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Who’s vilifying? Is calling people out on their behavior vilifying?
It just seems like a lot of weak people just want to get treated special and the second nobody treats them special they claim to be a victim.
So every white man has the same behavior? Or is "white man" a behavior itself? Should I change my skin color or cut off my dick?
Did I write that somewhere?
All I see is someone trying really hard to be a victim and to be offended. The one's acting like the left is too mean to them are just unoriginal crybabies that have too much shame to say why they actually vote with the pedophile, anti-science, bigoted, authoritarian party. It isn't economics.
You claim that the left doesn't vilify white men. That it just vilifies their behaviour. Yet I often see phrases like "all men are trash", "whites are the reason the world is fucked up", "I would rather be with a bear than a man".
At what point do any of those quotes become a leftist talking points?
So every stupid thing a woman on the internet says is a leftist talking point and makes you vote for a known pedophile party. All this because you’re a strong, intelligent and independent man.
First of all. I don't know why you are even assuming I voted for Donald Trump or the US republican party. I'm not even American, and I have never voted to any non-leftwing party. And I have voted in every national election I was allowed to vote in. So you can stop with that.
Those quotes become leftist talking points when many leftists use them, and other leftists don't call them out on it, and you're a Nazi if you don't agree with those quotes.
What is a leftist position if not something that leftists say and they exclude you from leftism if you don't agree to?
because lefits can't own up to how shitty they are towards men. so the fallback is 'well you must be a seixst/racist piece of shit who loves trump' if you ever confront them with their own racism, sexism and hateful words.
also if you are leftist who isn't shitty towards men, or white people, you aren't 'really a leftist' because so many of them have build their entire identity on hating white men in particular, especially poor white men who don't vote the way they wish they would vote.
sorry, so what sex/ethnicity to i have to be to be a victim of society?
You have to show how you’re a victim before you can claim to be a victim. The rest of society will either agree or not according to your claims and evidence.
cool, so if i get raped and society says it's not rape, it's not rape then?
interesting.
lol sure
You gotta try really hard to make yourself a victim.
Edit- isn’t one of the main problems for GOP men is that the they can’t get laid? It’s funny that you went with rape as your example when the right wing guys can’t even get sex with consent and are very much associated with sex crimes.
Lol literally any problem that exists is the white man's fault right now. Really?
Who is saying that on the left?
It sounds more like projection and insecurity on your part than anyone actually saying that.
Joy Reid. Aoc. Ohmar. Whoopi. The entire cast of the view. Those are just off the top.
Any actual quotes from them that prove your assertion? And no one cares about Whoopi, she's not some representative of the left.
Seems like you have a problem with non-white women?
Only two of those are politicians. Show proof that they blame white men in general.
One is an old actress and the other is a TV personality. These seem much more likely to say something stupid but you gotta show proof.
What’s funny about this is that Republicans constantly say the most vile racist and bigoted stuff all the time but conservatives always act like victims with hurt feelings about something they imagined was said.
Also, there’s GOP is full of pedophiles.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/19/young-republicans-group-chat-internet-reality-00613876
https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook
It doesn't matter they arent politicians. They are the left. Just like you can claim tucker Carlson for the right I can for this.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/23/us-news/a-look-at-joy-reids-biggest-controversies-and-outbursts-as-her-msnbc-show-gets-the-ax/
https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/entertainment/meghan-mccain-rips-the-view-after-sunny-hostins-meltdown-over-trump-win-insane-asylum/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Sunny+Hostin+blamed+%E2%80%9Cuneducated+white%2Cran+a+%E2%80%9Cflawless+campaign.%E2%80%9D&text=Hostin+%E2%80%94+an+avowed+Democrat+and%2Cterms+with+Trump%27s+landslide+victory.
Gop full of pedos is definitely not an argument. The Democratic party is full of pedos and sexually insane people.
Lol you chose an opinion piece article and one that looks at events with abnormal bias. Good job.
So you have some vague comments from Joy Reid a neoliberal that got fired and a comment from an unqualified talentless daughter of a dead US senator as the reason why your feelings are being attacked by "the left". Seems awfully soft to me.
Do you only watch TV shows where the target audience is middle aged liberal women?
I gave you a list of over 1,000 GOP members getting caught being sex offenders, rapists and pedophiles. Feel free to provide something similar to back up your arguments.
ahahahahah how can ANYONE be THIS FUCKING STUPID? HOW???!!
We just saw Republicans defend pedophiles by refusing to release the Epstein papers, you massive fucking dumbass.
The GOP is OFFICIALLY the party of pedophiles and their god-emperor is a felon, demented child rapist.
Oh you mean the Epstein files that Biden had too?
The files were under judicial seal until January 2025, you ignorant fucking moron.
And this argument, if it were a legitimate one, wouldn't matter because Democrats had been trying to release them, not cover them up. What the FUCK is wrong with you? How are you going to say it's Democrats that wanted to cover them up when ONLY Republicans have blocked their release.
Biden has supported releasing the files, even Clinton was. Only Trump and his toadies wanted to cover up AFTER CAMPAIGNING ON RELEASING THEM. What happened there, champ?
Pretty fucking pathetic attempt to defend your party's public defense of child sex traffickers and rapists, you sick fucks.
Lol, you didn't answer his question because you know you're wrong.
Reparations. Election wins. All kinds of shit are the white man's fault right now
https://nypost.com/2025/02/23/us-news/a-look-at-joy-reids-biggest-controversies-and-outbursts-as-her-msnbc-show-gets-the-ax/
https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/entertainment/meghan-mccain-rips-the-view-after-sunny-hostins-meltdown-over-trump-win-insane-asylum/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Sunny+Hostin+blamed+%E2%80%9Cuneducated+white%2Cran+a+%E2%80%9Cflawless+campaign.%E2%80%9D&text=Hostin+%E2%80%94+an+avowed+Democrat+and%2Cterms+with+Trump%27s+landslide+victory.
The NY Post is supermarket tabloid, you absolute fucking joke. There is zero serious conversation of "reparations" in the Democrat party.
And the only people who think anyone is blaming white people today for slavery are extremely dumb. And oddly defensive despite not being targeted.
Reparations are happening in California. The New York Post just puts facts on that article on the events that happened idk what you're saying is tabloid.