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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Replying to @arthur_affect @PyesMusings and
Dismissing your ideological opponents as all "Right Wing" despite evidence to the contrary is both intellectually lazy AND dishonest.
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Replying to @gretchen_bee @arthur_affect and
lol people always say this in the middle of a partisan ideological realignment and then blame their "new" ideological commitments to their "allies" on ostensibly extremist marginalized groups after they've been cemented tho
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The sheer number of Republicans 20 years ago, during the rightward turn under Bush, who shouted "I didn't leave the Democrats, the Democrats left me!" I'm old enough to have gone through enough of these that I'm immune to this kind of plea
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Replying to @arthur_affect @geoffwithasword and
(And the TERFs are the people who made the same excuses for backing Tony Blair going into Iraq along with Bush but because Blair was nominally a "Labour" politician never really changed their self-understanding as "on the left")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @gretchen_bee and
i'm gay enough to remember, well, you get the point
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