If taking quotes out of context or selectively quoting something misleading was against the rules at least half the hive would gone.
Your hive idiocy aside, taking a quote that far out of context–i.e., taking a clause out of a sentence in a way that completely changes the overall meaning of the class–ought to be warnable. Anyone that would get rid of, I’d applaud their absence.
Please cite that this is a common practice. I call bullshit, but if this is common, I agree those people should be warned or banned. Pulling quotes out of context in order to mislead the reader is just lying. Since liars can’t be called out anywhere but here, it’s up to the mods to do something when such lying is obvious.
He clearly really really really really covets the opportunity to ruin the landscape with his toys. If I were in his position I’d make my life here a bit simpler and just admit that I intend to continue supporting Trump despite his being the worst possible human because with Trump in office I get to play with my ATV in what once was a national park wheee!
It’s huge with right wingers. It’s how they can get their satisfying daily outrage over things like:
“…you didn’t build that. …”
What you’re responding to is a lot of projection, another biggie with right wingers. Ditka even accused me of altering a quote’s context once, because obviously, it’s a practice of his. Someone else noticed that the article I had quoted had been updated at such and such a time- after I posted the quote. But of course Ditka and his defender here go right to “you do it, roo”. It’s just right wing projection. And also, it’s the term you used, “bullshit”.
It’s not bullshit at all. People here, quite often in this very pit, deliberately misrepresent quoted arguments and flat out lie.
“People”? You mean you and your ilk?
Anyway, Bubba, how 'bout them Patriots, hunh?
Thanks for the cite! I’ll assume you mean that you do this, and I know Shodan does it because I’ve followed up on his “cites” a few times and challenged him, and he has never responded. And we know HD does this.
Don’t you have your own pit thread you can fuck around in? What do you think of HD’s disingenuous attempt to smear all Democrats with stupid things that Beto says?
Do you dumbasses really think people here are “Russian Trolls” trying to manipulate & aggrivate you?
You should take it as a compliment! You’re an unemployed struggling guy and are willing to pretend to be a dunce and do a tedious detestable job to feed your hungry family.
If the alternative is really the case — that you and the other Trump-licking drones are sincere — then pity is in order. Along with congratulations that with an IQ that low you’re able to compose grammatical sentences.
… says the illiterate dumbass who can’t spell.
What a rollercoaster.
When there is literally 1000 anti Trump or anti Republicans threads for every one thread critical of a democrat it’s hard to care. Plus if Beta is saying stupid things and he’s running for the Democratic nomination he’s fair game for ridicule.
What’s your fixation with the Patriots? Is this the new quarry?
Oh I’m sorry. I’d thought you’d have been the butt of the joke so often it would be familiar to you.
Octopus’ inability to articulate any political principle whatsoever except “No, you” reminds me of Bubba in the old joke:
Three Texans, Slim, Billy-Bob and Bubba died and went to heaven.At the pearly gates, they were met by St. Peter, who explained that although it was late and God had retired for the evening, he had asked Albert Einstein to show them around so they wouldn’t get bored before they met God in the morning. After Einstein had introduced himself to Slim, he asked:
“By the way, Slim, what was your IQ when you were alive?”
“168”, said Slim.
“Great!”, said Einstein. We’ll discuss my recent unification of relativity and field theory as I show you around."
“What an exciting opportunity!”, said Slim.
Einstein then introduced himself to Billy-Bob, and when he was done he said:
“Tell me, Billy-Bob - what was your IQ when you were alive?”
“138”, said Billy-Bob.
“Good,” said Einstein. “If you’d like, we can discuss a little mathematics and cosmology as I point out the heavenly sights.”
“Nothing I’d like better!” was Billy-Bob’s reply.
After Einstein had introduced himself to Bubba, he asked:
“What was your IQ when you were alive, Bubba?”
“78” said Bubba.
Punching him on the arm, Einstein said:
“Hey, Bubba - How 'bout them Patriots!”
Yeah. It’s no coincidence that most of the right-wing trolls around here (you would be a prime example) are obvious imbeciles with poor language skills to go along with their poor reasoning abilities. They also have a general hostility toward the world, especially the liberal side, so they like hanging out in the Pit despite the abuse they get. Like fisticuffs in a seedy bar after too many rounds of cheap whisky, this is familiar territory for your kind. Ditka is the only troll who doesn’t hang out here because his well-honed specialty is JAQing off and ever-so-polite sealioning. But his purpose here is the same as yours – to see how disruptive he can be without getting banned.
Trump is much, much worse than the Democrats. Maybe 1000 times worse, depending on how you judge it. Of course some others will disagree, just as some folks would complain about all the anti-Nazi and anti-communist rhetoric on this board.
The fact that you keep making this claim without providing a single example is pretty telling.
Like, show one time that someone in the Pit has misrepresented a quote as completely as HD did.
I can, but it was 15 or so years ago, and it was Shodan, and I only remember because it was me, and it was hilarious. That doesn’t count as “quite often.”
My strong suspicion is that this is a petulant lie on your part, but I welcome correction.
What, you don’t think they exist?
Favourite subjects[:] Putin and Trump being great, the opposition being corrupt, the Nato conspiracy against Russia, the effeminacy of Barack Obama. Where better than a message board so anti-Trump?
Spelling and grammar are totally different things.