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AC_Dragonfire posted...

@ Zeus stop beating off to the same meme over and over again. You're like an old married man who can't make up new jokes.

@AC_Dragonfire



None of your shit makes sense, even the "what?" insult you tossed in there. While I could encourage you to stop babbling by being more direct, I thought you could take a hint with the image.

darkknight109 posted...

So then how does him making random gestures while not mocking people (I.E. the pictures you posted) in any way back-up that claim?

Because it demonstrates a general tendency... If somebody is constantly gesticulating, any specific action is less likely to be an intentioned, considered act. And for your conspiracy theory to work, it would NEED to be a pre-planned, researched move.

darkknight109 posted...

Given that one look at the guy shows he's disabled (his condition is pretty apparent), Trump would hardly need to have looked up videos of him; not to mention, this reporter had covered Trump for six years, so it's not like he was an unfamiliar face. There's also the point that Trump was holding his arm in pretty much the exact way that the reporter's arthrogryposis afflicts him:

https://tribktla.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/trump-reporter.jpg?quality=85&strip=all

That's your best image and it's not even close. More importantly, I seem to recall that was a photo taken AFTER the event. When you consider that the reporter -- who has financial incentive to garner attention -- could mirror Trump rather than the other way around, the case is even weaker.

darkknight109 posted...

Occam's Razor is a problem solving philosophy that involves minimizing assumptions in competing hypotheses, and is of limited use here. That said, if you want to use the internet version - "The simplest explanation is likely true", then which is the simpler explanation?
-Donald Trump mocked a disabled reporter by imitating his disability
OR
-Donald Trump was unaware of the reporter's disability, despite having been interviewed by him for years, and, through sheer random happenstance, happened to move in a way that was uncannily similar to the reporter's disability while giving an unflattering impersonation of him?

Care to back up that claim about having been interviewed by him in-person for years? Last I checked, Sergei isn't a tv journalist. He's most likely to talk to him by phone and, of course, is one of countless other reporters to do so. You act like the two of them were roommates. The reality is that if Trump ever met Sergei in person at all, it would have been decades ago and it's unlikely that he'd remember at all (unless you take seriously his claim of having "the best memory" at which point you'd arguably also have to take seriously his claim of not remembering because, you know, consistency when taking his word; otherwise, if he criticize Trump's memory, it supports Trump's clam that he wouldn't remember -- which isn't an unreasonable suggestion, considering that people I interacted with regularly for a few years don't necessarily remember me even a decade later without prompting details).

Again, nothing strongly suggests that Trump even knew how to specifically mock the disability, therefore making it unlikely that he had intended to mock the disability.
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