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An Internet Poster's avatar

Cruise any comments section on the internet, this one included, and you will see plenty of accusations that anyone that a) did not attend college or b) does not live within 20 miles of an urban core is a stupid and ignorant racist. This may shock you, but even less sophisticated people without a degree understand when they are being denigrated and sneered at, and they dislike it as much as you would.

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Sevender's avatar

You are wasting your time with a confirmed brainless hack, if not a paid one. Always littering the comment section to derail discussions.

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Matt's avatar

I could cruise the comments section anywhere on the internet and also find people being racist and hateful. What's your point? Do you really judge people base your political philosophy around anonymous comments on the internet? Or the loudest voices on either side? I thought we were supposed to live in the "real world"?

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An Internet Poster's avatar

You implied that people right of center were coming up with imaginary reasons to adopt a victim mentality. I'm here to tell you, it is not a victim mentality at all. Being mocked and sneered at bye everyone left of center, and then being accused of racism, misogynism, anti-immigrant sentiment, lack of patriotism, domestic terrorism, and pretty much every other ism in the book has a tendency to upset people. That tendency translates into votes like we saw in Virginia last night.

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Bebe Schroer's avatar

". . . translates into votes like we saw in Virginia last night" is exactly the problem. Voters are chained to two parties different in name only, so we're drowning in this communist v racist bullshit. Don't vote for Democrats. Don't vote for Republicans.

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Matt's avatar

LOL. Sorry, but the "lack of patriotism" thing really got me. How old were you after 9/11 happened and then I can probably judge if you're being serious about the people right of center being the victims of being told them have a "lack of patriotism"? I guess it is possible that you learned to type at a really young age and were born in 2017.

Of course people who adopt a victim mentality aren't going to admit it's a victim mentality. You just named a bunch of things that mean people on the internet (and probably not a whole lot of people in real life from what i've seen) said about people on the right and yup that's basically the biggest tragedy ever. Literally the sticks and stones that can ruin one's life. I changed my mind, I'm with you.

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An Internet Poster's avatar

So many words. So little to say.

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Sevender's avatar

Paid poster. Here to disrupt conversation. They're all over sub stack.

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Citizen of Banana Republic's avatar

They are always so obvious.

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Sevender's avatar

Almost as obvious as the porn spam that mysteriously makes it past the filters on YouTube but only on channels that question Fauci.

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Matt's avatar

So little to say when you apparently have so little to say. Good.

And sorry that I'm not going to sit there and let the right claim to be victims of being called out for a lack of patriotism after what happened in America over the last two decades. You don't have a leg to stand on there after the early 2000s when the "patriotism" BS was used, mainly by the GOP, to cow everyone into all kinds of pointless wars and infringements on our liberties. The irony is rich.

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An Internet Poster's avatar

I've made the point I set out to make, with the bonus of exposing you for exactly what you are. The internet is simple and there is but one real hard and fast rule: don't feed the trolls.

With that, enjoy starvation.

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Matt's avatar

Yes, when you can't debate an issue, just call the other person a troll. Another tactic that doesn't translate well to real life.

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Patrick's avatar

Good point. But ..

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An Internet Poster's avatar

By. My phone hates me, and the lack of an edit button is silly.

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publius_x's avatar

Trump made fun of Democratic politicians. Dem politicians make fun of Republican Voters. That's the major difference.

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Patrick's avatar

Judgmentally yours

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