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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    Like making lame "jokes" about a demographic you don't like.
    You mean, like, "they're bringing crime, they're rapists..."?

    Trump supporters aren't allowed to complain about even childish insults. They lost that moral authority.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    You mean, like, "they're bringing crime, they're rapists..."?

    Trump supporters aren't allowed to complain about even childish insults. They lost that moral authority.
    "Making fun of groups I don't like is ok, but making fun of groups I like isn't."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    "Making fun of groups I don't like is ok, but making fun of groups I like isn't."
    You choose to be a doomsday prepper, flat earther, anti-masker, etc; one doesn’t choose to “be from Mexico.”
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    Kaleredar is right...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    Like making lame "jokes" about a demographic you don't like.
    Are you still grumpy because you don't understand satire? Don't you have some Onion headlines to be outraged about?
    /s

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    "Making fun of--"
    Sorry, but you still lack the moral authority to speak on the subject. All Trump supporters do. Your response is irrelevant.

    On topic: Trump is still claiming he won the election even to this day. Simply put, he is continuing the lie -- probably because he knows his supporters, like @Kellhound there, are part of a cult and will attend his suicide-cult raliles (just ask Herman Cain) and send him money. McConnell had his chance, but did nothing, and is therefore allowing Trump to run the party even out of office. Attacking Trump for who he still is, what he still claims to believe, and the acts he personally did to damage the country (anything from manufacturing-killing tariffs to inciting a murderous insurrection) will be valid for some time, because Trump wants them to be.

    All he has to do to make the attacks vanish is disappear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    Sorry, but you still lack the moral authority to speak on the subject. All Trump supporters do. Your response is irrelevant.

    On topic: Trump is still claiming he won the election even to this day. Simply put, he is continuing the lie -- probably because he knows his supporters, like @Kellhound there, are part of a cult and will attend his suicide-cult raliles (just ask Herman Cain) and send him money. McConnell had his chance, but did nothing, and is therefore allowing Trump to run the party even out of office. Attacking Trump for who he still is, what he still claims to believe, and the acts he personally did to damage the country (anything from manufacturing-killing tariffs to inciting a murderous insurrection) will be valid for some time, because Trump wants them to be.

    All he has to do to make the attacks vanish is disappear.
    If it keeps him banned from all relevant social media and makes him a political pariah to the legitimate news agencies... so be it. As far as I know he's still banned, and most news agencies seem to have caught on that giving the rambling ape a platform for every nonsensical bit of crap he slings might not actually be the best look for them.

    If I recall correctly there was a demonstrable effect on the reduction of fake news stories and conspiracy theories flooding Twitter, facebook, and so forth after Trump found himself banned. If him trying to be vocal about it means that he's effectively silenced for doing so, then I'd say it's the best we could hope for, as he clearly wont give up the grift and the GOP is clearly too scared about losing his followers to act with a modicum of decency or moral fiber.

    The only thing keeping me from delighting in the irony of the GOP squirming at the monster they created, set loose, and then sat idly by while it broke things as it's now finally coming for them is the non-impossibility of him regaining some form of office.
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    "Making fun of groups I don't like is ok, but making fun of groups I like isn't."
    Uhm... doomsday prepares are now a group? Can we make fun of a shit eater, or is that making fun of a group? Talk about PC culture... can’t make fun of someone failing to prepare for doomsday... I mean group preparing for different doomsdays... lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    Like making lame "jokes" about a demographic you don't like.
    Stop being a politically correct snowflake who gets offended on behalf of other people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    "Making fun of groups I don't like is ok, but making fun of groups I like isn't."
    Being a prepper isn't something someone was born as, it's a hobby they made a deliberate choice to be into.

    That makes it far less problematic to mock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ursus View Post
    Stop being a politically correct snowflake who gets offended on behalf of other people.
    I don’t know man... have you checked the Mayan calendar recently? I only look at the pin up... Mayans are no fire fighters, I’ll tell you that much...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    "Making fun of groups I don't like is ok, but making fun of groups I like isn't."
    More like "mocking individual people, even as a group, who now face the consequences of their stupid-ass decisions is okay, mocking people of an entire class just because you're a bigoted fuckwit is not".

    Mocking "conservatives" because of idiot Nazis, for instance, would be an example of the latter. Mocking the idiot Nazis, however, would be the former.


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    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ns/4491855001/

    So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media. Sorry, Arizonans, you can't check Twitter or FB to get the latest health and safety updates. Republicans want to make this harder for normal people because they think that social media companies are mean to Republicans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ns/4491855001/

    So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media. Sorry, Arizonans, you can't check Twitter or FB to get the latest health and safety updates. Republicans want to make this harder for normal people because they think that social media companies are mean to Republicans.
    AZ GOP really wants to lose influence and connection with anyone younger than a boomer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ns/4491855001/

    So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media. Sorry, Arizonans, you can't check Twitter or FB to get the latest health and safety updates. Republicans want to make this harder for normal people because they think that social media companies are mean to Republicans.
    Oh look, the GOP wants to literally hurt people and make their lives worse. Just another day ending in Y.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellhound View Post
    "Making fun of groups I don't like is ok, but making fun of groups I like isn't."
    Are your feelings hurt?

    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ns/4491855001/

    So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media. Sorry, Arizonans, you can't check Twitter or FB to get the latest health and safety updates. Republicans want to make this harder for normal people because they think that social media companies are mean to Republicans.
    So if Parler is deplatformed, it's in violation of the constitution, but if they do it themselves... ahm... freedom?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TigTone View Post
    AZ GOP really wants to lose influence and connection with anyone younger than a boomer.
    Um, once you cut Facebook, where else are boomers supposed to go?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media.
    "Mommy? Are the roads fixed yet so I can go to the hospital?"
    "I don't know sweetie, I don't know."

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    With the PA count finished. a Final look at the map.

    • Biden won 224 congressional districts / Dems Won 222 Seats
    • Donald Trump won 211 congressional districts / GOP Won 213 Seats



    Dems need to prioritize the Voter Rights Restoration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ns/4491855001/

    So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media. Sorry, Arizonans, you can't check Twitter or FB to get the latest health and safety updates. Republicans want to make this harder for normal people because they think that social media companies are mean to Republicans.
    I'm generally a fan of snapping all social media out of existence, but the ADOT twitter feed is legitimately informative, and funny to boot. This feels like petty revenge, and coming from Scottsdale that's no surprise; though I don't entirely disagree that lacking an in-house government announcement system is probably not the best. But, like the ACA, there's a strong sense of "repeal with no plan to replace" here.
    Quote Originally Posted by Wells View Post
    This is America. We always have warm dead bodies.
    if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RaoBurning View Post
    I'm generally a fan of snapping all social media out of existence, but the ADOT twitter feed is legitimately informative, and funny to boot. This feels like petty revenge, and coming from Scottsdale that's no surprise; though I don't entirely disagree that lacking an in-house government announcement system is probably not the best. But, like the ACA, there's a strong sense of "repeal with no plan to replace" here.
    Social media has plenty of its own issues and I still largely loath it, don't get me wrong.

    But I'm all for making important information as easily available as possible to folks. So like, if that means the ADOT posts on their site, twitter, fb, instagram, snapchat, tik tok, reddit, and whatever else da keeds are using today, I'm here for it.

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