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In today's snowflake news
May 26, 2017, 9:03 AM
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"The body-slamming? Ah, yeah, it just seems a little too good to be true to me," said Chandler Ortman, who works in the restaurant industry in Bozeman and voted for Gianforte. "I guess I'm just gonna say he's innocent until proven guilty."
James Baker, a lobbyist in Bozeman who also voted for Gianforte, said, "Sometimes I think a lot of reporters get aggressive, and after the heat of a long campaign people can lose tempers."
Debbie Warriner of Kalispell called the reports "a crock of baloney."
"I mean, that story — it's possible it's not even true," she told Montana Public Radio.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/25/530061598/montana-gop-candidates-assault-charge-hangs-over-tight-special-election
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I'm lost. How does "Snowflake" fit into your post?***
May 26, 2017, 9:34 AM
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Re: I'm lost. How does "Snowflake" fit into your post?***
May 26, 2017, 9:42 AM
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all snowflakes are special, just like the people defending this guy's behavior.
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Hmmm...seems a bit of a stretch...but moving on...
May 26, 2017, 10:10 AM
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Honestly, I don't know what happened in Montana and I'm just not that concerned about it. Is the guy a mad man? Maybe. Was he pushed too far? Maybe. I'm all for civility in everything we do in life, but I don't get too worked up if someone crosses the line and their target reacts. Again, I know nothing about the Montana incident...just not on my radar screen.
I will say, however, that the reactions you quoted (I didn't go to the story) don't surprise me in the least. The media has been bombarded with accusations of liberal bias for a long time. Their reaction, in general, has been to dismiss the critics as anything from conservative operatives to ignorant rubes. Never (again, in general) was the reaction one of self-inspection. Fast forward to today, and the media cannot wait to validate these critics. If you read some of the most widely-read or watched new publications (CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, all major networks) and come away with any impression other than an all-out war against Trump, you are deluded in my opinion. And hey...I hate the guy too. But I don't pretend that I'm trying to objectively report the news.
So, when you read those comments from those people, and you think "what a bunch of rubes", that's probably what the "journalistic" industry also thinks. But they reap what they sow. Too many skewed reports, too many times showing that they have picked a team. They have lost credibility, and this is the result.
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Should have been in cuffs and headed to lock up....***
May 28, 2017, 1:36 AM
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Swarley...the libs on here are trying to change
May 26, 2017, 10:09 AM
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the meaning of "snowflake" from the goofball protesting college students at colleges like Cal to unconventional conservatives in the news
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I see that too, and it's a shame. Many of the liberals on
May 26, 2017, 10:13 AM
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Here would agree with the conservatives that the behavior of many college students has crossed the line. The term "snowflakes" is a fantastic description for kids who demand safe-spaces, days without white people, limited free speech to what they agree with, etc etc etc. why anyone would want to dilute the term is beyond me. Unless they think that these college kids are in the right.
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Or it's just pointing out the hypocrisy of those who
May 26, 2017, 10:32 AM
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think a red cup is a "War on Christmas"
We've got thinskinned people all over the world who ##### and whine and overreact to the smallest of situations.
Pretending it's a liberal or conservative issue is disingenuous at best.
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Again, I disagree. In the context of the modern term,
May 26, 2017, 11:13 AM
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As I understand it, it doesn't apply to ever over-reacting person. So, someone who say, makes a documentary in 2006 that claims the ice caps will be gone in 2015 isn't a snowflake. Nor is everyone who claimed that HB-2 would result in public execution of transgender citizens in North Carolina. The term had (to me, and I might be wrong) a very specific application that I thought had merit.
Just words, but again, the knee jerk attempt to diminish its current definition has been a misguided effort. In general I think most adults are in agreement on this.
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It tends to refer to those who protest discrimination.
May 26, 2017, 11:15 AM
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Using it in reference to Christians claiming persecution by a coffee cup seems like an acceptable application.
Look man there's a lot of dumb liberals. There's a shitload of dumb conservatives. There's a ton of dumb people.
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Agreed.***
May 26, 2017, 11:28 AM
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Re: Swarley...the libs on here are trying to change
May 26, 2017, 10:43 AM
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actually benagline, the term snow flakes traditionally refers to whites who were against the abolition of slavery. It later referred to whites would cry bloody murder when expected to give the most modest expression of basic human decency with regard to advancements in civil rights.
It was in fact, conservatives that altered the meaning in 2012. As they often do, projecting their faults onto others in the most Karl Rovian manner. It is a game your party invented and continues to use this day. -see every thing trump has ever accused others of.
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Re: Swarley...the libs on here are trying to change
May 27, 2017, 4:47 PM
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> the meaning of "snowflake" from the goofball
> protesting college students at colleges like Cal to
> unconventional conservatives in the news
Read a book will ya?
"Snowflake
Referring to someone, usually the Alt-Right, Yiannopoulos, And Nazi Sympathizers (A.K.A. ARYANS), whose immense white fragility causes a meltdown when confronted with the most minute deviation from orthodox White Supremacy. They often cry bloody murder when expected to give the most modest expression of basic human decency.
This is all a continuation of how Snowflake historically refers to people who are against the abolition of slavery.
The ARYANS have attempted to hijack this term to use against progressives and those opposing Fascism. It failed ultimately, because nobody was foolish enough to believe anti-Fascist resisters to be, by any stretch of the imagination, comparable to the snowflakery of the ARYANs and their cheeto-dusted Fuhrer."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snowflake
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Re: In today's snowflake news
May 26, 2017, 9:56 AM
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I've been waiting on one of these scumbags in the media to take a beat down for years.....
Was it just a basic suplex, DDT, or did he give him a Stone Cold Stunner?
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Do to others what you would have them do to you.***
May 26, 2017, 10:06 AM
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Re: Do to others what you would have them do to you.***
May 26, 2017, 10:29 AM
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I'm thankful for the butt whoopings I took in my younger days.....
I needed everyone of them.
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Re: Do to others what you would have them do to you.***
May 26, 2017, 10:46 AM
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explains your tendency to use violence as a conflict resolve.
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Re: In today's snowflake news
May 27, 2017, 4:43 PM
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> I've been waiting on one of these scumbags in the
> media to take a beat down for years.....
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A 3 member Fox News crew all confirmed the account of the "scumbag" who took the beatdown.
You really can't be this stupid.
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I heard the tape. Not really a big deal.
May 26, 2017, 10:23 AM
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Some people need to man up. That reporter sounded like he needed some physical correction.
Any man who sounds like the social services worker from King of The Hill needs to change their whole approach to being a dude.
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He was probably kind of in shock.
May 26, 2017, 11:27 AM
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I doubt I would have fought back due to the fact that it was a Congressman or whatever he is who slammed him. The reporter did come across like a wuss though.
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Re: He was probably kind of in shock.
May 26, 2017, 4:57 PM
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I am just glad we are finally at a point where our elected officials are praised for physical violence.
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Re: He was probably kind of in shock.***
May 30, 2017, 11:13 AM
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Montana is an open carry state... What if the dude
May 28, 2017, 1:28 AM
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"stood his ground" from the ground...? Might be a different story then, eh...?
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Maybe, but the guy would need to provide evidence that
May 30, 2017, 11:07 AM
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he reasonably feared for his life and had no alternative.
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Which would be tough given his attacker wasn't black.***
May 30, 2017, 11:11 AM
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Trump vs. The Rock in a cage match at Wrestlemania _
May 26, 2017, 10:47 AM
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I'd pay ??!
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Boy, that's got to suck.
May 26, 2017, 11:28 AM
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I'd be embarrassed to admit that a snowflake body slammed me.
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Re: In today's snowflake news
May 27, 2017, 4:36 PM
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Bigfoot body slammed the reporter. To believe any other possibility is delusional and anti-american.
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deport Bigfoot!
May 28, 2017, 8:12 AM
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Build a wall!
Wait, where will find the money?
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