Republican ads have been pretty bad.
This one from the Dems is pretty good:
As Lincoln said, for those that like that sort of thing, that’s the sort of thing they like.
The phony ad was nothing but a string of strawmen.
That you thought that that ad was produced by the democrats actually explains quite a bit about your posts in this thread.
You should be aware that that was not actually produced by the democrats. I can see how someone who hates everything about their political opponent and demonizes them would believe that those are actually democratic beliefs.
No, that ad was produced by someone on the right who wants to drive a divide and increase the hostility between the parties. They thank you kindly for your help.
:rolleyes:
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
I don’t want to pile on Scylla, as (if he really thought the ad was from the Democrats) he seems to have understood that he’d been duped…
… but I found the sequential posts amusing.
I am still in shock from the eery verisimilitude.
Oh well, you guys may say bad things about Trump, but at least he has the good humor to go on SNL every week and poke fun at himself.
Uh, Scylla ain’t the one being duped; he’s yankin yer chain.
Scylla, you remind me of thisdude.
That’s ridiculous and offensive. I would never teach at Yale.
Indeed, colleges and universities are now on the bottom of the list of trusted institutions for Republicans, along with the media and the FBI. Top of the list are local police and military along with the commander-in-chief himself. What could go wrong?
I think the critique of Colleges is very well founded.
I am shocked.
I give him the benefit of the doubt, as this is the elections forum, and posting something like that in bad faith would not be appropriate for it, so I treat it as though he did in fact, believe that it was a democratic ad when he posted it.
He is welcome to demonstrate that he was not duped by his willingness to believe false things about his opponents because they agreed with his preconceptions and instead knowingly posted a video with a misleading description with the intent of causing a negative reaction with other posters.
It is a good thing that he shared that video, so that we could fight his ignorance. Otherwise, h may have continued to think that it was real, and even shared it with his friends and other social media acquaintances. Now that he knows that it was not a real ad, he not only knows not to share such false information in the future, he also is better equipped to fight his own ignorance, and better spot these divisive attacks, disguised as an opponent’s campaign ad.
Yes. It was very subtle satire.
David Foster Wallace could not have said it better.
It’s funny you mention that. A similar thing happened when I took my daughter to Sesame Place. A five year old informed me that it wasn’t a real Cookie Monster, but just a guy in a costume.
I thanked him with the same solemnity that I thank you.
Keep up the good work!
Keep working on it, you’ll be able to identify them more quickly. It really wasn’t that subtle. If you already believe bad things about your political opponents, then it may make it harder to identify their actual message, vs your own side’s spin on that message. Try not starting from the standpoint of wanting to dehumanize and harm the other citizens of your country who happen to be of a different political party, and instead, treat them as simply people, just like yourself, who have similar goals and interests. You will do much better at sorting fact from fiction.
Well, to be fair, he’s dead.
Yeah, I get that. When I was 4, I thought that the smurfs on TV were just people in costumes like at King’s Island.
Then I turned 5, and I knew better.
It seems as though you have a very long road ahead of you in telling fact from fiction. I am glad that you have embarked on this journey, but I don’t really have the time, resources, or honestly, patience, to guide another adult to what he should have learned as a toddler.
I understand. Your gifts are needed elsewhere.
The Washington Examiner has been willing to publish something denouncing the lies:
On what basis? Because of incidents at a half-dozen of America’s several thousand colleges and universities over the past two years that Fox News, Republican politicians, and other right-wing media have made such a big deal of that you’d think stuff like that was happening at every college in America?
“Stop making shit up because it might backfire politically” is almost a moral stance. Guess it’ll have to do until “because lying is fucking wrong” occurs to one of them.