• Aqarius@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            I don’t want to bicker, it’s just confusing that people who are presumed worth talking to seem to almost exclusively be yelled at.

            Kinda makes me wonder if maybe some of the people currently not worth talking to were previously subjected to a similar talking to.

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              3 days ago

              Memes and humour are rhetoric, and speaking only for myself, I’d rather mildly joke about someone’s silly views rather than have a big grumpy debate with them. There’s a time and place to sit down and respectfully suss out a topic, and I think good comedy helps more than it hurts - even when a few people aren’t laughing.

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                “Memes and humour are rhetoric”

                Democrats absolutely hate this however. Remember how they reacted to the “genocide Joe” meme?

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                    2 days ago

                    Democrats don’t allow criticism no matter the situation.

                    If they are in power, then they can’t be criticized because the election is very soon and you are just “helping the other side”

                    If they are not in power, then they can’t be blamed for anything because they are not in power.

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                That much is true, but I don’t think I wouldn’t call this “good comedy”, and judging from the replies in the thread - OP included - I don’t think it’s intended as a joke either, mild or otherwise. It is kinda amusing, in that victory is presented as always impossible, but I doubt that was intentional. This isn’t goodnatured ribbing, this is more, as the kids say, bait.

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                  2 days ago

                  As one who left, I feel qualified to dislike Americans more than most. I don’t quite fit in in England, but I definitely don’t fit in back there either.