PantsyMcPants

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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
For what it’s worth, there’s a picture of me wearing a MAGA hat out there on the internet too. Ironically, of course, but I do sympathise with the guy. I do think it’s out of order for the Linux Foundation to ban him for this (although they
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
Awwww... I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that’s eaten one of Trump’s talking points in the wild before. So, firstly Martin Luther King was assassinated for fighting for civil rights only 51 years ago. So you might wanna get your time li
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
I didn’t say anything about his character. I don’t know anything about his interlocutors. Both of those things are kind of irrelevant to my post which is about the hat.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
I think you’ve lost the thread. I’m not pretending I don’t know how much people would find my perspective disturbing like he was. That said, no. I don’t.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
Weirdest bit of apologetics ever. Making small tactical adjustments that reduces the spread of statements target, but has little effect on its meaning or effect.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
I agree that active supporters of Trump are just as valid as any other group like white nationalists, KKK etc, but I disagree with the idea that is implied by your text that a group’s size makes them more valid as a group. Half the country
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
Child separation policy was new. Building a concrete wall across the border is new. Banning Muslims is new. Refusing a president the right to nominate judges and having the senate vote on them is new. I could go on.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
I mean, I suppose we’ll never know what’s in his mind, but he seems suspiciously unaware of how much people would find that picture disturbing. Almost like in 2016 no one thought there was anything weird about Trump at all. He could be a Tr
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
I mean, I wouldn’t take him at his word.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
Major difference here being that black people weren’t allowed in because the hosts had unfair predujices, while people with MAGA hats aren’t allowed in because the people wearing them have unfair prejudices. Subtle but important difference.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
A MAGA hat is not dissimilar to a nazi symbol, albeit to a much lesser degree. You wouldn’t want Nazis around even if you knew they weren’t gonna do anything. Just having people around that devalue other human beings as lesser than them is
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
It’s only a meaningless phrase if you’re motivated to interpret it in ways that are unhelpful. In that sense every phrase is a meaningless phrase until you get some details added to it.
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by PantsyMcPants 7y ago
Yeah, I’m not sure those two things are very different. History happened, it’s still happening. The Republican Party is still disenfranchising black voters as they did in history. Black people with equal education and training still find it