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Either you are with the Democrats or you are with Vladimir Putin (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 OP
Good example of the 'excluded middle' fallacy. immoderate Dec 2016 #1
Please vote. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #2
Done. immoderate Dec 2016 #4
TY DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #6
Life is rarely that simple. Ron Obvious Dec 2016 #3
Please see Post 2 DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #5
Only the Sith deal in absolutes Glassunion Dec 2016 #7
"Two wrongs don't make a right but they damn sure make us even." DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #8
Talked to a group of three Trumpsters this morning none of them believe anything doc03 Dec 2016 #9
The Deplorables are to Trump what the National Socialists were to Hitler. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #10
Lindsey Graham said he won't confirm Tillerson Generator Dec 2016 #11
I didn't say only Democrats oppose Putin. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #12
John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been in the doghouse at Fox doc03 Dec 2016 #13
so...you don't remember the Bush years, do you? yurbud Dec 2016 #14
Absolutism satisfies a simplistic mind, but does little else of note. LanternWaste Dec 2016 #15
"Absolute truth is an absolute defense." DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #16
And bumper-stickers satisfy undisciplined minds as well. LanternWaste Dec 2016 #17
I read dozens of books per year but thank you for your suggestion. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #18
Then please begin applying that literature LanternWaste Dec 2016 #19
"Extremism in the pursuit in the liberty is no vice..." DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #20
"I am right!" LanternWaste Dec 2016 #21
My hyperbole pales in comparison to Putin's chicanery and its results on people I care deeply about. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #22

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
7. Only the Sith deal in absolutes
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 01:57 PM
Dec 2016

I recall Bush using a similar tactic when rolling up support for war in the middle east...

doc03

(35,332 posts)
9. Talked to a group of three Trumpsters this morning none of them believe anything
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 02:14 PM
Dec 2016

about Putin and the election. Quote "I don't believe anything the government says". Later on I talked to two others
and neither of them believe any of the Putin stuff. You could have every congressman R and D tell them Putin interfered in the election and they won't believe it because Trump said he didn't. Fox had a poll this morning that said the Russian hacking didn't swing the election. So that sounds to me that Fox admitted the Russians were involved. One of the three this morning said CNN and MSNBC are just pissed they couldn't get Hillary elected. I got him good he called CNN the Clinton Communist Network. I said funny thing then the Russian communist backed Trump.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
10. The Deplorables are to Trump what the National Socialists were to Hitler.
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 02:17 PM
Dec 2016

If folks don't like my views I don't give a shit. They saddled us with him and are responsible for killing democracy.

 

Generator

(7,770 posts)
11. Lindsey Graham said he won't confirm Tillerson
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 02:24 PM
Dec 2016

unless he says Russia hacking happened. Interesting no? I suppose Graham is actually a Dem in disguise. You might explain Tillerson Exxon-Russian ties not that it does any good.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
12. I didn't say only Democrats oppose Putin.
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 02:27 PM
Dec 2016

I said you are on the side of the Democrats if you oppose Putin. I assume the brave dissenters in Russia aren't Democrats.

doc03

(35,332 posts)
13. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been in the doghouse at Fox
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 03:48 PM
Dec 2016

for a long time. I had a Republican, a Catholic, say the f----g Pope should stay out of politics. They don't care who it is
if you disagree you are no good.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
15. Absolutism satisfies a simplistic mind, but does little else of note.
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 04:25 PM
Dec 2016

Absolutism satisfies a simplistic mind, but does little else of note.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
17. And bumper-stickers satisfy undisciplined minds as well.
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 04:38 PM
Dec 2016

And bumper-stickers satisfy undisciplined minds as well. Your absolute truth is not my absolute truth, ergo, it is not an absolute truth. And try not to confuse truth and editorial... it's a rookie mistake

Please, read more!!!!

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
19. Then please begin applying that literature
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 04:42 PM
Dec 2016

Then please begin applying that literature (if indeed, your allegation is accurate), rather than bumper stickers and the simplistic moral absolutism of a Sunday televangelist.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
21. "I am right!"
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 04:51 PM
Dec 2016

"I am right!"

Another quote, relevant but hardly useful, as are yours. Graduate from the simplistic and the bumper sticker, and allow that human nature denies the absolute. The alternative is to be, by its very definition, irrational.

Regardless, your responses, maintaining both the depth and the breadth of a cartoon pirate on a cereal box is as tiresome as is listening to a four year argue against the existence of Pythagorean identities. Peace proceed, enjoy, and hopefully, learn... or continue wearing your televangelist outfit if it suits you better.

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