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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When you (you, Sebby -- not you in the sense of someone) say "shrill liberals," could be referring to those liberals who are shrill just as you refer to those conservatives who are shrill, in the same sense that you could refer to Justice Merrick Garland just as you refer to Justice Neil Gorsuch. But you aren't because we live in a world in which the people who are dismissed categorically as shrill are liberals, not conservatives, a world in which you, Sebby, have never ever referred to shrill conservatives until you started pretending that you might in this thread.
I would call you a troll for using it, except that trolling is a choice, and you used the phrase without thinking about it, because in your own brain you tune out liberals as shrill. You weren't throwing a hand grenade. You were mindlessly repeating a stale cliche.
But you see that now, so problem solved, and it's time for the drum circle.
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I applaud anyone making the effort to read my mind. It's not exactly an easy thing, even for me.
But you assume incorrectly. I am actually a huge fan of the word "shrill." While I might've used it without thinking terribly deeply (I don't recall), it never fails.
If it were such a vacant word, it would have fallen flat. It could be and would be dismissed, overlooked. But it wasn't. At least not by you. You've moved from being irritated by its use to suggesting you only desired that I be enlightened as to the poor reflection it casts on its users. I'll read your mind a bit and suggest that's post hoc.
But I'm game for a drum circle. I'd much rather discuss Ernest Borgnine's masturbation habits than jockey with you for smartest guy in the room. We all know it's you. It's always you.
