fine_sandy_bottom @ fine_sandy_bottom @lemmy.federate.cc

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Exactly what a trump follower would say.

That's absolutely how Trump works.

You seem genuinely oblivious to how intolerant you are.

As though you have a list of "social crimes" and when you, being the judge and jury, find someone guilty of being intolerant they're green lit to be "untolerated".

This is exactly what I was talking about when I said that the paradox of tolerance is mostly used as justification for not tolerating people you personally deem to be intolerant.

It's like you didn't read my comment.

If I say that receiving 2 olives on my side salad instead of 1 is "a premium experience", it's not possible to prove that assertion false but it makes the word premium completely meaningless in any practical way.

My point is, I'm not going to argue with you about your definition of premium.

You understand that every conservative would use all sorts of labels to describe you right? Trump would refer to you as "the radical left". He would also say you're intolerant of his followers.

It takes a complete lack of self awareness to think that no one would label you in the same way you label others. Well done.

Conservatives at large have been labeled “intolerable” based on their abject refusal to support basic protections of human rights and safety, bad-faith arguments, bait and switching, lying directly to the faces of their constituents as well as to other lawmakers who require an assumption of trust in order to operate, and actively and frequently calling for violence and murder against non-violent members of the out-group.

This sentence contains the problem discussed at length in the wikipedia article and addressed in my original comment.

You've made a sweeping generalisation about conservatives, by applying a range of very specific behaviors to an entire out-group in a categorical and binary way.

To really dumb it down, some conservatives might just be idiots, and not actually intolerant. You're seeking to weild the paradox of intolerance against them.

Semantics.

Of course it is.

That's exactly how it's being used here.

It's just that you don't want to tolerate the people this comment is targeting.

Good job ignoring the part about arbitrary labels.

Kenyon has not been charged with a crime and a police spokesperson confirmed he was not the suspect that officers were seeking as part of a theft investigation.

Hadn't done anything.

Its cover for officials who will refuse to certify results.

Everyone loves invoking the paradox of tolerance because it makes you sound smart and progressive.

Paradoxically, it's most often used as an excuse to be intolerant of some group that you have arbitrarily branded as intolerant.

I hereby pronounce you intolerant, thereby according to the docterine of the paradox of tolerance you are forthwith stripped of your right to be tolerated.

As always, the problem is nuanced and you need to consider carefully the extent to which you're willing to tolerate what level of intolerance under what circumstances.

Nah. Loads of things just shouldn't be privatised.

Oh please. Pathetic. This is the wet lettuce slap Musk was predicting.

Queue a big song and dance about corrupt courts stifling free speech and manipulating elections. Great opportunity to splash headlines everywhere about a lottery whereby you can win $1m by voting for Trump, because he's a very rich and very successful businessman.

This whole shit show is cooked. There is no justice, honesty, or transparency. It's just idiots pissing in each others pockets all the way down.

It really depends.

I'm in Australia so while I detest our conservative party leader (not presently prime minister but probably one day), he's not really as abhorrent as Trump.

If someone very close to me who I care about quietly mentioned that they voted for someone as awful as Trump, that wouldn't be immediate irrevocable dismissable from my "inner circle", but it would certainly change how I thought of them.

Perhaps oddly, it would be a bit like someone saying they believed vaccines were harmful or that the earth is flat. They're not stupid (necessarily), but there's some complex and concerning psychological stuff going on.

Would you like me to make a pdf with some words and some awful photos of what palestine would look like with a Trump supported Netanyahu?

You realise that Netanyahu wants you to abstain from voting right?

Russia, China, Israel, all understand that they can't get you to vote for Trump, so they've been pouring many millions of dollars into manipulating your good self into not voting.

In the article from this post Sanders explains in great detail why Harris is the most likely to negotiate a cease fire. Is that what you would like?

If you refuse to vote for Harris you're actively supporting genocide.

Because they're not premium features they're just somewhat less shit.

Premium would be hookers and blow.

You're actively supporting genocide.

It's very obvious to absolutely everyone that allowing Trump to win will produce the worst possible outcome for palestinians.

I honestly feel sorry for you. I think there's a strong possibility your own kids and grandkids will be asking you about this time in history, and I suspect you're going to realise in future how silly this "do x or I won't vote for you" position is.

Stopping Trump with the courts is autocratic.