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Post by Greg55_99 on Jun 28, 2020 20:05:55 GMT
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Post by RWB on Jun 28, 2020 20:12:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:21:45 GMT
Best case scenario: This is an example of what happens when we elect a stubborn, politically inexperienced man to high office who does not understand a significant number of the most basic tools of the political trade, does not know he does not understand them, and refuses to listen to anyone who tries to educate him on what he does not understand. He's been told for years to handle his Twitter account differently, but Trump knows best! What kind of incompetent political neophyte retweets a video under his official account without watching and listening to it first? And that's the best case scenario. They only get worse from there. PS I'd likely be fired for sharing this video using my official school email address. Something to think about.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:23:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:28:41 GMT
For me, it doesn't matter what the old dude in the video actually believes. Retweeting the video of him repeatedly yelling "White Power" was at best, a stupid, brainless, ignorant, lazy thing for a politician to do. Trump knows it was a mistake too, or he wouldn't have deleted it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:34:41 GMT
There's a pattern here with our rightwing friends: ignore/excuse/downplay any evidence of racism, no matter how obvious it may be.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:44:46 GMT
For me, it doesn't matter what the old dude in the video actually believes. Retweeting the video of him repeatedly yelling "White Power" was at best, a stupid, brainless, ignorant, lazy thing for a politician to do. Trump knows it was a mistake too, or he wouldn't have deleted it. Yeah, it probably was a mistake. But, let's be clear, he only said white power once and he said it as an angry response. We can't be Sheldons and ignore the sarcasm because we don't have the social skills to differentiate.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:45:01 GMT
There's a pattern here with our rightwing friends: ignore/excuse/downplay any evidence of racism, no matter how obvious it may be. What ever you say Sheldon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:46:44 GMT
There's a pattern here with our rightwing friends: ignore/excuse/downplay any evidence of racism, no matter how obvious it may be. What ever you say Sheldon. That's cute but hardly effective. Only nerds care about being decent? Is that your point?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:46:56 GMT
For me, it doesn't matter what the old dude in the video actually believes. Retweeting the video of him repeatedly yelling "White Power" was at best, a stupid, brainless, ignorant, lazy thing for a politician to do. Trump knows it was a mistake too, or he wouldn't have deleted it. Yeah, it probably was a mistake. But, let's be clear, he only said white power once and he said it as an angry response. We can't be Sheldons and ignore the sarcasm because we don't have the social skills to differentiate. Once? He yelled it 3 times in the video I saw. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpua7fd3Dog
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:51:06 GMT
Yeah, it probably was a mistake. But, let's be clear, he only said white power once and he said it as an angry response. We can't be Sheldons and ignore the sarcasm because we don't have the social skills to differentiate. Once? He yelled it 3 times in the video I saw. LINKMaybe I saw an shorter clip. But the clip I saw he said "Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. White Power!" as he shook his head and he drove off.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:52:55 GMT
Once? He yelled it 3 times in the video I saw. LINKMaybe I saw an shorter clip. But the clip I saw he said "Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. White Power!" as he shook his head and he drove off. Ok, but he yelled it three times (see my link above). I don't really care, except you're using the the fact that you thought he said it only once as evidence that he was being sarcastic and that others are overreacting. But it's not true.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:53:06 GMT
What ever you say Sheldon. That's cute but hardly effective. Only nerds care about being decent? Is that your point? No. My point was that you lack the social skills to differentiate between sarcastic and earnest speech. A point that you have deftly proven.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:56:26 GMT
Maybe I saw an shorter clip. But the clip I saw he said "Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. White Power!" as he shook his head and he drove off. Ok, but he yelled it three times (see my link above). I don't really care, except you're using the the fact that you thought he said it only once as evidence that he was being sarcastic and that others are overreacting. But it's not true. The link is broken. But once, twice, three times or even ten times makes no difference. Do you not get the frustration we feel? We are called racist every day. Have been for as long as I can remember. And wrongly so. So what if one guy gets fed up and sarcastically owns it? What else can we do? The left is so out of their mind there is no point in talking to them. Honestly, I think the guy hurling "racist" should have gotten his ass kicked. Maybe then he'll listen. Probably not. But man would it feel good.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 20:59:25 GMT
That's cute but hardly effective. Only nerds care about being decent? Is that your point? No. My point was that you lack the social skills to differentiate between sarcastic and earnest speech. A point that you have deftly proven. That only works if it is established that the speech wasn't earnest. But no one thinks that. We all believe it was earnest. And there's not a lot (if anything) to suggest that take is wrong. What you are doing here is incoherent.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 21:00:58 GMT
Ok, but he yelled it three times (see my link above). I don't really care, except you're using the the fact that you thought he said it only once as evidence that he was being sarcastic and that others are overreacting. But it's not true. Do you not get the frustration we feel? We are called racist every day. Have been for as long as I can remember. And wrongly so. So what if one guy gets fed up and sarcastically owns it? What else can we do? You get called that because you probably are a racist.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 21:03:28 GMT
No. My point was that you lack the social skills to differentiate between sarcastic and earnest speech. A point that you have deftly proven. That only works if it is established that the speech wasn't earnest. But no one thinks that. We all believe it was earnest. And there's not a lot (if anything) to suggest that take is wrong. What you are doing here is incoherent. Read your response and tell me exactly who is being incoherent.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 21:05:20 GMT
That only works if it is established that the speech wasn't earnest. But no one thinks that. We all believe it was earnest. And there's not a lot (if anything) to suggest that take is wrong. What you are doing here is incoherent. Read your response and tell me exactly who is being incoherent. You should delete this and post a proper response.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 21:13:10 GMT
Do you not get the frustration we feel? We are called racist every day. Have been for as long as I can remember. And wrongly so. So what if one guy gets fed up and sarcastically owns it? What else can we do? You get called that because you probably are a racist. This is why you are the problem. You have chosen a narrative that you wish to believe and you will not entertain the possibility that your narrative is wrong. Therefore, all that oppose you must have some critical flaw that allows them to be dismissed ad nauseam. You've done it so much that your opinion has become littered with inconsistencies that you can't see. You take radical positions and back them with the thinnest of data. Any probing into your theses that extends beyond the surface demonstrates a tremendous lack of understanding resulting in the conclusion that your entire ideology is based on nothing more than faith in sound bites. Once any reasonable person reaches that conclusion, you lob personal attacks in defense as you cannot defend what you have stated. My reply extends to you, atreyu, cadescove, oobambeua, odysses and a few others.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 21:14:44 GMT
Read your response and tell me exactly who is being incoherent. You should delete this and post a proper response. Your use of pronouns created a vagueness that made your statement incoherent. I don't have to delete anything because my response was perfectly accurate.
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