• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    For me it’s both, I guess?

    A poorly made graph, resembling hand drawn ones. There are no units in the graph. The X axis is labelled "The amount of bullshit the liberal said", and the Y axis is labelled "how polite I am". The graph itself shows a sigmoid curve: it starts high, then suddenly drops, then stays low. The dropping area is highlighted, and labelled "the bullshit threshold".

    Before the bullshit threshold I’m calmly reading what the liberal says, and calmly explaining stuff like:

    • why capitalism won’t fix itself
    • why it’s a bad idea to give the Nazi a voice, Weimar Republic style
    • why all this “my country” thing is inane, and why we should be identifying ourselves first and foremost as human beings
    • why and how gender and sex are different things

    But as the liberal keeps babbling, and enters the bullshit threshold, my attitude suddenly flips to something like “aaaah, cut off the crap! I already explained this, dammit. Do you need to be spoonfed basic [reading comprehension | reasoning]???”

    I don’t typically use the word “bootlicker” in English, but in Portuguese I do use “pelego” (kind of the same thing) a fair bit.