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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Waaaaaait wait wait. Hold the phone. Have we done a whole freaky Friday thing where YOU'RE the one championing the marketplace of ideas and the value of conversation in terms of winning ideological debates and bringing people to your side instead of making fun of them? That can't be what's happening here. Is that what's happening here?
Anyway I'm glad there are Pete Buttigieges... Buttigiei? Out there fighting the good fight like this and going on Fox News to calmly explain why Democrats aren't actively murdering newborn babies or injecting them with transgender genes or 5g or whatnot, but I'm sorry, it's not 2016 anymore and people should know better at this point, and I'm just... I'm gonna have to take at least today, of all days, to mock them. If only to cope with the possibility that they actually stumbled into a voting booth and pulled the lever for a Putin surrogate (either of them).
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Baby, you know I love mocking the plebs and I’m not here to stop you from doing just that. I’m just saying there’s an approach here that’s probably more effective in certain cases, and even if there isn’t, if we care about democracy we need to be careful about how we frame the mockery we delight in.
I know people mean well by mocking 3rd party/non voters, because their assumption is those people should vote Dem and they’re probably right. But the reality is that a bunch of those people would also vote Trump. And maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess if a lot more Republicans who disliked Trump but had the weird need to vote Republican regardless decided to stay home instead.