Crybully

TSRF wrote:

I learned a new term today, reading this very board: Crybully.

If there was a dictionary that had pictures of people next to terms, whose picture do you think would be next to “crybully”?

It’s similar to the hysteria against “political correctness.” In reality, PC is just the call for decency, civil dialogue, courtesy and good manners. Are there abuses? Yeah. But they’re incredibly rare. The thing the right does so well, and so effectively, is to take a tiny, tiny part for the whole, and blow that up into the Apocalypse. Its followers lap that stuff up like kids and koolaid, repeating it endlessly, across social media, until they’ve turned it into a supposed national crisis.

It’s like if the Rams had this wide receiver, who was really excellent, caught everything thrown his way, until one day . . . . he drops one. And the media picks up on that one drop, blows it up into an end of the world story, fans go crazy, spread it through social media, and they get so whipped up into a frenzy, they burn the guy’s house down and he flees for his life.

That’s what the right does. That’s how they work. From Alex Jones to Trump, they lie, lie, lie or, at best, on their best days, exaggerate things beyond all bounds, sending their fans into paroxysms of hate. So a completely innocent comment about “cheese pizza” becomes “code” for child sex-trafficking, and every mass shooting becomes a government-led “false flag” operation.

These people, before social media and the Internet, were basically harmless, isolated and alone. But in the Internet age, they’ve managed to find each other and become dangerous. Right-wing, paranoid, fringe lunatics have found one another and together they’ve mainstreamed their crazy.

This is NOT going to be a safe and happy four years.

Billy_T wrote:

TSRF wrote:

I learned a new term today, reading this very board: Crybully.

If there was a dictionary that had pictures of people next to terms, whose picture do you think would be next to “crybully”?

It’s similar to the hysteria against “political correctness.” In reality, PC is just the call for decency, civil dialogue, courtesy and good manners. Are there abuses? Yeah. But they’re incredibly rare. The thing the right does so well, and so effectively, is to take a tiny, tiny part for the whole, and blow that up into the Apocalypse. Its followers lap that stuff up like kids and koolaid, repeating it endlessly, across social media, until they’ve turned it into a supposed national crisis.

It’s like if the Rams had this wide receiver, who was really excellent, caught everything thrown his way, until one day . . . . he drops one. And the media picks up on that one drop, blows it up into an end of the world story, fans go crazy, spread it through social media, and they get so whipped up into a frenzy, they burn the guy’s house down and he flees for his life.

That’s what the right does. That’s how they work. From Alex Jones to Trump, they lie, lie, lie or, at best, on their best days, exaggerate things beyond all bounds, sending their fans into paroxysms of hate. So a completely innocent comment about “cheese pizza” becomes “code” for child sex-trafficking, and every mass shooting becomes a government-led “false flag” operation.

These people, before social media and the Internet, were basically harmless, isolated and alone. But in the Internet age, they’ve managed to find each other and become dangerous. Right-wing, paranoid, fringe lunatics have found one another and together they’ve mainstreamed their crazy.

This is NOT going to be a safe and happy four years.

I would respond and in the same vernacular but again I would be accused of name-calling. Enjoy the safe space.

Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

I would respond and in the same vernacular but again I would be accused of name-calling. Enjoy the safe space.

Unless I misunderstand the board rules, it’s not out of bounds to criticize public figures here. That’s what I did. And I speak the truth about them.

It is, however, out of bounds to engage in “name-calling” with fellow posters. Again, if I understand the board rules. And I didn’t do that.

No “safe space” needed for what I wrote.

BS. Just keep believing that.

Safe space.

Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

I would respond and in the same vernacular but again I would be accused of name-calling. Enjoy the safe space.

Unless I misunderstand the board rules, it’s not out of bounds to criticize public figures here. That’s what I did. And I speak the truth about them.

It is, however, out of bounds to engage in “name-calling” with fellow posters. Again, if I understand the board rules. And I didn’t do that.

No “safe space” needed for what I wrote.

BS. Just keep believing that.

I post facts, not BS. And facts about right-wing BS. The right floods us and overwhelms us with so much BS, day after day after day, it becomes nearly impossible to keep up with. Which is the point. And it’s making the country crazy. Which is also the point.

Oh, like the one about Podesta being a satanist, or that the leaked emails prove Clinton and company were running a child sex-trade operation out of that little pizza shop, or that Podesta used “password” as his email password. All of that has been thoroughly debunked. It’s all bullshit, lies and more bullshit.

And the really sad thing? The tragic thing for America? There is plenty of real stuff to expose about the Dems — and the GOP. There’s absolutely no need to invent shit about them in order to achieve the “public good.” We have more than enough very real horrors to deal with, like war, the surveillance state, capitalism, environmental destruction, mass inequality, etc. etc.

It hurts all of us when the right produces mass quantities of bullshit and people buy it.

And it needs to stop.

Safe space.

Billy_T wrote:

Again, bnw, no safe space is needed for anything I’ve said. And I’ve never needed it to make my case or debate things here or in the real world.

Au contraire.

Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

Again, bnw, no safe space is needed for anything I’ve said. And I’ve never needed it to make my case or debate things here or in the real world.

Au contraire.

Then state your case and let’s see. One-liners don’t count as debate. Can’t make a decent argument or back it up that way.

Go for it.

Safe space. Run with it. By design I have no such luxury.

bnw wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

bnw wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

Again, bnw, no safe space is needed for anything I’ve said. And I’ve never needed it to make my case or debate things here or in the real world.

Au contraire.

Then state your case and let’s see. One-liners don’t count as debate. Can’t make a decent argument or back it up that way.

Go for it.

Safe space. Run with it. By design I have no such luxury.

You are free to do what I’ve done, which is to be truthful about public figures and the political right. That doesn’t go against board rules, because it’s not directed at posters.

You can do the same. Post anything you want about public figures and any politicians you disdain. You have here, on multiple occasions. No censorship. The mods only step in when we posters make it personal. If we refrain from that, they tend not to step in.

In short, you’re every bit as free to say what you want here as I am.

bnw wrote:

I would respond and in the same vernacular but again I would be accused of name-calling. Enjoy the safe space.

I clip everyone here for calling other posters names. Ask all the participants in this thread.

Going after a political party? It’s silly and empty, and isn’t real discussion, but it’s not the same as attacking a poster.

And…again, this isn’t open to discussion. (Making veiled references to your own inaccurate claims about mods is still discussing it btw.) Just act accordingly, like everyone else usually does, and it’s all fine.

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Billy_T wrote:

Unless I misunderstand the board rules, it’s not out of bounds to criticize public figures here. That’s what I did. And I speak the truth about them.

It is, however, out of bounds to engage in “name-calling” with fellow posters.

Billy_T wrote:

. Post anything you want about public figures and any politicians you disdain. You have here, on multiple occasions. No censorship. The mods only step in when we posters make it personal. If we refrain from that, they tend not to step in.

You are correct.