Overused Catch Phrases to win arguments

BigRedBuster said:
cornographic said:
BigRedBuster said:
cornographic said:
BigRedBuster said:
cornographic said:
ISIS is not going to get on a boat, travel across the Pacific and attack us, sorry. Nor is Iran, or Russia, or Korea. It would be suicide for them to do so. There are valid terror threats in the USA, primarily from neo-nazi type groups and some very small, random, Jihadist groups. The thing about Jihadism is that it requires people that want to commit suicide and that's a tough sell.

Not saying there aren't some threats, just saying that the Right Wing hypes the threats to pander to their base.
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Not saying they don't.
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Does this mean we agree again?
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Hey....I'm an equal opportunity trasher of political sides. I'll trash the Republicans all day long.......where we probably won't agree is with the other side.
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Well, I don't necessarily consider myself a Dem, more of a radical, proletariat revolutionary type, lol....
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And, I am far from a radical Republican (I'm not even a republican at all).

I always laugh at this.

When i talk to someone who is a far left liberal, I always come away thinking....DANG, I am really conservative.

When I talk to someone who is far right Republican, I always come away thinking....DANG, I am really liberal.

I just wish more people would look at their "side" and criticize their "side" more instead of always pointing the finger at the other side and yelling.
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Staunch supporters of either side drive me crazy. They often don't use their brains. I lean left on lots of issues but I think the system is pretty effed and think $ should not be involved in the way it is. Policies and politicians are controlled by $ and that isn't right. On both sides.

I don't think anyone actually agrees with everything that politicians on one side or the other do. They just think they do. I've often seen studies where people are asked where they stand on certain issues and a lot of times proclaimed staunch Republicans strongly agree with the Democrats on several issues. And vice versa. They just don't realize what their representatives are actually doing when they go to work.

Anyhow, it's those types of Republicans who lump all liberals in with agreeing with every single thing they don't like. And those types of Democrats who lump all conservatives in with agreeing with every single thing they don't like.

For instance: the far left democrats who think everyone who's pro life is anti women's rights. That isn't the case for all (or even many) pro-lifers. Pro lifers think there is a human in the womb, therefore it's not a women's rights issue. From a pro lifer's point of view there is another person involved. It's about the baby's rights to them. The Democrats just try to make it sound as bad as possible to make their side sound better.

 
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Moiraine said:
t I think the system is pretty effed and think $ should not be involved in the way it is. Policies and politicians are controlled by $ and that isn't right. On both sides.
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Personally, I'm a firm believer that what we see from everyone involved is a facade and if money were taken out of the process, we all would have vastly different views on issues due to not being force fed what political factions want us to hear through media.

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
BigRedBuster said:
If you don't think there is fear used by liberals/Democrats then well.....
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This is true, everyone uses it just as everyone uses pretty much any logical fallacy to support their cause, but don't fall into the trap of thinking that means it's the same. That is the fallacy of false equivalency. A perfect example of this is the increasing partisanship we see in politics - the right is becoming more and more right, and the left more left, but just because both are, doesn't mean they are equal. The right has traveled much further right than the left has traveled left.
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I wanted to come back to this comment.

Yes, at this time, the far right is a total mess and have gone totally off the deep end. That is why I have said repeatedly that the Tea Party is the single worst thing that has ever happened to the Republican party.

However, I feel like there is a split starting to happen in conservatism. There are people who are staunchly in that Tea Party mode of thinking. At the same time, there are more and more people who are starting to realize that is the wrong path for conservatism. We can only hope that more and more people start thinking that way.

 
Just bumping this to reiterate that the word "agenda" is way overused and it's a big pet peeve of mine. Lately it seems I can't read more than 3 people's replies without seeing someone accusing someone else of having an agenda. Sometimes it seems like the way we communicate now is dumbing down everything. People use catch phrases that they don't understand when they don't know what else to say.

It's called an opinion, people. It's possible to have thoughts about things without having an "agenda."

 
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