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https://www.goodreads.com/series/406877-the-plot-against-the-king

Who the fuck would write a kids' book about this stuff?

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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My therapist: Anti-Semitic Happy Merchant Caricature Hillary Clinton can't hurt you.

Anti-Semitic Happy Merchant Caricature Hillary Clinton:

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Hillary Queenton

"The heralds had been announcing that Hillary Queenton would be queen. She says queenly things like thee and thou and forsooth, and he last name is Queenton, after all."

...but the merchant Donald!

"But when the royal counter-uppers counted up the final votes, they realized the people had dared to choose the merchant Donald! The heralds and Hillary were horrified. Donald didn't care what the heralds said about him, and he was determined to Make the Kingdom Great Again."

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can't tell whether this is a real quote from the book, because I fully expect a CHUD like Patel to be even heavier-handed than the goddamned fucking rockbiter from The Never-Ending Story.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

spoilerIt's real

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 40 points 6 days ago (3 children)

One of the most basic things you do when you write a book, especially a children's book is to read what you've written outloud, to see if it flows properly and makes sense. This is like, primary school level writing advice.

With that in mind, how the fuck does one pronounce "Russionia" or read any of these lines.

Though one thing I find very interesting about conservative children's books, is that normally when presenting an issue to young children, you need to simplify it, so they can grasp it more easily and apply it to their lives. But Conservative books don't do this, they just replace their personal bugbears with talking animals or medieval knights and never actually simplify their message, it is always a 1:1 message because their ideas and thought process are so simplistic that they literally cannot simplify it anymore, or examine it and put it in a new context, because it is always just "(specific thing) that I don't like is bad."

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But Conservative books don't do this...

I never thought of it that way but it's so true.

Then the Free Market Lion said to the children - "Taxation is theft and abject tyranny supreme if you know what I mean..."

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or PragerU's friendly Columbus being like "Actually I wasn't such a bad guy, and all this is normal for my time!"

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

It cannot be denied that Kindly Columbus provided the clueless and poor local people with something priceless. Their future progeny would enjoy the accrued benefits that only exist from extraction capitalism. What follows is a short but incomplete list of 87 examples...

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

The books aren't for children though, they're for them, so they can have all the trappings of modern existence but inside a smooth frictionless sphere of ideology.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Shakespeare literally used to refer to Russians as Muskovites, so I mean it was right there. But this would require Kash to read something that wasn't written in crayon.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

this is what happens when you let a cokehead write a kid's book. it sucks, it's incoherent, and it's boring as shit.

everybody knows mushrooms, lsd, and cannabis and what you use to write kid's books. that's how you get something kids will be intrigued by, like a raven that travels through the dreams of a family or a puppet that knows a future unknown to its maker or a layer cake made of childhood memories.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Man, check out this caterpillar, he's like...so damn hungry, look at him. Oh shit, I just got the best idea for a kid's book.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

Bruhhh are conservatives incapable of making ANYTHING that's not deathly cringe?

[–] StarkWolf@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago

Who the fuck would write a kids' book about this stuff?

Deeply evil propagandists.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

“Damn commies, they spread their ideology by brainwashing children”

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ve always thought he’s just a grifter, he also has his own trump/maga themed clothing brand

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Yeah, you just know they buy this shit because Yurtle the Turtle is too foreign

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

some bored ghostwriter using chatgpt probably "wrote" it

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

What's with this guy