roachboy

some things are easier than others to explain.

how criticizing ann coulter can be construed as "slamming the us":
conservatives imagine they *are* the united states; they're the "real americans"...haven't you heard?

the syllogism is rudimentary from here so there's no need to run the machinery.
feel free to play along at home.

on logic problems:
there's apparently in some quarters a kind of porosity that affects verbs.
for example, in some quarters it is possible to confuse the statement:

ann coulter is a joke

with the statement:

ann coulter tells jokes.


curiously, these are versions of the same problem. if you as a conservative say you *are* america then in some imaginary world you become it. so there's a pathway that blurs saying into being that's exercised through the repetition of sequences that enact conservative-style identity politics.

following this logic, i imagine it's easy for some conservatives to persuade themselves that they are judy garland. but they don't talk about it because, well, you know, that'd be like telling a joke about the extent to which you are a joke. which is different from simply collapsing being into saying. but you see the danger. o yes you do.

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