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Hillary Clinton

TwilightZone

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Reply to rock (Reply #11)

Tue May 24, 2016, 10:46 PM

May 2016

At heart, I'm a realist, if a sarcastic one. Ignorance of reality, particularly the intentional kind, kind of drives me batty.

Which is partly why I'm a Hillary fan and always have been. She's nothing if not a realist. Even an occasionally sarcastic one.

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When did "we" lose the ability to detect sarcasm? [View all] TwilightZone May 2016 OP

Self righteous types have no sense of humor GusBob May 2016 #1

Around the same time "we" started calling a 70something career politician an outsider. johnp3907 May 2016 #2

Yeppers fleabiscuit May 2016 #5

Yes. He's also anti-establishment even though he's been part of it most of his adult life. TwilightZone May 2016 #8

Thats just the tip of iceberg around here, not much reasoning ability to be found. nt BootinUp May 2016 #3

I use sarcasm almost exclusively on GDP, but never use the emoji...just to see who gets it. anotherproletariat May 2016 #4

I can only hope it is. TwilightZone May 2016 #9

I used to believe that right wingers had trouble spooky3 May 2016 #6

The problem is without tonal clues (prosody) rock May 2016 #7

Yeah, I get that. In this case, only part of it was really sarcasm and the context and TwilightZone May 2016 #10

I find your analysis spot on rock May 2016 #11

Thanks TwilightZone May 2016 #12