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A holiday guide to arguing with your right-wing relatives
Salon.com ^
| Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 08:00 AM EST
| Alex Pareene
Posted on 11/22/2012 6:33:44 AM PST by skinkinthegrass
Explaining voter fraud, Benghazi and the fiscal cliff to Fox-watching family members..
The Holidays are now officially here, and all Americans will soon have to face their extended families and listen to them talk. For many young Americans specifically young Americans related to old white Americans Thanksgiving and our various Winter Holidays are extra stressful, because young Americans are largely a liberal, Obama-voting bunch, and old white Americans are mostly not. Unfortunately, old white Americans spend a lot of their time being lied to by conservatives on TV, the radio and the Internet, and while that is not their fault, it can be hard to talk about politics with people who believe an elaborate series of fictions and distortions.
If you actually want to engage your right-wing relatives and let me be clear, you really should not do this, you are going to ruin Thanksgiving its best to come prepared. Below, youll find a series of talking points designed to address some of the most popular current trending topics in the alternate conservative media world.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: 2012elections; holiday; leftwing; msnbc; politics; propaganda; rightwing; salon; thanksgiving; theholidays
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I checked "the 'do not post' list"/ searched "the title"..nothing was the results...
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Know your foes talking points
To: skinkinthegrass
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:38:22 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: skinkinthegrass
answers to RAT talking points, Open your mouth about politics while you are here and I'll throw you out on yer azz...
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:38:33 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: skinkinthegrass
The left wing nut in the family went somewhere else, thank you, but I noticed she stole some more money out of her mother’s account before she left.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:40:01 AM PST
by
tiki
To: skinkinthegrass
MSNBC are so deep in the tank for Obama that they believe this is an example of even-handed journalism.
They are off their heads.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:41:28 AM PST
by
agere_contra
("An unjust law ceases to be a law: it becomes an act of violence". Thomas Aquinas)
To: skinkinthegrass
Even in my politically-divided family, my own often left-leaning parents personally are against talking politics at the Thanksgiving Dinner Table, and honestly, I am thankful for that. I am not interested in the arguments at this time of year, they should be saved for another day.
To: skinkinthegrass
Here all you need to respond with:
“All of this cannot be paid for. It will collapse.
I will be prepared to be self-sufficient. You will be looking for a scrap of bread that will cost $40.00 a slice.
I will be fed and protected. You will starve and be at the mercy of the hoard.
I will be hidden. You will not be able to find me for help, and I wont come looking to rescue you.
Happy Thanksgiving, you f$cking idiot.”
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:44:39 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: skinkinthegrass
We have the guns that tend to settle any argument, they don’t. Salon’s readers are brainless, gutless, ball-less and unarmed. It’s not really a fair fight!
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:45:48 AM PST
by
Doc Savage
("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
To: VanDeKoik
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:47:26 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: VanDeKoik
Well said!
Please note: you will have a hoard (of food), they will be at the mercy of the horde (of zombies).
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:49:07 AM PST
by
agere_contra
("An unjust law ceases to be a law: it becomes an act of violence". Thomas Aquinas)
To: skinkinthegrass
When their utopia bursts in a couple of years they will be begging for help.
Guess what, some of us won’t be there.
Good luck with all that.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:49:47 AM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: agere_contra
Rush was right, liberalism is a disease.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:52:28 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: skinkinthegrass
There will be two at our table one is my 92 year old father who has voted Dem his entire life even though he’s as conservative as I am and my 68 year old sister who’s sole reason is abortion. Both are retired federal employee’s,
To: skinkinthegrass
This is the second one of these I read this morning.
While marginally more intelligently written than the MSLSD one, it still uses infantile reasoning to formulate its arguments.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:54:39 AM PST
by
sauropod
(For Barack so loved the poor, he created millions more of them.)
To: skinkinthegrass
Is this a reprint of the MSNBC staff talking points for Thanksgiving?
Perhaps they are feeling insecure that their fellow travellers don’t really have any arguments that make sense.
I wonder why they even go through the motions, as Thanksgiving and Christmas are forbidden in the Communist Utopia.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:56:05 AM PST
by
ecomcon
To: skinkinthegrass
Sounds like Alex will be serving up a lot of straw dogs for Thanksgiving this year.
To: Dusty Road
Not all federal employees are brain dead libs.
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:56:51 AM PST
by
sauropod
(For Barack so loved the poor, he created millions more of them.)
To: Dusty Road
I am thankful that we don’t have any liberal relatives : )
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posted on
11/22/2012 6:59:05 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: skinkinthegrass
I know what I believe and certainly don't need anyone or organization giving me talking points on what to say to people with whom I disagree. If you have to go to a website to get a list of things to say to someone you're supposed to disagree with, that in itself is a statement on ignorance.
I simply can't believe people have allowed themselves to sink to such a low level that someone else has to tell them how to think, analyze, evaluate and come to a conclusion and it cannot be done by one's own individual effort. How sad.
Even more tragic is the percentage of people who would not be able to understand what was just written in the above paragraphs.
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posted on
11/22/2012 7:01:31 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: skinkinthegrass
I approach a debate with leftists (yes even family members) the same way Phil Mickelson approaches a golf match with a 17 handicap.
They simply lack the goods to compete.
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