politics

Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say and do some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or do so with an air of pseudo-intellectualism. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say and do.

And the sad part is that a sizable part of the population sees that as a “win” for fascism. Because it allows them to paint their opponents as angry unreasonable shrieking maniacs. Lots of people don’t actually listen to the content of what is being said; They just listen to the vibes. And that pseudo-intellectualism and civility has the vibe-listeners thinking that the fascists are the reasonable ones.

“I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”

My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”

gay people are confused

Methinks your dad's a wee bit bi

Fuck fascists

Oh come on... Sometimes they\re midly funny: https://youtu.be/-iegYa6wTeg

Or not, come to think of it...

It's not even a negative question really. It boils down to "what do you say to the people who disagree with what your are doing/planning on doing?"

Oooooh the horror of confronting the very idea of people disagreeing with you. What a nasty question.

Taquito

He’s a narcissist, everyone loves him!

I've thought about this a lot, and I have a theory - It's a sign of his Sociopathic/ Psychopathic personality. He's a severely broken human being, and a textbook example of a sociopath/psychopath, which includes a lack of understanding of all emotions. He doesn't understand how people feel about things, and doesn't understand the meanings of descriptive emotional words like Love or Beautiful. Because he can't feel those things, he literally doesn't understand what they mean.

OTOH, like most psychopaths, he is aware that others think differently than him, and so he needs to fit in by pretending to understand those concepts. But since he has always been a wealthy arrogant bully, he never really had to learn that skill to survive, he'd do fine even if every one knows he's a psycho, so he's never tried that hard. He still pays it lip service though, so he sprinkles those words in occasionally, hoping he's using them properly, because he can't be bothered to really care that much.

That's why we end up with awkward, cringy statements about him and the fat Korean fuckjob "trading beautiful love letters" and "falling in love," or the "big, beautiful bill," or this amazing sentence:

"I don't think that a beautiful baby girl needs – that's 11 years old – needs to have 30 dolls,"

He just referred to an 11 year old girl as beautiful and a baby, in the same sentence. Not creepy or weird at all. /s

He thinks he is hiding among us by using those normal words, but he uses them so inappropriately that it only draws our attention to how deficient his personality is.

I'm old enough to remember when people voted for politicians without being considered nor wanting to be considered "supporters" of them.

That's correct. He's a big fat stinking turd.