05-07-2017, 02:29 PM
(05-07-2017, 02:03 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I still don't understand how you think it was an insult, but not insulting. If an insult isn't insulting then it isn't an insult; it's a comment.
Well, there are many commentators who do not comment - they merely talk and say nothing. See Fox News circa 1996 - present for examples.
So, with that precedent in mind, we must consider the possibility that there are insults that are not insulting. This phenomenon would seem to have its greatest potential in certain echo chambers and alternative realities, ala those created in certain media spheres including but not limited to the aforementioned one.
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