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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by rootusrootus on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:32PM (#25693396)
Those 74 million people were quick to taunt the other side for being disappointed in losing the 2016 election, they like to wave flags that say 'fuck your feelings' as some weird badge of pride. Why again are we supposed to be understanding of them? Perhaps they are, in fact, just jerks and it's okay to say so.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by dudul on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:18AM (#25701591)
So you're basically saying that we should behave like them and wave 'fuck your feelings' flags as well.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by OCASM on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:48PM (#25693678)
If the Left didn't want the Right to be mean to them maybe they shouldn't have called them nazis and deplorables.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by TT3351 on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:49PM (#25693696)
Pretending Obama wasn't born in America is pretty deplorable
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by sthnblllII on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:32PM (#25694738)
Ruining a teenager's life because he smiled as someone screamed in his face was pretty deplorable. We could do this all day but his point is that Americans have to grow up and start respecting each other.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by rootusrootus on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:39PM (#25694871)
I'm always struck by how fast the rhetoric shifts when one side loses a big election. How quickly we care about everyone being civil, and respecting one another, when we are no longer holding the position of power.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by mod on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:02PM (#25695282)
I find this comment interesting simply because it's the exact opposite of my FB feed. People there accuse leftists of calling for civility now that they have won, when they haven't been civil until this moment (their words, not mine)
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by rootusrootus on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:26PM (#25695561)
I guess that's the beauty (maybe not quite the right word...) of two large groups of people attacking each other. The odds are good that if you look, you will find someone on the other side saying exactly what you want to record them saying.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by TT3351 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:46PM (#25694984)
A majority of registered Republicans have told pollsters they believe Obama wasn't born in this country many times since at least 2012. How many Democrats care about the outrage incident you cite, using empirical evidence?
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by rightbyte on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:49PM (#25695038)
Out of curiosity what event are you refering to?
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by TT3351 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:54PM (#25695129)
I can step in: Covington High School student
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by nevi-me on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:28PM (#25696990)
Bearing symbols that represent the depression of Jews in Germany, symbols that have been banned there, is being Nazi.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Rapzid on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:22PM (#25694517)
I think both sides have a problem with assuming everyone on the other side fits a single mold. Apparently that mold fitting the more radical elements of the other side.

Actually, one of the magical things Trump did was prey on a lot of individuals individual desires while getting them to ignore all the stuff he promised to others that they don't agree with.

But anyway, just because you voted for somebody doesn't mean you agree with them on everything. That's as true for the left as it is the right.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by pnw_hazor on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:44PM (#25693606)
Was that before or after many high-level Democrats and Celebrities denounced Trump and committed to resistance on Nov 3, 2015.

4+ years of no-quarter given raging against Trump has set the tone for the future of America. I don't think anyone is going to like that future.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by rootusrootus on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:43PM (#25694921)
So it was only in 2016 that the opposition party decided to drag their feet in any way possible? Not 2010? And it was only in 2016 that the tone was set for America, not when the current sitting president was raging for years about how the previous president was not a real American citizen?

Grab a mirror. This has been building for a lot longer than 4 years.

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