FunctionallyLiterate

Dangerously obsessed fans have been around since long before the Internet entered people's lives - tech has just made it much easier to stalk people now.

I'm sure they only do that when they think they can use it to market themselves later. Given the number of complaints he seems to have received, they may just avoid the whole thing for fear of drawing more attention to all the ways they're failing their base.

Conservative bullies believe they'll almost always win in the end if they just keep at it and force their way through to their end goal. For most business & personal goals where they have significant control over most variables, this unfortunately tends to work out well for them. So they believe they can apply it to everything.

Social & societal issues are areas where they have significantly less direct control (unless you have control over most everything that society is exposed to from practically the day they're born), which is why they rely upon lies and manipulation so much. The complexity of managing things you have less direct control over makes being successful at it much more unpredictable, however.

Since bullying their way through is their instinctive modus operandi, they'll still try to do it with these issues no matter what feedback they get. So while it may feel satisfying to put them on the spot, they're unlikely to take the feedback seriously - even from their own base.

It's blatant arrogance that has been the hallmark of the MAGA world, and which ultimately will be their undoing. Unfortunately, we still have to sit through the process even though it's so easy to see where it's going. Kinda like watching a show with your kids that's predictable AF, but that they're loving because they think they've never seen anything like it before even though the basic storyline has been done a million times in their other shows.

Maybe when the right-wing media stop.

But even those countries who aren't likely profiting from it have been rather muted in their reactions. It's rather disappointing. Only their nearby middle eastern neighbors have really had anything significant in terms of response up until recently.

Agreed. How anyone can still stand the stench of Netanyahu - let alone continue to back him - is beyond me. It blows my mind that it's taken this long for any even vaguely serious action against them to happen.

I've no idea how strong North Korean nukes are, but I'd be surprised if they weren't significantly more powerful than those used on Japan.

Besides, as repressed as the truly Orthodox Jews come off to me... there's probably plenty of what you're after already. Nuking them might make glow-in-the-dark femboys, tho, so there's that...

Yeah, I know. My first comment was a joke about two wrongs not making a right, just a right-wing - but then things went off the rail when someone asked what the second wrong was & I made the mistake of replying.

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This is the first legit response I've received thus far, so I want to thank you for that.

You make a good point - one I can kind of get behind. My initial comment, however, was in response to the idea of using nuclear weapons on them - that's far too indiscriminate a weapon to be using, and one that will have lasting effects that spread beyond Israel. Nuclear fallout won't stop at Palestinian borders, for example.

You can't just take an obvious joke seriously & expect to be taken seriously.

Nice straw man. I simply said the indiscriminate killing represented by using nukes was unacceptable. Or are you such a fool that you think the nuclear fallout would stop at the Palestinian border?

Get real.

no Palestinian life matters, and a Palestinian cannot be innocent.

If you're going to "debate" by putting words in my mouth, we're done here. I never said, nor implied anything of the sort.

I am done discussing this issue with you–either you're in bad faith and I don't give a shit what you have to say,

Funny, I was about to say the same with you putting words in my mouth.

or I've given you something to think about for a couple days and you should process that before responding.

You're obviously not even thinking about what I've said, and you've therefore done no such thing. It's obvious you're too full of yourself to debate in good faith, so goodbye & good riddance.