anatta (11-26-2020)
anatta (11-26-2020)
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
De Oppresso Liber
That's why you have to learn to recognize it in the two primary forms it takes:
Changing the subject and the ad hominem.
Changing the subject is the more subtle. It comes in various forms like the tu quoque sometimes called "Whataboutism." The object of this is to make their argument a moving target you can't pin down if you let them do it. Instead of answering your position directly they move on to a related but different topic. If you let them do this you end up chasing your tail uselessly trying to win a never ending race against their latest dodge.
The ad hominem is straight forward. They insult you and call you vile things. This often takes the form of something you might be inclined to respond to in denial. Typical versions have you being called racist, Nazi, fascist, more recently Trumpist etc., hater, xenophobe, homophobe, etc. The object here is simply to distract you from continuing the original argument.
The solution to both is to calmly shut down their worthless response and then redirect the discussion back to the original topic. This will generally get you no response whatsoever. That is, when you won't fall for their silly, childish argument or insults they ignore you because they have nothing else left to respond with.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Cypress (11-27-2020), Phantasmal (11-27-2020)
Cypress (11-27-2020), ThatOwlWoman (11-27-2020)
Obama is correct.
Edited video clips of Reverend Wright were taken way out of context.
Jeremiah Wright served in the U.S. Marine Corps, then in the U.S. Navy as a corpsman. I have never seen evidence he hates America. Criticizing government policies is not treasonous, otherwise every conservative poster on this forum would have been arrested during the period January 20th 2009 to January 20th 2017.
ThatOwlWoman (11-27-2020)
Trump said just yesterday that America is "like a 3rd world country."
Just for the sake of comparison.
Cypress (11-27-2020)
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