Full Reichstag Fire

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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Molok wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:37 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 5:43 am
Entire movements, media ecosystems, and political campaigns have been built on smearing opponents with those labels. Pretending that’s just “a single remark” while ignoring the avalanche of slander is pure gaslighting.
for example?
Great multi-decade examples fitting that sort of claim include folks like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter.

Talking Points USA is a great contemporary example.
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Molok wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:37 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 5:43 am
Entire movements, media ecosystems, and political campaigns have been built on smearing opponents with those labels. Pretending that’s just “a single remark” while ignoring the avalanche of slander is pure gaslighting.
for example?
Oh. My bad. No examples of anyone offering anything but compliments. Except for Trump. He is the only one.
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 2:32 pm
Molok wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:37 pm
for example?
Oh. My bad. No examples of anyone offering anything but compliments. Except for Trump. He is the only one.
I imagine it must be quite frustrating being this much of a coward.
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Molok wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:37 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 5:43 am
Entire movements, media ecosystems, and political campaigns have been built on smearing opponents with those labels. Pretending that’s just “a single remark” while ignoring the avalanche of slander is pure gaslighting.
for example?
Or Whiskey could also go with Nick Fuentes’ America First, or NewsMax and Fox, or Gateway Pundit, or Trump’s Truth Social.
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Molok wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 2:35 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 2:32 pm

Oh. My bad. No examples of anyone offering anything but compliments. Except for Trump. He is the only one.
I imagine it must be quite frustrating being this much of a coward.
That’s your clever take-away? Wow. I am devastated.
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:38 pm
Some Schmo wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:04 pm
It's funny how neo-Nazis apparently hate being called Nazis, so much so that they'll vote for a damned Nazi.

Strange.
Are you a politician and is this the first time you have made this word slip?
What word slip? :?
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Gunnar wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 3:34 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:38 pm
Are you a politician and is this the first time you have made this word slip?
What word slip? :?
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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canpakes wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:39 pm
Hound of Heaven wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:22 am
People like me who are Democrats are emotionally being forced to switch to the Republican Party by your attitude, cult mentality, and narcissistic behavior.
“I was forced to vote with the culty narcissists because you called them culty narcissists” will never be anything more than another example of blaming your behavior on other people.
As I've said many times before, if you voted for Trump because you perceive "leftists" as mean to you, you are the damned idiot I've been describing all along.

If MAGAtes don't want to be called idiots, fascists, assholes, morons, Nazis, or any of the other reasonable monikers, they should stop being those things. Grow up and take some damned responsibility in your life, just for a change of pace. See what happens.
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Some Schmo wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 3:50 pm
canpakes wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:39 pm


“I was forced to vote with the culty narcissists because you called them culty narcissists” will never be anything more than another example of blaming your behavior on other people.
As I've said many times before, if you voted for Trump because you perceive "leftists" as mean to you, you are the damned idiot I've been describing all along.

If MAGAtes don't want to be called idiots, fascists, assholes, morons, Nazis, or any of the other reasonable monikers, they should stop being those things. Grow up and take some damned responsibility in your life, just for a change of pace. See what happens.
Was this flattering comment made by a politician?
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Re: Full Reichstag Fire

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Whiskey wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 3:34 pm
Molok wrote:
Thu Oct 02, 2025 2:35 pm


I imagine it must be quite frustrating being this much of a coward.
That’s your clever take-away? Wow. I am devastated.
It doesn't require cleverness to see how desperately insecure you are.
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