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EasyBreezer said:
I thought we were discussing reasonably innocuous modern symbols that culture warriors are insisting are representative of right wingers. I'm sure there is a reasonably large difference between the phrase NPC, electric boogaloo, the circle game and a swastika.
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"Culture warriors" aren't insisting on it. The people who have adopted these things have transformed their meaning. That's how symbols work. A thing becomes symbolic of another thing.

Something silly: the swastika remains a benign good luck symbol in some places. Place I work receives a product made in India. There are two options, and the factory marks which option is in the box with a little ink stamp. The stamp? A swastika. Something we only realized after a customer called and asked WTF, as they assumed we had done it. So then we had to Sharpie out a bunch of swastikas so that customers did not think that we, a company owned by an Orthodox Jewish guy, were Nazis.
 
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Gregm1988 said:
No I didn’t say that. Not at all. It is quite baffling that you would say that given what I said is written above and you quoted it. No mention of “connection” just like Onionman didn’t mention the phrase “NPC” at all. Which is what I actually said. Because that is another person you claimed said something that they absolutely did not.

And you talk about to things being tedious. If people are just going to make up what other people have said and then criticise them for it then the any discussion is pointless. I know some people do that more than other including people who either straw man or use massive projection in every post they make. But if everyone is going to do it then things will get daft
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Okay maybe I was being slightly facetious, but you said that until a public left wing figure used the phrase NPC then you will reassess how you consider it's meaning.

It hasn't been de facto considered a indicator of being right wing.. it's an innocuous gaming term and should be left as such.
 
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I was considering watching the Johnson hearing but I can’t stand the sight nor sound of the idiot. The man clearly and deliberately misled parliament and the people with his repeated and ridiculous assertions that he did not mislead them deliberately.
I would actually take this further, should the panel find against him. Extend the investigation to those who repeated his lies, in his defence. Amputate the rotten parts to save the rest of the body, which in this case is decency, trust and integrity l

I will just add this and hope that it is considered after Johnson has made his incoherent, nonsensical comments in response to perfectly legitimate questions.

There's an important legal principle that says “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” That's right: you can't defend your actions by arguing you didn't know they were illegal, even if you honestly did not realise you were breaking the law.
 
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