(12-06-2021 05:49 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 05:37 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 02:41 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 02:33 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(12-06-2021 02:20 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Your example is very much spot on. I can't tell you how often I've heard someone make such an obviously outlandish statement as to 'the motivations of others'.. something I find meaningful... and then take umbrage at what I consider to be an artistic flourish about something that doesn't matter.

In your example, Democrats did not remotely support Trump's position... to the point where they were fear-mongering about nukes. They weren't actually cowering in basements, but if you're telling people that the President is risking nuclear war, that isn't a massive over-statement about what someone might do based on what they were saying. If someone says 'white people are just out to keep black people down', that sort of ends any chance at a rational discussion.

I see you answered your own question here (in response to you asking "Why?" when 93 said that "hyperbole sort of unnecessary IMO as it distracts from the actual point."

Telling a Democrat "Remember when he stood up to North Korea and all the democrats took shelter in their basements" is going to end any chance of rational discussion.

I am under the impression that OO posts here to initiate discussion and hear from the other side (I believe that's what he has said multiple times IIRC). Presumably it's not just to drop Washington Examiner links into an echo chamber (or is it???).

Nobody wants to be goaded into a conversation that starts with (albeit mild) insults.

Boy oh boy, talk about hyperbole.

I deliberately steer away from WashExaminer links because of their obvious bias. They do report in an obvious WashPo manner, just for the other side. But since I do steer away from them, I doubt there are many - maybe not any - WE links in the ones you choose to ignore. Since you made the accusation, I suggest you do the research. Check the last 20 or so links I have posted and tell me how many came from WE.

Um... I remembered one from just yesterday. See below.

You do know that MSN is a news aggregator, correct? Your daily MSN dump not infrequently includes Washington Examiner stories. I can't tell you the percentage as I can't bring myself to click on all of your links.

(12-04-2021 01:14 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  CRT doesn't exist


"...at a May 3 “employee training,” the Transportation Department force-fed noxious nonsense to workers, portraying all white men as “oppressors” merely by virtue of their race and sex."

Also, “‘non-citizens’ [are] oppressed by ‘citizens’ via ‘nationalism,’” and “‘middle aged’ people [are] oppressors of ‘youth and elders’ via ‘ageism.’”So to all you middle-aged white male citizens out there, STOP IT! Your inherent evil is being exposed by the Transportation Department. You were born bad and never will be any better.

So the story was a lie?

There is a reason I asked for the last 20. Nineteen to go.