1) if anyone disagrees with you, they are a "Democrat"
2) if anyone argues with you, they are a "Liberal"
3) if they argue with you and actually present data (formerly known as "debating"), shrug it off as "propaganda from the Liberal Media"
4) if you cannot rebut the argument pick on details such as misspellings,improper punctuation or taglines
5) If your opponent has an unrefutable argument, change the subject
6) if your opponent consistently overturns your "correct" stories (anything told by Rush Limbaugh), use ad hominem attacks.
7) anyone who puts life over profits is a "tree hugger"
8) anyone who refutes or debates "correct" science (Creationism, Ecological Stability) is a "sky-is-falling" reactionary
9) anyone who opposes the melding of religion and government is one of the "liberals" who helped create the rampant immorality today
10) any federal program created by a Democrat, or that "looks" Democratic is "socialistic".
11) dismantling programs and restrictions on spending then sending the money to states as a "block grant" is better than having a standardized Federal program with rules
12) giving tax money to People is "enslaving them", giving tax money to Corporations is "making jobs"
13) anything that does not turn a profit for private corporations is "an elitist" operation
14) always take everything personally
15) whatever your weakness is, blame it on your opponent
16) the more narrow and prejudiced your sources, the more you project that onto your opponent
17) when your opponent attacks a Republican/conservative President's policies, blame them on a Democratic Congress (or vice versa)
18) when quoting your opponent, edit his words to conform to "correctness"
19) anyone who reads anything beyond "the Limbaugh Letter" is an "ivory tower intellectual"
20) when all else fails, lie
Let's all join in!
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
2) if anyone argues with you, they are a "Liberal"
3) if they argue with you and actually present data (formerly known as "debating"), shrug it off as "propaganda from the Liberal Media"
4) if you cannot rebut the argument pick on details such as misspellings,improper punctuation or taglines
5) If your opponent has an unrefutable argument, change the subject
6) if your opponent consistently overturns your "correct" stories (anything told by Rush Limbaugh), use ad hominem attacks.
7) anyone who puts life over profits is a "tree hugger"
8) anyone who refutes or debates "correct" science (Creationism, Ecological Stability) is a "sky-is-falling" reactionary
9) anyone who opposes the melding of religion and government is one of the "liberals" who helped create the rampant immorality today
10) any federal program created by a Democrat, or that "looks" Democratic is "socialistic".
11) dismantling programs and restrictions on spending then sending the money to states as a "block grant" is better than having a standardized Federal program with rules
12) giving tax money to People is "enslaving them", giving tax money to Corporations is "making jobs"
13) anything that does not turn a profit for private corporations is "an elitist" operation
14) always take everything personally
15) whatever your weakness is, blame it on your opponent
16) the more narrow and prejudiced your sources, the more you project that onto your opponent
17) when your opponent attacks a Republican/conservative President's policies, blame them on a Democratic Congress (or vice versa)
18) when quoting your opponent, edit his words to conform to "correctness"
19) anyone who reads anything beyond "the Limbaugh Letter" is an "ivory tower intellectual"
20) when all else fails, lie
Let's all join in!
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
