Protesting Police Violence Is Critical. But Why Are the Social Distance Shamers Suddenly So Quiet?

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[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

"Because it's all about bashing The Other. You can point out hypocrisy and double standards all day long and it won't make a lick of difference."

Brilliant! Pefect! Now you get it.

"If you're not in the left's ingroup, you aren't a person, you're a thing. A thing to be overcome and destroyed."

And then you go and FUCK IT ALL UP again with your COMPLETELY HYPOCRITICAL REVERSAL of what you just stated by "bashing the other". So fucking daft.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yo. You're arguing with a shill.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I'm proving he's a shill. The shills need to be confronted and exposed perpetually. Exhausting I know, but necessary for noobie and casual readers who may not immediately see the problems. Having omnipotence to squash all of the shillery is impossible, but a smattering of efforts on prominent posts certainly helps. (I believe that's the first time I've ever used "smattering" in voice or text. Now twice.)

And here's my hypocrisy. I'm about to bail hard. I keep saying I will, but I keep being distracted by COVID and now these entirely predicted riots (plus I'm holding out hope for a little CSS help to wrap things up before I go, but I suppose can endure another 3 months). I must go for a few months to work on my "epic" story. Whether it proves to be or not, we shall all see in September.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not daft. The right's ingroup is westerners and its outgroup is non-westerners. The left's ingroup are the right's outgroups, and the left's outgroup is the right.

It makes perfect sense and matches all of the dehumanizing rhetoric we see on a daily basis.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's hypocritical and daft to recognize the mob mentality and go along with it anyway like fucking ignorant lemmings. You're like the fucking looters, "Well, since they're all doing it we should too!" It makes perfect sense to tribalist imbeciles and shills who can't think for themselves.