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ecshaferyesterday at 6:53 PM4 repliesview on HN

Crazy right wing espousing a view point largely supported by like 80% of America.


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selectodudeyesterday at 7:11 PM

[Citation needed]

Terr_yesterday at 8:01 PM

> a view point largely supported

No, you're playing a rhetorical game, trying to con readers with a switcheroo between pairs of "viewpoints" that aren't actually the same thing at all. For example:

1. "The liberals are everywhere trying to teach our children something wrong! They're telling them men can become pregnant!"

2. "Men--by which I implicitly mean people without the parts for it--cannot become pregnant."

Only the second one common and banal, unless you ask someone with a weird fetish, or perhaps a fan of Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito eager to talk about the film Junior.

In contrast, the first one is not solely a medical belief, but also a claim about what others advocate, and the average American--or average HN commenter--may quite rightly judge you a weirdo for internalizing and repeating it.

hypeateiyesterday at 7:06 PM

Uhm, did we read the same comment? There were many things listed that only a demented fox news watcher would go off about in one comment. What specific thing does "80% of America" support?