Terr, I have to say that when there are other conservative voices calling the bulk of this Board out, I don’t feel so lonely.
But in my view, your participation is simply the mirror image of what I see on the Left’s most unreasonable posters. Every situation that favors your outcome is interpreted generously; every situation that disfavors your preferred outcome is analyzed scrupulously. In short, its dishonest debate – not by virtue of lies, but by applying self-serving analytical standards.
This is a story, really? He’s factually correct, first of all, and it wasn’t like he was blaming the Poles for it. It was just another way of saying it was a death camp in Poland.
But go ahead, keep bringing it up Terr. You’ll convince people, someday :rolleyes:
This should be repeated every so often in this thread.
From the linked article, it looks like this movement began in 2004. Okay, so it’s been about nine years, and they’ve had success with newspapers, and it was admittedly a gaffe. But faking outrage or pushing this as something more than a hiccup by a flea on a flea is useful for recognizing posters with absolutely nothing substantive to contribute to political threads.
The only person whose gaffes and misstatements had substantive meaning was Palin. The thing is, though, that about half of the dumb things she said weren’t gaffes, they were products of a parochial outlook and a generalized ignorance of things that were beyond her sphere of interest. It was compounded by her crafted image of a rootin-tootin barge-on-in and stand by whatever dumb shit you say; never apologize, instead dig in and make it seem as if you meant it.
And even this would have gone in the ‘too picayune to matter that much’ file.
So you admit that you are doing exactly what Bricker said you are, using dishonest debating tactics, but you are damn well going to keep doing it. So why shouldn’t the rest of the board just start ignoring you? You admit to being dishonest, and proud of it. Sounds like you’re just daring people to disregard everything you say from now on.
Yup. I’ve sometimes heard Poland called “A country of anti-Semites with no Jews.” We know why there are not a whole lot of Jews in Poland now, and it’s not only because of invading Nazis.
Yup. You’re not worried at all - that’s why there is all this effort to deny and redirect in this thread - it’s like shining a light on cockroaches.
Obama made a stupid remark. That’ll cost him votes in Polish-American community. It was completely self-inflicted and unnecessary. I enjoy that. There isn’t much more than that - that’s why I posted it in MPSIMS and not in “Great Debates”
I do, and it’s telling that you can’t see the difference between a blip in the political cycle and a major issue. It’s also telling that you can’t be bothered to defend your posting style- but even if you wanted to I don’t think you could.