I'm tired of clever comebacks to right wing terror that don't involve actual exercise of power. You can't gotcha the right into changing. You can only overpower them

peach eating vagus nerve cultist of the house of tool ape
I'm tired of clever comebacks to right wing terror that don't involve actual exercise of power. You can't gotcha the right into changing. You can only overpower them
people used to do it for morale and now they've deluded themselves into thinking that alone is power
see also: "but thats not legal"
and they keep doing it anyway which tells you what about the status of law, citizen?
Realizing just how immune these people are to being called on hypocrisy or any of the social regulatory methods of polite society is terribly frustrating.
I feel like this like I do about Roe being overturned; there's a lot of people primed to boil over into direct action, but we're all scared to be the first.
It’s because they’re not hypocrites, they’re liars. Calling them hypocrites is just saying “congrats you got away with lying again” and it makes them happy.