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Svetonio wrote:

How is it racist?  The word ILLEGAL. You shouldn't be able to enter a country if the the law says you can't, even though nobody is enforcing it.

garfunkel wrote: Svetonio wrote: How is it racist?  The word ILLEGAL. You shouldn't be able to enter a country if the the law says you can't, even though nobody is enforcing it.

garfunkel wrote: Svetonio wrote: How is it racist?  The word ILLEGAL. You shouldn't be able to enter a country if the the law says you can't, even though nobody is enforcing it.

Yeah, the title of the video is bullsh*t, though the video per se is really great. I mean, the Native American said the truth.

garfunkel wrote: http://www.barackobama.com/climate-change-deniers/#/ What is the point of this?

Calling out anti-science idiots? 

The T wrote: garfunkel wrote: Funny thing is that after people hear Trump say that and they disagree with him, they then say something like "When can we deport all Christians based on the actions of a few? (Even though more American lives are lost in America at the hands of Christians than Muslims)?" Even though it's for the most part tongue in cheek, SOME people actually agree with it, but they can't stand it when Trump says the same type of thing. Don't you think that's ridiculous? This is all bulls***.  What we need to do, is stop climate change, so all this terrorism will go away.  That's the left's way to fix the problem.   "When can we deport all Christians based on the actions of a few?" I haven't yet heard none saying this. Nobody. Any examples??

Truthfully, I got that quote straight from my local news' FB comment section. Someone said that and got 116 likes from it.    I know FB is very corny and you probably wanted to see if I could find a "big name" that said something like that, but still 116 people liked the post so that says something kinda. lol

So now "facts" that are used to support grasping blanket statements are being manufactured based on a minute number of dopes who use Facebook liking something that offends ones ideology. No wonder Trump is polling so well.

*frinspar* wrote: So now "facts" that are used to support grasping blanket statements are being manufactured based on a minute number of dopes who use Facebook liking something that offends ones ideology. No wonder Trump is polling so well.

This quote was under a news article about exactly what we were talking about earlier.  The man that commented this could have easily been a professor or a political commentator etc... That is all I was inferring. I indicated that "it was just on FB" basically, as well.

BaldJean wrote: tszirmay wrote: Maybe send obersturmbahnfuehrer 'Drumpf' back to Kallstadt, Germany until we can figure out whether HE is a terrorist . I love the guy, proof how one can be rich and stupid!   a little correction: it is "Obersturmbannführer", not "Obersturmbahnführer". the latter would actually be some kind of train driver

Edited by tszirmay - December 08 2015 at 14:44

garfunkel wrote: *frinspar* wrote: So now "facts" that are used to support grasping blanket statements are being manufactured based on a minute number of dopes who use Facebook liking something that offends ones ideology. No wonder Trump is polling so well. This quote was under a news article about exactly what we were talking about earlier.  The man that commented this could have easily been a professor or a political commentator etc... That is all I was inferring. I indicated that "it was just on FB" basically, as well.

Only after you were called out on it. When you posted originally, you were only more than happy to lay that out there as if it was a cold hard fact of widespread left-wing ideology (as you see it) and used it to make whatever point you were hoping to make, random and all-over-the-place as it was. You integrated that simple Facebook comment and it's 116 likes into your view of the left as a whole, which is just absurd. And it reflects why so few of us can have a constructive political argument in this country anymore.

Was the man who made that comment a professor or political commentator? And why would it matter anyway? You're playing fast and loose with your implications, and created a very flimsy strawman that was pretty quickly shown to be so.

garfunkel wrote: Dean wrote: garfunkel wrote: *frinspar* wrote: So now "facts" that are used to support grasping blanket statements are being manufactured based on a minute number of dopes who use Facebook liking something that offends ones ideology. No wonder Trump is polling so well. This quote was under a news article about exactly what we were talking about earlier.  The man that commented this could have easily been a professor or a political commentator etc... That is all I was inferring. I indicated that "it was just on FB" basically, as well. Really?  Do you take everything literally? 116 likes for an ironic posts means that 116 people get the irony of the statement, not 116 people agree with the statement itself.

Only after you were called out on it. When you posted originally, you were only more than happy to lay that out there as if it was a cold hard fact of widespread left-wing ideology (as you see it) and used it to make whatever point you were hoping to make, random and all-over-the-place as it was. You integrated that simple Facebook comment and it's 116 likes into your view of the left as a whole, which is just absurd. And it reflects why so few of us can have a constructive political argument in this country anymore.

Was the man who made that comment a professor or political commentator? And why would it matter anyway? You're playing fast and loose with your implications, and created a very flimsy strawman that was pretty quickly shown to be so.
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I'm simply stating that there is a percentage of people who believe in what Trump said and there is an equal amount of people who believe in the "FB fiasco".  It's true. Get your heads around it.
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You're making things up again and calling them facts.
Trump says the inflammatory things that he does in front of hundreds, and sometimes thousands of people, live and in the drooping, orange flesh. And he gets applause, catcalls and cheers from most of them.
How does that number "equal" 116 people clicking a button on a random comment on Facebook?

My head is certainly more firmly wrapped around where you've taken this topic than yours is, I'll tell you that.