I have 11 hours worth of documentation due by tomorrow morning to keep an important contract, and yet here I am looking at shitposts

Yeah but this can also be used on annoying spouses

I’m pretty sure the target audience for American Dad is teenagers?

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Haha I tricked you. My dad works for Lemmy and traced your IP address- the police are on their way now

Stop talking to me or I will call the police

I didn’t mean it, pls respond

Stop talking to me or I will call the police

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Blah blah big words blah blah sciencey stuff

Have you figured out how to get blocked yet?

Survey says I can’t find a YouTube tutorial so how am I supposed to know

anyone opposed to Trump

Just to be extra clear, myself and OOP oppose Trump. I don’t think you meant it that way, but I wanted to be clear

If you didn’t want an argument, [this] was not a strategic move

Yeah that’s what I’m saying, I made a mistake lol

Also, I don’t think OOP was saying it’s deceptive, though I might argue there’s some self-deception going on under the hood. I know ‘cognitive dissonance’ gets thrown around a lot as a buzz word but, as a therapist, it really does look like that

It sounds like my edit in the post body may have come across with a sarcastic or pompous tone, but I really did mean it genuinely

I agree with you, I just didn’t intend to come here to argue lol. Tbh I normally just block people with your opinion, but it is nice to have discussions like this every now and then, and have my positions challenged

Absolutely false. Try again. We started this conversation by me addressing this exact point. If I explain clearly what I mean, and you decide that I am “avoiding admitting” some different thing, then there’s not a lot of point to us talking to each other.

trying to make sure at least the first guy is in charge while we’re dealing with the rest of the problem, get painted as “rationalizing” or “beating around the bush” about some kind of secret love for serial-killing that must be at heart of their reaction to the whole situation.

I never implied some secret love. It is blatant support though. You can’t choose either of those options and pretend you didn’t make a calculated decision for evil. The “lesser of two evils” thing necessarily implies that you are supporting evil. You’re trying so hard to talk around it, but it is what it is.