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devils panties 12/23/2024 (thedevilspanties.com)
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So these comments are mine but if you go to the site the artist comments on the strip. Not all the time but definitely more frequently in the last few years over early on. This is sorta a common shtick I see where the progressive ideals are secretly for personal greedy reasons. I always love it. It is funny because I do see progressive causes from a greedy perspective. I would like all the people I interact with as I move through society to be educated and healthy. I like public spaces. I like well maintained infrastructure. and I'm not afraid to pay taxes for it, provided taxes are collected progressively. People should be able to make a decent wage.

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[+] -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Liberals saying they support unions and strikes, and then complaining about strikes interrupting commerce and shipping for their own entitled reasons is such a liberal thing to do. They don’t seem to realize that they’re falling for the propaganda traps that are present to try to prevent further support for unionization.

Edit: lol I’ve angered the liberal hive mind. It might be time for some of y’all to read up on the characteristics of classical liberalism and maybe Combat Liberalism instead of feeling attacked and proving my point.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Leave some straw for the rest of us.

    I can edit too:

    Okay so we're talking about the difference between "All squares are rectangles" and "Not all rectangles are squares."

    What you initially said, and what I offered a "conservative/Nazi" counterpoint to, is "Rectangles doing square things is such a rectangle thing to do," when most rectangles are not squares.

    This is the epitome of a straw man argument.

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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s not a strawman if you’ve actually witnessed it. Those types of ultralibs aren’t well liked even in liberal circles, and they are a rarity. But seeing them crop up and contort themselves into pretzels is amusing.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, no, no. You don't get to pretend that what you originally said was something else entirely.

    Liberals saying they support unions and strikes, and then complaining about strikes interrupting commerce and shipping for their own entitled reasons is such a liberal thing to do.

    Those types of ultralibs aren’t well liked even in liberal circles, and they are a rarity.

    Your first comment was a blanket statement. Your second comment tried to walk that back into a very specific statement. Those are two entirely different things, and your pretending they aren't instead of admitting you were wrong in the first case is telling.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean… that is a very liberal thing to do. I wasn’t saying every liberal is like that. I’m saying that kind of behavior falls in line with liberalism.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So is it "liberals" doing "such a liberal thing to do" or only what "ultralibs" who "are a rarity" do?

    Those are different. You're talking out of both sides of your mouth.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They’re both liberals. Everything I’ve said still applies.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Conservatives marching down the street carrying Nazi flags is such a conservative thing to do then, yes?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not all conservatives are Nazis, but chances are pretty high based on history that all Nazis are conservatives.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So would you say that the statement "Conservatives marching down the street carrying Nazi flags is such a conservative thing to do" is substantially true or substantially false?

    Maybe a better distinction would be "accurate or misleading".

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If a 100% of Nazis are historically conservative or conservative-adjacent, it is a conservative thing to do. That’s not stating all conservatives are automatically Nazis. In this case though, I’d probably just say it’s a very Nazi thing to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Okay so we're talking about the difference between "All squares are rectangles" and "Not all rectangles are squares."

    What you initially said, and what I offered a "conservative/Nazi" counterpoint to, is "Rectangles doing square things is such a rectangle thing to do," when most rectangles are not squares.

    This is the epitome of a straw man argument.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    getting into a logical argument over a figure of speech idomatic expression is such a lemmy thing to do~~

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are "they" in the room with us right now?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well. That’s one way to announce you don’t know any liberals. None of the ones I know are worried about getting late packages due to these strikes, but then most all of them try to support non-shitty businesses anyway.

    Or maybe you just can’t lump everyone together in neat little groups.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago*

    Some liberals are just more pedantic than others. Most of them are not like that and any time I see them crop up in chats I’m part of, they get scolded by basically everyone. They are the rare ultralibs that have a high level of entitlement.

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