…and vote.
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Oh yeah, that too!
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Tangentially related: is there a word for what this person is doing? Their smugly haughty faux “reasonableness” feels very much like sea-lioning, and also a lot like JAQing off, but doesn’t quite fit either of these definitions. Seems like it ought to have a name. Maybe something German.
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I was going to link two semi relevant thing but decided to read the rest of the comments first. That was a mistake. I now need to look up if sea-lioning is a real thing and also restart my brain.
Penalties:
Exceptions where someone actually said why/what the medical reasoning for them was and what they were trying to balance:
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It absolutely is.
There are several methods used to intentionally derail conversations, and this particular member is in the habit of using many of them.
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His videos pop up in my YouTube recommendations from time to time and I swear that the majority of those are him complaining about some aspect of NYC government.
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Some of them are entirely convincing that the NYC system of permits and fines is broken at a profoundly Catch 22 level of incurability. But others just seem like kvetching, where he rails against urban decline and Covid-related issues that are not unique to NYC.
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I’m not sure why this community should be hosting dangerous FUD that is killing people. Doesn’t seem to me like a mostly wondrous thing.
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In fact it seems to be directly in violation of the terms, no matter how “civilly” such specious arguments are couched.
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I should not doubt the wisdom of the @Melizmatic .
Now a new term has been connected to a known behaviour. How it took 5 years from inception to penetrating my brain - I do not know.
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Now Rand Paul is chiming in on vaccination requirements for restaurants, saying vaccinated people should “mind your own business.” Effing selfish, genocidal Libertarian duche. The un-vaccinated are everyone’s business in a pandemic that has killed over 630,000 Americans, with thousands more on their way right now.
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I know it probably makes me a bad person, but as I sit here today, fully vaccinated, I don’t care about the unvaccinated that have had the chance to get vaccinated and declined it. Or rather, I do care about them, but only to the extent that I wish they would either get vaccinated right now or die already. (People who cannot get vaccinated for any real reason - a (real) medical excuse, children under 12, lack of availability otherwise - I exclude from my not caring. And the way I show that I care about them? I am super serious about the other idiots getting vaccinated or removing themselves from the gene pool.)
Anecdotal to that point:
For once, I actually encourage reading the comments.
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I wouldn’t say that makes you a bad person, but it isn’t a very good position or attitude. What it is, though, is understandable. The frustration and tiredness are very real.
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