Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 171: Crazy Like a Fox (& Friends)

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The Onion
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Corrik posted...

Hey @Suprak_the_Stud isn't it funny how posting a link to a poll they obviously didn't like set them off for like 50 or so posts arguing about nothing to do with anything at all I said?

No one even discussed the article at all. Haha.

Is this seriously so far off from your Donald friends? O.o

Yikes don't even call them my friends in jest.

And nothing will ever compare to the_donald ever again. It is a unique gathering of the absolutely most insane Trump supporters doing everything they can to try and out insane each other. There is a daily post on the front page about how Hillary Clinton had Seth Rich murdered to this day. They post memes about as well constructed and funny as email forwards from your grandma. Anything bad that Donald does? 5D chess to try and trick the democrats. Anything good Donald does? IT IS THE BEST THING EVER AND NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EVER.

Check it out sometime. I can't fully describe it. You have to experience it.
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Corrik posted...

Hey @Suprak_the_Stud isn't it funny how posting a link to a poll they obviously didn't like set them off for like 50 or so posts arguing about nothing to do with anything at all I said?

literally @ing another user to get support here. congratulations, you've now descended to the level of sephyg.
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hey he didn't @ lopen this time
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Once again, poor Ing.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

Corrik posted...

Hey @Suprak_the_Stud isn't it funny how posting a link to a poll they obviously didn't like set them off for like 50 or so posts arguing about nothing to do with anything at all I said?

No one even discussed the article at all. Haha.

Is this seriously so far off from your Donald friends? O.o

Yikes don't even call them my friends in jest.

And nothing will ever compare to the_donald ever again. It is a unique gathering of the absolutely most insane Trump supporters doing everything they can to try and out insane each other. There is a daily post on the front page about how Hillary Clinton had Seth Rich murdered to this day. They post memes about as well constructed and funny as email forwards from your grandma. Anything bad that Donald does? 5D chess to try and trick the democrats. Anything good Donald does? IT IS THE BEST THING EVER AND NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EVER.

Check it out sometime. I can't fully describe it. You have to experience it.

I get enough of a dosage from here! I feel like if I put my fingers in my ears and act like some conservatives aren't as crazy as the some of liberals here that I sleep a little easier. = )
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

Hey @Suprak_the_Stud isn't it funny how posting a link to a poll they obviously didn't like set them off for like 50 or so posts arguing about nothing to do with anything at all I said?

literally @ing another user to get support here. congratulations, you've now descended to the level of sephyg.

@ed a democrat for support against other liberals and Democrats. Lol. Can't make your arguments up.
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Corrik posted...

Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

Hey @Suprak_the_Stud isn't it funny how posting a link to a poll they obviously didn't like set them off for like 50 or so posts arguing about nothing to do with anything at all I said?

literally @ing another user to get support here. congratulations, you've now descended to the level of sephyg.

@ed a democrat for support against other liberals and Democrats. Lol. Can't make your arguments up.

Dude, it doesn't matter what Suprak's affiliation is. What you did is the physical embodiment of that rising line on the Vladograph.
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Corrik posted...

@ed a democrat for support against other liberals and Democrats.

...uh, yeah, that's literally what you did.

you expected suprak to go "WTF MAN I'M A DEMOCRAT SO I DON'T APPROVE OF YOU MAKING FUN OF OTHER DEMOCRATS" or something?
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

@ed a democrat for support against other liberals and Democrats.

...uh, yeah, that's literally what you did.

you expected suprak to go "WTF MAN I'M A DEMOCRAT SO I DON'T APPROVE OF YOU MAKING FUN OF OTHER DEMOCRATS" or something?

No. I @ed a sane person to point out how insane you all are. Sorry, bud. You can troll as much as you want, but it will never make you right.
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Corrik posted...

You can troll as much as you want, but it will never make you right.

Do as corrik says, not as he does.
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Its 50 posts of people yelling not to engage with you because youre personally a shit who isnt actually welcome here because of your history of being a shit.
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I don't see why someone's constant intensely shitty behavior would make you not want to interact with them. Makes no sense to me.
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When your go-to is acting dumb to avoid criticism, you don't get to act like everyone else is wrong when they call you stupid.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385765-trumps-ex-doctor-says-trump-dictated-letter-claiming-he-would-be

Trump's personal doctor says he didn't write the letter about Trump's health, it was dictated by Trump himself.

lmfaooooooo
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We basically knew that at the time, to be fair
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385765-trumps-ex-doctor-says-trump-dictated-letter-claiming-he-would-be

Trump's personal doctor says he didn't write the letter about Trump's health, it was dictated by Trump himself.

lmfaooooooo

I mean, didn't literally everybody think it was either this or the doctor being paid off or similar when it first came out?

Seriously folks...
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It will just never not be funny to me when everyone's suspicions of Trump continue to be true.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

It will just never not be funny to me when everyone's suspicions of Trump continue to be true.

It's funny because it wasn't even a suspicion, it was like, a thing that was obviously outwardly true

and then it's confirmed

but I didn't really need the confirmation because it's so obvious

Literally no human beings who weren't fucking morons who thought that a letter saying that slimey gross living sponge was in the peak of health wasn't BS, and sadly everyone who did believe it is too stupid to have their mind changed and won't beleive this.
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https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/991448021169852417?s=21

These assholes really dont give a fuck about broadcasting their disdain for Mexicans
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

When your go-to is acting dumb to avoid criticism, you don't get to act like everyone else is wrong when they call you stupid.

What are you literally even talking about?

I posted a poll from reuters and a supporting article from nbcnews and made a joke about damn millennials and how they are always blamed for shit.

Can any of you even try in the least to make some sense when posting?
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Corrik posted...

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

When your go-to is acting dumb to avoid criticism, you don't get to act like everyone else is wrong when they call you stupid.

What are you literally even talking about?

i am begging you to try being self-aware just once
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https://www.rollingstone.com/shady-cases-michael-cohen-personal-injury-practice-w519679

this might be the best story about this whole thing yet
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https://twitter.com/wordmercenary/status/990939871287169024?s=21

I never knew Karl Rove was the one who wrote the bible for how to be a conservative troll
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Is there any evidence Rove actually wrote that? That feels like...too obviously evil. Like even people that argue in bad faith don't usually put together a list like that for everyone to see because it would end up harming their position even if that's what they were trying to do.
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Not that I know, but regardless of who wrote it, its 100% accurate as to how conservative trolls argue
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Looooot of similarities there with some people who found their way back on my ignore list.
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Apparently it was made public by The Young Turks, who I dont know enough about to claim whether they are credible or not.

Regardless, playbooks like these absolutely exist for massive troll farms like Russia has. The sort of people who spread the shit Vlado preaches.

In his topics, he basically follows this playbook by the letter, whether he knows it or not.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/wordmercenary/status/990939871287169024?s=21

I never knew Karl Rove was the one who wrote the bible for how to be a conservative troll

Oh god it is exactly how to play mafia as scum.

Its beautiful.

Well it was posted on TYT's website in 2011.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120425033837/http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2011/8/26/151725/396/

(long link space)

Diary/TACTICS-FOR-EFFECTIVE-CONSERVATIVE-BLOGGING-By-Karl-Rove

By the illustrious reporter known as..."sidneyhop". It begins with "Does this sound familiar?!? Having a meaningless, senseless exchange with a reich wing nut sac on a forum?" So its like one level above chain email forwards in terms of authenticity.
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Yeah but you know Rove spends his spare time owning the libs on /b/
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https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991459400018624512?s=21

to make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will

Kanye West, or dril?
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/01/blankenship-at-fox-news-debate-see-nothing-offensive-about-term-chinaperson.html

West Virginia GOP Senate candidate Don Blankenship said Tuesday night that there was "not any slander" when he referred to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's father-in-law as a "Chinaperson."

LOL

Blankenship was released from prison last year after he was convicted of conspiring to commit mine safety violations ahead of the deadly 2010 explosion at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch Mine. Asked if he accepts responsibility for the deaths of the miners, Blankenship said, I am accepting the responsibility to do everything I can to keep it from happening again.

What a worm boy
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Hey "insult their movement" is like this board 101. Can't win an argument so call the person racist, sexist, or a bigot! Woohoo! Or a piece of shit or whatever various insults!
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FWIW I got your Millennials joke
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Jakyl25 posted...

FWIW I got your Millennials joke

That is why you are one of my favorites! Lol. = )
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Can't deny you're a racist, sexist, bigot? Just claim the other side is oversensitive and that those words don't mean anything. Can't possibly be a problem on YOUR end, after all. Nope, everyone ELSE is just too fragile.
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Corrik posted...

Hey "insult their movement" is like this board 101. Can't win an argument so call the person racist, sexist, or a bigot! Woohoo! Or a piece of shit or whatever various insults!

why do you keep posting here as much as you do if you hate this board so much? you're really pulling a timjab.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

Hey "insult their movement" is like this board 101. Can't win an argument so call the person racist, sexist, or a bigot! Woohoo! Or a piece of shit or whatever various insults!

why do you keep posting here as much as you do if you hate this board so much? you're really pulling a timjab.

You wish. If he was pulling a TimJab he might actually leave.
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I don't think pointing out bigotry is insulting one's movement at all. It's merely pointing out bigotry. I'd say those who insult conservatism are the ones who consider them all Nazi's. The problem, of course, is that some of them are actual Nazi's.
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April 2018 is the first full month since the tax plan was passed in December 2017 where Donald's ratings dipped...and they just dipped 0.2%...and if you go to May 1st instead of April 30th (starting on April 1st), Donald would actually gain 1.2%.
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Dancedreamer posted...

I don't think pointing out bigotry is insulting one's movement at all. It's merely pointing out bigotry.

I have no trouble pointing out racist and sexist democrats (of which there are plenty).

It's also like...I know for a fact that I've said racist things in the past, I know for a fact that I held some sexist beliefs in the past. Almost always I didn't notice until someone else pointed it out. When someone says "hey that's racist", often they're trying to help you, they're trying to be helpful, like "hey, there's toilet paper stuck to your shoe."
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metroid composite posted...

I know for a fact that I've said racist things in the past, I know for a fact that I held some sexist beliefs in the past.

same.

foolmo pointed this out ages ago, but there's a gigantic difference between "you're a racist" and "the specific thing you're saying right now is pretty racist." of course people like corrik would rather throw a hissy fit and go "OMG DID YOU CALL ME A RACIST?!?" than listen to what you're actually saying (or think for more than 1 second about what you're saying before throwing a hissy fit).
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metroid composite posted...

Dancedreamer posted...

I don't think pointing out bigotry is insulting one's movement at all. It's merely pointing out bigotry.

I have no trouble pointing out racist and sexist democrats (of which there are plenty).

It's also like...I know for a fact that I've said racist things in the past, I know for a fact that I held some sexist beliefs in the past. Almost always I didn't notice until someone else pointed it out. When someone says "hey that's racist", often they're trying to help you, they're trying to be helpful, like "hey, there's toilet paper stuck to your shoe."

Yeah. I've done and said things that I regret. I'm incredibly thankful for friends pointing out to me how racist and sexist I was being.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

Hey "insult their movement" is like this board 101. Can't win an argument so call the person racist, sexist, or a bigot! Woohoo! Or a piece of shit or whatever various insults!

why do you keep posting here as much as you do if you hate this board so much? you're really pulling a timjab.

This topic series, trust me, is nowhere within the realm of what the board is.

There is a reason a lot of people do not allow talking politics at work or dinner. And, it is kind of exemplified here. Many in this topic don't seem to know how to just discuss stuff. There is only one faction here that is constantly tossing out insults left and right.

Yeah, when I have a leaning left opinion on something the insults get sheathed for a little bit. Then they come back out.

I mean... You go back through your logs just to see how many times I have called any of you names and vice versa.

You attack character a lot. That is what insult the movement is all about. You are deflecting from an issue to attack the person. Make their "movement" heinous to follow because of the person supposedly pushing it.
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And before someone points out I called yinz insane above, yeah I did. It was poorly worded. I meant insane in regards to politics. I try to ignore all politics outside of these topics as much as possible (unless politically related) when discussing with yinz. It is something I have suspected some of you fail to be able to do. I seem to remember being attacked quite a few times in other topics by members in this group for differing political opinions elsewhere.

I am able to cordon off politics as a subject that generally gets over exaggerated responses and sometimes nasty responses because people care too much about it, sort of like religion and a few other topics. I try to talk to all of you the same outside of these topics in other topics. Whether it is star wars topics, video game topics, movies, mafia, etc.

I wonder how many of you that is actually true with in reverse. I suspect there is at least a couple here it isn't true of.
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Corrik posted...

This topic series, trust me, is nowhere within the realm of what the board is.

then maybe you shouldn't say that what you're describing is "this board 101."

You go back through your logs just to see how many times I have called any of you names and vice versa.

ok.

Lmfao. And then you wonder why people shit on your posting.

hm, looks like you were insulting me here.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

This topic series, trust me, is nowhere within the realm of what the board is.

then maybe you shouldn't say that what you're describing is "this board 101."

You go back through your logs just to see how many times I have called any of you names and vice versa.

ok.

Lmfao. And then you wonder why people shit on your posting.

hm, looks like you were insulting me here.

I don't even know where that is from, but I do know that is a criticism of your posting and not an attack of you as a person based on the zero context provided.
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Corrik posted...

but I do know that is a criticism of your posting and not an attack of you as a person

lol. wtf does this even mean?

"i'm not attacking you as a person, i'm just laughing my fucking ass off about how much your posts suck!"

thanks man, that makes me feel a lot better.
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