President Biden expressed the US’s ‘ironclad commitment to NATO’

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    1 year ago

    Yes, I know what irrelevant means:

    “not connected with or relevant to something.”

    This has nothing to do with her popularity. This has to do with her power. She sits on committees. That is power. She can unseat McCarthy any time she pleases. That is power. Power makes you relevant. Always. You can be incredibly unpopular and still be relevant if you have power. See: lots of autocrats.

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      1 year ago

      At a certain point, you’re going to have to stop and ask yourself why you’re so butthurt over me calling her irrelevant. And then you’re going to need to process that information in such a way that you’ll be able to deal with whatever the answer happens to be in a healthy way.

      I wish you the best of luck on that, but she remains irrelevant.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not “butthurt,” I’m just saying you can’t be irrelevant and have power. That makes no sense.

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            1 year ago

            Repeating it doesn’t make what you’re saying make sense. “Irrelevant” doesn’t mean stupid or wrong or a traitor, it means you have no effect on things. She has a big effect on things.

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              1 year ago

              I’m sorry I offended you by insulting your friend. But I still think she’s irrelevant. If it makes you fee better, I think you’re irrelevant too, so at least the two of you get to share that commonality.

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                1 year ago

                She’s not my friend. Don’t be a troll. This isn’t Reddit. And of course I’m irrelevant. I have no power. I’m guessing you’re also irrelevant.

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                  1 year ago

                  You telling me not to be a troll is ironic considering you could have just made the small leap it would have taken to assume that this is just my opinion of her- and that you could have just ignored it and scrolled past.

                  But you didn’t.

                  You wanted to argue. So I obliged. I hope what you learned from this is that you can disagree with people and just…… move on.

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                    1 year ago

                    All I have been saying is that it makes no sense to call someone irrelevant when they have power. That’s it. And somehow that makes me her friend? Please explain yourself.