the grift goes on and on and on and ooonnnnn

So you’re not a patriot? You dislike the country? Why not leave?

Sounds like you're one of the suckers.

Sounds like you hate your country. Why not leave?

I don't hate my country. I love it. I do however, find it absolutely funny as f**k that people fetishize their patriotism to the point where they can be duped out of their money because someone strokes their "America" just right.

As can communists, oh wait communists do it with your money. Your contempt and elitism is easily recognized. Again so what, I hold people like you in contempt. You try to belittle others for expressing their love of country. I’m sure you are more aligned with those who wear Che Guevara t shirts and shout their hate. I bet you buy AOC t shirts that say destroy capitalism. Bwahahahaha.

He actually lives in Israel.

Think this looks angry, say anything that isn't calling that country the greatest ever and he goes ballistic.

😂 projection is hilarious. Calm and cool, my words conveyed the contempt. That you do this emotionally and project your over emoted feelings to others is expected.

in what universe does "I bet you buy AOC t shirts that say destroy capitalism. Bwahahahaha." even once convey being calm?

It’s calming and humorous to me. Sorry, not sorry if it triggers you

There's also the fact that you went off on a tangent about "you must hate America" because I commented on the grifters that use patriotism to soak people like you of their money.

A grifter takes advantage of you to profit financially. The patriotic pay for things they choose to. Buying something that evokes patriotism is dumb in your mind. You assume the patriotism of others is shallow, like you are. You think belittling the patriotic makes you so much smarter. You’re the contemptible fool.

"The patriotic pay for things they choose to." way to win the brain of the year award. yeah...

"You assume the patriotism of others is shallow, like you are."

dude, they're buying things cause someone said that buying things from them is patriotic. That's about as shallow as it gets. second only to the grifter themselves.

The act of voluntarily buying something means you entered into the transaction without coercion. You are insinuating the patriotic are dumb and easily duped by grifters. Yet they decide if they want to buy it so where’s the grift? If you like buying stuff with the American flag, I say there’s nothing wrong with it and it doesn’t make you a lesser person. You on the other hand may be the lesser person.

Umm, the people in any scam voluntarily buy the thing they've been duped into buying. It sounds like you're just trying to argue the point so you "win". Even to the point of flying into absurdity.

The point isn't "oh, we're buying this thing cause it has the American flag on it.", because of that were the case, that would be totally ok.

The problem is that the person selling is doing so buy whipping their customers into a frenzy of "patriotism" where they're convinced that the person speaking is some warrior for their freedoms and that they should be too. While in such a frenzied state, they put near absolute trust in the speaker, who then abuses that trust to sell merchandise.

To be fair, this is nearly identical to how most YouTubers make their money. The difference being, however, that a normal YouTuber isn't coaxing their viewers into a froth-at-the-mouth rage mode over the premise that their country is under assault from threats that are pretty much made up, based on the prior threats that were similarly fictional.

To put it to an extreme example, one of the most prolific of these grifters, Alex Jones, convinced an entire audience that he had a cure for COVID-19. He did this through first coaxing his audience into the idea that the doctors were all liars and that he himself knew the secrets (which of course, he vaguely referred to and never once presented). The "cure" of course, was fake.

This is the most extreme example, of course, but the other grifters are far more subtle. Rather than selling obviously fake medicine, they choose to sell hats, pins, books, and coat tags. All those things with, as you mentioned, the American flag emblazoned prominently.

These grifters are not patriots. They do not actually care about a single word they say. They only care to make money, and using the above technique, they quite often make a ton of money. In fact, it makes so much money that Trump himself used a version of this "frenzy before sales" technique to rake in an unprecedented amount of campaign money. Much of which was never used on the campaign.

Do you understand now?

If you're having trouble with the concept, you're probably either blissfully ignorant or are QAnon fodder yourself

The concept is simple you dislike people who love their country and hold them in contempt. Big deal, who are you. I’m sure you think american hating communists are not held in contempt. Yet they are.

I already told you my stance on things.

And I responded with my statement of contempt for you. So we are even.

"John wears a long moustache"
"Molasses tomorrow will bring forth cognac.”
“The long sobs of the violins… fill my heart with a monotonous languor.”

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It’s spelled ‘Ho’, not ‘Hoe’, 13-15-18-13-14.

nah, she just had to dig you up from the garden

By the way, you use a shovel to dig, not a hoe.

On a scale of 1 - 10 on “comments that make sense”, yours ranked somewhere around -42.

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It funny how you’ll put that much effort into translating letters into numbers, but zero effort into making good memes.

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It’s also funny that you need an online tool to use the easiest cypher in the world.

I use my brain. You use… well… I don’t know what you use, but it’s not your brain.