Interesting you should say that as my letter to her included a bulleted list of 35 why’s, and no doubt I’ll think of more by the time I end up publishing it.
Interesting you should say that as my letter to her included a bulleted list of 35 why’s, and no doubt I’ll think of more by the time I end up publishing it.
Here's what I consider to be *the* quintessential example of what I assert about the "why" thing:
Maybe 10 years ago, when I was in Farcebook and my Leftist sister hadn't unfriended me yet, I saw a conversation on her page that involved maybe half a dozen of her female friends.
The conversation was about Gabby Reece, the volleyball player. Gabby had recently been on a talk show and the discussion turned to her fiance. When questioned, Gabby offered that she might, just one time, forgive her future husband for a unfaithful indiscretion. Just ONCE, and only MAYBE, would forgive him.
That sent the gaggle of hags in the FB conversation off the deep end. One of them said that Gabby had been a hero of hers, but now Gabby was dead to her. The worst person on the planet. The others said similar hostile, hateful things.
That's when I stepped in(to it).
I observed that "All you women who have just thrown Gabby Reece under the bus, you did so because she suggested ONLY that she MIGHT forgive her husband's indiscretion just ONCE. For THAT, she is dead to you all.
And yet...you all supported Hillary Clinton for president and still support her today. Yet she made a LIFETIME of forgiving and excusing her husband's serial, pathological marital indiscretions, time after time after time, and did so to her own selfish, personal benefit.
Yet Hillary is your hero, and Gabby is the worst person on the planet.
Can you explain this contradiction?"
Mine was literally the last post in the conversation thread. Not even ONE of them had the integrity or character to answer the question, let alone to admit to their dishonesty and hypocrisy. The conversation was over.
This is a great example too of what is wrong with the whole panic-demic response, too...so much of it is based on "MIGHT" and "COULD" and "WHAT IF." And although I don't look at this scamdemic as a left right issue, I DO think that the avowed liberals I know lean toward envisioning and in fact fetishizing the MIGHT and then acting on it. "We need a nanny state because there MIGHT be someone, somewhere, getting "their" (not his or her) feelings hurt by, well, life." "You not wearing a mask are a direct threat to me I must run from because you MIGHT be contagious, and I MIGHT catch it, and I MIGHT get severely sick or even MIGHT die." None of the actions and reactions are reality based, they are 'what-if' based.
I also have some ideas about how this is maybe because more lefties I know work in academia vs more right-leaning I know work with tangible, 3-D world actual things (farm, construction, vegetable sales, chiropractic), but that's a nascent theory on my part, I want to investigate that more.
Yep. That's exactly their pathetic argument about so-called global warming, too. Just that the globe MIGHT maybe possibly warm up at some very distant point in the future is enough reason for mankind to put a gun to its head now.
And speaking of guns, "if it saves just one child's life"...
Oh trust me Andrew - that conversation wasn't over. They just continued it somewhere without you - and then it was about you and how you ruined their fun with your right-wing ideology. I know these types.
Interesting you should say that as my letter to her included a bulleted list of 35 why’s, and no doubt I’ll think of more by the time I end up publishing it.
Here's what I consider to be *the* quintessential example of what I assert about the "why" thing:
Maybe 10 years ago, when I was in Farcebook and my Leftist sister hadn't unfriended me yet, I saw a conversation on her page that involved maybe half a dozen of her female friends.
The conversation was about Gabby Reece, the volleyball player. Gabby had recently been on a talk show and the discussion turned to her fiance. When questioned, Gabby offered that she might, just one time, forgive her future husband for a unfaithful indiscretion. Just ONCE, and only MAYBE, would forgive him.
That sent the gaggle of hags in the FB conversation off the deep end. One of them said that Gabby had been a hero of hers, but now Gabby was dead to her. The worst person on the planet. The others said similar hostile, hateful things.
That's when I stepped in(to it).
I observed that "All you women who have just thrown Gabby Reece under the bus, you did so because she suggested ONLY that she MIGHT forgive her husband's indiscretion just ONCE. For THAT, she is dead to you all.
And yet...you all supported Hillary Clinton for president and still support her today. Yet she made a LIFETIME of forgiving and excusing her husband's serial, pathological marital indiscretions, time after time after time, and did so to her own selfish, personal benefit.
Yet Hillary is your hero, and Gabby is the worst person on the planet.
Can you explain this contradiction?"
Mine was literally the last post in the conversation thread. Not even ONE of them had the integrity or character to answer the question, let alone to admit to their dishonesty and hypocrisy. The conversation was over.
THAT is emblematic of most of the Left, IMO.
This is a great example too of what is wrong with the whole panic-demic response, too...so much of it is based on "MIGHT" and "COULD" and "WHAT IF." And although I don't look at this scamdemic as a left right issue, I DO think that the avowed liberals I know lean toward envisioning and in fact fetishizing the MIGHT and then acting on it. "We need a nanny state because there MIGHT be someone, somewhere, getting "their" (not his or her) feelings hurt by, well, life." "You not wearing a mask are a direct threat to me I must run from because you MIGHT be contagious, and I MIGHT catch it, and I MIGHT get severely sick or even MIGHT die." None of the actions and reactions are reality based, they are 'what-if' based.
I also have some ideas about how this is maybe because more lefties I know work in academia vs more right-leaning I know work with tangible, 3-D world actual things (farm, construction, vegetable sales, chiropractic), but that's a nascent theory on my part, I want to investigate that more.
Yep. That's exactly their pathetic argument about so-called global warming, too. Just that the globe MIGHT maybe possibly warm up at some very distant point in the future is enough reason for mankind to put a gun to its head now.
And speaking of guns, "if it saves just one child's life"...
They do not reason. They cannot reason.
Oh trust me Andrew - that conversation wasn't over. They just continued it somewhere without you - and then it was about you and how you ruined their fun with your right-wing ideology. I know these types.
These types tend to be named , "Karen."
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Haha, what a great (and sad) example! I think you short-circuited their brains by asking them to use logic to justify their position ;-)
"Karen," does not do logic.