Friends and Politics
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I have a couple of friends who voted for Trump who I must admit I teased mercilessly over it. One of them took it well, and teased me right back. One of them got in a bit of a huff, which was actually a lot funnier than the teasing.
I know, I know, teasing them was wrong. I'm a very naughty boy. I was probably trying to attack their First Amendment rights or some such bullshit. OTOH, if they didn't want teasing, they shouldn't have told me. Hey - people laugh at me for being English, something over which I have no control.
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"Teasing mercilessly" . It's probably that second word that got you into trouble...
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@jolly said in Friends and Politics:
"Teasing mercilessly" . It's probably that second word that got you into trouble...
Actually, all I did was say 'This is all your fault', every time Trump said something unbelievably stupid.
It was a very busy time.
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Haven't lost any friends, but I sure lost a lot of respect for some of them.
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@mark said in Friends and Politics:
Haven't lost any friends, but I sure lost a lot of respect for some of them.
Same here. TDS was one of the most pathetic psychological trends I've ever witnessed. Really brought out the worst weaknesses in millions.
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@mark said in Friends and Politics:
Haven't lost any friends, but I sure lost a lot of respect for some of them.
Nor have I. But, more than one of our "internet friends" said that they would have no interaction with ANYONE who supported Trump.
That's some deep-seated pathology there, coming from people who are supposedly smart and open-minded.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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This is all your fault.
I think this might be my new mantra. It works for pretty much everything.
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He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
I was only joking
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He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
@doctor-phibes said in Friends and Politics:
He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
I’ll bet Renauda gets that reference.
Education is extremely important.
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He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
@doctor-phibes said in Friends and Politics:
He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been.
Don't be too quick, Phibes. Here's an excerpt from a NYT opinion piece by Ross Douthat, yesterday: "But that note didn’t adequately convey just how despairing a lot of progressives have become, treating the hypothetical where Trump (or, for that matter, some other Republican nominee) actually succeeds in overturning an election defeat not just as a possibility but as a likely outcome in 2024, the destination to which we’re probably headed absent some unexpected change.
“This is where it’s going,” the press critic Jay Rosen of New York University tweeted recently, about a scenario in which state legislatures, the House and the Senate would simply hand the presidency to the G.O.P. nominee, “and there is presently nothing on the horizon that would stop it.”
The article was somewhat dense, at least for me, but it seemed worth paying attention to: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/opinion/trump-2024.html
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@doctor-phibes said in Friends and Politics:
He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
I’ll bet Renauda gets that reference.
@horace said in Friends and Politics:
@doctor-phibes said in Friends and Politics:
He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
I’ll bet Renauda gets that reference.
I got it right away.
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People care about politics way too much. Every year I care less and less about the whole circus. It’s amazing to me how much “identity value” some people place on their political persuasion!
@89th said in Friends and Politics:
People care about politics way too much. Every year I care less and less about the whole circus. It’s amazing to me how much “identity value” some people place on their political persuasion!
It's like having massive arguments over whether diarrhea or constipation is preferable.
They're both unpleasant shits.
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@george-k said in Friends and Politics:
Oh, and the guy before OrangeMan is still pontificating as well.
Not that surprising - we had 8 years of being lectured by him, followed by 4 years of whatever the fuck it was that Trump did when he opened his mouth.
Why don't they all just F-F-F-fade away?
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He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
@doctor-phibes said in Friends and Politics:
He's gone now. A thing of the past. A has-been. A footnote. An antique from a bygone era. A memory best forgotten. A stale fart that has evaporated into the ether. He has ceased to be important.
He is an Ex-President.
Trump 2024?
