Red Mosquito

spike wrote:

Dev wrote:

Dev wrote:

epilogue wrote:Burying the hatchet sounds great. I'm in! Let's do that.

And that is how a real business man gets real business deals done! Watch and learn fucking LOSER trump fans! I am unmuzzled and I am ENRAGED!!!

I’m sure this will last.

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

Looked dead-eyed.

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

Looked dead-eyed.

Package delivery will do that I guess.

McParadigm wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:
Perhaps he's just not into obeying bullies.

You’ve got half the sentence. He hates bullying when he feels like he or a group that he identifies with is the target of it. Otherwise he doesn’t really care. He makes a point of expressing scorn.

So something like this?

epilogue wrote:

Iowa Governor Signs Bill Ending Transgender Civil Rights Protections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/i ... roid-share

BREAKING: Cis, straight, white man "willfully" ignores oppression.

That is an example, yes. And we all do that shit. You’ve done a ton of it. I have too.

But you also, concurrent to that, have many posts that express empathy for groups of people you do not necessarily support or agree with….including trans people.

You disagree with durd almost completely on this issue, but your concerns about trans people are often based in worry and shared humanity. Concern that young people might make a choice they regret later in life. Fear on behalf of women, when you feel that trans people are being elevated in a way that might be harmful to them.

The key phrase there is “on behalf of.“ The occasional snark or scorn that you deliver always arrives in the context of routinely expressed, empathetic advocacy on behalf of someone who is nothing to do with you at all. Who might even be on the opposite side of the issue as you.

Again, I’m not saying that Burt said a mean thing, and only Burt says mean things, so just ignore him. I am saying durd is wasting his time when he engages him on this topic, because durd gets emotional and passionate about it, and Burt just doesn’t care.

You and I regularly heap scorn on groups we disagree with. But it’s not the only way we speak about them. You might be in favor of deportations, and you might come in here to share articles about immigrants who committed crimes, but if this summer there are news stories about elevationally horrific conditions in deportation camps…there’s a good chance you’ll be the one sharing some of those stories. Expressing horror for the way that it is being done, because you think and talk about human beings as if they are human beings and not NPCs.

All of Burt’s posts look like

BurtReynolds wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:my nephew is trans and this election I'd like to do what little I can to protect his rights.

Yeah that's how they keep you in line.

I’m not talking about the ideology behind his response to Juan (or durd). I’m not talking about the worldview or the political viewpoint he expressed. I’m not saying anything at all about ideology.

I’m saying that BurtReynolds would only ever respond to Juan’s statement in exactly the way that he actually did. Exactly that level of dismissiveness.

This back-and-forth is getting repetitive, but I will continue it if you’d like. I will keep reasserting what I believe, because I do genuinely believe it.

But I also promise to keep my eye out. There’s a good chance that the news will be bringing us quite a lot of civil liberties discussions in the coming year or years. Lots of chances for me to be wrong….opportunities for Burt to maintain his passionate “personal freedoms“ attitude, by rejecting situations where someone he approves of is using a position of power to hurt or suppress someone he doesn’t approve of…even when he thinks it is funny or serves them right.

BurtReynolds wrote:did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

Dev wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

Good conversation

BurtReynolds wrote:

Dev wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

Good conversation

true freedom is realizing that one doesn't have to let libtards dictate the borders of the convo.