(01-18-2022 12:53 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(01-18-2022 12:36 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-18-2022 11:50 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(01-18-2022 11:11 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-18-2022 11:01 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  "Extremism" is a a
Democratic dog whistle for "white supremacy".

Hey, you get the concept of dog whistles now!

My gosh, we could have saved so much time arguing for years about Trump if you'd understood that concept back then.

What exactly does the term 'extremism in this country' mean to you?

The snowpocalypse of last year and the extreme low temperatures? The large number of wildfires in the United States?

I would think that the term coming from an ideological shitbird that Happy Meal has so readily evidenced himself to be in terms of his almost Pavlovian responses to issues that it would seem pretty self-evident to most, except the most engrained in the Book of Democrat, as to what was meant.

You tapdance around the issue above with some verbiage about 'extremism rising in the world', but funnily, to the untrained eye and ear Happy meal specifically noted 'rise of extremism in this country' ---- not the cha cha cha of pure 'rise of extremism (full stop)' that you try to unfurl on us above.

So please, do tell what the phrase 'extremism in this country' should mean? Seriously, I take it you think the phrase 'in this country' is somehow equivalent to the null set that should be utterly ignored?

Ah yes, really tap dancing around it by saying:

"I think it's one of those statements that can be twisted to fit one's agenda really easily, given how hand wavy it is. Since the dude was from England, it was not an accurate statement, as it isn't connected to any sort of domestic extremism.

That said, anti-semitism/extremism has been increasing across the world, so I don't think it's as bad of a statement as the conservatives on this board are making it out to be. But the whole "call it Islamic terrorism" refrain has been a trope for quite some time."

I think it's not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be. We disagree about the magnitude of the mistake here. But sure, tap dancing.

So what does 'in this country' mean to you? That is apart from a big edit beep sound that bleeps it out en toto that you strive to give that phrase in that sentence. One should just ignore it and think it not there? Seriously?

This looks like you didn't even read my comment.

I explicitly stated Biden was incorrect with his statement, given where the guy came from. I noted that I think the magnitude of this mistake is not as big as you do.

So clearly you know what "in this country" means to me.

If Biden had really lied and say, labeled this an example of white supremacy, then I could get behind the handwringing here. But he called it an act of terror the next day when asked and doesn't (currently, at least) seem to be using it to try and peddle a narrative that's false.

Yeah, despite the crime happening on our soils, it really isn't an example of extremism in this country rising, in the way you and I would define it (as that's definitely a reference to domestic extremism and not foreigners coming here). But it just doesn't bug me as much as it bugs you.