# I'm gonna have to pit all you butt-hurt snowflakes

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**Created:** [January 15, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203 "2017-01-15T03:22:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-have-to-pit-all-you-butt-hurt-snowflakes/777203/165 "2017-01-16T02:11:53Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> The Democrats […] are demonstrating why it is they who are the threat to democracy, not the Republicans. Different people have different perspectives on different matters and come to different conclusions, and if you cannot respect that […]

:dubious: Are you seriously claiming that Republicans these days have a better track record than Democrats of “respecting” the fact that “different people have different perspectives on different matters and come to different conclusions”?

A few counterexamples from this thread alone:

> [@billfish678](#):
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> 4 years of unwanted butt fucking […] You fuckers almost deserve it

> [@UberArchetype](#):
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> You Give not One Shit…  
> …about anything except your miserable, fuck-assed self. […]
> 
> […] drain out with the rest of the putrid pus.

> [@octopus](#):
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> You really want a society where the most violent mob decides what can be said, who can vote, who can worship what?

For the past eight years, we have seen in Republican behavior a level of vitriolic antagonism unequalled since at least the 1960s. Not just the endless xenophobic and racist libels on Obama himself, but the shameless lying about Democratic policies, the mindless stubborn opposition to anything proposed by a Democrat, the frenzied denunciations of “libtards” and “shitlibs” and any other derogatory epithet they could come up with for liberals, etc. etc.

And now that the Republicans have managed to install a borderline unhinged Chief Exec and swamp-crony Administration that are a serious embarrassment not just to their party but to the nation as a whole, they’re complaining that the _Democrats_ aren’t showing proper decorum?!

> [@Ale](#):
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> IMO someone like Trump could only get to where he is now when the level of political discourse reaches rock bottom levels, do you see many people trying to rise that level?

As a previous poster put it:

> [@aurora maire](#):
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> Standards, norms and traditions don’t mean shit to Trump, his fans or the GOP. […] But then they expect the Democrats to adhere to those traditions - the peaceful transition of power, respecting the office of President - and then get all upset when we don’t. Fuck that. They don’t have a leg to stand on when they are the ones who threw the rule book out the window.

If you want to “rise the level” of political discourse in this country, maybe start by trying to encourage a little more dignity and courtesy in the behavior of the POTUS that the Republicans elected. The Party of Trump doesn’t really have a lot of room to complain that **other** people aren’t being polite enough.

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