cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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In other words, Labeling Theory.
You’re goofy…
… are you insulting someone for agreeing with you? That’s pretty goofy.
Didn’t really seem to be agreeing or disagreeing, you’re just saying things lol. Your comments didn’t seem to have much purpose other than describing in further detail what is being said like some kind of AI subtext generator. Hence, goofy.
It’s not a wildly inaccurate accusation that sometimes people who agree do a bit of circlejerking and I can see that angle of what I said if you want to be a bit nasty; I just figured you and anyone else reading the thread would be interested in the fact that what you said is a well-documented phenomenon with a name and Wikipedia page and everything.
Between your first comment that I replied to and your expressed irritation with friendly banter that irritates me in turn, I’ll do us both a favor and go ahead and make it so we can never bother each other again.
Lol okay then. I’m sure you already blocked me, but apologies if I misread your intent. Perhaps I’m too inclined to read hostility into messages on the internet.
Cheers, mate.