Politics How is any of this good?

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  1. TBpup

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    Curious....how is posting something and asking a question being emotionally compromised? Not surprised by some of the reactions, but that is a legitimate question? Interesting response.
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    So it's not fake news if someone believes it?
     
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    I asked a question about an article. Interesting how so many responses have so little to do with the actual question
    Maybe in today's environment, that shouldn't be surprising.
     
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    Bottom line is there’s no major difference between the Dems party’s goals and those of Communists around the globe.

    Micro-management of the masses for total control by the 1%ers.
     
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    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    He is a younger Spock, incapable of holding back specific emotions and susceptible to the traits of frail earth women governed under the austere socialism that they are forced to breed in.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    My response, personally, is that I don't need a falsified, agenda-driven, apocryphal column to take issue with the majority of the "progressive" platform. I think we are better served by actually discussing the issues themselves rather than by discussing some anonymous dissenter's misattributed interpretation of his/her vague notion of the opposition's motivation.
     
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    Its good because none of it is true. It is all BS propaganda fake news. Its very not good because people actually believe and share this kind of junk when fact checking is so easy to do.

    Also if you want to start a meaningful discussion its best to not lead off with an article that calls the people who disagree with you idiots.
     
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    Fascinating responses.
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    The article is not good. It's fake. Not sure there is much of a discussion beyond that.
     
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    It's a silly article, that's what people are pointing out. That's as legitimate as your initial question, probably more so.

    Do you actually know anything about Saul Alinsky @TBpup ? I read Rules for Radicals. Nothing in that article is remotely close to what he said in that book as I recall.
     
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    If anyone cared to notice, I said nothing about Alinsky whatsoever, yet that is what many people seem most concerned with. I merely posted an article (knowing where those actual rules came from by the way) and then asked a question. My point was to reference the 8 things listed (which is the vast majority of the article) and then see what happened. Much appreciation to many of the responses as I will be eating dinner for free from a bet I won.

    I posted the same list but edited it and applied it to someone else in a different venue. The responses there were equally fascinating.
     
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    So you knowingly posted a fake article, asked a question about it, and won dinner because no one wanted to have a legitimate discussion about it?

    Cool story.
     
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    I just had sex with all the Kardashian sisters. I'm lying but I just won dinner for claiming that I did.
     
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    Legitimate issues, but attributed to someone who didn't say them. Given some of the nonsense posted here daily basis and some posts literally for upping post count or getting attention, it seemed completely normal. Maybe it's preferred if I tweet something and then quote myself? :cheers:

    Given this is the OT/political forum, I was genuinely interested in the 8 things listed. That got me into a conversation with someone and it went from there.
     
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    So all those things lead to communism? And this is a legitimate conversation you want to have?
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I won free dinners for life because I didn't post in this thread!

    Oopsie.

    barfo
     
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    Liberals dont debate issues. They want to attack the credibility of anyone who disagrees with them. Debate is nothing but a slinging of turds. And they get so snowflakey when you call their bluff.
     
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    Your credibility is nil, and you are a turd catcher of the messiest sort.

    barfo
     
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    What exactly is there to debate?
     

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