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Nevilledog

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Mon Aug 29, 2022, 04:15 PM Aug 2022

Conservatives Get Mad When Liberals Don't Roll Over And Die



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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 can’t 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 else’s 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, Biden’s 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 women’s bodies, there’s 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
Do MORE ‼️ live love laugh Aug 2022 #1
Piss on 'em. I see what they are. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #2
nerds have been dealing w the biffs of the world all our lives. mopinko Aug 2022 #3
The Fascists Assholes can Cha Aug 2022 #4
I second that!! Imallin4Joe Aug 2022 #6
Conservatives feel oppressed when people they don't like simply exist IronLionZion Aug 2022 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Aug 2022 #8
Anita Bryant Skittles Aug 2022 #9
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
Like the bully who doesn't know what Deminpenn Aug 2022 #11

mopinko

(70,107 posts)
3. nerds have been dealing w the biffs of the world all our lives.
Mon Aug 29, 2022, 04:44 PM
Aug 2022

those of us who still come out of our shells in public do so because you cant scare us any more.

Response to IronLionZion (Reply #5)

Skittles

(153,160 posts)
9. Anita Bryant
Mon Aug 29, 2022, 07:14 PM
Aug 2022

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
Mon Aug 29, 2022, 07:12 PM
Aug 2022

FUCK them, I very much enjoy seeing Dems really FIGHT THESE FASCISTS

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