I'm from the government and we're definitely not here to help

[arizonaconservativegal]

Fun fact: Arizona is the only place in the country where the state mine inspector is an elected position

Another fun fact: this is one of my favorite political ads of all time, straight out of 2014

[arizonaconservativegal]

Answers to frequent questions and comments about this post

Yes it's real

No it's not skyrim

No it's not talking about bats

Ian Kobe actually ran for office on a platform of clearing out actual folklore vampires from the copper mines

No he did not win

No Joe Hart never cleared out the vampire dens

Joe Hart is not the current mine inspector because he resigned and died of very old age shortly after so I guess he wasn't a vampire???

The new mine inspector has also not cleared out the vampire dens

Ian Kobe has not reappeared in our time of need

The children yearn for the mines

Okay seriously

The state mine inspector is one of those jobs that no one cares about anymore because we're not actually the wild wild west. I assume it was a really big deal back in those days but now it's just a constitutional relic - and oddly, a partisan one.

So anyway Joe Hart got the job and never really had an opponent for re-election. I guess Ian Kobe saw that as an opportunity to be the funniest person in Arizona and he took it.

His campaign was a joke but this is an actual ad he ran. "No Arizona Mine Draculas" was his campaign slogan.

In my ten years of political work, I have sadly never met Ian Kobe. I hope one day I will. I'd like to tell him that he's my hero.

[jardinssteve]

[arizonaconservativegal]

Guys please stop acting like the reason Republicans aren't winning in a city where they are outnumbered literally 3 to 1 is because of fraud. It's not. It's because they're literally outnumbered 3 to 1.

[dashaibo]

If you think USSR was in any way, shape or form a net good, you have just not read up enough on it. Or listened to those, that lived under the regime as adults.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Person who has made it very clear that not one of my opinions would be welcome in the server: "It's so important that everyone feels safe to voice their opinions here uwu"

[arizonaconservativegal]

It's so funny to watch them all explain in their messages that they are [insert 'oppressed' demographic here], lest someone else accuse them of trying to "speak over" someone else

[captainsquare]

This is why I avoid fandoms like they have some airborn version of AIDS

[arizonaconservativegal]

Careful, I'm pretty sure that would be considered a homophobic microagression and they're going to send you to server sensitivity training

[arizonaconservativegal]

Update: They're still at it

So far no one has managed to cite a single incident of bias that doesn't crumble immediately under the actual facts. The answer each time is some form of "the facts don't matter, what matters is that I made up a story about it and got upset, which is your fault."

At least one person has been booted from the server as of this morning.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Looks like the mods finally figured out this whole thing was just bullying with a progressive veneer. Took them almost two whole days. They also finally figured out that everyone who was upset by the supposed racist microagressions was whiter than me, which is just perfect lmao.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Checked in on this stupid fucking thread and now they're all apologizing for trying to be such good people that they didn't want to call out the shit stirrers for being bullies because ✨Social Justice✨

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Three days every year this is all I see

[supreme-leader-stoat]

There's this recurring argument in certain circles and especially on tumblr that posing a risk to someone actively victimizing you in some way is always unacceptable, but particularly if it's 'disproportionate.' If someone breaks into your house and gets shot, that's disproportionate because they 'probably' weren't going to physically injure you (worse if they weren't themselves armed with a firearm, how dare you engage in an 'unfair' fight). If a mugger gets killed because their victim fights back that's disproportionate because how dare you value someone's life over the contents of your wallet. If a woman stabs her would-be rapist and he bleeds to death that's disproportionate because 'rape lasts a few minutes, death is permanent.' If someone's harassing you by smashing your mailbox and wrecks their own arm after you reinforce it that's disproportionate because hey, it's not like they broke your arm, just your possessions.

And I feel like an alien every time I encounter this sort of thing, because it's so antithetical to any kind of logic or self-consistent ethical framework I can wrap my brain around. It's taking the genuine virtues of mercy and valuing human life and blowing them out of proportion into grotesque parodies of themselves. The victim here is not the one responsible for the ultimate outcome.

Does that mean that we should approach everything with infinite escalation forever? Hell no! But that doesn't change that almost all 'disproportionate' escalation the victim performs is dwarfed by the act of trying to harm an innocent victim in the first place! If I take the 'total violence' of a situation from a 1 to a 3, I've tripled it, but if I take a previously non-violent situation and amp it up from 0.00000000001 to 1, I've scaled it by an insane degree that makes that factor of three look minuscule despite technically being a lesser net increase.

And it's never even applied consistently! The victim has agency and is responsible for their role in escalating things, but the aggressor isn't held to the same standard. They're infantilized, they're treated like an automaton, the damage they do is treated like a foregone conclusion when the entire situation could have been avoided by them simply not going out of their way to hurt someone else. Is the victim's choice to react when backed into a corner somehow less predictable than the attacker's choice to harm someone unprovoked?

[sawbuckplus]

[arizonaconservativegal]

The issue is bailout harvesting should not even be considered as a legal way to get more votes.

California declaring it legal should not be valid because its solely used to manipulate and cheat the system in an unfair unbalanced way.

You've used federal law to stop bs states have pulled like this before, so there's no reason we shouldn't do it again

The fact no one is fighting them this shows a weakness in the republican party and folks like Thurn are to blame for holding the party back

I disagree entirely. The issue isn't that it's legal. The issue is that we're not doing it too where it is legal. You want to make ballot harvesting illegal in California? Forget Congress, you don't need them. Just get better at it than the Dems. It's not like it's rocket science.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Person who has made it very clear that not one of my opinions would be welcome in the server: "It's so important that everyone feels safe to voice their opinions here uwu"

[arizonaconservativegal]

It's so funny to watch them all explain in their messages that they are [insert 'oppressed' demographic here], lest someone else accuse them of trying to "speak over" someone else

[captainsquare]

This is why I avoid fandoms like they have some airborn version of AIDS

[arizonaconservativegal]

Careful, I'm pretty sure that would be considered a homophobic microagression and they're going to send you to server sensitivity training

[arizonaconservativegal]

Update: They're still at it

So far no one has managed to cite a single incident of bias that doesn't crumble immediately under the actual facts. The answer each time is some form of "the facts don't matter, what matters is that I made up a story about it and got upset, which is your fault."

At least one person has been booted from the server as of this morning.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Looks like the mods finally figured out this whole thing was just bullying with a progressive veneer. Took them almost two whole days. They also finally figured out that everyone who was upset by the supposed racist microagressions was whiter than me, which is just perfect lmao.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Person who has made it very clear that not one of my opinions would be welcome in the server: "It's so important that everyone feels safe to voice their opinions here uwu"

[arizonaconservativegal]

It's so funny to watch them all explain in their messages that they are [insert 'oppressed' demographic here], lest someone else accuse them of trying to "speak over" someone else

[captainsquare]

This is why I avoid fandoms like they have some airborn version of AIDS

[arizonaconservativegal]

Careful, I'm pretty sure that would be considered a homophobic microagression and they're going to send you to server sensitivity training

[arizonaconservativegal]

Update: They're still at it

So far no one has managed to cite a single incident of bias that doesn't crumble immediately under the actual facts. The answer each time is some form of "the facts don't matter, what matters is that I made up a story about it and got upset, which is your fault."

At least one person has been booted from the server as of this morning.

[1americanconservative]

[arizonaconservativegal]

The elections that are being "stolen"* are municipal and state offices - not federal. The SAVE Act would not have any effect whatsoever on how those elections are conducted. It explicitly in the text of the bill states it only applies to elections for federal office. Even if they wanted to, Congress could not currently pass a law to place SAVE Act requirements on state or local election practices because the Supreme Court has previously ruled that while the feds can make laws about conduct in federal elections, states may run elections for more local offices however they like. *these elections are clearly being affected by a massive ballot harvesting operation but that's entirely legal in California so that's not actually "stealing" or "fraud." That's Dems playing by the rules. Shitty rules, maybe, but definitely the rules, and not rules that would have been affected by the SAVE Act.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Person who has made it very clear that not one of my opinions would be welcome in the server: "It's so important that everyone feels safe to voice their opinions here uwu"

[arizonaconservativegal]

It's so funny to watch them all explain in their messages that they are [insert 'oppressed' demographic here], lest someone else accuse them of trying to "speak over" someone else

[captainsquare]

This is why I avoid fandoms like they have some airborn version of AIDS

[arizonaconservativegal]

Careful, I'm pretty sure that would be considered a homophobic microagression and they're going to send you to server sensitivity training

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Person who has made it very clear that not one of my opinions would be welcome in the server: "It's so important that everyone feels safe to voice their opinions here uwu"

[arizonaconservativegal]

It's so funny to watch them all explain in their messages that they are [insert 'oppressed' demographic here], lest someone else accuse them of trying to "speak over" someone else

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Person who has made it very clear that not one of my opinions would be welcome in the server: "It's so important that everyone feels safe to voice their opinions here uwu"

[arizonaconservativegal]

New poll finds a majority of Americans unsure if attempts on Trump's life were real

When given the options of "true," "false" or "not sure," and asked whether each of the incidents "was staged," a majority of respondents sai

I can't find the actual poll anywhere so I am trying very hard to take this with a grain of salt but YouGov usually does good work and NewsGuard who commissioned the poll noted on their site that they were so surprised by these results that they asked YouGov to check again and yeah sure enough.

This is really disturbing.

I am at a loss. I don't know how to respond to so many people denying objective reality without any evidence whatsoever. This is not a matter of opinion or ideology. This is as insane as claiming the earth is flat except you don't have half of an entire political party saying that.

[leaveyourego]

I appreciate where you're coming from with this, and I genuinely don't mean this negatively toward you, but surely you'll admit that this is an understandable result given the rampant lies and inconsistencies foisted on the american public from all sectors of government. The safe default position now is to assume that the government is lying until proven otherwise. At this point, that's not even pessimism.

[arizonaconservativegal]

No? I don't? No part of this is understandable to me. There is literally no evidence that says these were staged. An innocent man died at Butler, along with the shooter. The other two attempted assassins were arrested and charged, one has already been convicted in a court of law. And not believing the government doesn't work as an excuse when the first two attempts happened while Trump wasn't even in office - do you really think Biden's federal government was going to help Trump stage these things?

[the-prequal]

"no one is trying to kill Trump. But I wish they were. And if they were I'd celebrate it. In fact, I actively encourage people to try killing him. But no one is trying. You're all crazy MAGAts."

And for my assigned NSA handler, that is a joke. I'm mocking the left.

[wongataa]

@arizonaconservativegal Given what the government has admitted to in regards to things like operation mockingbird, the Tuskegee experiments, etc. to completely rule out that the assassination attempts are not real is naïve. I'm not saying that they didn't happen. Consider the following: "You can control a population, no matter how large. If you can control what they think." As such, how much of what is being televised is organic instead of astroturfed by governments/oligarchs?

[arizonaconservativegal]

For one thing the government/oligarchs don't like him. Why would they help him fake an assassination attempt? That makes no sense. I'd be a hundred times more likely to believe they orchestrated it because they were actually trying to have him killed but even then, I'd put the odds under 1%.

Seriously you guys have spent too much time on the internet. You need to go outside and touch some grass.

[arizonaconservativegal]

New poll finds a majority of Americans unsure if attempts on Trump's life were real

When given the options of "true," "false" or "not sure," and asked whether each of the incidents "was staged," a majority of respondents sai

I can't find the actual poll anywhere so I am trying very hard to take this with a grain of salt but YouGov usually does good work and NewsGuard who commissioned the poll noted on their site that they were so surprised by these results that they asked YouGov to check again and yeah sure enough.

This is really disturbing.

I am at a loss. I don't know how to respond to so many people denying objective reality without any evidence whatsoever. This is not a matter of opinion or ideology. This is as insane as claiming the earth is flat except you don't have half of an entire political party saying that.

[leaveyourego]

I appreciate where you're coming from with this, and I genuinely don't mean this negatively toward you, but surely you'll admit that this is an understandable result given the rampant lies and inconsistencies foisted on the american public from all sectors of government. The safe default position now is to assume that the government is lying until proven otherwise. At this point, that's not even pessimism.

[arizonaconservativegal]

No? I don't? No part of this is understandable to me. There is literally no evidence that says these were staged. An innocent man died at Butler, along with the shooter. The other two attempted assassins were arrested and charged, one has already been convicted in a court of law. And not believing the government doesn't work as an excuse when the first two attempts happened while Trump wasn't even in office - do you really think Biden's federal government was going to help Trump stage these things?

[the-prequal]

"no one is trying to kill Trump. But I wish they were. And if they were I'd celebrate it. In fact, I actively encourage people to try killing him. But no one is trying. You're all crazy MAGAts."

And for my assigned NSA handler, that is a joke. I'm mocking the left.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Big meltdown in the fandom discord server today about implicit bias, which is a ton of fun to watch as probably the only person in the thread who has experienced explicit bias in fandom spaces. These people are so fucking stupid.