I'm Oppressed So Buy My Shitty Products

[Jarhyn]

And I'll watch for the next time you decide to call out a leftist

... Have you not paid any attention to the "democrats primarying Democrats" thread?

If we're being honest, even Sanders isn't exactly a "leftist." He's a liberal, to be sure, but no mainstream Democrat and no progressive Democrats are even close to being leftists.

To the left of centrists like Biden, Clinton and Obama? Sure. Advocating socialist revolution and carrying posters of Marx (and Engels...right wingers always forget Engels)?

Not really.


Anyway, can we get back to the almost certain fact that Lindell is a fucking loon who is not in any way shape or form a "victim" of anything even approaching oppression?

The leftist I was criticizing was Hillary, not Bernie. Bernie actually does the hard right over the easy wrong.

Hillary, now... she's a fucking robot who holds positions by opinion poll and focus group. I can see why she became that robot; she felt it was the most effective way to meet a "democrat" goalset.

But it is not a very good method and I much prefer governing by principle rather than by process.

If I need a robot to collate opinion polls and such for me, I'll write one myself that I know is not backdoored by someone else's injected selfishness, and I'll use it as an input and measuring stick rather than a raw output...

She is so unfounded on anything that nothing she says can be anything BUT virtue signalling!

I want a representative who can take a loss on purpose, just to show they can accomplish abnegation!

Hillary could have practiced abnegation and she did not. She humiliated herself in this way, and it is clear enough to me this is why The Donald won out.

She could have beaten Bernie by being less shitty, taking some of his platform, and negotiating, and then The Donald would have been sucking her historic dust as she slid into the oval office.

But had she done that, they would have taken away her secret DNC dog whistle decoder ring.

It's all just so stupid.

And PillowFucker Lindell, fucker of pillows, is a fucking loon.

 

[laughing dog]

Mr. Lindell has found a new way to get rid of his unsold pillows - send them to the Canadian truck protesters.

 

[jab]

I don’t have one but I’ve heard that his pillows are really good.

I also have heard that they're good, but not super.

 

[jab]

"Hatewatching". That's a strange word coming from Metaphor considering the amount of anti-trans threads he starts here.

I don't hatewatch anything.

okay. . .

 

[jab]

You nor anyone has to point out anything. The left points out the virtue signalling of the right, and the right points out the virtue signalling of the left.

I can't speak for anyone else's behaviour, but when I call out somebody's virtue-signalling, I make it clear that I have noticed it and I am calling it out. I don't attempt to cloak my calling out as a 'why isn't anybody calling out this virtue signalling' JAQing off.

Let get me this straight - you are virtue signaling about virtue signaling?

I'm saying I'm honest about when I call out virtue signalling, unlike Jimmy Higgins, who really wanted to call it out but instead attempted to cloak his actions.

Is it really honest, when you haven't even actually acknowledged that this guy is virtue signalling, yet you jump to accusations about it when other people just manage to have some virtues that you apparently don't like seeing very much for whatever reason?

Not to mention that Zipprhead gets hastily and apparently mistakenly called out for deliberately seeking out Mike Pillow on youtube and hatewatching him, and then Metaphor virtue signals by assuring us that they don't hatewatch. Meanwhile Metaphor doesn't actually practice the virtue of apologizing for mistakenly accusing someone else of doing something deplorable.

 

[jab]

Sweet Jesus I just watched the ad. He's selling towels? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if you bought one, it wouldn't offer any protection against the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Always know where your towel is...unless it's from Lindell.

do the towels wipe off orange make-up? How about sopping up shit and piss from floors and walls of public buildings?

 

[ZiprHead]

Sweet Jesus I just watched the ad. He's selling towels? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if you bought one, it wouldn't offer any protection against the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Always know where your towel is...unless it's from Lindell.

do the towels wipe off orange make-up? How about sopping up shit and piss from floors and walls of public buildings?

 

[jab]

You

Your involvement in the thread suggests otherwise. At a minimum, your derailment attempts deflected the focus from someone who shares your biases.

It was not a derailment attempt.

Addressing the OP gives you a chance to redeem some credibility after your massive failure to make an even remotely case for that silly accusation, and to appear as an intellectually honest contributor instead of resembling an ideological quisling.

There is, in fact, absolutely nothing at all to address in the OP, because the OP is a link to a YouTube video without any commentary or questions.

I am disappointed that you will make any excuse to avoid the OP topic (the OP title, duh). Call me a cock-eyed optimist, but you can address the OP to avoid the appearance of an ideological quisling.

I don't need an excuse to 'avoid' the OP. I have nothing interesting or contrarian to say about it. I watched less than a minute or so of the video and was bored. The only thing I might say is that the OP title should have been "I was cancelled so buy my shitty products" but I didn't listen to enough of the video to care.

And yet, you continue to offer pathetic excuse after excuse.

I'm flattered that you want my input so much but sometimes my adoring public has to be left wanting.

Thanks for the confirmation that you post even when you know you have no relevant input.

um, the same could be said for your post. . . and for this one, I suppose.

 

[laughing dog]

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Thanks for the confirmation that you post even when you know you have no relevant input.

um, the same could be said for your post. . . and for this one, I suppose.

I was well aware of the irony in my comment. But I disagree with your assessment of your contribution.

 

[Metaphor]

You nor anyone has to point out anything. The left points out the virtue signalling of the right, and the right points out the virtue signalling of the left.

I can't speak for anyone else's behaviour, but when I call out somebody's virtue-signalling, I make it clear that I have noticed it and I am calling it out. I don't attempt to cloak my calling out as a 'why isn't anybody calling out this virtue signalling' JAQing off.

Let get me this straight - you are virtue signaling about virtue signaling?

I'm saying I'm honest about when I call out virtue signalling, unlike Jimmy Higgins, who really wanted to call it out but instead attempted to cloak his actions.

Is it really honest, when you haven't even actually acknowledged that this guy is virtue signalling, yet you jump to accusations about it when other people just manage to have some virtues that you apparently don't like seeing very much for whatever reason?

Not to mention that Zipprhead gets hastily and apparently mistakenly called out for deliberately seeking out Mike Pillow on youtube and hatewatching him, and then Metaphor virtue signals by assuring us that they don't hatewatch. Meanwhile Metaphor doesn't actually practice the virtue of apologizing for mistakenly accusing someone else of doing something deplorable.

Hatewatching isn't deplorable.

 

[Toni]

I don't buy products to support political causes. I buy products based on the quality and economy and convenience of the product.

You are in luck then! By not buying MyPillows you can save the environment while not purchasing a terrible product. It’s nice when things work out like that.

 

[Metaphor]

I don't buy products to support political causes. I buy products based on the quality and economy and convenience of the product.

You are in luck then! By not buying MyPillows you can save the environment while not purchasing a terrible product. It’s nice when things work out like that.

And yet some on this thread appeared desperate that I should buy something from the website, even verifying that it ships to Australia!

 

[laughing dog]

You nor anyone has to point out anything. The left points out the virtue signalling of the right, and the right points out the virtue signalling of the left.

I can't speak for anyone else's behaviour, but when I call out somebody's virtue-signalling, I make it clear that I have noticed it and I am calling it out. I don't attempt to cloak my calling out as a 'why isn't anybody calling out this virtue signalling' JAQing off.

Let get me this straight - you are virtue signaling about virtue signaling?

I'm saying I'm honest about when I call out virtue signalling, unlike Jimmy Higgins, who really wanted to call it out but instead attempted to cloak his actions.

Is it really honest, when you haven't even actually acknowledged that this guy is virtue signalling, yet you jump to accusations about it when other people just manage to have some virtues that you apparently don't like seeing very much for whatever reason?

Not to mention that Zipprhead gets hastily and apparently mistakenly called out for deliberately seeking out Mike Pillow on youtube and hatewatching him, and then Metaphor virtue signals by assuring us that they don't hatewatch. Meanwhile Metaphor doesn't actually practice the virtue of apologizing for mistakenly accusing someone else of doing something deplorable.

Hatewatching isn't deplorable.

No need to

I don't buy products to support political causes. I buy products based on the quality and economy and convenience of the product.

You are in luck then! By not buying MyPillows you can save the environment while not purchasing a terrible product. It’s nice when things work out like that.

And yet some on this thread appeared desperate that I should buy something from the website, even verifying that it ships to Australia!

No, I simply pointed out that one of your stated excuses (they probably don't ship to Australia) was wrong.

While Mr. Lindell has some satisfied customer, he has unsatisfied customers. My wonderful wife bought one of his pillows and it made her neck hurt. I would not wish anyone buy his pillows because of their lack of quality and because he is a batshit crazy wannabee traitor.

 

[Metaphor]

No, I simply pointed out that one of your stated excuses (they probably don't ship to Australia) was wrong.

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

My wonderful wife bought one of his pillows and it made her neck hurt. I would not wish anyone buy his pillows because of their lack of quality and because he is a batshit crazy wannabee traitor.

I will slightly walk back what I claimed earlier. I suppose if the owner of an establishment had some behaviour that was sufficiently on the nose, I would look past the value and convenience and quality of their product and simply go elsewhere.

 

[Toni]

No, I simply pointed out that one of your stated excuses (they probably don't ship to Australia) was wrong.

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

My wonderful wife bought one of his pillows and it made her neck hurt. I would not wish anyone buy his pillows because of their lack of quality and because he is a batshit crazy wannabee traitor.

I will slightly walk back what I claimed earlier. I suppose if the owner of an establishment had some behaviour that was sufficiently on the nose, I would look past the value and convenience and quality of their product and simply go elsewhere.

Yeah, one of the good things/bad things about living in the small city that I live in is that....you tend to know most people. So it's easy to base your purchases on grudges. And....also it forces you to sometimes overlook grudges because of quality or availability of products. The store where I purchase most of my groceries is locally owned but chain affiliated. It's almost the only one that is not part of a large chain, the other being a very nice but very expensive and somewhat limited co-op with sells organic everything and is out of my price range for large shopping purchases. Anyway, the other more mainstream store where I do the bulk of my shopping used to be jointly owned by two people in town, both of whom are fairly conservative/religious (but not bat-shit crazy) and one of whom had...political ambitions that were contrary to what I think is best for the town. That person has since sold his interest in their store and is pursuing...I don't know what he's doing. Maybe he's retired. Anyway, the guy who remains as owner is a nice guy, more conservative than I am and more religious but is nice, is honest and his kids played soccer with mine. His wife is OK but is much more country club than I ever will be and we never clicked. BUT he's very supportive of the community, hires a lot of young people and has people in the store that I recognize as having been there for well over a decade. He also has the best meat counter in town. So I do most of my grocery shopping there because I like him, even if I disagree with him. I absolutely refuse to buy groceries at the local Walmart because I detest the business model and the business practices and what that corporation has done to my town. I have no idea if they have better deals or not on anything. I seriously doubt that they make any effort to sell locally grown foodstuffs as my grocer does. I also know how they treat local employees and it's not good. Even if I knew for a fact that Walmart was cheaper, I would not buy my groceries there, on principal.

 

[laughing dog]

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

I said nothing about bad behavior. Of course it was an excuse, Excuses are not solely for bad behavior.

 

[Metaphor]

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

I said nothing about bad behavior. Of course it was an excuse, Excuses are not solely for bad behavior.

It's the primary denotation of the word, laughing dog.

excuse

verb
verb: excuse; 3rd person present: excuses; past tense: excused; past participle: excused; gerund or present participle: excusing
/ɪkˈskjuːz,ɛkˈskjuːz/
seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify.

noun
noun: excuse; plural noun: excuses
/ɪkˈskjuːs,ɛkˈskjuːs/
a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence.

 

[laughing dog]

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

I said nothing about bad behavior. Of course it was an excuse, Excuses are not solely for bad behavior.

It's the primary denotation of the word, laughing dog.

excuse

verb
verb: excuse; 3rd person present: excuses; past tense: excused; past participle: excused; gerund or present participle: excusing
/ɪkˈskjuːz,ɛkˈskjuːz/
seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify.

noun
noun: excuse; plural noun: excuses
/ɪkˈskjuːs,ɛkˈskjuːs/
a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence.

Thank you for opening up your pedantic box. Excuse also refers to justification.

 

[Metaphor]

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

I said nothing about bad behavior. Of course it was an excuse, Excuses are not solely for bad behavior.

It's the primary denotation of the word, laughing dog.

excuse

verb
verb: excuse; 3rd person present: excuses; past tense: excused; past participle: excused; gerund or present participle: excusing
/ɪkˈskjuːz,ɛkˈskjuːz/
seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify.

noun
noun: excuse; plural noun: excuses
/ɪkˈskjuːs,ɛkˈskjuːs/
a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence.

Thank you for opening up your pedantic box. Excuse also refers to justification.

Yes, to justify a fault or offense.

Correcting you on your incorrect usage is not pedantry. Language, as I'm sure we are both aware, has rhetorical weight. Your use of the word 'excuse' implied some behaviour I needed to justify, whether you were aware of that implication or not.

It is not a fault or offence to not shop at a particular store, for any reason or no reason at all.

 

[Toni]

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

I said nothing about bad behavior. Of course it was an excuse, Excuses are not solely for bad behavior.

It's the primary denotation of the word, laughing dog.

excuse

verb
verb: excuse; 3rd person present: excuses; past tense: excused; past participle: excused; gerund or present participle: excusing
/ɪkˈskjuːz,ɛkˈskjuːz/
seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify.

noun
noun: excuse; plural noun: excuses
/ɪkˈskjuːs,ɛkˈskjuːs/
a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence.

Thank you for opening up your pedantic box. Excuse also refers to justification.

Yes, to justify a fault or offense.

Correcting you on your incorrect usage is not pedantry. Language, as I'm sure we are both aware, has rhetorical weight. Your use of the word 'excuse' implied some behaviour I needed to justify, whether you were aware of that implication or not.

It is not a fault or offence to not shop at a particular store, for any reason or no reason at all.

No, an excuse is pretext for any choice. The excuse may be justifiable or not.

I might use teaching fir a book as an excuse to brush the shoulder of my husband.

In reality, I need no such excuse, but nonetheless, I might invent one, out of playfulness or affection.

Or I might invent one to bridge an emotional distance, say, as a result of a spat.