Rhino

40 minutes ago, Link said:

 @Rhino I hope you’re right. Here’s something else going on.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/trump-glide-reelection-republican-officials-316457

”Republicans... like many Democrats, suspect Trump supporters disproportionately hang up on pollsters, under-counting his level of support.

“Ted Lovdahl, chairman of the Republican Party in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, said he has friends who will tell pollsters ‘just exactly the opposite of what they feel.’”

The article isn’t only about polls, but that’s a telling excerpt about what’s going on in the zeitgeist.

That's what happened in 2016. If you look at the polls leading up to the election, Hillary had a 24 point lead at one point. That's huge! Even the week of, most polls gave her a 2-5 point win. The only source who correctly called a Trump victory literally every week and month leading up to the election was the LA Times. Even Fox had Hillary winning after September. Whatever magic LA Times has should be studied for decades. I can't wait to see their polls for this election. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

I think this election will be different. Many Republicans are fed up and Biden is more likeable than Hillary was.

34 minutes ago, Link said:

Again I know what they are.

I’ll make peace with you. The day after you rode my nuts you said a lot of stuff I could respect. If you’ll engage me seriously and in good faith I’ll do the same with you.

Deal. I will hear out anyone and engage seriously. I might not have similar viewpoints but I'm passionate and will speak up if someone says something I don't agree with or I think is incorrect or misleading. 

3 minutes ago, Link said:

Obviously you didn’t read the rest of the thread. That was parody, but not a joke. 

He has no problem with an offensive fake accent on The Simpsons read by a white guy, as he puts it “So why are we getting offended about this again, oh yeah, just for the sake of it all.”

So for me to use an offensive fake accent is really no different. Is it racist? Well, why don’t you ask him what he thinks about racist accents. But it’s offensive, isn’t it? It’s really extremely vile and rude and demeaning for me to speak in a stereotype like that. It’s dehumanizing. So why is it okay for a big TV show to do it? Not only okay, but something that that he says definitely should not be changed.

Then I threw in something about making poor choices because it’s something he would say.

And as long as you’re importing drama from the closed thread, “correlation ≠ causation” is A Thing that smart people say, but saying it doesn’t make you smart.

You are hilarious man. I'll let @fcgamer unpack this hot mess. 

Spurious correlation https://www.statisticshowto.com/spurious-correlation/

Correlation vs causation https://www.jmp.com/en_us/statistics-knowledge-portal/what-is-correlation/correlation-vs-causation.html

Enlighten yourselves

I'll also carry over this from the last page of the old thread. @Silent Hill if you want to chime in since you actually understand what truly happened. 

Ferguson is the single most bullsh!t BLM facade throughout the past 7 years. Built on a complete lie. Michael Brown fought with an officer and grabbed for his gun. This was after Michael Brown had just robbed a store. He wasn't an innocent hands up don't shoot nice guy. The media and BLM movement fabricated the whole thing and the public bought it without doing their own research. Never accept anything the news says about these events at face value. Always look it up yourself and do your own research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/

The latest fabricated lie was the death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. Almost the same story, but the truth got much quicker than during the Ferguson tragedy.

20 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said:

You piqued my interest. Care to elaborate? 

https://www.270towin.com

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

I know it's early and polls don't mean anything but when Texas is now a possible swing state, you know this isn't going to go Trump's way. I'm so confident I will bet any of you real money that Biden wins.

I'll start this out with a wtf is wrong with you @Link? Since we can't quote anymore because the politics thread is closed, here's his post which is on page 173. You act all high and mighty and above everyone else, then you go and spit this crap. It's f*cking disgusting. @fcgamer too since he was addressing you.

 Link     572

Biden. He's already won.

1 hour ago, Doctornick said:

So you're saying BLM doesn't want everyone person to be treated the same by the police?  

He's saying the Michael Brown hands up don't shoot thing was a bullsh!t facade, which it was. Everyone should be treated by the same by police. If you grab a cops' weapon, expect that you might be shot by that cop in self defense. Don't be a f*cking idiot and grab for a cops' weapon.

1 hour ago, Silent Hill said:

90%? What about Michael Brown? People are still throwing his name out as an unarmed victim (and "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is still a mantra of BLM) even though upon investigation, the cops were acting in self-defense and "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" was/is false. Clearly, they're not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt, or even looking beyond skin color to actually identify if the motivator was racism. 

Ferguson is the single most bullsh!t BLM facade throughout the past 7 years. Built on a complete lie. Michael Brown fought with an officer and grabbed for his gun. This was after Michael Brown had just robbed a store. He wasn't an innocent hands up don't shoot nice guy. The media and BLM movement fabricated the whole thing and the public bought it without doing their own research. Never accept anything the news says about these events at face value. Always look it up yourself and do your own research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/

The latest fabricated lie was the death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. Almost the same story, but the truth got much quicker than during the Ferguson tragedy.

16 hours ago, Link said:

And when you spend an entire day getting on my nuts that is called what? 

It's partial trolling. A lot of your points are hilarious dude. I have to mess with you on some of them because of how absurd they are. 

16 hours ago, Link said:

As usual the point flies far above your head. If you think a trend cannot be shown without a certain scenario always happening every single time, at best you aren’t paying attention.

Oh so congratulations to them for not murdering a person of color every single time there’s an encounter? Is that the bar you set? 

 

That’s one factor. There are also disparities in initiation, environment, and resources which stand on their own and also have demonstrable effect on outcomes.

You guys confuse correlation with causation a lot. Look those two up. They're completely different. Look up spurious variables as well.

54 minutes ago, Link said:

Are you familiar with the concept of dispropotionate effects? It’s been mentioned several times ITT. What do you dispute about it? You think it’s just not true? 

What @Silent Hill is getting at is that you can't generalize this. There are plenty of instances where cops arrest minorities without killing them. Cops aren't out there hunting down and slaughtering people in the middle of the night like a bunch of predators. Maybe there are disproportionate effects. I haven't looked up the data myself but it doesn't mean a certain scenario always happens for a certain race every single time. 

2 hours ago, Link said:

He also said not to call one another trolls, and yet there you are 

And you call other people hypocrites. Ok.

Hey man if I'm getting trolled, I'll call it out.

16 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

What if I told you I disagreed with him? And its the internet, lighten up. 
 

You said BLM is a sham and then took offense to me posting smiley faces. Get over it. 

BLM is a sham. They are not what they're purported to be. 

2 minutes ago, the tall guy said:

So much to unpack here.

All Christians aren't anti lgbtq (but some are, heck, some make posters that say God hates fags and show up at funerals).

All policemen aren't racists (but some are, hell, some of them kill black and/or white people for no good reason).

All Muslims aren't terrorists while we're at it (but some of them are).

All black people aren't criminals (but some of them are, in fact, sub in all people of any color and the statement stands).

 

It's troubling when we can vilify or lionize and entire group, there are shades of gray everywhere and in every one.  The total lack of any attempt of understanding and complete contentiousness toward any and all dissenting opinions, that's the part that sucks.

For what it's worth, Bojangles is hands down my favorite chicken place.

 

Oh, one more.  All people that fly the Confederate flag in 2020 are racist (actually, I'm pretty sure that's the one that bucks the trend of shades of gray... I'll see myself out, feel free to return to your bickering). 

Couldn't have said it better myself, or at all really. If I made this exact post, it'd get ripped to shreds simply because I wrote it. Your post is critical. We as a society need to stop generalizing all these groups. It's extremely dangerous to do so.

Just now, Hammerfestus said:

What are you even talking about?  

It's from the don't @ me thread. He broke the rule.

34 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:

I'm totally disinterested but I don't think anyone believes you.  You do rail pretty hard on tha SJWs. 

You lost the game. There was 1 rule! 1!

1 hour ago, MrWunderful said:

Everyone knows you didnt say that man. I was using Hyperbole.  The idea of a “slippery slope” (but where does it stop though?) is a logical fallacy, and Im having fun with it because you come on so strong. 
 

Yeah, why would it not be? 
 

YOU are the one raging against SJWs constantly. There is not a single “SJW” , participating in this discussion, who wants to cancel shit over minor things. All the SJWing/ manufactured outrage is being performed by yourself, and a small group of others. 
 

People who want to discuss race relations and believe Black lives matter =\= people wanting to cancel trader joe for calling something “Trader Ming”

They know now. I don't appreciate the misrepresentation of what I said and the tit for tat mocking from a mod after another mod told us all to knock it off. I'm trying to play by the rules but when a mod disregards them, it's hard to bite my tongue. 

It was a question to see where people's minds are at. 

@JamesRobot already failed at the don't @ me bro rule *sigh*.

17 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

No I want you to keep up the Fight.  What else are the SJWs up to? 
 

Did you hear Starbucks doesnt say Merry Christmas  on their cups anymore?

Crazy Times we are living in. Man I miss the Antebellum south. 

Idk. The Trader Joe's thing was the most recent one I saw. 

Question, if someone doesn't support Starbucks anymore because they don't like them taking out religious aspects on their products, is this the same thing as someone not supporting Chick Fil A because Chick Fil A once donated to an organization that was against the lgbtq+ community?

18 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

Thank you. I mean, this is the same guy who said That If you choose not to support a company for a certain reason or other, you automatically are not allowed to patronize any company that ever did anything questionable in their past. Regardless of if they tried to correct the problem or not.

 

I’m sure he thinks that if Trader Joe’s decides to change their name on Middle Eastern products from “Arab Joe“, next stop is Nancy Pelosi Giving Ar15s to MS-13 members so they can perform child sacrifices in churches. Slippery Slope!

Don't put words in my mouth. I said you're a hypocrite if you do that, not that you can't patronize any company. Shop wherever you want. You're a good troll. Where do you come up with this stuff man? To be clear so he doesn't put words into my mouth again, no I don't think Nancy Pelosi will do that.

3 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

*Yawn*

 

 

the SJWs will never stop, not until every 6 yr old hates the flag, and all the puppies have been forced to get sex changes at a planned parenthood (there will be one on every corner soon)

 

 The true, american patriots Need YOU to rage about trader joes item naming on a video game website! 

How dare I express my opinion on a forum. 

5 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

Why are you so outraged at a company making a decision based on people’s input? 1700 people signed a petition, who cares?
 

Sounds like something that will not affect your life in anyway, so it seems fitting to rage about it. 

Where does it end though?

31 minutes ago, Silent Hill said:

What's their skin color have to do with anything? I see what you're trying to do but I don't see where they lied about anything. 

It's invalid because it goes against the media's narrative and the YouTubers don't support BLM. Being against the movement automatically makes whatever they say invalid.