Now now Little Joey, just remember that word can be used to describe you and your snowflake friends.
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The lefts incessant battle about words and PR policing has been part of the reason we keep losing elections.
It's such an easy way to drive the casual person away, when you are constantly switching definitions and trying to trip people up to call them assholes, because they didn't immediately agree with you about switching the definition of a word.
They are such nonsense issues but they are fantastic at dividing left from right, and even splintering the left itself.
It honestly feels like some right wing think tank tried to come up with a way to undermine the message and credibility of the left, by having them fight word battles all day long. And oh boy has it worked.
i think there's some nuance and intent definitely matters however i still think it's something you would avoid saying, it's like half a dozen words
Nobody is arguing to change the definition of words. We're just saying you're an asshole for insisting on using them.
It is your persistence is completely missing the point that produces so much infighting. So... are you a fool who constantly misses the point? Or do you say this BS in an attempt to persist the infighting? Either way, rather shamefully low level of thought you're putting in to this...
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What a mong.
Fun fact! 'Mong' is an abbreviation of 'mongoloid', a term used as a slur for people with Down's Syndrome. The fun part is that the reason for the term being used is quite clever! Those with Down's Syndrome have a usually noticeable difference in their facial structure, with a wide, flatter face and smaller eyes. Features that are rarely found elsewhere, first discovered in natives of the country Mongolia!
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Joe Rogan, king of dumbasses.
every conservative thought leader is a dumb persons idea of a smart person
It never left. Using it still makes you look like an asshole.
All these "free speech absolutists" still don't realize that free speech does not mean immunity from consequences of that speech from your fellow citizens. It's almost like they just haven't paid attention for their entire lives.
I mean, their position falls apart when you ask them what they think about the college students being oppressed for protesting.
They do not care about free speech. They care about experiencing social consequences when using hate speech.
Yes. And it's just hypocrisy all the way down: otherwise, as you say, we wouldn't hear anything negative about the left exercising right to protest.
On top of r/conservative is a post about "the algorithm" flooding someone's feed with news about US protests. Of course, the response wasn't "hey great! Look at all those people exercising their right to free speech!". Instead, it's just bitching and claims of fake news (and no understanding that there really may be significant protests right now -- just automatically, they must be false). There is no logic for people who can no longer discern facts from opinions.
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Wonder how long he would think this if everyone just started introducing him as "The Retard, Joe Rogan." I'd bet the very millisecond it started to affect him personally, he'd be changing his tune. These fucking ghouls don't want freedom of speech, they want the ability to police OUR speech.
What did ghouls ever do to you?
It's only when they go feral that they're a problem.