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How to argue with right-wing relatives (You're about to lose yesterday's supper)
Salon ^ | December 25, 2011 | Alex Pareene

Posted on 12/26/2011 9:49:19 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I doubt the author of this piece has any right wing relatives.


41 posted on 12/26/2011 10:33:24 AM PST by Salman
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To: cripplecreek
Tell your relatives that you have recently joined the New Black Panther Party. They will be too terrified to bring it up again!

Does the New Black Panther Party have white interns like Undercover Brother?

42 posted on 12/26/2011 10:34:56 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Terrified of the black panthers. lol. the black panthers are a bunch of city boys that wouldnt last ten min. out in the country.


43 posted on 12/26/2011 10:37:20 AM PST by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Terrified of the black panthers. lol. the black panthers are a bunch of city boys that wouldnt last ten min. out in the country.


44 posted on 12/26/2011 10:37:34 AM PST by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: RipSawyer
Gilligan's Island and Hogan's Heroes were National Geographic documentaries compared to any show on that network.
45 posted on 12/26/2011 10:38:13 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: Popman

There can be no greater embarrassment then simply identifying one’s self as a liberal.


46 posted on 12/26/2011 10:38:13 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Leftists live in fear of ever appearing stupid or uncool. The brief rejoinder that is witty and cuts right to the bone as far as stupid, on their own terms, is the best one. Don't ever argue for your position, attack theirs. Always. Even better if it's mockingly humorous.
47 posted on 12/26/2011 10:41:07 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the author.

48 posted on 12/26/2011 10:41:31 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
You have to be bullsh*tting me! What is he? 14? It is a "he" isn't it? Is that one of the junior interns at Salon or what? Did someone repeal the child labor laws?
49 posted on 12/26/2011 10:44:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think this is supposed to be funny, but it's actually pretty sad and revealing. There aren't any counter-arguments here, only a mishmash of ad hominems and fatuous evasions. This is, in fact, how liberals "debate".

The last item, however, reveals how childish the author really is. A "spirited" argument on voter intimidation is the very last place a liberal wants to go in debate. I wouldn't mind it, though.

50 posted on 12/26/2011 10:51:31 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: hinckley buzzard
Yes, you noticed, none of the "counterarguments" were responsive to the issues

DINGDINGDING!

This is the natural result when one uses John Stewart as a primary news source.

51 posted on 12/26/2011 10:52:20 AM PST by papertyger
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To: Osage Orange

I’ve been through Chemo twice in the last six years.
I tell anyone who cares that I LOVE BIG PHARMA.

For those who spend their time attacking Evil Corporations, you only have to ask them one simple question. Which entity can you CHOOSE not to deal with, a Corporation or the United States Government?

When they argue the point, tell them to stop buying Gasoline or stop paying Taxes so they see who comes to their door to rectify the situation.


52 posted on 12/26/2011 10:54:16 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
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To: ez
Does that cover it?

Works for me but apparently no one in Law Enforcement. Or with Liberals. Or morons...but I repeat myself.

53 posted on 12/26/2011 10:54:55 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Some folks need an education...don't give up or we'll lose the Nation - Grand Funk Railroad)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Oh. Yep, that does explain it.


54 posted on 12/26/2011 10:54:59 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: cripplecreek

I say the story or the arguments presented are bogus; iow, not real and nobody on the left made those asinine responses to the arguments/issues presented.

In other words, someone planted that story in order to make the liberals seem more dumb an ignorant and insane than they really are.

Nobody can be that stupid, not even the liberals, and the way the arguments were presented, well, it sounds like they were written by a kid in the third grade who heard about those issues for the first time in his life. It seems too dumb to be real.

I may disagree with liberals on most issues, but, I doubt that any of them with any knowledge on the issues at all, would construct something so dumb as the article above.

So, which republican operative/activist wrote up that nonsense and then sent it to Salon, in order to make them sound much dumber then they usually are?


55 posted on 12/26/2011 10:56:17 AM PST by adorno (<)
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To: jmacusa

——There can be no greater embarrassment then simply identifying one’s self as a liberal.——

Funny.....Liberals say the same thing about conservatives

....not because they have the facts on their side just a sense of misplaced moral superiority


56 posted on 12/26/2011 10:56:31 AM PST by Popman (Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
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To: The Man

Sowell, in “Intellectuals”, nails this “tactic” to a T.

It’s “arguments instead of arguments”.
Leftists never argue based on the merits of the issue, but they always go for the “shut you down”, attempt to embarrass you into not arguing with them anymore.

After reading “you can still trust the communists to be communists”, I recognize this is a typical tactic of the left.


57 posted on 12/26/2011 11:03:44 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How lame is the person going to Salon for advice on how to conduct an argument?


58 posted on 12/26/2011 11:05:03 AM PST by patriotsoul
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Looks to me like the author is satirizing the whole liberal argument. What is on display is all they got to work with.

Must suck to be them.

59 posted on 12/26/2011 11:06:54 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lame and filled with lies.

"If you have a “smart phone,” just bookmark Snopes now.

Why stop there? Surely there are more websites loyal to the Soros/Obama path of destruction. Am surprised the Obamanista who wrote this stupid article didn't try to shill Factcheck, Moveon or the other leftist propaganda sites.

60 posted on 12/26/2011 11:06:54 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them)
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