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Kneeling is "Disrespecting the troops" talk is pure conservative projection Kneeling is "Disrespecting the troops" talk is pure conservative projection

06-10-2020 , 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by TeflonDawg
I agree with this. And I personally really don't want to hear about politics during a game. But politics are inextricably linked to sports and social media has really changed the dynamic of...everything



I used to watch ESPN's First Take every morning to see Stephen A Smith and Max Kellerman argue typically interesting points imo. But there is so much flooding of politics that I stopped watching. It's just overload...I want to be conscious of everything but I also would like to just watch a game and just enjoy it as pure entertainment so I get it if some people are annoyed by the kneeling and also aren't fake outraged bc Trump said so



Even apolitical Michael Jordan said Republicans buy sneakers too or sth. Mahmoud Abdul Rouf protested the anthem. Tommie Smith and John Carlos...



In reality, it functions like a safe space from politics, even the Olympics is supposed to be "frozen in time" to gather for competition, but is interspersed with it from time to time because it's inevitable
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06-10-2020 , 03:13 PM
An Axiom of Political Forums Everywhere:

Every controversial topic thread will eventually have a post with a reference to Hitler.
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06-10-2020 , 03:16 PM
Before the 1930's, who was the go-to Pure Evil Person Reference who would eventually creep into every political discussion?
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06-10-2020 , 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by lagtight
An Axiom of Political Forums Everywhere:

Every controversial topic thread will eventually have a post with a reference to Hitler.
the heilhitler is in reference to the "88" (H being the 8th letter in the alphabet) in the username which is common white supremacist lingo combined with the standard "calling people racist is the REAL racism" takes, also common..

14 & 88 are super common white supremacist tattoos. but im sure you knew this and were just kelhus'ing.
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06-10-2020 , 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by lagtight
An Axiom of Political Forums Everywhere:

Every controversial topic thread will eventually have a post with a reference to Hitler.
This is Godwin's Law, and it's worth noting that the creator of Godwin's Law has become more accepting of its uses when applied appropriately to modern far-right politicians:

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Mike Godwin himself has also criticized the overapplication of Godwin's law, claiming it does not articulate a fallacy; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate, hyperbolic comparisons. "Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics," Godwin wrote, "its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust."[11]

In December 2015, Godwin commented on the Nazi and fascist comparisons being made by several articles about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying: "If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump, or any other politician."[12] In August 2017, Godwin made similar remarks on social networking websites Facebook and Twitter with respect to the two previous days' Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, endorsing and encouraging efforts to compare its alt-right organizers to Nazis.[13][14][15][16]

In October 2018, Godwin said on Twitter that it was acceptable to call Brazilian politician Jair Bolsonaro, who had won the first round and later the second round of the presidential election, a "Nazi".[17][18]

In June 2019, after Chris Hayes invoked Godwin's Law in a discussion of whether it was appropriate to call the United States's refugee detention centers "concentration camps," Godwin explicitly stated his belief that the term "concentration camps" was appropriate.[19]
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06-10-2020 , 03:59 PM
WTF? Godwins's Law is the preeminent reductio ad absurdum, no matter what the creater says.
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06-10-2020 , 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
WTF? Godwins's Law is the preeminent reductio ad absurdum, no matter what the creater says.
Looks like we can add both Godwin's law and reductio ad absurdum to things you don't understand.
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06-10-2020 , 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Looks like we can add both Godwin's law and reductio ad absurdum to things you don't understand.
lollums
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06-10-2020 , 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Looks like we can add both Godwin's law and reductio ad absurdum to things you don't understand.
Bullshit.

Nazi/Hitler is used because it's almost universally accepted as being evil, so if you can made a valid correlation, you've demonstrated evil, which is untennable. Many discussions boil down to the basic principals of morality. Appealing/correlating/associate another to evil is not some new phenomenon Godwin discovered. I could create a law about -isms that follows the same rationale as Godwin's law, as in more recent times it's replaced references to Nazism as the go to reductio ad absurdum for untenable evil.

It's actually laughable people think he is some sort of authoritative figure when it comes to discourse.

I digress, let's not pretend the Wookie knows logic/rationale.

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06-10-2020 , 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Slighted
the heilhitler is in reference to the "88" (H being the 8th letter in the alphabet) in the username which is common white supremacist lingo combined with the standard "calling people racist is the REAL racism" takes, also common..

14 & 88 are super common white supremacist tattoos. but im sure you knew this and were just kelhus'ing.
No, I actually I wasn't aware of any of that.
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06-10-2020 , 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by lagtight
No, I actually I wasn't aware of any of that.
There's no way you couldn't know this if you post here regularly.
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06-10-2020 , 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
Bullshit.

Nazi/Hitler is used because it's almost universally accepted as being evil, so if you can made a valid correlation, you've demonstrated evil, which is untennable. Many discussions boil down to the basic principals of morality. Appealing/correlating/associate another to evil is not some new phenomenon Godwin discovered. I could create a law about -isms that follows the same rationale as Godwin's law.

It's actually laughable people think he is some sort of authoritative figure when it comes to discourse.

I digress, let's not pretend the Wookie knows logic.
Lol wtf are you talking about? I mean, I understand the individual words, don't think I've ever seen them in that order though.
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06-10-2020 , 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
Lol wtf are you talking about? I mean, I understand the individual words, don't think I've ever seen them in that order though.
It's amazing how you keep presenting yourself as an idiot and condescending at the same time. I would be more sympathetic, since your first language may not be english, but the condescending tone, and mockery of others you typically display in your ignorance, makes it impossible.
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06-10-2020 , 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
There's no way you couldn't know this if you post here regularly.
You're wrong, or I'm lying.

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight

Proverbs 12:22

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06-10-2020 , 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
It's amazing how you keep presenting yourself as an idiot and condescending at the same time. I would be more sympathetic, since your first language may not be english, but the condescending tone, and mockery of others you typically display in your ignorance, just removes any hope of that.
Given that you can't spell basic words or construct coherent sentences, your standing to call others idiots seems tenuous at best.

We won't even mention those tricky division by 1000 sums. Oh, oops, I just did.
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06-10-2020 , 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
Given that you can't spell basic words or construct coherent sentences, your standing to call others idiots seems tenuous at best.

We won't even mention those tricky division by 1000 sums. Oh, oops, I just did.
That's nice, I rather understand concepts than worry about how to spell something. You might be able to spell, but you really don't understand the meaning of what you write/speak. What I wrote was perfectly coherent. Look, you don't know the meaning of coherent. How about that?
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06-10-2020 , 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
That's nice, I rather understand concepts than worry about how to spell something.
Like basic math?
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06-10-2020 , 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
That's nice, I rather understand concepts than worry about how to spell something. You might be able to spell, but you really don't understand the meaning of what you write/speak. What I wrote was perfectly coherent. Look, you don't know the meaning of coherent. How about that?
d2_e4 is a good guy, imo. He just likes to get snarky sometimes.
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06-10-2020 , 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by lagtight
d2_e4 is a good guy, imo. He likes to get snarky sometimes.
I don't know what kind of person he is, but I do know he always feigns ignorance, and pretends it's the other persons problem, and demand you educate him so he can mock you, consequently contradicting his supposed ignorance. That's his MO.
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06-10-2020 , 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
Like basic math?
This would be funny if you said the need for sleep.
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06-10-2020 , 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
I don't know what kind of person he is, but I do know he always fiegns ignorance, and pretends it's the other persons problem.
He and I have had a few brawls here and in RGT.

He likes to troll, but he's okay.

He did a GREAT job manhandling Victor vis-a-vis the Soviet Union in the Gulag thread.
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06-10-2020 , 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
That's nice, I rather understand concepts than worry about how to spell something. You might be able to spell, but you really don't understand the meaning of what you write/speak. What I wrote was perfectly coherent. Look, you don't know the meaning of coherent. How about that?
You certainly strike me as someone who understands many concepts and their applications. Keep up the good work.
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06-10-2020 , 04:52 PM
Y'all should try not to get too low-content. I think one of the admins is reading this thread :P
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06-10-2020 , 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by well named
Y'all should try not to get too low-content. I think one of the admins is reading this thread :P
Should we pretend, for his benefit, that this isn't how your forum normally looks every day?
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06-10-2020 , 05:00 PM
I'm glad we're on the same page.
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