I think that even racist, bigoted, assholes can do hyperbole.
Bit we know what they dream of at night.
Seriously, are you guys even trying? It’s right in the OP.
Read that sentence. It’s only eleven words long. You can do this.
Now explain to me how you read that and then somehow deduced I feel it’s “hysterical to be very, very worried about Trump and his desire to destroy democracy”?
So the basic disagreement is whether one factor is the attempt at genocide?
That is kinda a side bar, along with every other fucking thing the Trump admin is doing. THERE IS NO WAY TO KEEP UP. But we must not forget all of the crimes. Now we are near crimes against humanity. Think of those that NEEDED USAID. Instead of a solution, they just pulled the rug out.
That. Is. Inhumane. Thousands are expected to DIE.
Legally dead or just dead?
Never existed dead.
Just to be clear, who are we talking about here?
Don Rickles. /s
Sheeeessss Trump of course. there are plenty to put on that list, but we are talking about Trump. Did you lose your book mark or something?
Don’t assume what you’ve written down and posted is as clear to everyone else as it is to you.
Who are the people who you say needed American aid?
Uh, I posted about that several times already. I guess you rhetorically forgot too.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a hearing last week that no one has died from USAID cuts. But aid groups say abruptly shutting down those programs is having deadly consequences.
By and large the same folks that will be hurt first if we do not mitigate climate change.
But unlike death from climate change they’ll be dying this year from disease and hunger and not some year in the future because of USAID cuts.
I’m not disputing this. I was just asking because the post wasn’t clear.
You were unclear who USAID benefited?
Are you following along with how Trump has been allowed to unlawfully change what the government is required to do?
Like I said, the post wasn’t clear. “Those that needed USAID” could be everyone that received it or some specific set of recipients.
Since it effectively no longer exists everyone and some specific set it a distinction with no difference.
Am I allowed to be a grammar Nazi (ahem..) in this thread?
“That’s your boat in which to float.”
I’ll leave now before I sink.
Oh, that’s a much better phrase. Rolls right off the tongue.
I was going to reply to the post to me, but I think replying to this will be more instructive. (I reserve the “right” to change my mind and address your post to me later.)
This is the problem. If you are, as you stated, trying to convince people, then you have to try and find points of agreement. That’s how convincing people works.
Furthermore, this is a message board of generally smart people, not flat Earth morons. If everyone is disagreeing with you, that should be a reason for you to investigate what you are saying or at least how you are saying it.
It is unlikely that Little Nemo alone knows the truth and everyone else is stupid. That’s conspiracy nut thinking.
I can agree with some of what you say. But the second you start telling people they’re wrong to use the actual genuine definition of genocide because you thought it meant something else, is the point where I have to say: fight your own ignorance.
Maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve not seen you take back anything you’ve said or attempt to change how you act. You’re just a snarky asshole, from the start. You continue to use that completely unhelpful (and often considered bigoted) word “hysteria” to mock those who disagree.
You made a Pit thread. Seemingly for Der Trihs, because he’s the only one who has actually said the thing you seemed to be upset about originally.
You started with one guy who disagreed with you, and got so many more because you won’t shut up and stop digging. This thread is poisoned. You accomplish nothing by posting more in it.
(And, yes, there are other snarky people not trying to convince you. They’re taking out their frustrations on an easy target who has said things similar (but not entirely identical) to what they are upset about. You made a Pit thread, so that’s what you get. Want to convince, make a thread in a debate forum.
And not those people are not me. I just hate reading someone I trust falling for the shit I used to fall for, thinking I could argue people to stop thinking I’m an asshole.)
and, yeah, I try not to make longer posts like the above anymore. But, since I got a reply that seemed thoughtful, I thought I’d take another swing at it. But it would take way way too much effort to make it shorter and decide the most important parts to keep.
Little_Nemo is either completely out of touch, or is just trying to muddy the waters. Our responses to them have been clear.
Yes, this point has been brought several times. That everyone is in disagreement with me and I’m imagining that people agree with my position.
This is not the case.
I’ll note these posts came in the first days of the thread. Along with these.
You guys shouldn’t assume that just because other people have stopped arguing with you that means you’ve won the argument and everyone now agrees with you. It could mean that people who disagree with you have decided it’s pointless to argue with you on this issue.
The only reason I’m still here when others have left is because I started the thread. I feel some sense of obligation to respond to posts made in it. Otherwise, I’d be off running Feud threads or something.