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Originally Posted by Yorkie
I think people get annoyed by hyperbole because its not exactly useful but unfortunately has become the language of political conversation. As a PARFer you know that you only way for you to be understood or accepted by your right leaning buddies is to employ hyperbole. Hyperbole gets you noticed and you enjoy that. Just like the ultra left paints anyone slightly right of center as racists and Nazis, the ultra right has to describe dems as soviet style dictators. Unfortunately, this is turning people away from meaningful conversations about issues.
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Yeah, people are intellectually lazy. Many find quite a lot of utility in projecting emotion. --it's a game of who can play outraged better than the next. --which, btw, is full-ON
people turning away from meaningful conversations about issues.
IOW, trolling produces
some meaningful conversations about issues.
Whereas
emo-outrage competitions do nothing. - and if you don't accept this truth this I'm going to be really really angry. G'Damit you had better believe me!
See, stupid. Oh wait, did that ^ work on some of you?
