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  • The entire conservative, pro cop playbook is “say silly things, pretend you don’t know they’re silly”.

    And if anyone calls you out, act offended. Everyone knows if you are offended you are right. Growing up in a religious household it’s incredible how many times I saw someone use, “You’re rude therefore you are wrong” as a core tenant of “debate”.

    The ‘victim card’ is the conservative ‘race card’.






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    From what I’ve seen, they genuinely take any chance to “own” someone regardless of consistency with a given belief system.

    Like when a democrat is in office, it’s “deficit this” “spending that” then when a republican takes office, those calls suddenly silence.

    Nevermind even trying to get them to look up a deficit graph with respect to presidency… it goes down when democrats are in power and up when republicans are in power, consistent from at least the late 1980s to today.

    You eventually learn that most things they say are effectively just “battle-shouts”, detached from reality, like chanting for a football team. It’s just a thing they say, it has no meaning when you inspect it closely.

    In short, attempting to apply reason to conservative positions won’t yield much. I have a favorite quote for this, “You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into,” you’ll save yourself a lot of time and effort remembering that. It’s all emotional, mostly anger, sometimes fear.







  • If you meet one asshole.
    You met an asshole.
    If everyone you meet is an asshole.
    Who is the common denominator?

    Same idea for racism.

    If you get called a racist once.
    Maybe you met an unhinged person.
    If you are constantly called a racist.
    Well…?

    I don’t live in a world where myself or anyone around me gets called racist, ever.

    Do you?

    Finally, I never called you a racist. I called your comment a racist dog whistle, which it is. In my view, a non-racist person can say a racist thing and remain non-racist as long as they are willing to learn from it and grow. I judge actions, not people. However if such actions continuously are sourced from an individual, what is the rational conclusion to reach in that matter besides that the person shares the beliefs that generated those ideas?

    To provide a bridging analogy, I don’t assume everyone holding a baseball bat is going to hit me with it, but if I go to a park and see a guy swinging his baseball bat at people. Is the correct conclusion to assume, “He’s not a person that hits people with baseball bats.”? You’re swinging the bat, if you want people to assume you aren’t going to hit them, stop doing that.