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WaPo & ATP&N exposes pure hypocrisy of GOP base

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Best part about that scene is it wasn't scripted. Totally improvised. So many great movie moments that were never planned and this is definitely one of them.
 
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crashtech said:
I think this entire thread is a counterproductive way of behaving. It's illustrative of one of the reasons why I don't want to participate more in discussions here. Mob rule and the dehumanization of your ideological opponent is not the mark of the enlightened.
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Talking to irrational and crazy people who deny or live in an alternative reality, hoping for an honest discussion, is also not the mark of an enlightened one.

Also, pointing out ones hypocrisy is not akin to dehumanizing an ideological opponent. Where did you come up with such a ridiculous thing?
 
crashtech said:
I think this entire thread is a counterproductive way of behaving. It's illustrative of one of the reasons why I don't want to participate more in discussions here. Mob rule and the dehumanization of your ideological opponent is not the mark of the enlightened.
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This thread is a perfect example of the end result of 30 years of the right-wing cult media programming their listeners to reject basic logic, reason, and reject enlightenment and the intellectual. This thread is a perfect example of how similar the right-wing in America is to the extremist movements in the middle east. Ideology over facts. Belief over knowledge.

This thread exposed just how Orwellian the right-wing cult has become.
 
crashtech said:
I think this entire thread is a counterproductive way of behaving. It's illustrative of one of the reasons why I don't want to participate more in discussions here. Mob rule and the dehumanization of your ideological opponent is not the mark of the enlightened.
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Does such a forum exist? I would be surprised if such a thing existed but I am intrigued.

There's a reason that for years people in public /social settings stay clear of political talk. People are passionate. Add to that people's debate/fight style... Things gon' get crazy up in here and most places.
 
Guys, we need to stop. The republicans are feeling dehumanized cuz we pointed out their blatant hypocrisy. We can't make them feel bad. They would never dehumanize anyone. Like non-whites, gays, women, non christians etc. Remember they are SUPER SUPER good people when they are getting attacked and you will hurt their feelings talking bad about how they vote in a way that fks everyone and the world including them. Its really not fair to them.
 
LPCTech said:
Guys, we need to stop. The republicans are feeling dehumanized cuz we pointed out their blatant hypocrisy. We can't make them feel bad. They would never dehumanize anyone. Like non-whites, gays, women, non christians etc. Remember they are SUPER SUPER good people when they are getting attacked and you will hurt their feelings talking bad about how they vote in a way that fks everyone and the world including them. Its really not fair to them.
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They're always the victim.
 
brycejones said:
Don't lie if you don't want to be called out for it. That should apply anywhere in life.
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I don't have any problem with people being called out on lies. What you all have going on here is way over and beyond that. All the justifications for such behavior are a nice touch. I'd say that many of you are no better than schoolyard bullies; as adults I would expect you all to know better. If you ever wonder why the quality and number of your ideological opponents here on the boards seem low, don't make the mistake of believing it's because your beliefs are ascendant; you've merely chased them off with your virtual pitchforks.
 
crashtech said:
I don't have any problem with people being called out on lies. What you all have going on here is way over and beyond that. All the justifications for such behavior are a nice touch. I'd say that many of you are no better than schoolyard bullies; as adults I would expect you all to know better. If you ever wonder why the quality and number of your ideological opponents here on the boards seem low, don't make the mistake of believing it's because your beliefs are ascendant; you've merely chased them off with your virtual pitchforks.
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With the posting history of some people the entire forum is better off if they ARE chased off. Context needs to be considered on something like this. By page two I, as well, was thinking OK, point made let's move on. But for some I have no sympathy given the verbal diarrhea they expel on this forum daily.

Sometimes a courtesy flush is needed.
 
crashtech said:
I don't have any problem with people being called out on lies. What you all have going on here is way over and beyond that. All the justifications for such behavior are a nice touch. I'd say that many of you are no better than schoolyard bullies; as adults I would expect you all to know better. If you ever wonder why the quality and number of your ideological opponents here on the boards seem low, don't make the mistake of believing it's because your beliefs are ascendant; you've merely chased them off with your virtual pitchforks.
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I responded respectfully and you ignored my contribution to the conversation. Food for thought.

*edit: I see that you liked my comment. My point remains the same. Engage only those who truly want to discuss things in a manner with which complies to your standard of how one should conduct themselves.
 
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I did like your post, just didn't have anything to add, except that things just seem to be getting worse from what I can tell.
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I have had several give and take conversations oh this forum and I absolutely devolve in to name calling and incredulity at times. Mostly, I just shake my head and don't engage. Fortunately for me I can have well informed intelligent conversation with my husband on these topics but I have met few "conservatives" on this forum willing to have a genuine debate. I have seen many "progressives" capable of doing so.
 
crashtech said:
I don't have any problem with people being called out on lies. What you all have going on here is way over and beyond that. All the justifications for such behavior are a nice touch. I'd say that many of you are no better than schoolyard bullies; as adults I would expect you all to know better. If you ever wonder why the quality and number of your ideological opponents here on the boards seem low, don't make the mistake of believing it's because your beliefs are ascendant; you've merely chased them off with your virtual pitchforks.
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Meh, I doubt that. I've been posting actively on P&N since late 2008. At that time, there were roughly equal numbers on the left and the right. The pitchforks as you call them were out in force then as now. On both sides.

I'm not really sure why the leftward shift on P&N since then, but it isn't changing behavior of liberal posters. A better guess is that conservatives these days are less apt to expose themselves to anything outside their own bubble, and this place is outside said bubble. It's a good bet than many of the conservatives who left are off posting on right wing social media outlets these days, were there are no mean liberals to tell them they're wrong.
 
woolfe9998 said:
Meh, I doubt that. I've been posting actively on P&N since late 2008. At that time, there were roughly equal numbers on the left and the right. The pitchforks as you call them were out in force then as now. On both sides.

I'm not really sure why the leftward shift on P&N since then, but it isn't changing behavior of liberal posters. A better guess is that conservatives these days are less apt to expose themselves to anything outside their own bubble, and this place is outside said bubble. It's a good bet than many of the conservatives who left are off posting on right wing social media outlets these days, were there are no mean liberals to tell them they're wrong.
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My experience goes back a couple decades, but not on this forum. It's interesting that you think conservatives tend to stay inside their own "bubble," from what I can observe, that is not at all unique to conservatives. Do you not have any awareness that this forum is a kind of bubble itself? Lots of affirmation here for certain points of view, almost all left-leaning as far as I can tell. We are all becoming more isolated and surrounded by things we "like," part of that is the way market-driven social media works, but the rest we seem happy to volunteer for.
 
LPCTech said:
Guys, we need to stop. The republicans are feeling dehumanized cuz we pointed out their blatant hypocrisy. We can't make them feel bad. They would never dehumanize anyone. Like non-whites, gays, women, non christians etc. Remember they are SUPER SUPER good people when they are getting attacked and you will hurt their feelings talking bad about how they vote in a way that fks everyone and the world including them. Its really not fair to them.
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So it is politically incorrect to point out their false hoods and they need their safe spaces?

New Rule:
GOP is no longer the Grand Old Party.

GOP = Greedy Obstinate Projectionists
 
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Reality tends to be left leaning. Nowadays.

They used to call it neutral impartial facts of reality.

Now those are liberal leftist ideas.

Like how when an impartial fact finding site finds facts the republicans dont like, then they are liberal.
 
crashtech said:
My experience goes back a couple decades, but not on this forum. It's interesting that you think conservatives tend to stay inside their own "bubble," from what I can observe, that is not at all unique to conservatives. Do you not have any awareness that this forum is a kind of bubble itself? Lots of affirmation here for certain points of view, almost all left-leaning as far as I can tell. We are all becoming more isolated and surrounded by things we "like," part of that is the way market-driven social media works, but the rest we seem happy to volunteer for.
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Yes, liberals do the same thing. They just don't do it to the same extent. And this forum has not always been so left leaning. Like I said, it was about even left/right when I started posting here. Many of the libs here were posting back then when there were a lot more conservatives here. Some conservatives have stayed for the duration, but most seem to have left. Both sides were nasty toward each other in roughly equal measure, but one side stayed and the other left.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
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That's it!
 
crashtech said:
I think this entire thread is a counterproductive way of behaving. It's illustrative of one of the reasons why I don't want to participate more in discussions here. Mob rule and the dehumanization of your ideological opponent is not the mark of the enlightened.
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The enlightened on the AT P&N board?

Man, you are looking in all the wrong places.
 
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