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Buttigieg Tells Fox Viewers that MAGA Is a Cult. Calls Trump "older and stranger" than he was in 2016 (www.rollingstone.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Multiple comments (here’s one) point out that it’s bigoted, and the offending comment has even been removed by the mod.

Clearly your problems also extend to only seeing what you wish to see…

[+] [email protected] -7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You keep insulting me, could you possibly... stop? Either I am, in fact, deeply bigoted or I'm just not clear on how this was actually bigoted. I know you're not engaging with this in 100% good faith here, and I understand that you think you're just dealing with a troll, but you aren't. I'm genuinely unclear on how insulting the man was bigoted. Should I have used a different insult, or something?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If you find the criticism you face for your reprehensible behavior hurts your feelings, you could simply stop behaving in such a reprehensible manner. But these are the consequences of those actions. You keep saying awful things, and you’re gonna get called out for it. Don’t like that? Stop doing it.

Insulting me while accusing me of doing what you, yourself, are doing is nothing more than deflection and projection. And it’s fooling nobody.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I... didn't insult you, though? I can address the rest, sure, but man, I didn't accuse you of anything except responding to someone you don't think is dealing with you in good faith. Something I even excused in that comment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have no doubt that you believe that. The evidence of your comments proves otherwise.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No, seriously, what was the insult there. Please, quote the relevant section. I feel like I'm losing my mind here. It was in no way my intention to insult you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Now you’re just sealioning. Go beg for attention someplace else.

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassmentthat consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[7] which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".[8]

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only specific response you've given me didn't tell me what was wrong, it linked me to a comment accusing me of doing something wrong. I don't KNOW what I did wrong, and you just won't tell me! And now you're making things up about the DOT in other comments?? Seriously, what was it that I said that made that comment bigoted. What was it that I said that made any comment here bigoted. I'm crying trying to figure out what the hell to do different so this doesn't happen again and I don't come across bigoted, and all you're doing is being a dick to me for that. Please, just, fucking please, can you explain like I'm a goddamn idiot child and explain what I did WRONG here??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

For you

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago

Thank you, I guess? May I have another...? Possibly with a real response in it?