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On 4/25/24 12:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2024 at 3:35:52 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-04-23 17:04:10 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>
>>>   BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   For once I'm on Alec's side. This girl deserved a Baldwin Shot to the jaw.
>>>>   
>>>
>>> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1782537868654592000/pu/vid/avc1/320x568/fUPEunTyWUNbP57L.mp4?tag=12
>>>
>>>>
>>>   https://apple.news/A9M48T4LsTYOCvCmG3eY14Q
>>>   
>>>   "The agitator, who hosts a show on social media called Crackhead Barney &
>>>   Friends and is known for ambush interviews"
>>
>> They showed it on TMZ Live, from "why did you shoot that girl" to "say
>> Free Palestine...say it just once"?
>>
>> She's gonna ambush the wrong person one of these days, probably from
>> her own hood.
> 
> What is it with this thing protesters do these days where they demand their
> target repeat a phrase? They did this to Occasional-Cortex and now Alec
> Baldwin-- in both cases they wanted them to recite "Free Palestine".


Great point, it's not like the insurrectionists did that when they had 
that "ruckus" at the Capitol, amirite?  No balls alert.


> Even if Baldwin doesn't believe it, she wants him to just say it. If you're a
> normal person and you watch that, you think, what value is there in making him
> say it?
> 
> Let's say you succeed and he says the phrase. He's only saying it because you
> have hectored and harassed him into saying it and he figures you'll go away if
> he does. He's only saying it because you won't shut up, not because he
> believes it. You haven't changed his mind or anything. He's just repeating a
> phrase that you have assigned to him. What do you get out of that? What does
> that accomplish? What's the point?
> 
> They did this during the BLM Summer of Love riots, too. They'd burst into
> restaurants and surround white people eating dinner and demand that they say
> "black lives matter".
> 
> Leftists seem to take this approach on every issue, in every situation. It
> seems intellectually adjacent to the pronoun stuff with the troons. You *must*
> say the words they want regardless of whether you believe them or not.
> 
> Not only don't they care if you actually believe the words, they almost
> *prefer* that you not believe them. Because that shows their power over you.
> If you believed the words, then they haven't really exercised any power over
> you, but if they can make you say shit you don't believe in because they've
> scared or intimidated you into doing so, then they have bright line evidence
> of the power they wield.
> 
> 
>