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Every time a hint of liberal assertiveness has reared its head, the right tries to turn the entire country into a safe space for itself where it cant publicly be criticized.
Conservatives Get Mad When Liberals Don't Roll Over & Die by @owillis
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Conservatives Get Mad When Liberals Don't Roll Over And Die
The Nerds Aren't Supposed To Fight Back
7:26 AM · Aug 29, 2022
Will of the Northern Loons 🇺🇸🇸🇪🌻🇺🇦
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Every time a hint of liberal assertiveness has reared its head, the right tries to turn the entire country into a safe space for itself where it cant publicly be criticized.
Conservatives Get Mad When Liberals Don't Roll Over & Die by @owillis
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Conservatives Get Mad When Liberals Don't Roll Over And Die
The Nerds Aren't Supposed To Fight Back
7:26 AM · Aug 29, 2022
https://oliverwillis.substack.com/p/conservatives-get-mad-when-liberals?s=w&utm_medium=web
The roles in American politics are very clear. Conservatives are the jocks/bullies, who run the entire place and who set the rules for everyone elses behavior. What they say is what goes, and everybody else must bend to their will.
By contrast, liberals are the nerds. They are always to be meek and timid, always sticklers for the rules and regulations, never violating the norms and most importantly they are never, ever to challenge the notion that conservatives are the top dogs, the alphas.
Those are the rules, and far too often they are adhered to by Republicans and Democrats and in a not too subtle fashion, enforced by the mainstream media.
But sometimes, far too infrequently, liberals push back a little bit. And it drives the right mad.
Take for instance President Biden referring to MAGA Republicans as semi-fascist. If anything, Bidens criticism was far too mild and narrowly focused. Republicans as a whole have long embraced some of the worst attributes of fascism, and with actions like storming the Capitol, attacking drag performers, and controlling womens bodies, theres nothing semi about any of it.
And yet, even this was too much assertiveness for the right. Fox News threw a fit about it, attempting to manufacture backlash to Biden by comparing it to Hillary Clinton calling conservative bigots deplorables (she was right and too mild then too).
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Conservatives Get Mad When Liberals Don't Roll Over And Die (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2022
OP
strange that gun humping repukes are the biggest fucking snowflakes on the planet
Skittles
Aug 2022
#7
Hey Biff, I think Dark Brandon puts that whole 'Liberals are weak' meme to bed for good.
Tommymac
Aug 2022
#10
live love laugh
(13,109 posts)1. Do MORE ‼️
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)2. Piss on 'em. I see what they are.
mopinko
(70,107 posts)3. nerds have been dealing w the biffs of the world all our lives.
those of us who still come out of our shells in public do so because you cant scare us any more.
Cha
(297,240 posts)4. The Fascists Assholes can
Fuck OFF.
Imallin4Joe
(758 posts)6. I second that!!
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)5. Conservatives feel oppressed when people they don't like simply exist
Response to IronLionZion (Reply #5)
Skittles This message was self-deleted by its author.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)9. Anita Bryant
I remember asking my bf, what did gay folk ever do to her?
His response: "They simply exist".
Skittles
(153,160 posts)7. strange that gun humping repukes are the biggest fucking snowflakes on the planet
FUCK them, I very much enjoy seeing Dems really FIGHT THESE FASCISTS
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)10. Hey Biff, I think Dark Brandon puts that whole 'Liberals are weak' meme to bed for good.
Deminpenn
(15,286 posts)11. Like the bully who doesn't know what
to do when the victim punches back.