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Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably it'll be 99% US stuff, but that's not a rule.
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Conservatives think all jokes are sincere hatred you're allowed to get away with. They don't understand the concept of saying something and not meaning it. That's why 'by your logic' never fucking works. They'll sneer 'oh now you believe that,' when, no, they believe that. Except they don't believe anything. Their stated beliefs are ad-hoc justifications. They're only ever working backwards from ingroup loyalty.
That's all they think you're doing. That's all they think there is.