Pyrian on 19/9/2019 at 18:13
Hypocritical accusation of hypocrisy from a guy who's never apologized for the many false "certainties" he espoused about Hillary Clinton and has defended Trump consistently.
Vae on 19/9/2019 at 18:34
Character assassination attempts are a sign of cowardliness and weakness, especially when those claims are not only out of context, but objectively false, as well.
You'd be better off facing the truth, and empowering yourself with that knowledge, rather than resorting to such slanderous behavior.
Gray on 19/9/2019 at 18:40
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If it was Drumph, we'd be going bananas right now...
No, because for some reason I've not yet figured out Trump is bulletproof, and everything just slides off him. Half a dozen times a day he does stupid shit that would make any self-respecting president resign out of sheer embarrassment, but yet he remains utterly shameless, and stays. Every one of those would be a once in a lifetime career ruining mistake, but he keeps surviving them. It's a brave new world.
If Trump blacked up TODAY, people would be shocked and horrified for five seconds, and then just shrug and go "well, that's Trump", and wait for the next horrible thing he'd do. If Trudeau did five terrible things in his entire career, that's still something Trump can knock out before morning coffee on any given random Tuesday. Or more likely, tweeting while in the bathroom. While declaring war on at least two countries he can't even spell or know where they are.
For the life of me, I can not understand how that man is still tolerated. He might actually be one of the four horsemen.
Renzatic on 19/9/2019 at 19:42
Quote Posted by Vae
Character assassination attempts are a sign of cowardliness and weakness, especially when those claims are not only out of context, but objectively false, as well.
And yet you still support Trump.
demagogue on 20/9/2019 at 02:51
Trudeau has had other faux pas like that of either the well-meaning vanilla liberal type or the oblivious type. Nothing worth defending. I was never particularly on his gravy train to begin with because he strikes me as more charismatic shaman than policy wonk, but on some policies he has coherent and respectable positions, so I wouldn't throw that out either.
Mostly, value signaling to me is, well I wouldn't say a lower form of politics -- it's still important that your representatives reflect the values of your nation -- but it's not what politics is about in the end. What's important to me is crunching the numbers and being hard-nosed empirical about what policies make the numbers go in the direction we want them to go. I just recognize that value signaling is a necessary part of getting political support for the policies like that that matter. (A politician campaigns in poetry & governs in prose.)
Sulphur on 20/9/2019 at 04:34
Quote Posted by Vae
Character assassination attempts are a sign of cowardliness and weakness, especially when those claims are not only out of context, but objectively false, as well.
It's not character assassination, because you'd have to be possessed of some character first.
Renzatic on 23/9/2019 at 17:19
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Whether a conspiracy or imagined, vocal Twitter leftists saw it as a provocation.
I dunno why the left and the right bicker so much. They both have so much in common.
Tocky on 25/9/2019 at 01:30
Good Lord. A twitter feature has a glitch and it's a conspiracy that makes it okay for Nazis to spread hate and violence. I'm finally won over to tiki clanin.
Yee haw.
Tony_Tarantula on 25/9/2019 at 15:21
If you believe that it's an accidental glitch then you are beyond help.
[video=youtube_share;vs41JrnGaxc]https://youtu.be/vs41JrnGaxc[/video]
Everyone else might like that. NYU professor Johnathan Haidt gives a TED talk explaining the psychology that drives the divide.