I missed the airing of grievances this year, so here goes.
While I find myself internally nodding in agreement with most of the epithets and hemi-demi-semi-portmanteaus I see describing GOP extremists and Trump-loyalists (e.g. MAGAts, redumblicans, repugnicans, etc.) I can't help but feel that their use by people who disagree with them is stooping.
Degrading the discourse.
It's fun. It 'feels' good, but we promote the idiocracy by joining in.
Is it only me? Feel free to discuss/disagree.
LOL at “epithets and hemi-demi-semi-portmanteaus”! Will never forget THAT!
😱👍👍🤣😎
BUT! I must make the jump from the damned iPhone to an actual QWERTYboard (epithet and portmanteau 😏) to reply in earnest, minus the constant (unseen by all nauts but me) errors and potential typos that thumb-pecking entails…
As well as breakfast…🤓
Breakfast has been had, same for the device jump.
Epithets and portmanteaus: I get it, 2 wrongs don't make a right, name-calling is what they do, etc. Yes, it does feel good to get some of that poison out...but socmed grievances are just that. We're not writing a dissertation or actual news. Humor (some profanity) is essential to maintenance of one's own sanity and safe blood-pressure.
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Degrading/stooping -- understood, self-check is necessary. Fear not, we have nothing to fear but fallacious thinking...the same "thinking" on display in the WaPo articles today regarding Trump/R voters and their continued support for the twice-impeached, 4-times indicted candidate.
So if you compare the jaw-dropping statements of credulity/illegality frequently heard/seen issuing from the R voters...well, we ain't got nuthin' on THEM.
But the warnings are appreciated. 👍
The stated "reasons for voting for Trump" (by said voters themselves) are nothing short of astounding...and astoundingly stupid. And enraging, especially with all that's occurred between '16 and now. These Trump voters in Iowa, NH, etc are full-blown fascists who don't know how blinkered and foolish they are.
I can't blame the WaPo for that. That's the fault of Fox, talk radio, Trump, et al. And the GOP.
@InUnfunky However, WaPo does not need to repeat their nonsense
@InUnfunky WaPo, NYtimes contortions are painful, and I'm afraid the reasons for this are not fairness, but nefarious