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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Replying to @newatch @arthur_affect and
Siri, show me “someone who thinks a stalking horse fools anyone”
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...Yes, they are one of the most basic examples of a "stalking horse" If I had to explain what the old fashioned term "stalking horse" meant to someone I'd say "It's like when someone engineers a test case to go to the Supreme Court and set a precedent"
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Replying to @newatch @arthur_affect and
I mean, it’s not like they didn’t lay out this plan 3 years ago.pic.twitter.com/TB0SvEkTar
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