• PLAVAT🧿S
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    23 months ago

    And you yourself have not been guilty of seething? Regardless of your answer a conservative would likely say the same about the left as you just did.

    I’m just suggesting everyone enjoys rage bait and it’s not serving us or giving us a realistic picture of the truth. And I used a proverbial analog for the villain: fill in the blanks to your hearts content from context (landlords raising prices, food producers and shrinkflation, CEOs taking bonuses and fighting minimum wage increases).

    • Encrypt-Keeper
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      3 months ago

      No I can’t say I’ve ever seethed over a perceived or real slight from something a conservative said or did. Liberals are famously more likely to be aggravated by each other than conservatives. The entire concept of “causing offense to” and “being offended by” as a scoring system in political discourse is a distinctly conservative feature, it’s not a “both sides” kinda thing. It’s just an effect that conservatives specifically care about. It’s derived from American conservative cultural norms like traditional gender roles, views on masculinity, and virtue.

      And your meaningless generic platitudes aren’t serving anyone nor painting any truth either lol.

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          33 months ago

          It’s not a moral high ground, it’s just a difference in behavior between two general groups of people who have different values.