# This is Why we are Doomed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-are-doomed/790543>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-are-doomed/790543 "2017-07-05T14:36:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-are-doomed/790543/61 "2017-07-06T21:00:18Z")

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> [@asahi](#):
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> I’m an (occasional) NPR listener, a frequent PBS viewer, and a pretty consistent left-wing democratic voter, but I’ll play devil’s advocate. We’re talkin tweets right? Tweets without any context except for the highly volatile times in which we live? I might be wrong but they tweeted without prefacing what the tweets were about, right?
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> I admit in advance I might not have all the facts but the way it’s been reported, it just comes across as another “Haha! Look how effing stupid these backward conservatives are!”…which is not what we need.

Clarify, please. Do we not need to be apprised of how stupid backward radical reactionaries\* are, or do we not need backward radical reactionaries\* to be stupid?

\*There’s nothing conservative about them, so I fixed it for you.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-are-doomed/790543/62 "2017-07-06T21:17:09Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Clarify, please. Do we not need to be apprised of how stupid backward radical reactionaries are, or do we not need backward radical reactionaries to be stupid?

Missed the edit window:

Or do we just not need to laugh about it?

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-are-doomed/790543/63 "2017-07-06T22:15:56Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Clarify, please. Do we not need to be apprised of how stupid backward radical reactionaries\* are, or do we not need backward radical reactionaries\* to be stupid?
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> \*There’s nothing conservative about them, so I fixed it for you.

And besides that, why should we walk around on eggshells for them?

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