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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mr Potatohead
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These are things the GOP puts out there to distract from the insurrection, the Texas/Midwest catastrophe, and the crimes being surfaced from the Trump Administration.[/quote]
If you are on this thread, then the GOP's strategy is working.  [/quote]

Not if you're on this thread to remind people what the real pressing issues are.  They aren't a couple of Dr. Suess books.[/quote]
You really think anyone on DCUM doesn't read the newspapers?  Interesting theory.[/quote]

This isn't a news site, it's a forum for discussion. [/quote]
Right, so on a thread consistong mostly of progressives congratulating themselves for not caring about this story becauae it is a GOP distraction, PP shows up to remind that this is a GOP distraction because there is other news, and that's okay with you because this isn't a news site anyway.  What did you say the GOP was doing?[/quote]

Distorting the truth, if not outright lying.  [/quote]
Yes, and is there someone who doesn't do this?  It seems that today's political discourse consists solely of pointing out what's wrong with other people.  I think there is something fundamentally wrong with that. [/quote]

Consider the stakes involved, otherwise you're not being intellectually honest about what's going on. One side is pointing out how the other lied about the election, supported an armed insurrection, did not hold the president to account, and is now pretending that it never even happened. That side is super angry that Dr. Seuss' racist caricatures are no longer in print and is blaming the other for censorship (???).

C'mon. Don't both sides this.[/quote]
Frankly, I'm well beyond bothsidism and well into the "we are totally screwed" stage.  Minor news items have existed since the Stone Age.  It's only now in the internet age, when we are actually inundated by minor news items, that people are simple dismissing other people's minor concerns as too minor to notice, therefore it must be something else.

And the fact that you turn straight to my own supposed dishonesty is really the point.  You are really assuming bad faith on my part, which is an act of bad faith.   We live in a world of bath faith actors calling each other out for bad faith.  I have just done it too, because there is no way out, except one.  Assume that if people have a concern, that is an actual concern, and it's not something else.

I am concerned about the rise of bad actors, including my reluctant self.  You can believe I mean that or not. The choice is yours.[/quote]

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