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All-In [46906]
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This is why I don't argue politics and rarely speak about it in person
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:11 AM
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Because people are so entrenched in their own beliefs you're not going to move the needle.
For example, I made the comment to a co-worker that I wish we could have somebody else besides Biden and Trump.
Dude went on a tirade about how Biden shut down ALL gas pipelines in the entire country.
Even with all of the reports I showed him showing Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, this person got louder and louder about how I was wrong and Biden shut them all down.
The discourse in this country is absolutely awful.
What's the old saying? Never argue with a fool because they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
That's why I don't respond to most of the people on this board.
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Re: This is why I don't argue politics and rarely speak about it in person
Feb 1, 2024, 8:14 AM
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I had a similar conversation with a Trumper friend at Happy Hour years ago when he kept going on and on about how Trump single handedly fixed the economy and employment. I told him those numbers were already on the upswing before Trump. He flat out refused to believe it. So I pulled up a chart from the bureau of labor and showed him. He just kept saying, "I don't know what to tell you." Couldn't even say, "Oh, yeah, I guess you're right."
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All-In [46906]
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My wife made the comment last night that she doesn't understand why
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:18 AM
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our country can't afford it's own universal insurance like the rest of the world.
My comment was "please do not make that comment in front of your family"
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Yea, we gotta protect those $100s of Billion$ in profits... Meanwhile, medical
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:25 AM
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costs have inflated at 10%+ clip for the last 20 years...( Slightly hyperbolic but you get the drift )
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Oculus Spirit [81388]
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I thought it was 12 million?
Feb 1, 2024, 9:03 AM
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That's what I read in here.
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No one knows for sure ... isn't that the issue ??***
Feb 1, 2024, 9:24 AM
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All-In [46906]
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Then why is the right throwing out numbers?***
Feb 1, 2024, 9:26 AM
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without a number, people can't grasp the immensity of the problem.
Feb 1, 2024, 9:39 AM
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"There are a Shipt Ton of migrants coming across the border"
Is that better wording ? You like that better ?
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Oculus Spirit [81388]
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So just making one up somewhere between 1 million and 12 million
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Feb 1, 2024, 11:34 AM
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Really narrows it down.
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Well, ya got a handful here...
Feb 1, 2024, 8:35 AM
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Who have advocated for it if he is elected.
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This is why I have an extensive ignore list and realize I wasted a ton of time
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:29 AM
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last week taking it down. Catahoula® and I have discussed this before and I respect his position, but I don't see how there is anything to gain by "debating" with a large cohort of folks on here, so I'd just rather not see it and be tempted to "correct" someone who has no interest in reality. And, it is certainly not as if they are brining new information or perspective to the argument where you can learn something you didn't already know. That ignore function is basically a productivity booster.
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Understandable... Wouldn't want to slow your 'influencing'.***
Feb 1, 2024, 8:59 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81388]
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I'm gonna bet you're at the top of that list.
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Feb 1, 2024, 9:05 AM
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Congarts.
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Hall of Famer [24997]
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I take pride in being 'ignored' by the circle jerk crowd. Wussies.***
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Feb 1, 2024, 9:36 AM
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I love that I can't see SOLOs posts now
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Feb 1, 2024, 10:09 AM
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I imagine he posted something whiny with a really bad attempt at humor, and it breaks his little heart he can't speak to me anymore.
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I imagine it had something to do with circlejerks.***
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Re: I imagine it had something to do with circlejerks.***
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Feb 1, 2024, 10:38 AM
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"BS"
"Circle jerk!"
"You're a chihuahua!"
"Yuck yuck I bet you tickle your bum hole when you type that haha!"
"SOP!"
"9/11 isn't real!"
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Re: This is why I don't argue politics and rarely speak about it in person
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:33 AM
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I know what you mean. I have a family member who thinks Trump would be a dictator and it would be the end of our country as we know it if he were to get elected, despite four years of evidence to the contrary. Not liking Trump is one thing but good luck having a discussion with someone who flat out lives in an alternate reality created entirely by the media they consume.
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All new pipelines, not existing ones.
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:33 AM
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If only the MSM actually investigate things and reported facts instead of being communist propagandists, people might know the details.
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Hi, yes, care to share a single MSM outlet that claimed Biden shut down
Feb 1, 2024, 8:51 AM
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all existing pipelines? Or, better yet, how about a single MSM outlet that claimed Biden shut down ANY pipleline project besides Keystone XL, which was at LEAST 10 years from moving a single barrel of dirty shale oil?
Or is it just that you're lying again?
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Re: This is why I don't argue politics and rarely speak about it in person
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:39 AM
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Because people are so entrenched in their own beliefs you're not going to move the needle.
For example, I made the comment to a co-worker that I wish we could have somebody else besides Biden and Trump.
Dude went on a tirade about how Biden shut down ALL gas pipelines in the entire country.
Even with all of the reports I showed him showing Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, this person got louder and louder about how I was wrong and Biden shut them all down.
The discourse in this country is absolutely awful.
What's the old saying? Never argue with a fool because they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
That's why I don't respond to most of the people on this board.
And why I do not normally respond to you, just this one exception.
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Ironically this is why I rarely give
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Feb 1, 2024, 8:53 AM
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Car buying advice and why no one gives you home improvement advice.
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Re: This is why I don't argue politics and rarely speak about it in person
Feb 1, 2024, 10:01 AM
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Excellent point - part of the communist playbook is to divide the people in 2 - always 2 sides and only 2
Keep the people fighting themselves on social issues and they don't see the strings and puppet masters
Abortion
civil right movement
Dem/Repub
Womans movement
LGBT....
Christian/Muslim
Vaxxed/unvaxxed
Green energy climate change
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Are you above the fray, and don't fight about those things?***
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Feb 1, 2024, 10:18 AM
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Re: Are you above the fray, and don't fight about those things?***
Feb 1, 2024, 10:49 AM
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Nope
However, I see the strings and know who is pulling them
trying to make people see the puppet masters
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Oculus Spirit [81388]
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lol..there's a lot you don't see apaprently
Feb 1, 2024, 11:51 AM
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like, I dunno, for instance..
YOU'RE BEING PLAYED ON THE EXACT SAME ISSUES.
And add in all the religious magic and your willingness to believe literally anything fantastical, and well, you're a perfect pawn.
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He trusts nobody.
Feb 1, 2024, 11:54 AM
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Except the anonymous account originating from a kiddie fiddler website.
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You're right. He let Putin build all the pipelines he needed.***
Feb 1, 2024, 12:07 PM
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