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> "you can love your country and hate your government" Reminds me of Russia very much. Self-proclaimed "patriots" standard response to any critics of governmen
by kika 8y ago
> "you can love your country and hate your government"
Reminds me of Russia very much. Self-proclaimed "patriots" standard response to any critics of government is "you just hate everything Russian".
- stcredzero 8y agoGeneralized: Self-proclaimed [X] standard response to any critics of [X] is "you just hate everything [X]". I think it's a standard self-defense mechanism for any meme in the Dawkins sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
- larkeith 8y agoSlightly off-topic, but you might want to avoid using "[X]" as a general placeholder - I was momentarily thrown off, as I expected each instance of X to be the same.
- stcredzero 8y agoSelf-proclaimed Republican standard response to any critics of Republicanism is "you just hate everything Republican". It kind of works. Perhaps I need to include parts of speech? Self-proclaimed Feminist standard response to any critics of Feminism is "you just hate everything female".
- larkeith 8y agoI think the main thing is that the second placeholder must be a subset of a more general, separate third placeholder.