• gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Telling people things you disagree with is cringe is just a weird attempt to bully them via social pressure. If you don't like what I'm doing, just say it. Don't be passive aggressive.

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      4 years ago

      thesis: that thing is cringe

      antithesis: to call a thing cringe, is an act of bullying and is passive-aggressive

      synthesis: passive-aggressive bullying by means of cringe: "the thing that is cringe" is the claim that "to call a thing cringe, is an act of bullying and is passive-aggressive"

      we are each both the bullier and the bullied, caught in a never-ending cycle of cringe,

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        4 years ago

        Nah it's just a shitty way to tell someone you don't like what they said by trying to invoke some sort of shame by exposure argument. It only seems to work on younger people because I'm too old to give a fuck.

      • butt [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        You've forgotten the moral imperative and have, thusly, posted cringe

    • ComradeAndy [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Im not being tangential. You are calling Ryan a radlib, like who the fuck cares enough to make the distinction apparent?

      • gayhobbes [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Because he's hardly even radicalized and the libs can't even handle that, which is the point. What's the point in telling me it's cringe?