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deanSolecki  ·  3156 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jon Stewart, Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness

No, this is fucking idiotic.

The wedge between the left and right has everything to do with the bat shit crazy antics of Republicans, and nothing to do with the modestly conservative alternative that we call "liberals" in the US. Every conservative wants us to see some "middle ground" or some other nonsense.

No. Donald Trump is a fucking joke, and the GOP is a joke. A terrible one. This isn't liberal bias, these people are fucking insane. They'd be the Neo-Nazi party anywhere in Europe. Look at what these monkeys are running on, from their own mouths:

- Expanding the NSA - Build a big wall at the border - Outlaw abortion - War in Iran - War in Iraq - War in Syria

And guess what the economic plan will be? Yeah, why bother have them say it, we already know.

Stop demanding respect that isn't deserved; the GOP and American conservatism have earned the disdain which they get. Period. Liberals don't need to come half way to the side of idiocy, racism, and war-mongering; we need to tell these people to fuck right off.





user-inactivated  ·  3156 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, welcome to the mute or filter or whatever it's called these days.

empty  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it's necessary to tell people when you've blocked them. All it does is get one little jab in, and it's to tell them you're not going to listen to their response. This normalizes the "shots fired" that signal beginning of flame wars, and it's a slippery slope from that to the degeneration of thoughtful discourse site-wide.

But for the record, I already had him filtered, too. :P

thenewgreen  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk can there be a way to see hidden text on mobile?

insomniasexx  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk forwardslash we could bind an ontap event to blacked out text that would make it normal colored again...

jleopold  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On my HTC One, in the mobile distro of Firefox, long tap and then highlighting reveals it. Tedious, but hidden text is rarely long enough to make it impossible.

user-inactivated  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it's necessary to begin a comment with 'No, this is fucking idiotic.' so I took measures accordingly.

empty  ·  3154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, and I blocked him for similar reasons. But like... why provoke him right before blocking him?

user-inactivated  ·  3154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, oops, I sort of misread your previous comment. In the past mutes have been followed by tedious messages asking for specification. It provides a guideline for those users willing to modify their behavior -- don't act like you did on that comment where you got muted.

Of course, hubski being not what it once was, his terrible comment was also shared 8+ times. Well-kept gardens...

empty  ·  3154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yup. I keep running around having to tell people to not follow Grendel. I have a mitigation for this problem that I'm developing, but it won't be able to be released until there's an official hubski API.

tla  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alas, there are still 34 people being sprinkled with the spores of his toxicity.

empty  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, we should just talk to them. We know who they are.

shanoxilt  ·  3156 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The same to you.