Fear of "backlash" is no reason to let Donald Trump make an illegal run for president

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Fear of "backlash" is no reason to let Donald Trump make an illegal run for president
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Being a little sarcy there pal? Telling everyone too? Totally warranted

It's a habit I formed back when I frequented Reddit. You sometimes couldn't tell if someone was being serious or not and since I didn't want anyone to mistake my sarcasm for MAGA-ism, I used /s liberally.

Why does that matter? If you're not convinced you can be effectively sarcastic then don't be sarcastic. Putting that at the end is tantamount to going 'LOOOOOOOOOOOL JK DON'T DOWNDOOT PLZZ!!!'.

Why die on this hill? It's so very, very pointless.

No, it's not, that stupid thing highlights several different problems, chief of which being that people would rather ruin a joke than risk being downvoted.

This is the kind of trend that'll just stunt weak, impressionable, scared people's cognition and impact their poor communicative skills further.

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