ta_donk_gt

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by ta_donk_gt 9y ago
Call it whatever you want, but you know you are only distracting from the point of comments like these. That point is that you need to be consistent. If you have a problem with some behavior on the other side, then you also need to have a
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Agreed, in a true definition of a conspiracy theory only the last one meets the criteria, though I was trying to match ideas on the other side generally lumped into the conspiracy theory category such as the Podesta brothers are pedofiles (
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Interesting take. Thanks for that. I think what also contributes is the idea that the brain will twist and contort reality to protect foundational beliefs (beyond my own observation of human behavior, there are a number of studies backing
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Initially, the point was that it is only Trump supporters that are uninterested in actual facts, but sure, plenty of conspiracy theories on the left as well (was just trying to keep it clean): "Trump has had or wants to have sex with h
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
"Violence against Trump supporters is justified because he is literally Hitler", "Even though everyone knew the rules of the game up front, Trump is not actually the legitimate president because his popular vote tally was low
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
In addition to the other responses here, at the beginning of the year he announced his personal challenge for 2017 was to meet and chat with people in every state. That seemed to get a lot of people talking about the possibility of a 2020
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
In my opinion, the AMA and the FDA are the main blockers of machines replacing doctors (outside of surgery). Nurses can do, and to a large extent already are doing the majority of the data collection. Beyond that, the doctor's main d
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
You started this thread with "And yet there are enough politicians who reject even those statistics, and that seems like a totally different category of stupidity". Now you say "I think you are wrong to bring politics into th
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Ok, it's clear you are just trolling at this point. It's really not that difficult. In October of 2009 the unemployment rate was 10.0%, and today it is 4.9%. Democrats use this stat to say "look how many people the administ
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I think you misunderstood much of my last comment, sorry if it was my fault. First, none of these are really "my argument", I was just explaining some of the behavior that you are witnessing and didn't seem to understand (the
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> Specifically with respect to unemployment rates, you and I may simply have been reading different things Certainly possible, but what I generally see is: "the unemployment rate is not what [democratic administration] says it is be
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
The right tends to prefer to reference labor participation rate, whereas the left tends to prefer unemployment rate. The reason for this is obvious: right now, unemployment rate advances the narrative of the left, and labor participation r
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Links? Thanks.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
This is one thing I still have a hard time understanding about people. I understand that hypocrisy and the like are baked deeply, inextricably into our DNA, but the thing is we've all witnessed this stuff happen time and again and wit
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
While the official war on drugs was started as a means of suppressing and discrediting blacks by the Nixon administration, the reason it won't end any time soon is that it has long been and continues to be both a revenue stream and a t
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
This is a natural result of hyper-partisanship, which is a natural result of groups separating into their preferred echo chambers, which is a natural result of it being easy to move to said echo chambers, which is a natural result of the in
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Let me preface by stating that these are vague, short statements that we are trying to use to extrapolate to some fairly large assertions, and we all come into them with a bias and interpret them based on those biases. That said, the way I
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Wanting to limit immigration doesn't make you racist, though. I take it as saying, essentially, if such a significant percentage of jobs in a top industry in this country are held by immigrants, are we maybe not doing enough to help o
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I agree, those articles are all one sided. To me, that material comes off as the same way that groups like the Black Panthers or Nation of Islam / Farrakhan target their audiences but at the opposite end of the spectrum. Both are usi
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Sure, his Breitbart days count, I was just saying that what you typically hear is "Breitbart is racist" without any actual justification, so I was looking for actual examples that show the clear racism as opposed to just saying &q
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
The quote from his ex-wife is a fair point and does support your case. In the interest of full disclosure, would that statement be equally bad if you replaced the word "Jews" with "rednecks", or "catholics"?
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
That is fair..though it might be more beneficial to add a comment stating this at the first point in the tree where things go off topic. Once it gets down this far, everyone's mindset is already off topic.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
What about the one discussing getting the New York primary moved up if Clinton were to get a big challenger so that she could get an early victory and kill that momentum? What about the ones discussing moving the Illinois primary back so t
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Do you have any evidence you can provide of concrete behavior showing Bannon as racist? I don't mean responses like "duh, CNN, Maher, Oliver, etc. say he is so duh", or "duh, he was the editor for Breitbart". I mea
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Those things don't match up like you think they do. The equivalent of /r/The_Donald banning users is equivalent to /r/politics banning anyone who posted critically of Clinton between July and the election (even tho
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
I think they were using "sipping" as a compliment, as opposed to gulping, draining, etc.
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Behavior such as these from CNN: [1] and [2] has been par for the course for the mainstream media as far as I have seen this year. Scare, divert, suppress, collude, whatever it takes to avoid the public getting to the truth if it will hurt
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
Not fully sure what you mean here. I did not downvote your comment. I also have no idea what "seems like an incredibly disingenuous statement". I posted how your comment comes off to me, in case you were not aware it was coming
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
> But ironically, for posting that, I was meant with censorship. Not trying to put words in your mouth, but this comes across as "when my opinion is downvoted then it's censorship, but when views I don't agree with are dow
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by ta_donk_gt 10y ago
If true, that would further my point, which is that race is not the underlying problem with police shootings and use of force. One additional note on this comment, sort of inversely related to my previous comment, focusing on race here also

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