s not in that death cult.

  • MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 个月前

    This is a deliberate strategy.

    They know what they are doing.

    Just look at Elon posting about a “bomb threat” that was made up (while there have been ACTUAL bomb threats in Ohio due to his & Trump’s & JD’s “rhetoric”)

    Fucking fascist fucks.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 个月前

    I want to know what Courtney Love thinks about this guy. I mean she has been right about everything else so far…