There were a couple of other typical moonbat shrieks of rage before I was banned from the thread and my comments were erased - typical libs, cutting the mic and sanitising any evidence of opposition.
How can I effectively counter stuff like this while keeping the discussion civil?
Also, to answer the questions of “why was this person on your FB to begin with” - they hadn’t displayed any overt signs of liberalism like this before; so they were previously OK.
You can simply say that you will consider the source of the ranting, raving, and vulgarity.
Looks like a stormy romance. Rush gives the best advice on discussing the issues with liberals - you can’t.
Arguing with an idiot, they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Best to just move on.
nice first thread.
ping
There is no discrimination at all. Any man, gay or straight, is free to marry a woman. Any woman, gay or straight, is free to marry a man. That is ABSOLUTELY EQUAL TREATMENT. That's equal rights and equal protection.
A good way to start is to accuse THEM of being intolerant and bigoted and narrow-minded. Then they have to defend their BS. And you remain all “more in sorrow than anger.”
They are typically jackasses and will fall for it every time.
Liberalism is a mental illness. You can’t reason with mentally ill people.
Spend your energy on more productive things.
To be blunt, you can’t.
If you stay calm and corner them with facts, they’ll shriek, scream, get vile, and ban you.
If you try to match their virtiol, they’ll shriek, scream, get vile, and ban you.
In fact, if you don’t agree with them 100%, they’ll shriek, scream, get vile, and ban you.
It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing: Can’t be done, and it annoys the pig.
PS Sometimes annoying the pig is fun, but don’t expect any other result.
Tell them to go sit in the Time Out Chair until they can talk like adults.
Then don’t reply again until they apologize for their childish tantrums.
You come across as calm, rational, respectful and reasonable. The other people in that thread are cussing, personally attacking you, and acting like this is the first time they’ve encountered someone who disagrees with their opinion. I am having trouble understanding why it was YOU who were banned.
I think your hater friend will find that homosexual marriage gets voted down in cases where “the people” are allowed to vote on it, and gets approved in cases where courts and legislators decide.
Democrats typically do not like actual democracy.
Alot of the problems people have would dissappear if the simply turned off facebook, myspace, et al.
Its banned in my house.
“How can I effectively counter stuff like this while keeping the discussion civil?”
You’re asking the impossible here. Lib-freaks will always go straight to personal attacks when they have no logical counter-argument. Notice the vicious name-calling here. Save your energy for more enlightened types. These folks have sunk too deep to save.
I am against homos and it has nothing to do with religion. Homosexuality is a mental disorder. Letting them act out is no different than letting anyone else with any other mental disorder act out.
There’s nothing quite like the sound of a liberal horking up the partially-digested remains of his own deeply rooted bigotry, then trying to lick it up before anyone notices...
Experience has shown me that there isn’t much you can do with hopeless liberals. As is clearly evidenced in your exchange, liberals are creatures of unthinking, illogical, raw emotion, intolerance, and hatred.
Conservatives base their viewpoints mostly upon simple facts and logical conclusions derived thereof. A liberal’s emotional condition simply renders them intellectually incapable of responding to or even recognizing logic.
The best you can do is have a little fun getting their blood pressure up and watching the fireworks of their emotional outbursts. You can continue to needle them endlessly about how they won’t and can’t answer your actual questions, which is entertaining for a while, but don’t expect to get them to concede that they might be incorrect about anything, ever.
The personal attacks and insults mean you are winning, and getting banned means you won the argument.
I would suggest that you not make the problems of other people your own. Maintain your own civility. It’s like the advice you get in Al-Anon (for families of alcoholics): first, maintain your own sanity even though a family member is making your life chaotic by drinking. I know this can be difficult when people are screaming in your own face, but you cannot “save” other people. Set a good example. There’s no way of knowing, but they may eventually come around more to your way of thinking.
Just ask: “If you do not respect people who hold a traditional view of marrige, then why should they respect your view of gay marriage? Isn’t a two way street?”