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I've downvoted you because parroting the phrases of people we disagree with as a form of mocking doesn't contribute to the conversation.

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I thought the comment was a wonderful form of satire. It wasn’t just parroting, but doing so in an artful way. IMO

Since when did repeating the doctrine become mockery.

There always seems to be a need for the bullies of society to have there say. The TSA in this case. You disagree and they will beat you. You agree and they will beat you for mockery.

When a doctrine mocks itself.

Would that a doctrine could.

But a doctrine is not sentient, nor sapient.

Doesn't have to be sentient of sapient to mock itself.

What doctrine? It's a jumble of unrelated phrases of which anyone might quite plausibly accept some and not others.

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