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Warpy

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3. I think that's kind of covered under "assholes."
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 10:41 PM
Apr 2025

but only for the assholes who want to be given permission to act on that bigotry, like calling a black elder statesman "boy" on camera and microphone in Congress.

My dad was a bigot. However, I hever saw him be rude, dismissive, or patronizing to any POC. That's the difference right there, people can hold some pretty rancid opinions but if they don't act on them, they're not assholes. That Fat Grifter (that is what you meant by TFG, right?) just gave a whole bunch of people on the edge permission to slide into being active assholes and they like it.

Some of them will figure it out as they lose their jobs and houses and slip into hopelessness.

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