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How long before use of the word "triggered" is on the same level as a Godwin's Law violation? It's already up there with "TL;DR" as the lazy cop-out in countless internet threads.

The dumbest use of it so far is when I saw someone sum up a full-on flame war by saying that the guy who got angry was "triggered by just one word" - which was beyond ****ing dumb because the one word that "triggered" this guy was a certain racial slur (one which happens to sound pretty similar to "triggered"...) being used to describe him several times in the space of a few sentences.

Since I'm on the subject, I'll tear down that cornerstone of millennial-bashing that is no generation before theirs were "triggered" - a notion that is rendered complete bollocks by the fact the Express has a microscopic readership in the 15-34 demographic, yet their readership get whipped into a Two Minutes Hate on average twice a week.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
How long before use of the word "triggered" is on the same level as a Godwin's Law violation? It's already up there with "TL;DR" as the lazy cop-out in countless internet threads.
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Actually, if you write reams of sh*te with little relevant content, tl;dr is
what you deserve. The Internet forum tradition of keeping your postings short
enough to allow reasonable reply goes back decades.
 
RobSpur said:
Disagree with what ?

I disagree with the position widely taken by the social left, and the hypocrisy and harmfulness of their attitude, and its spelled out in the comment I've quoted.

I'm perfectly comfortable with the comment.

I expressed my opinion elsewhere in my own words this morning where I wrote,

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I see the leftish lovies are trotting out their usual self centred ignorance at the moment.
These arrogant morons who brand themselves as "love over hate", whilst failing to criticise those in their number brandishing banners advocating a physical attack on the president elect's wife, whose anger and psychological violence spills out every time they speak, and whose arrogance and obsession with condescending to others leads to their utter failure to understand that those who have a different view to them are not naturally people of hate.
These hate spawning idiots, who can't get it through their thick heads that it's their own arrogance, stupidity and refusal to listen to the reasonable views of others due to their conceited, arrogant, abstract view of the world, that creates more and more mutual anger.
These sore losers who can think of nothing but defending their armchair ride lifestyle, and who can't accept that there are disaffected people that don't fall into one of their cherished and mollycoddled minority groups, or that there are other (sensible, realistic) views of the world than their own head in the clouds bullshit."

I'm perfectly happy with that comment too.
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You complain of a particular attitude yet your post contains most if not all the traits you complain about.
It doesn't make for a decent discussion.
You refer to people as morons yet in another sentence complain they insult those who disagree with them.
It reminds me of the bizarreness of Trump demanding an apology from an actor who criticised him...Trump has raised similar complaints to you yet bitches and moans when someone takes up an argument with him.
People are trying to debate on here.
Me hating everything Trump is and you thinking hr is good shouldn't mean you are not able to discuss it with me.
 
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RobSpur said:
I'm not racist. I'm not sexist. I'm not a bully. I support equality.

But I am sick to death of the liberal agenda in our society.

About people being brought up to take offence at being told they aren't discriminated against.

About the arrogance and hypocrisy of those who brand themselves as lovers and those with a different opinion to their own haters.

About the constant stream of bullshit news stories focusing on total non issues because theyre politically correct.

About people manipulating events and statistics to support their agenda.

About people not being allowed to speak and not interested in listening.

It makes me sick, and I've had enough of it.
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For this comment to be understood you need to define what you mean by Liberal.
 
The RDBD said:
Actually, if you write reams of sh*te with little relevant content, tl;dr is
what you deserve. The Internet forum tradition of keeping your postings short
enough to allow reasonable reply goes back decades.
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More often than not people just post it as a trolling device. For example, one time I posted a couple of medium-length paragraphs to completely dismantle someone's inane gibberish, and they just responded "TL;DR" in that typical internet habit of having nothing to say but having to post something anyway.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
More often than not people just post it as a trolling device. For example, one time I posted a couple of medium-length paragraphs to completely dismantle someone's inane gibberish, and they just responded "TL;DR" in that typical internet habit of having nothing to say but having to post something anyway.
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Bear in mind that a screenful of text (24 lines) can be too much for many of the morons
with Internet access nowadays to mentally process. :)

The Usenet tradition comes from text-based readers (24 lines x 80 chars etc) .
So reams of screen pages used to be difficult to follow.

More so if posters just verbatim replied (each "level" of reply would be prefixed with ">" ,
so text prefixed with ">>>>>" meant the text came from a text in a message posted
FIVE messages earlier) .
 
Is it art imitating life, or vice-versa, in 2016 (I could not tell if Whoopi Goldberg
et al were speaking for themselves or on behalf of the *** regarding Trump) . :)
 
Just when you thought Trump apologists couldn't spout any more garbage, now they're trying to claim the reason they perform Nazi salutes is because of intolerance from the left.

In other words they're now using the defence of the wife beater: "Look what YOU made me do." - or, calling it what it is, the criminal acting as if they are the victim.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Just when you thought Trump apologists couldn't spout any more garbage, now they're trying to claim the reason they perform Nazi salutes is because of intolerance from the left.

In other words they're now using the defence of the wife beater: "Look what YOU made me do." - or, calling it what it is, the criminal acting as if they are the victim.
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About as palatable as the hillary supporter stood in front of trump tower holding a large placard reading, "RAPE MELIANA".

The writing off of left wing intolerance as the cause of right wing behaviour by the way, is exactly the criticism and observation I made above.

People tell you what their grievance is, and you simply tell them that that's "garbage". It's this attitude, and the attitude of shoving your * views down everyone's throat and not giving them an option of commenting, that is the cause of antipathy, whether you regard that as, "garbage" or not.

I'm a 'trump supporter' by the way, and like half of america, I have no need to apologise for it.

* EDIT : "your" is a reference not to HBIC inidividually/personally. Apologies for any offence or misunderstanding.
 
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RobSpur said:
About as palatable as the hillary supporter stood in front of trump tower holding a large placard reading, "RAPE MELIANA".

The writing off of left wing intolerance as the cause of right wing behaviour by the way, is exactly the criticism and observation I made above.

People tell you what their grievance is, and you simply tell them that that's "garbage". It's this attitude, and the attitude of shoving your views down everyone's throat and not giving them an option of commenting, that is the cause of antipathy, whether you regard that as, "garbage" or not.

I'm a 'trump supporter' by the way, and like half of america, I have no need to apologise for it.
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No, when people try and use blatant crybully tactics to justify their behaviour I describe it as exactly what it is: complete and utter garbage. Because that's what it is.

It's funny how you accuse me of having an attitude of shoving my views down everyone's throat and not giving them the option of commenting - right before you do the exact same thing, and it's hardly the first time you've been guilty of doing that in the last couple of pages of this thread either.
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
No, when people try and use blatant crybully tactics to justify their behaviour I describe it as exactly what it is: complete and utter garbage. Because that's what it is.

It's funny how you accuse me of having an attitude of shoving my views down everyone's throat and not giving them the option of commenting - right before you do the exact same thing, and it's hardly the first time you've been guilty of doing that in the last couple of pages of this thread either.
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Out of interest HBIC, how did you (and this time I am referring to you individually !), reach the conclusion that these peoples' claims about what had motivated them were "garbage" ?

How were you able to ascertain the cause of their behaviour and sentiments with such certainty, as to be able to conclude that the reason that they gave themselves was not true ?

And what were the actual causes that you were able to ascertain ?
 
RobSpur said:
Out of interest HBIC, how did you (and this time I am referring to you individually !), reach the conclusion that these peoples' claims about what had motivated them were "garbage" ?

How were you able to ascertain the cause of their behaviour and sentiments with such certainty, as to be able to conclude that the reason that they gave themselves was not true ?

And what were the actual causes that you were able to ascertain ?
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I've quite clearly stated why their claims are garbage on two occasions: because it's blatant crybully behaviour - something that Trump himself is guilty of.
 
I can't normally stand this guy, and I think that most of what he says is garbage, but from aroun 3.15 on here, I think he gets it absoloutely spot on :

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I think that what he identifies is not only arguably the biggest problem with and threat to our society, but - as he says - one of the major causes of anger and disaffection that leads to a result like trump winning the election.
 
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