I was born and raised in the PNW and first saw the LaRouchies at the UW, with a large display of Obama with a Hitler mustache… though I did not spit at them lol.

Other posters have already come up with Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Joe McCarthy, Lyndon LaRouche…

No American Presidential candidate before Trump has been so widely popular whilst also having a cult following of people who basically believe in an entirely different reality whilst also being so brash and brazen about it.

There have been demagogues before, with cultish followings, but they’ve not been anywhere near as popular as Trump.

To attempt to add a few:

Technically, Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, attempted to run for President back when Mormons were basically what we would now call a domestic terrorist group, and when most non Mormons viewed them as a dangerous cult.

He was assassinated by a mob, who stormed the jail he was in whilst awaiting trial for treason and other charges, before the election took place.

Also, you might be able to consider the fairly brief existence of the Anti-Masonic party at least somewhat akin to the living in a totally different reality attribute of MAGA people.

Basically, following the inciting incident of the Morgan Affair, where a William Morgan was apparently planning to publish a book outlining the evils of a Freemason conspiracy to control government and business in the US, but he was jailed, a bit of a circus trial ensued, and then he disappeared.

The Anti Masonic party was the US’s first third-party and basically it was built off of what we’d now call conspiracy theories stemming from the Morgan Affair, and called for Masons to renounce their fraternity or to be uprooted from positions of prominence.

Much like the modern MAGA movement, it was full of highly religious conspiracy theorists, but it didn’t really coalesce into also being a cult of personality around any of their more prominent members the way such reverence exists for Trump.

Except that you can effectively screen for basic interpersonal skills with a casual conversation of 15 to 30 minutes where the interviewer throws in some flashpoint / hot topics and asks a few more pointed or consequential questions after a general report has been established.

Or better yet, do that with their possible coworkers, or get said coworkers to suggest topics and questions for the recruiter in the above scenario.

Why ask?

To further solidify the notion that you, as a recruitee, must show total devotion and unwavering loyalty to a potential employer.

Obviously recruiters know that people jump around after contracts or when they feel they are not being paid enough, that people scatter shot apply to anything like guys swiping on tinder because their prior experience trying to get a job has shown them that there’s really no rhyme or reason to it, that desired qualifications are nearly always absurdly niche or dramatically overinflated, and that there’s a hundred or a thousand people applying to every job opening.

It is literally their job to facilitate this process. Of course they know how all if this works.

This rhetoric is basically an attempt at conditioning you into being servile. If you ‘play ball’, you might get this particular job, and then they’ll basically lie to you about upward mobility, job stability or repeating contracts.

They are salesman. They sell the job to you and you to the company.

Why would they be anything other than slimy underhanded liars?

Not sure about his rejected screenplays but uh well he has definitely written a book or two with comically offensive depictions of black americans, and well now he got his dream come true in the most insane way possible and produces movies that are astoundingly tasteless like Lady Ballers.

In terms of containerized solutions for apps/programs?

Better than the alternatives.

In general?

I feel like they’re exes for Linux, and would greatly prefer to not have multiple different installations of the same or slightly different versions of dependencies wasting space.

Shockingly similar to Ben Shapiro, who seems to have wanted to be a concert violinist and later screenwriter, but had his screenplays rejected and found more luck telling the world that basically all Arabs and Muslims are savages and deserve to be collateral damaged.

At this point I wonder if Rush Limbaugh secretly wanted to be a painter but was rejected from art school.

I grew up in a fun American Christian household so I wasn’t allowed to play games beyond my mandated age range until my dad became too much of an alcoholic to give a shit.

Goldeneye? Had to play it over at a friend’s house.

Starcraft? I made sure to never play as or against Zerg if there was any chance my parents were awake, as they died far too bloody deaths.

My dad gave me G Police on PC, he found it at a garage sale or something, apparently did not check the rating schema, and took it away when curse words were used in the intro cinematic.

He did not hide it well, I found the CD and played the game a week later with headphones and I just told him it was different game, which worked.

But uh, Passion of the Christ? That was fine, despite basically being a gratuitous snuff film.

Oh well, could have been worse: Our neighbors were even more extreme, leading me to getting chewed out by their mom for introducing them to Pokemon cards. Pokemon evolve, you see, therefore they are of Satan.

Well that depends on whether or not you consider a BTR a boat. Or a WaterCar. Or an Amfibus. Or a DUKW or a LARC-V.

Boats often have windows.

Not always…

… But, if a boat does have windows, its more likely one can actually live in it as compared to a boat without windows.

But, some boats with windows cannot really move under their own power, though many can.

But also many boats without windows can also move.

But not all of them.

lol

I’m so sorry! He/She’s (never done that before)/(usually so much better behaved)!

Said by idiot dog owners who either let their dogs run off leash, or don’t pay enough attention when they are leashed, which then attack people or other dogs.

If you don’t have enough time or care to raise your dog properly such that it obeys basic commands and is familiarized with the world beyond your apartment/yard, you should be exercising far, faaar more caution and restraint.

Personally I don’t think such people should even be allowed to own dogs if they can’t train them properly.

So many people just take their dogs to a dog park and let em loose!

Guy here: I have had multiple female friends and girlfriends tell me I have beautiful eyelashes that they are jealous of.

I still find it weird… like I understand it is a compliment and that they genuinely wish that they had such natural lashes…

Probably I just have too many core memories about being bullied for it by guys in high school and middle school.

A decade ago, I was walking a few blocks to get a burger, passed by a bar with an outdoor section.

A fairly sloshed guy stared me up and down, looked at his female friend, back at me and asked “Hey, are you trisexual?”

Being extremely awkward, significantly autistic, and apparently sufficiently twink, I responded “…sure?”

Guy got up and kissed me on the cheek.

I told him to have a nice night and went to get my burger.

…

So… yeah. That was the night I discovered what a ‘twink’ is, that I am apparently a twink, and explains all the times I’ve been catcalled by other dudes.

A shame that I am (basically) straight and only seem to date women who cheat on me or have immense mental health problems.

You can also just memorize and recite this, comes in handy for more than just hiccups:

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

No! Not the Mazda IluMiata! Japan is in on it toooooooo!!!

I can neither confirm nor deny whether this was done in the time time frame or by the same staff which were slipping LSD into other agent’s coffee without their knowledge

5g/WiFi is bad for your health/mind control technology!

Proceeds to use WiFi and or 5G to upload conspiracy tiktok stating this.

It does not help that the CIA actually did that to a cat.

Yes, they did manage to surgically implant a cat with a microphone and transceiver, no, it was not actually able to listen in on any conversations, when it was deployed on its first mission it ran off and got hit by a car.

Nah, that’s very stereotypical redditor behavior, cringey.

I am sure OP is capable of informing me if they found my comment rude.

So… what I said was rude, but it is also a pretty funny joke, in context.

???

As I said earlier, the OP had already received serious replies which would have provided them the context to appreciate this as a joke.

I only add /s when I feel what I am saying could reasonably be construed as not being a joke, in context.

As opposed to doing the stereotypical redditor thing and vastly overusing it when its quite obvious in context that something is sarcastic.

Anyway, if what I said is rude, which apparently more people seem to think than not, than this only means that a tiny rephrasing of what Kamala actually said is rude, as it is patronizing.

That’s the next level of the joke, that beyond its immediate application, it is that of pointing out that Kamala is at best an awkward communicator on the fly.

And now we have a third layer of meta irony in that I am explaining to you that a well known quip about context has been misunderstood due to either lack of understanding of or disregard for context.