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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: A_perfect_lady

Correct my if I am wrong. But if her mother passed this tax year she still gets to claim her.

You might have to wait till 2013 for the drift right to start.


81 posted on 12/26/2011 12:24:08 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think the “author” countered anything. He used the juvenile left tactic (the reason the left can not make it on Talk Radio) of obfuscating and avoiding the issue brought up and then insulting anyone who sees a problem with the issue that was brought up.

Just think how much the world would be without lefties.


82 posted on 12/26/2011 12:24:46 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Coffee for your TEA party (www.dougsmugs.com))
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To: Osage Orange

I used to own a coffee shop. I had a grouchy old lefty customer who would come hobbling into the store every week. He would rail on the drug companies and health insurance in between talking about all the meds he was on.

The sob wouldn’t be as old as he was without big pharm, the health insurance companies and the medical profession.

I knew I was going out of business, so I didn’t mind battling it out with him a little over the last few months. It really agitated him, but he kept coming back.


83 posted on 12/26/2011 12:31:05 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Coffee for your TEA party (www.dougsmugs.com))
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Is that Rachel Maddow?

84 posted on 12/26/2011 12:32:10 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Coffee for your TEA party (www.dougsmugs.com))
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Rachel is more masculine.


85 posted on 12/26/2011 12:33:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t see any “counter arguments”. I see lame smart-ass denial of the typical leftist type. No wonder these punks watch Rachel maddow. Her answer to every RAT crime is a smart remark and a sneer.


86 posted on 12/26/2011 12:36:23 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Journalism at its finest.

A journalism major, a marketing major and a communications major all walked into a bar.... Thank God it burned down and killed all three.


87 posted on 12/26/2011 12:36:46 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama has given the Left a (temporarily) winning formula: use Straw Man arguments (false caricatures) and then claim victory the instant a conservative provides factual counter-arguments by changing the subject and then accusing them of secret bad intentions that cannot ever be disproved.

A little advice: if your relatives argue in bad faith: withdraw. They have no interest in the truth, only in appearing superior. Alternatively, if you have the patience for it, quietly and dispassionately question the assumptions behind their assertions: "Why do you think you have a right to the product of another man's intellect and effort?" They still won't ever let you "win", but it will reveal them.

88 posted on 12/26/2011 12:41:43 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

That one has “power bottom” written all over him.


89 posted on 12/26/2011 12:47:01 PM PST by papertyger
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To: FreeAtlanta

The name’s “Alex.”

Heavy on the “ksssss.”


90 posted on 12/26/2011 12:50:06 PM PST by papertyger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People who start or encourage political (or God forbid, religious/ethical) arguments at holiday family gatherings should have their pee-pees whacked repeatedly with heavy blunt metal objects. They’re not the time or place. If you really must argue about something, there’s always sports.


91 posted on 12/26/2011 1:12:53 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Yeah, but the guy somehow confuses F&F with the WOD.


92 posted on 12/26/2011 1:16:56 PM PST by gitmo (Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
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To: jakerobins
Is this satire? None of the "counter arguments" have anything to do with the topics.

Guess the quality of Leftwingtard thinking is continuing to sink to unbelievable levels.

93 posted on 12/26/2011 1:30:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have some left-wing relatives but none of them are as stupid as this author. They all know better than to argue politics with me because they know they don’t stand a chance when it comes to facts or ideology.


94 posted on 12/26/2011 1:44:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
First, the immigration status of Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango (the half-sister of Obama’s father, from whom the president was estranged for much of his life) was leaked to the press just before the 2008 election

Guess they used some silly putty to stop the leak since I never heard of her till last year.......

95 posted on 12/26/2011 1:51:22 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
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To: reefdiver
I don't even acknowledge the liberal side of my family anymore.

I feel sorry for you, my entire family are republicans. The only political discourse I have right now is with one brother-in-law regarding support for either Gingrich or Romney...........I

96 posted on 12/26/2011 1:56:15 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is like bringing a sting to a nuke fight.


97 posted on 12/26/2011 1:59:10 PM PST by bmwcyle (I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
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To: Hot Tabasco

How lucky you are


98 posted on 12/26/2011 2:36:48 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Osage Orange
“The irony would have been lost on him....and I'm generally more polite and professional than that. Ha!!”

I think that is the problem. We are too polite and professional to throw the truth in their faces.

99 posted on 12/26/2011 10:27:02 PM PST by Chgogal (WSJ, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So ... he doesn’t really dispute the truth behind any of this assorted laundry list of accusations, he simply wants to change the subject or argue that the issue is unimportant.


100 posted on 12/27/2011 10:27:58 AM PST by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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