Awful how she keeps calling him ‘Coach.’

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    We had a middle ground: people who wanted abortions could get them, and those that didn’t want abortions didn’t have them. Any retreat from that position is not a ‘middle ground’.

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    I’m going to say here what got me banned from r/politics on Reddit…

    Krysten Sinema is literally Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter.

    Yes, yes that did get me banned. Not kidding.

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      And I can understand why when you abuse the word “literally” like that. What you mean is that she’s figuratively Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter. /s

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        Well…touché sir or madam. It appears that in this battle of wits I have come unarmed 😂

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          Not so fast friend. The literal definition includes its informal use as a synonym for figuratively. You’re still good.

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      I got banned from r/politics for wishing Rupert Murdoch got a nasty staph infection in an article which said he was in the hospital.

      I’d say it again too. Fuck Rupert Murdoch. I hope he gets a nasty staph infection.

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        Craziest part: I got a strike for using gendered language even though Dolores Umbridge is a proper name, and as far as I know both the fictional character, the actual person, and Krysten Sinema all identify as female.

        I wouldn’t have believed there were actually Krysten Sinema stans in the world if I hadn’t experienced their wrath first hand. Of all the raucous shit I said on Reddit over the years, that was apparently the thing that was over the line 🙃

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          /r/Politics mods were getting pretty heavy handed near the end there. I think it was because of the constant whining from conservatives about their bullshit being called out and downvoted whenever they posted it there.

          I caught a 1 week ban for something so minor I had to do a bunch of mental gymnastics to even figure out what they thought was objectionable about it. (And I can’t remember what it was now.)

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            r/Politics mods were getting pretty heavy handed near the end there

            …playing right into u/spez’s hands.

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      Yes, yes that did get me banned.

      Good. I say this as a former mega HP fan: Read. Another. BOOK.

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        Just because JK is a piece of shit doesn’t mean someone can’t enjoy HP. Further, it definitely doesn’t mean that comparing Sinema to Umbridge isn’t a great comparison.

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            Referencing a character in a wildly popular, successful, and entertaining young adult book series doesn’t mean someone hasn’t moved on. I haven’t read any of the books since the last one came out and have read many other books that imo are far better. It’s still a great reference.

            If you don’t like it, don’t read it. No need to be a gatekeeping twat about out it though. Just keep scroll and ‘move on’.

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    The “centrists” just want us to negotiate with the terrorists and hostage takers threatening to undermine our country unless they get what they want.

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    How about… No? How about we don’t negotiate with terrorists? How about Tubby goes and fucks himself?

    Any Republican party that could have been compromised with is dead, and its corpse is the breeding grounds for a new party of parasitic maggots. You don’t “compromise” with that.

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    She fucked over progressives, left the party, and is now telling Democrats to capitulate to a religious zealot.

    She’s everything centrist Democrats aspire to be.

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    Biden has to be so frustrated that he’s being put on par with someone whose claim to fame is helping people suffer from CTE.

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    “Why don’t you and the guy who wants to stab you talk it out and come to a middle ground where you only get stabbed a little bit”

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    Awful how she keeps calling him ‘Coach.’

    They’re kindred spirits – both unwilling to do anything in good faith.