• yata@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      They don’t really care about the argument, it is just a convenient way for them to accuse others of (non-existant) bigotry in an attempt to silence criticism.

      Their MO is exactly like the fascists (or anti-semites as Sartre described them), they don’t really care about words or actual arguments. The goal is to win by any means necessary.

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        their MO is also completely indiscernible from the far right and shitty out of touch boomers. it’s remarkable they think they’re getting anything done. it’s like a leopards ate my face situation, but they ARE the leopards and they’re eating their own faces.

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          Honestly, tow makes more sense to me. Many people helping to tow a rope, or a line, makes it easier so it would be like saying, “get in line and help out.”

          The use of “toe the line”, given this context, is more like, “get in line for competition.”

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            1 year ago

            I don’t think of a line as a rope, but a line drawn on the ground. I always imagined toe the line as someone getting closer and closer to a line, strong right next to it, and then just barely push their toes to the other side of the line.

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              I use ropes at work and “line” is commonly used term for a rope or steel wire or whatever you’re hanging or pulling things with.