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In their defense, I read this the same way, like you are upset he is a Tory because of the emoji use.
Need to be extra careful about emoji use apparently because it portrays my deepest held feelings and political leanings in a unicode character.... or, you know, it's a ruddy emoji ๐คท.
Oh shit! What does it mean now I've used the shrug emoji? Oh lord! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
So I can just bang out random words because they don't have meanings either. Why use the emoji if it doesn't have meaning? You used a disappointed face emoji, to express disappointment. Like it or not language evolves and this is how our language has evolved thanks to technology we use emojis to express feelings. But what you're saying is I can just toilet boat coast bananas these are just ruddy words if we choose to ignore any meaning associated to them. If we are stripping the meaning from emojis we may as well do it to words too. Have you any idea how ridiculous you sound.
To make it simpler you could just explain what you meant by the disappointment face emoji, as it is obvious stuff is being lost in translation here. A lot of us read it as you are disappointed, though we also don't understand why you would be disappointed that a bigot aligns himself with a party of bigots? The previous poster seemed to be asking for clarification in your statement, yet you chose to attack them for it.
Jesus Christ people are massively aggy here. It's just an emoji. Stop trying to read into it. I literally could have chosen any other emoji.
You interpret this as an attack? Ok I'm out this is wild!