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Sometimes the "correct" people are such insufferable, hypocritical assholes that the other side will slice its neck to spite the body, regardless of how incorre
by mmmpop 5y ago
Sometimes the "correct" people are such insufferable, hypocritical assholes that the other side will slice its neck to spite the body, regardless of how incorrect they may be. If people can't see this game of chicken being a pretty sizable part of our issues then they should check their own biases.
- DFHippie 5y agoI think you nailed it. The people patriotically spreading covid, attacking our system of government, preventing any action on climate change, and so forth don't actually think they're doing the right thing. They just feel so slighted and aggrieved, so disrespected, that they see harming their uppity neighbors as the greatest good. They are Ahab and the libs are their white whale. The thing is, people don't respect you when you behave like that, when your ego is more important than their life. You can't make people respect you by hitting them. There's the tipping point right there.
- mmmpop 5y agoThanks for proving my point, I'd perhaps rather watch the world melt than have your sneering ass running the show. I kid, but it's a close call.
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- DFHippie 5y agoIt's fun to think I'm running the show, isn't it. Yes, I fully own my unbounded contempt for the fragile-ego'ed patriots tearing the country apart. But I'm not running the show, am I? And that doesn't matter. The people running the show, Clinton and Obama and Biden and so forth, speak in diplomatic terms and offer olive branches and try to see the other side and it earns them nothing but vilification. Because the fragile egos listen to people who want to keep them angry and suspicious. Who treats them with greater contempt, the politicians who try to work on their behalf while being burned in effigy or the propagandists who lie to them to keep them aggrieved? And how is anyone supposed to respect someone whose values are so askew and who is so easily led? This is nothing new. Here's Lincoln on the same topic: https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/cooperunionaddress.htm https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/cooperunionadd...
- dang 5y agoPlease stop posting flamewar comments to HN. We've had to ask you this before, and we ban accounts that keep doing it. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoPlease don't perpetuate flamewars on HN and particularly please stop posting personal attacks. We ban accounts that do that, and you've unfortunately done it repeatedly. That's not cool here. This whole subthread stands out as particularly wretched but even in a context as bad as this, "your sneering ass" was egregious. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html