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Music Man

(1,664 posts)
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 07:35 PM Oct 2018

Remember: "Liberals are weak, beta snowflakes. We have to stop their violent, intolerant bullying."

Wait... WHAT?!?!??!

Can you imagine having that kind of cognitive dissonance?

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Remember: "Liberals are weak, beta snowflakes. We have to stop their violent, intolerant bullying." (Original Post) Music Man Oct 2018 OP
Explain please or delete saidsimplesimon Oct 2018 #1
Added another line and some quotation marks in the header to try to make it more obvious. Music Man Oct 2018 #3
Thanks for the context saidsimplesimon Oct 2018 #6
No worries! Music Man Oct 2018 #8
I think the OP is pretty clear Cal Carpenter Oct 2018 #4
Don't forget NPC's vercetti2021 Oct 2018 #2
And it's a vicious circle, to deal with the cognitive dissonance they have ck4829 Oct 2018 #5
Don't try to understand their "logic", to do so would make one's head explode. Initech Oct 2018 #7

Music Man

(1,664 posts)
3. Added another line and some quotation marks in the header to try to make it more obvious.
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 07:44 PM
Oct 2018

Just poking fun at the irony of Trump and his supporters simultaneously saying liberals are weak, overly sensitive people but also apparently violent bullies. I heard a Young Republican on BBC today speaking about how Donald Trump only Tweets obnoxious things in defense against bullying behavior. Barf...

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
6. Thanks for the context
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 07:50 PM
Oct 2018

Just channeling my mother, never repeat a lie or stand still when liars attack.

Music Man

(1,664 posts)
8. No worries!
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 07:53 PM
Oct 2018

As I posted it originally, the thought occurred to me that it lent itself to confusion. As if it were my point of view. Thanks for making me improve it

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)
4. I think the OP is pretty clear
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 07:45 PM
Oct 2018

The right wing, especially the so-called 'alt-right', likes to claim that liberals/lefties are sensitive 'snowflakes', beta, weak, etc. Yet they also claim that liberals/lefties are being bullies when, for example, they call out racism, homophobia, etc.

So how can a bunch of weaklings also be bullies?

ck4829

(37,769 posts)
5. And it's a vicious circle, to deal with the cognitive dissonance they have
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 07:47 PM
Oct 2018

They become even more outrageous, even more authoritarian, and more contrarian in the face of the liberal and the 'other'.

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