Deference

to show respectful submission; yielding to someone else (generally given to someone who has more experience or senior to you); dutifulness

metropia

metropia

@metropia.bsky.social

Absolutely appalling how the "mainstream" media treats Marjorie Taylor Greene with such deference. Just because she is now anti-Trump doesn't mean she isn't still an anti-Semitic radical right clown show.

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Marquis of America

Marquis of America

@marquisofamerica.bsky.social

@gtconway.bsky.social "My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the Pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims."

JD Vance, The Lamp magazine, "How I Joined the Resistance" April 1, 2020

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alternate ending

alternate ending

@jamiroqueer.bsky.social

re Eric Swalwell's predation being an open secret for a long time before it was news, deference to the victims' choices (not) to come forward needs to be accompanied by a long look at the environment in which they had to make that decision. Or it's not really worth hearing

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