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Virtue signaling heavily laden with Trump derangement syndrome. Thinks Twitter failing to discipline President Trump because he violated the don't-threaten-peo
by mrslave 9y ago
Virtue signaling heavily laden with Trump derangement syndrome.
Thinks Twitter failing to discipline President Trump because he violated the don't-threaten-people policy over North Korean missile launches is a grave double standard.
Not a quality article.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoTrump derangement syndrome. I'm keen to understand what you mean by this, in context.
- jack9 9y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trump%20Derangement%20Syndrome http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trump%20Deran... In all fairness, this is a reactionary "definition". It's not useful when looking at this behavior as an actual condition and discerning the causal elements. There's a segment of the population that seems to amplify their own disgust with a celebrity's manners/message/actions/writing/etc, to the point that they see every facet of a personality as caustic. Bibi, Linus, Trump, Mencia, and probably countless others. It's only brought to light when an individual from this population happens to have a media pedestal, so the locus is usually some conservative.
- coldtea 9y agoThe idea that having yet another idiot/liar/narcissus as president (as has been done many times in the past) is about to bring the end of the world.
- jimjimjim 9y agoNot a quality comment.
- have_faith 9y agoSometimes signalling your virtues is what you want to achieve. In the twitter example, Twitter decides that Trump hasn't technically broken a rule (debatable), so you signal that your virtues are more important than Twitters rules by leaving, a perfectly valid response.
- darpa_escapee 9y ago> Virtue signaling This is getting very, very close to the fallacy fallacy.