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Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by ImJamal on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:08PM (#37526979)
Please read what I wrote. I never said you were an American. I said you were destroying the country with your stupid shit.

You could be an American or you could be a foreigner injecting yourself into American politics. Asking people to stop dividing us is not some right wing talking point. If you were an American you would you know the left was huge into saying Trump was dividing us and how that was bad. Now suddenly saying the same thing is right wing. Give me a break.

Like I said in my previous post. Please get off the internet for a while, touch grass, and talk to normal and average people in person. You will be a happier person and stop with calling everybody you don't agree with a racist.

Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by stephenr on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:21PM (#37527172)
> Please read what I wrote.

Likewise.

I never called you a racist, and I never said you shouldn't try to prevent division.

I said the extreme right use the phrase "you're trying to divide us" to guilt people into accepting their abhorrent views. It's just a new spin on the same old game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by ImJamal on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:28PM (#37528711)
Fine you just alluded to it. Let's take this hypothetical conversation

You: I'm a vegetarian

Me: You know Hitler was a vegetarian and you look like you are basically wearing a swastika.

You: Why are you calling me Hitler?

Me: I'm not, I'm just randomly bringing up Hitler even though he has nothing to do with the topic. I'm also just randomly mentioning this similar attribute you and Hitler share for no reason other than I wanted to mention it.

Nobody in their right mind would think I wasn't calling you Hitler. You implied I was a racist, a Trump supporter and a homophobe regardless if you explicitly said it just because I said stop dividing people.

Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by stephenr on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:54PM (#37529011)
> just because I said

That's the point though. The whole point is that the exact phrase you used, is used by right wing shit birds to shutdown any pushback or negative commentary on their views.

This whole thread is grounded in the discussion of a billionaire man baby trying to speed run the right wing shit-bird trail, and you use the literal phrase used by other right wing shit birds to defend such behaviour.

This is not at all like comparing any vegetarian to Hitler.

This like questioning their motives when someone is demanding you welcome them them "Heil, mein Führer" while doing a goose-step.

Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by ImJamal on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:59PM (#37530530)
The phrase is literally used by everybody not just right wingers. I don't think you were paying attention for the entirety of Trump's presidency since the left consistently used it. It is a completely innocuous phrase.

If I said "make America great again" or something like that then you might have a point.

Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by dang on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:57PM (#37561153)
You started a hellish flamewar in this thread and then fueled it repeatedly. Please don't do this on HN, and please particularly avoid tit-for-tat spats like this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We want curious conversation here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.