That's the point of the example Arthur thinks he's standing up to an asshole who is fucking with him for no reason, because he, inadvertently, *actually is* an asshole fucking with someone for no reason
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He is aware that it is a very petty thing to get upset about because it's an item he paid for from pocket change but he IS upset and he DOES feel like he's won some kind of moral victory by neither backing down nor getting provoked into yelling at the guy
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Hence the reversal - he's the asshole and the other guy is the one showing backbone/courage/restraint/maturity etc by not blowing up at him
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I am harping on this because you and your ilk are, broadly speaking, so fundamentally immune to ever seeing yourself as the asshole and so absolutely convinced that you just being a prick on the Internet all the time is some kind of badge of courage
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As an English person, I'm very happy to say that your reading of this very simple, easily comprehended, anecdote, is not somehow being totally deformed by you being an American.
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Replying to @HickeyWriter @arthur_affect and
Despite what many other English people in this thread (and many, many, insufferable people here generally) like to think, there is no such thing as a "uniquely English" sense of irony that's untranslatable.
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For some reason, whenever someone gets weirdly aggressively provincial at me, like actually angry that I'm an American and saying that means I don't understand British stuff, they are a TERF One click to their timeline and there's always a transphobic tweet right up top
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and
Such a strange, strange correlation It literally never fails It goes the other way too, like when I was trapped in a TERF hellthread and this lady first accuses me of "paedophilia" out of nowhere then snarks at me Americans can't spell that word
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and
That is so bizarre. “You murder puppies and you wear white socks!”
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Replying to @PyesMusings @HickeyWriter and
Transphobia has at this point fully become a toxic British identity thing, like it's a specific feature of their right wing in particular they take pride in It's like Americans and gun rights
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Like yeah now that I think about it if I saw an American being really aggressive to a British person going "This is something specific to OUR culture and you people don't get it", their bio probably quotes the 2nd Amendment
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Replying to @caro06861439 @arthur_affect and
There isn’t much here to get dude, terfs only really have three arguments the only thing that changes is the way they say transphobic garbage. Also you don’t have to be personally affected by bigots to call them out
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