I pit over-the-top Anti-Trump hysteria

Isn’t that let much what you’ve been doing in this whole thread?

No, of course not. I’ve been doing the opposite. I’ve been consistently telling people that they should tolerate people who have opinions they disagree with if those people are opposing Trump.

…and they certainly shouldn’t, say, start a whole pit thread criticizing those people.

Zing!

This is how I started this thread:

Let me be clear on this point; I am not defending Donald Trump. He is both evil and stupid. He is a terrible human being and he is the worst President this country has ever had. He, along with the Republican party, are trying to destroy democracy. He has committed numerous serious crimes and should be in prison.

As a criticism of the Democratic party and its supporters, it’s pretty off-target.

This is correct. What are you going on about?

That we should be focused on defeating Trump and the Republicans.

We should not be driving away people who are opposed to Trump by espousing outlandish conspiracy theories or by arguing over differences in opinions or by making personal attacks against them.

Well, yeah. The entire hysteria highjack totaly ruined the thread, I stopped reading it because it was so rediculous.

What outlandish conspiracy theories?

You know-The outlandish conspiracy theories that nobody here defends because nobody in this thread makes them. Keep on fighting the good fight, @Little_Nemo. :roll_eyes:

I mentioned three examples in the OP.

Trump is planning on committing genocide.
Trump is planning on restoring slavery.
Trump is planning on starting a nuclear war.

Since this is in the BBQ Pit, could you possibly name the people here that are making those accusations?

Here are a couple from today:

Sooo… @Der_Trihs?

Don’t they already have a Pit thread?

Probably. I was just taken aback when I posted that I think reconciliation and building bridges post-Trump is the way forward, and I got an answer that the Republicans literally want to kil and enslave people.

That’s a wild-ass, crazy, probably mentally ill conspiracy theory for sure. And when those people speak for the Left/Democratic side of things, it more than likely turns off way more people than anything else.

“These people”?
What “people”?

How is accusing fascists of aspiring to be genocidal tyrants a “conspiracy theory”? Much less “mentally ill”?

"But Hitler will surely not kill the Jews no matter what he says, the Germans are civilized."

Did you know that you speak for the Left and/or Democrats?

It’s amazing how much power I secretly have, I control both of them from my hidden volcano lair.

Many people are saying that what you say turns them off from voting Democratic.

Or maybe some people are using him as a weak excuse not to do what they had no intention of doing in the first place?