While speaking on the final night of the GOP midterm convention, Vice President JD Vance said the country was “poorer” and “dirtier” before President Donald Trump was reelected for a second term.

“We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer, and less safe and less prosperous,” Vance said on the final day of the two-day convention in Dallas, Texas.

His sentiment appeared to reflect the administration’s efforts to combat rising immigration rates in the U.S., a key campaign point during the 2024 election. Vance himself promoted unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in September 2024, spreading misinformation about the community abducting and eating pets.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s so still so bizarre to me that a social justice warrior is supposedly like a bad thing.

      I’ve come to understand it as is used, but on its own I still expect people who are hearing it for the first time being like hey that sounds pretty awesome, someone who fights for social justice in this shit hole world

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        It’s not that surprising. Language has been doing it for ages, probably forever.

        A “bleeding heart”, mocking someone who is too empathetic. A goody-two-shoes. Terms have always been made for people that “indulge” too much into something regardless of whether it’s the polar extremes of acquiring money or donating it.

        If you’re just surprised at the name, then idk, shit’s gotta have some kinda name.

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          I said it’s bizarre to me.

          You said it’s not that surprising.

          Do you understand the difference in our 2 opinions?

          Mine is a personal opinion, while you arrogantly tell me I’m wrong to express my personal experience.

          Think about that for a second while you reread our 2 comments.

          Your choice for words determines how people understand you.

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            I don’t see where I said you’re “wrong to express your personal experience.”

            But you’re a literal stranger to me, and there’s no accounting for “taste”. Such is life.

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              You said “It’s not surprising.” As a statement of fact. As you wrote it, it offers no leeway for an argument or an opinion and that means you are saying I’m wrong.

              The way I see it… in my mind… I don’t think…I think that… You didn’t say these any countless ways to allow for my opinion to be anything other than wrong.

              You chose words that didn’t allow for any other opinions in direct response to me clearly stating an experience i am currently having and have held for decades.

              That’s pretty rude. Unintentional or not, that’s what you did with your word choice, or lack there of.

              This is text, you have the responsibility to clearly say what you mean. You chose not to

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                “It’s not that surprising.” is what I wrote. It’s the very first sentence.

                Not that surprising. A relative phrasing requiring the first measure to be a benchmark, e.g. “yeah, it’s kinda sad but not that sad.”

                So hung up on what I “said” when it seems like you misread and misinterpreted it.

                “It’s not that surprising” and then I gave examples of how you could reframe “social justice warrior” into the long history of people mocking well-meaning people who were viewed as excessive…

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          And pubes! don’t! count!

          I’m tired of fielding this very frequent question, that I get often.

          Just the ones on top of your head. And/or a tattoo of hair, if you’re follicularly-challenged.