I have no idea why you don't consider people saying they witnessed Trump do something as evidence, but it's badly wrong.
I'm not sure what legal definition you are using but it seems badly wrong. Here's the legal definition of sexual assault in New York, where presumably the most assaults took place:
http://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-130-52.html
In case you were wondering, 'forcibly' means without consent. You will notice there is absolutely no mention of 'explicit consent' there. Your description of the law was a straw man.
https://www.justice.gov/ovw/sexual-assault
Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient.
Department of Justice apparently has a "badly wrong" definition. Shame on me for using that apparently.
Now, to break down your definition. Forcible does not mean without consent.
Under our law, a person is guilty of Forcible Touching when he or she intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person or for the purpose of gratifying the actor’s sexual desire. Under our law, it is also an element of this offense that the sexual act was committed without consent. 2
Forcible touching takes place without a person’s consent when it results from any circumstances in which a person does not expressly or impliedly acquiesce to the actor’s conduct. 3
https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2-PenalLaw/130/130.52.pdf
That last part is the important part there. In NY law, the consent can be express, or implied based on the context. If the person could have reasonably protested and did not, NY law by that definition would imply it was implicit consent. If there was forcible compulsion(
https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2-PenalLaw/130/130.65(1).pdf) that would change things and not require them to speak up.
So, if he did touch women and they did not want it, that is sexual assault clear and simple. Clearly his statements to Bush were that he did not compel them, but they were willing because he was a star. Why we are getting stuck on this is beyond me as it seems clear.
Again, what I said from the start, was that saying the "grab her by the pussy" was not him promoting sexual assault. I also said that outside of that might be more, but the Bush thing was not promoting sexual assault. You can look back and see what I said.
You are saying that statements by a dozen individuals as to Donald Trump's actions are not evidence? You better inform the court system of this as they include witness and victim statements all the time. Who knew they were doing it wrong all this time!
I have not been following the claims too closely, but I can say that witness statements mean more than accusations. That is still not proof, but its worth enough to investigate and see if they hold up. If I were on a Jury and I was presented with witness statements from someone that appeared credible I would probably say guilty. That has nothing to do with my stance before about the Bush tape, which is how this all started.
As I already mentioned, these accusations are absolutely evidence. That's beyond contention. That you're trying to bring up those accusations against Obama shows you know how poor your position is. First, none of the people (or functionally none) accusing Obama of being a Muslim terrorist ever claimed to see him practicing Islam or engaging in terrorism. This is not the case with Trump, where we have numerous people who have witnessed him commit these crimes. Furthermore, there is a great deal of evidence that Obama is neither a Muslim nor a terrorist, which would be weighed against any evidence that his accusers brought. This is why Obama being a terrorist Muslim is stupid, not because accusations are magically not evidence.
With Trump we not only have his own candid statements on the matter, we have more than a dozen people who say they have directly witnessed these acts. There is almost no mitigating evidence saying the contrary, so again we're back to Trump being a sex offender, yes.
This is getting stupid. I brought up the audio of Bush and you brought up the rape claims. It ultimately has nothing to do with my point, and going off on this is not needed in terms of what I was talking about. What I had said was that the Left saying grab her by the pussy did not help, but hurt. I would rather stick to that because this is going on and on and getting away from my original point.
Because you have no evidence that young people watch those videos and the actual numbers of views are quite small considering YouTube's size. Since YouTube and similar sites are the almost exclusive source for that term, it stands to reason that lots of young people aren't watching those videos or exposed to them and that your point was based on a faulty, evidence free premise.
Now that we know how small a percentage of YouTube's viewers watched that content and that young people aren't actually disproportionately represented, it makes perfect sense why my coworkers hadn't heard of it, wouldn't you say?
Let me remind you that SJW came up in the context that I said people know about them. Your original claim was that most people do not know about them. If you want to argue that the millions of views where SJWs are talked about are not just young, then you should have said that. I dont see how you can sit here and argue that millions of views monthly does not correlate to people knowing what the term is. Now, once you agree that youtube has channels that heavily focus on SJWs, and those channels get millions of views a month, then it seems reasonable that the term is not uncommon. Throw in how younger people are doing the vast majority of youtube viewing, and its reasonable to think that younger people know the terms being used in greater numbers than older people. Then take social media trends and track terms like SJW, and you see that its used quite a bit. So no, it not unreasonable to think that 2/3 did not know what SJW was, but its also not unreasonable to think that its common either.
No moving the goalposts. You talked about unique viewers and now you're trying to change the argument to time of engagement once evidence was presented that you were wrong about your assumptions of YouTube demographics. Now you're resorting to what you feel again.
Again, this is why evidence is so important. What you feel doesn't matter, it's what you can prove that matters. I just showed you that your feels were wrong. You should take that and reevaluate your position.
How was I wrong and how am I shifting the goal post. I think you got lost when I talked about unique and you thought that was still only youtube. I was actually referring to #SJW which was about twitter, not youtube. I was using both youtube and twitter to establish that the term was widely used.
My original goal, was that SJW was widely known, and that views and twitter trends backed that up. I am sticking to my point as I have done this whole time. Its totally reasonable to think that terms that are frequently used on youtube would be known to people under 30 who make up the vast majority of view, not viewership on youtube. Just because there are people above 40 on youtube does not mean they make up anywhere near 40% of views on youtube. Even if a term is used infrequently, but there is a group that watches a massive amount, they are likely to come across the term. Considering that younger people watch massively high amounts of vids compared to others, its reasonable to assume they are the ones likely coming across the term.
People who say they are moderates yet always vote for one party are unlikely to actually be moderates.
Evidence?
Logically, a person who votes for a single party often could very well be moderate as those are not mutually exclusive. Considering the idea that we both agree on which is that the Right has more extreme ideas, it would be logical to think that moderates would mainly vote for the Left.
Check these out.
As you see, those in each party are represented. Inherently, those on the left consider themselves more moderate. I much rather the 2nd graph, because it looks like people change their minds and have a wide spread. It would explain why voters are much easier to reach the Right, because ideologically they are more stable and mainly agree. The Left is far more spread out, which means they are harder to reach. Considering how many see themselves as moderate on the left means the hard core rhetoric would be less liked. That is at least my opinion based on what I see. That is why I think the Left lost. The left did not reach the moderates in either party, but because there are far more moderates on the left, it hurt them more. The right lost votes, but not like the left did.
I asked you before what evidence you would accept to change your mind and you said there wasn't any. Your words, not mine!
You are remembering this incorrectly. I said that people I talked to were not attacking his ideas, just him personally. That is why I said this.
"Also, what evidence did you provide to show that the left did not turn off people. All you posted was a Washington Post article that had a vid of John Oliver addressing actual points. How would that mean anything to my point?"
"They are not, and you keep saying this. I understand that I have put forward something is is almost impossible if not impossible to disprove. In no way will news articles or videos prove that people were or were not talking to other people."
That seems reasonable to me. My point is that people were not debating people on positions or policy, but just attacking him personally.
How could evidence change my mind on what I experienced? That does not make sense. You could provide evidence on public polling that they were not turned off, but you did not because it has not been done.
We have disagreed many times and I've retained respect for you. What makes me lose respect for you is when you try childish things like saying someone is only disagreeing with you because they're mad. It's stupid and you should know better. It's pretty ironic that you're doing this in the same thread that you're arguing that personal attacks are unpersuasive, by the way.
I said that you were mad and its making you miss what is going on, not that you are tuning me out because you are mad.
Look, the data I gave you shows there are way more self identifying moderates on the Left than the Right. We also know that people who typically vote Left stayed out of the election when compared to the Right. It seems perfectly reasonable to think that its because those people felt there was nothing good enough to vote for. The question to me then becomes, why would any person believe that. That is why I say there are three options. I personally believe its because the moderates were turned off, and I think its because they would not let themselves be informed. In my experience, I have seen many arguments get stopped by extreme people annoying others.