Re: Promoting Cautiously. Topic Will Be Moderated.
Hyroglyphx writes:
I didn't drop a single name!
You basically named and impugned everyone:
Hyroglyphx in Message 50 writes:
EvC has basically always been a huge echo chamber and circle jerk for left-leaning ideologues certain of their righteousness. The boot-licking, ass-kissing, lap dogs around here (of which there are many) have license to spew whatever invective they please while you seem to have a different set of rules.
Moving on:
Whatever. You're an outsider, as am I. It is what it is.
So now you're being honest with yourself that you're no moderate? Your avatar is false, too. It's incomprehensible that you don't admit being a fellow traveler with the alt-right and Trump, given that your views so closely align with theirs.
But you and Faith could have a wonderful discussion. Premise: Trump is a wonderful president.
I wonder if you and Faith agree on immigration. I'm reading Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline right now. One of the points it makes is that most countries of the western world have a fertility rate below replacement rate, which means their populations are decreasing. Replacement rate is 2.1, and we're at 1.8. Japan's is at 1.44, and their population has already started to decline. We and western Europe will soon follow them. Eastern Europe's population decline has already begun. Bulgaria has declined from 9 million in 1985 to 7 million today.
Fertility rates decline as women's rights and education increase, and the answer is immigration, something the right seems firmly against. Despite the opposition the U.S. accepts about a million immigrants per year, but if we don't want to have a declining population, if we don't want to be hollowed out from the inside, then that number needs to rise to about three million per year.
Re: Promoting Cautiously. Topic Will Be Moderated.
Faith writes:
Oh aren't you cleverly devious. Or course you're right, we couldn't be right, oh no, that's the EvC party line. Of course you're right.
Reminds me of the 1964 Barry Goldwater slogan, "In your heart you know he's right," to which the Democrats replied, "In your heart you know he's very right."
You doubt most true things that don't comport with your worldview. In this case you can watch it happening. This one is edited down to just the key portions:
This one is an MSNBC news report. At one point there's video of the audience of Trump supporters shouting "Q&A, Q&A" in unison. Apparently the cancelling of the Q&A session was not popular:
quote:Trump Jr.'s appearance was marked by an argument between him and the audience over why he would not take questions, The Guardian newspaper reported. Trump was greeted with shouts of "USA! USA!" when he first appeared on the stage of a lecture hall, but members of the audience eventually turned to louder, openly hostile chants of "Q and A! Q and A!" after they were told he would not take questions, the newspaper reported.
The Guardian said that Trump Jr. told the audience that taking questions from the floor risked creating soundbites that left-wing social media posters would abuse and distort.
quote:But the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest and ended up drowning him out barely 20 minutes into an event scheduled to last two hours.
The audience was angry that Trump Jr and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, would not take questions. The loud shouts of USA! USA! that greeted Trump when he first appeared on the stage of a university lecture hall to promote his book Triggered: How The Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us quickly morphed into even louder, openly hostile chants of Q and A! Q and A!
Fox News evidently trusted the Guardian enough that they passed its reporting on to their own readers. What criteria are you applying to determine the trustworthiness of a source, besides whether or not it pleases you?
Sorry this is just too fishy. Are you unaware of all the leftist infiltrations of conservative events over the last few years?
Pretty much.
Oh gosh, I guess we aren't allowed to talk about all that at EvC are we? Nope, can't use the word "Leftist" or anything that identifies the Left as the evil force it is in today's world. Nope.
I think just engaging in discussion instead of excoriation would be nice.
Oh gosh, I guess we aren't allowed to talk about all that at EvC are we? Nope, can't use the word "Leftist" or anything that identifies the Left as the evil force it is in today's world. Nope.
I think just engaging in discussion instead of excoriation would be nice.
I had to look that word up. Do we tend to pick at each others skin?
The meaning of excoriation in this context is "to severely criticize." I was expressing my preference for an on-topic discussion over off-topic and sarcastic excoriation about moderation. A proclivity for this type of diversion, sometimes directed at individuals, sometimes at everyone, will of course bring one into conflict with board moderation, but that's not the topic of this thread.
Faith never really responded to any of the substance of my Message 86, merely questioning the trustworthiness of The Guardian. Whatever criteria she's applying in determining what news sources to trust, she's not saying.
No one cares what you "heard". Provide data and sources. What you heard is irrelevant and when what you herd is looked at it is usually shown to be incorrect or extremely misleading. So how about providing actual figures and sources?
Why should I believe they are Trump supporters. What's the evidence?
The chants of "USA, USA" and other Trump slogans at the beginning made clear it was a strongly predominant Trump crowd, and it was the same crowd shouting "Q&A, Q&A" when Trump Jr. left the stage. The campus newspaper reporter said there was only one vocal anti-Trump supporter, and she was shown wearing a hijab in one of the videos.
What you aren't getting is that infiltrators are going to act like Trump supporters so they can provide the fake news of shouting him off the stage.
You live in an active fantasy world.
I simply don't know of any actual Trump supporters who would have done that to Trump Jr.
Since you hardly know anyone, especially in that age group, this is an empty assertion.
But perhaps you have better evidence.
You can't compare your evidence to mine because you've provided no evidence. All you've provided is denial and false bluster. I provided two videos. Here's another video of conservative Meghan McCain taking on Donald Trump Jr. on The View:
Being a Trump supporter doesn't mean supporting everything Trump or everyone in his family does.
If you're on the wrong side and there is no God, what then?
Or maybe there is a God and he's been correcting you for a long time, but like the guy in the flood the help wasn't in the form you expected, so you rejected it.
I'm not going to listen to this but did want to comment on the Unitarian Universalist religion. It is a bastard religion of no spiritual value formed by the merger of the Unitarians with the Universalists. The merger destroyed Unitarianism as Universalist non-religious dogma took over. A few independent Unitarian churches do remain.
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