It’s because it’s All About Them. Their (as fragile as spun-sugar) ego is all-important, and anything that threatens it has to go. And since they wrap their ego up in Being a Republican, and Being a Strong White Man, and all the racist bullshit that goes with that stance, that makes Harris is a physical manifestation of everything they hate. Such ‘challenges’ to their ego cannot be allowed to exist.
And of course he adds in a picture of John Wayne, the draft-dodging, woman-beating, other wannabe cowboy poser.
Not the same. A more apt version using your comparison would be someone saying ‘I’ve been sober for a year!’ and the other person (who still drinks, but perhaps cheered them on now and again from the sidelines) says either ‘You mean we’ve been sober for a year!’ or ‘Yes, and it’s all thanks to me!’ - never mind they didn’t actively step in to help, or try to go dry themselves.
What the complaint you quoted was objecting to are people claiming full part of something they had no control over and no (or not much) involvement in, just to make themselves feel more important.
Yes we as a social species like to share in accomplishments, and that’s fine! But there is a line, that unfortunately gets crossed quite a lot, where people start to feel that they themselves were involved in the accomplishments of others, and that’s not so good. To paraphrase an above poster, we didn’t win the Super Bowl.
And also, some things people take ‘group pride’ in aren’t accomplishments at all. Being born in a specific place, for instance, or having a specific skin color. Or even just trying to share credit with every inventor/creator/whatever of the same gender. It does all tie back to our instinctive tribalism, but that doesn’t make it a good thing.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill
Hahahahahaha
Go to any place Christian nutters have ‘missionaried’ in over in Africa and you can see them with the masks off.
The only reason that sort of shit doesn’t openly happen in most of Europe anymore is it isn’t a popular idea with secular people, and religious leaders don’t have enough power to force it down people’s throats - yet.
Citation needed
Because I’m pretty sure puberty blockers do literally none of that.
Oh, don’t worry; they definitely want to ban them for cis kids too (or at least girls). The one thing Conservatives the world over have in common is they like their women young.
I wonder if there’s a bit of not wanting to believe what people can accomplish if a massive number of us all teamed up to do something.
Because then they’d feel guilty for not getting up out of their armchair and going to support whatever cause they claim they’re supporting from the comfort of home.
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
-Mrs. Goose, Her Book
Boy, rules for thee but not for me. The wife can’t kill a woman she finds sleeping with her husband?
Just of those songs that ‘everyone knows’ but no-one knew who wrote it. It’s been driving people crazy for decades.
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women. ~Mary Wollstonecraft
Let’s just say his followers are all of a type.
See, kids, this is what happens when you sleep through history class.
Oh noooo it’s old no-one should like stuff that’s old only new things are cool
You know, one day the stuff you like will be old too.
Also, Star Trek been around a long time, yeah, but it’s still going with new content.
I’m on World and I see the word.
No, you’re just being purposely vague for some reason. And you really want to pay people substandard wages for some reason.
But if you legit can’t come up with any concrete examples and have to fall back on things like eating food, then fine, we can end the discussion.
Again the vagueness. ‘Can’t work very well’. Define that. Are we talking someone who’s not mentally apt enough to do NASA rocket science but still can ring up groceries just fine? Are we talking someone wheelchair-bound so they can’t stock shelves? What level are we talking here? Because those people could still do jobs and earn a living wage.
No. Give me concrete examples, please.
And how do they do that?
Hmmm
Even the Far Side got in on the act