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#1 Feb 25 2017 at 1:52 AM Rating: Good
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More like Alternative News.

Thank you CPAC attendees, you gullible bastards.
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.5% of a bunch of Trump-humpers can recognize an Russian flag?

That number seems artificially high to me.
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.5% of a bunch of Trump-humpers can recognize an Russian flag?

That number seems artificially high to me.


I was surprised, too. Still, an amusing troll effort.
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Pretty funny troll effort, I suppose. But honestly, given the volume of randomly designed red white and blue colored swag handed out at events like this, it's not really very difficult. Could do it at any event probably.
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#5 Feb 27 2017 at 5:43 PM Rating: Good
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Yeah, but it's only funny if the person being pranked has a reputation as a manchurian candidate.
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Yeah, but it's only funny if the person being pranked has a reputation as a manchurian candidate.


It would be funnier if the people handing out the flags weren't also among the same set of people trying desperately to convince people that the target of the prank is a manchurian candidate. It's "funny" in the same vein as someone trying to spread rumors about someone having an affair going out and creating fake dating site profiles under said targets name so as to help perpetuate the rumor. Such antics really say more about those engaged in them than they do about the targets IMO.
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It would be funnier if the people handing out the flags weren't also among the same set of people trying desperately to convince people that the target of the prank is a manchurian candidate


That isn't one set of people, unless you mean 'people who don't like Trump'. People from McCain to left wing comedians have been spreading it, and otherwise have nothing in common.

Anyway, it's funny because his supporters were tricked into spreading the meme, thinking they were supporting him in doing so. Imagine Trump walking out to a sea of his supporters waaving Russian flags, that's hilarious. If Birthers had managed to get Democrats to wave the Kenyan flag in support of Obama that would have been funny for exactly the same reason. The people orchestrating the prank have nothing to do with why it's funny.
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#8 Feb 27 2017 at 7:48 PM Rating: Good
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Talking sideways here, but...
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Yeah, but it's only funny if the person being pranked has a reputation as a manchurian candidate.


It would be funnier if the people handing out the flags weren't also among the same set of people trying desperately to convince people that the target of the prank is a manchurian candidate.

Disingenuous pranksters like George W. Bush.
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That isn't one set of people, unless you mean 'people who don't like Trump'. People from McCain to left wing comedians have been spreading it, and otherwise have nothing in common.


No. There's "people who don't like Trump", and "people who are willing to do or say anything to delegitimize Trump". Folks like McCain and Bush are in the camp of "we're willing to investigate to see if any wrongdoing occurred". Folks like those who did this prank are in the "I don't care what the truth is, I want people to believe <insert conspiracy theory here>".

If the facts support the theory, then you don't have to create false impressions by doing things like tricking people at CPAC into waving Russian flags. The very act of doing so suggests someone who knows or strongly believes that there aren't sufficient actual facts to support the desired conspiracy theory, but really really want people to believe in said theory anyway. It's about creating the perception of something, in the absence of the reality of that thing.

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Anyway, it's funny because his supporters were tricked into spreading the meme, thinking they were supporting him in doing so. Imagine Trump walking out to a sea of his supporters waaving Russian flags, that's hilarious. If Birthers had managed to get Democrats to wave the Kenyan flag in support of Obama that would have been funny for exactly the same reason. The people orchestrating the prank have nothing to do with why it's funny.


Or maybe if the Chinese government had managed to trick the First Lady into agreeing to participate in a traditional dance that included waving around a pair of "communism red" banners. That would have been frickin hilarious! Right? I mean, surely you can get a bunch of random folks at CPAC to not realize the symbolism of what they're waving around, but no way could the Harvard educated wife of the President be fooled by such a thing.
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If there's anyone's opinion I'm worried about, re: whether a prank against a bunch of conservatives was funny or not, it would be Gbaji's.
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If there's anyone's opinion I'm worried about, re: whether a prank against a bunch of conservatives was funny or not, it would be Gbaji's.


I didn't say it wasn't funny. I said that it's humor is somewhat degraded by the strained nature of the joke itself and frankly, the ease with which a similar joke could be played on any such audience. You get that it's not like the people at CPAC are required to be long standing card carrying Republicans, or even conservatives, right? And they certainly aren't required to be particularly politically savvy. I mean, these two got in after all. I know some college students who go to the darn thing, more or less on a lark, and not out of any particularly strong political views.

You hand out swag at these things, and people will take it. If said swag is something waveable with a prominent figure's name on it, a good percentage of the people you handed them to will wave them. Are you seriously arguing that if some conservatives had gone into some venue where Obama was speaking and handed out 1000 little Kenyan flags with "OBAMA" written on them, that the result would have been any different? I suppose the big difference is that conservatives tend to have a bit more class than to do stuff like that.

So yeah. Funny. But funny like getting people to slip on a banana peel funny. Sure, we laugh, but on some level we also realize that had we happened to be the one walking along at that moment, we'd have been the one who fell and everyone would be laughing at us. And that makes it a bit less funny. Well. Or it should anyway.
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swing and a miss by Gbaji
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#14 Feb 28 2017 at 12:10 AM Rating: Good
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Gbaji is so unreasonably butthurt about this, for increasingly wacky reasons/
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Don't worry, he doesn't support Trump.
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I suppose the big difference is that conservatives tend to have a bit more class than to do stuff like that.


Insisting that an American citizen isn't one = classy.

Insisting that attendance at a church absolutely means that the atendee must naturally agree with every single thing that comes out of the preacher's mouth = classy.

Insisting that a forceful personality in a man "shows strength" but if a woman does it she's a bitch = classy.

Giving a no-bid, exclusive contract to the company of a highly placed member of the administration and then watching the money disappear into the companies account with no legal repercussions= super-classy

Screeching that the government should minimize interfering in the citizen's right to live their lives then pushing multiple agendas to do just that = classy beyond belief

Stay classy, conservatives!Smiley: thumbsup
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Flying American flags upside down because of Obama's reelection was quite classy.
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Don't worry, he doesn't support Trump.


Thank you. You have set my mind at ease.
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Gbaji is so unreasonably butthurt about this, for increasingly wacky reasons/

"I said it's funny. Now here's ten reasons why it's not really funny..."
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I think Gbaji is angling for Spicer's job once he gets the boot.
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Gbaji is so unreasonably butthurt about this, for increasingly wacky reasons/
"I said it's funny. Now here's ten reasons why it's not really funny..."
Well, when your approved listening options are Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson, and "Half Hour News Hour" ...
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#23 Mar 01 2017 at 10:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Pretty funny troll effort, I suppose. But honestly, given the volume of randomly designed red white and blue colored swag handed out at events like this, it's not really very difficult. Could do it at any event probably.
Overused colors are totally overused. Try looking for a nation's flag that doesn't have at least one of those 3 colors. Pretty much doesn't happen. Yeah there are some weird outliers like Jamaica and Mauritania, but those are rare exceptions in a see of uninspired color schemes.

Why can't America be a trend-setter anymore? Can we really be great again if we're doing the same thing as nearly everyone else? These are the important questions the mainstream media is ignoring. Smiley: disappointed
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I suppose the big difference is that conservatives tend to have a bit more class than to do stuff like that.


Insisting that an American citizen isn't one = classy.


No clue what you're talking about here.

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Insisting that attendance at a church absolutely means that the atendee must naturally agree with every single thing that comes out of the preacher's mouth = classy.


Everything? No. But things that are a primary theme for that particular church and preacher? Yeah. In the exact same way that someone who's attending a KKK rally may not agree with every single thing said, but it's a good bet that he does agree in principle with the idea of white supremacy, right? If you choose, out of all the churches in the area, to attend a church that specifically preaches black liberation theology, it's a good bet that you yourself are an adherent to that philosophy.

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Insisting that a forceful personality in a man "shows strength" but if a woman does it she's a bitch = classy.


Ironically, this is far more prevalent on the left side of the political spectrum than on the right.

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Giving a no-bid, exclusive contract to the company of a highly placed member of the administration and then watching the money disappear into the companies account with no legal repercussions= super-classy


There are literally more incorrect statements in that sentence than correct.

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Screeching that the government should minimize interfering in the citizen's right to live their lives then pushing multiple agendas to do just that = classy beyond belief


Your definition of "interfering" mostly includes the government *not* doing things that you think it should. Which I find hilarious.

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Interesting that no where in your list is something like "show up at the other party's events, and intentionally do stuff to make the people attending there look foolish, dumb, do something that makes the speakers look bad, etc". You know things that actually show a lack of class. Taking a position and standing by it is one thing. Being so weak that the only way you think you can win is to go over to the other guy and make stuff up about him? That's a whole different thing.

let's make fun of misspelled signs. At least some of which are us showing up with deliberately misspelled signs, taking pictures of ourselves, and then posting it and claiming it's those other dumb people. Let's show up at Conservative events and start fights, so we can point out how violent and hateful conservative's are. Let's show up at Conservative events wearing offensive, racist, sexist, etc T-shirts and make sure to stand in front of the cameras so that everyone can see how racist, sexist, etc conservatives are. Let's show up at a Conservative event and hand out Russian flags with Trump's name on it, so we can show everyone that Trump really is connected to the Russian government.

See what these all have in common? A need to create a false impression of the other side. Which is what you do when you can't make your own side or position appealing. You have to go attack the other guy. And yeah, when you do that, it speaks more about you than the other guy, right?

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Really? You can't think of a prominent American that most conservatives repeatedly claimed wasn't American? Did your dope dealer drop a brick of cocaine on your head?

As usual, you just dodge and dance and ignore and handwave so you can keep claiming that the conservatives have the moral high ground. PROTIP: They don't.


PROTIP #2: I've told you about a jillion times I'm not a liberal. I get that you think anyone to the left of you must be a raging commie/socialist, but still. See, I'm aware that the left and the right do "bad" things. The reason I generally pick on the right is because of the massive hypocrisy they display on a regular basis. Hypocrisy you adamantly, stubbornly, religiously deny exists.

I'm sorry your soul is so empty. I'm saddened that you care so little for anything outside yourself. Perhaps, one day, you'll learn to value people as people and not things.


That's on you, though. Good luck.
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Really? You can't think of a prominent American that most conservatives repeatedly claimed wasn't American? Did your dope dealer drop a brick of cocaine on your head?


No. And that fact might just maybe open your eyes to the fact that conservatives don't put the same weight on things that you think we do. I honestly had no clue who you were talking about in your previous post.

Um. But for the record, a small percentage of conservatives had some questions as to verification of Obama's natural born citizenship status, specifically and only in the context of meeting the constitutional requirements to hold the one and only office in the country which requires said status (ie: POTUS). Which is not at all to say they thought he was "not an American", as you claimed. Most (like myself) didn't doubt that he did meet the requirement, but felt that he had failed to provide sufficient documentation to verify that fact, once the question was raised. A small subset of that group were convinced that he didn't meet the requirement, and an even smaller subset of that group were convinced that he wasn't even a citizen.

So yeah. Forgive me for not leaping to the farther reaches of "nutter".

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As usual, you just dodge and dance and ignore and handwave so you can keep claiming that the conservatives have the moral high ground. PROTIP: They don't.


Yeah. We mostly do. The sheer effort expended to continually misrepresent our actual positions and actions by the Left is testament to that fact. How many threads did we have on this very subject? I was not once not clear about my position. I, in fact, took great pains to explain the difference between whether he was a citizen versus a natural born citizen, and why it mattered. But you just chucked that all out the window, didn't you?

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PROTIP #2: I've told you about a jillion times I'm not a liberal. I get that you think anyone to the left of you must be a raging commie/socialist, but still. See, I'm aware that the left and the right do "bad" things. The reason I generally pick on the right is because of the massive hypocrisy they display on a regular basis. Hypocrisy you adamantly, stubbornly, religiously deny exists.


Hypocrisy that only exists if you buy the strawman version of conservatives created by the Left. So you may not be a liberal, but you certainly buy their BS hook, line, and sinker.

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I'm sorry your soul is so empty. I'm saddened that you care so little for anything outside yourself. Perhaps, one day, you'll learn to value people as people and not things.


And here come the personal attacks. Right on schedule. It's like there's a script you follow or something:

1. Make wild accusation
2. When it's refuted, deny it and demand proof.
3. When proof is provided, argue it's not sufficient.
4. When even more proof and solid argument is provided, start calling the other guy names.


You can't counter the position so you attack the person. You really don't get that this only shows your own weakness, right? If you have a point to make, make it. If your strongest argument is to attack or make fun of the other guy, you've already lost. And if you had a decent amount of self reflection, you might just ask why you hold the position(s) you do in the first place.

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