Back in 2016, just after the election, an acquaintance of mine (from the local atheist group) was literally in tears. She was crying because this nation was so morally twisted that it elected a child molester as president. I had recently read an article from HuffPo (like the kewl kids say) that covered the pedophilia accusations on Trump and even they concluded it was a load of shit.
But this dumb bitch was making a show of how she felt baseless accusation = truth.
So I’ll give the Huffington Post SOME credit that when presented with a mountain of evidence (or, in this case, a mountain of a lack of evidence) they’ll actually not tow the part line. Not that that matters to a party loyalist.
Most every atheist I’ve suffered the company of is a party loyalist.
It's military, from when units lined up in a formation.
From antiquity to the American Civil War formations were used to increase combat power and ease the handling and direction of large numbers of troops. Keeping your place in the formation during maneuvers who's the mark of a good soldier.
It's only a short jump to use the phrase to mean obedience and conformity.
Yeah, because it was a load of shit. NOBODY gave it much coverage. Even the HuffPo article is framed as “this is why nobody is talking about it.” I knew about it because I’m a weirdo who reads /pol/ on 4chan, and they discuss everything all the time anyway. But, if you were a hardcore liberal with early onset TDS, you probably found it out and skipped any critical thinking steps (weird, atheists love to tout how they’re critical thinkers, unlike those religious drones) and went straight to “THIS MUST BE TRUE AND THE MEDIA SUPPRESSED IT BECAUSE THE CONSERVATIVES CONTROL THE WORLD!”
Back in 2016, just after the election, an acquaintance of mine (from the local atheist group) was literally in tears. She was crying because this nation was so morally twisted that it elected a child molester as president. I had recently read an article from HuffPo (like the kewl kids say) that covered the pedophilia accusations on Trump and even they concluded it was a load of shit.
But this dumb bitch was making a show of how she felt baseless accusation = truth.
So I’ll give the Huffington Post SOME credit that when presented with a mountain of evidence (or, in this case, a mountain of a lack of evidence) they’ll actually not tow the part line. Not that that matters to a party loyalist.
Most every atheist I’ve suffered the company of is a party loyalist.
Incidentally it's "toe the line" not "tow the line" not sure of the etymology but it may be I'll disappear down that rabbit hole later
It's military, from when units lined up in a formation.
From antiquity to the American Civil War formations were used to increase combat power and ease the handling and direction of large numbers of troops. Keeping your place in the formation during maneuvers who's the mark of a good soldier.
It's only a short jump to use the phrase to mean obedience and conformity.
I had never heard of those accusations, granted there have been so many. That’s good they at least did that
Yeah, because it was a load of shit. NOBODY gave it much coverage. Even the HuffPo article is framed as “this is why nobody is talking about it.” I knew about it because I’m a weirdo who reads /pol/ on 4chan, and they discuss everything all the time anyway. But, if you were a hardcore liberal with early onset TDS, you probably found it out and skipped any critical thinking steps (weird, atheists love to tout how they’re critical thinkers, unlike those religious drones) and went straight to “THIS MUST BE TRUE AND THE MEDIA SUPPRESSED IT BECAUSE THE CONSERVATIVES CONTROL THE WORLD!”