• stembolts@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    The entire conservative, pro cop playbook is “say silly things, pretend you don’t know they’re silly”.

    And if anyone calls you out, act offended. Everyone knows if you are offended you are right. Growing up in a religious household it’s incredible how many times I saw someone use, “You’re rude therefore you are wrong” as a core tenant of “debate”.

    The ‘victim card’ is the conservative ‘race card’.

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      7 months ago

      The ‘victim card’ is the conservative ‘race card’.

      Except only one of those is real, while the other is made up by those trying to use the first…

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          6 months ago

          They may have meant that “race card” is real and “victim cars” is not. But I still don’t think that is a valid point

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            6 months ago

            Possibly so.
            When they say the “first” I cannot tell if they mean the first one I mentioned or the first one they mentioned.
            Relative references in language is confusing!

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              6 months ago

              Technically, for referencing the previous parts there are “former” and “latter”, but you never know if it was not used intentionally or not.