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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:31:11 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>Apr 23, 2024 at 3:35:52 PM PDT, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>:
>>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".

Because during the George Floyd killing protests, they got various
chiefs of police to take a knee and repeat "Black Lives Matter!" It's
worked in the past and they don't have an original thought.

>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".

Dear ghod

>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.

Well, yeah. It's always clear that they are demanding appeasement.