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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMY statement in a political debate group on Facebook.
Just dipping a toe in, if anybody wishes to critique this I'd love to get your suggestions as to if I can do this better, and how to become better at this.
Let me ask you. If you knew a man was a liar, and not because he was misled on a few things but out of sheer and brazen disregard for truth and had shown that thousands of times, would you find some things he was perhaps secretive about suspicious?
Bear with me. Say you were a business manager with 5 employees and one employee is "Brad". Brad's kind of a butthole, you've caught him talking credit for the works of others before, you've seen him lie about people who criticize him, you've heard him bragging in the break room, you've seen the workplace politics, backroom rumors, and playing for position- all of which Brad is really good at. Regular work, not so much, but the politics of it, wow, he's a savant. He brought his obviously vapid but hot girlfriend to work and paraded her around, his Dad gives him a bunch of cash and every Friday he leaves when the rest of you do and jumps into his red BMW convertible with a "so long, losers, smell you Monday".
Do you like Brad just because he insulted another guy you don't care for at that job? Is that few moments worth everything else that makes your soul feel like it's being sucked out every time you interact with "Brad"? You know Brad's a dick. You KNOW it. Is it worth pretending he isn't? Oh, sure. you may say "Good ol' Brad", and some others may too, but nobody really thinks Brad is "good" at all, ..his Dad just happens to currently own the company. Brad says he's "paid his dues", in fact Brad says he knows every machine on that line better than guys who have 30+ years in on that same machine. Everybody is as afraid of Brad, or saying anything anti-Brad, as people in Pleasantville when Billy wants them to only think "good thoughts" or be wished into the cornfield.
If Brad makes fun of the fat guy, the gay guy, the black guy, do you laugh and play along and then deny it if asked by human resources, and deny Brad did it? If you do, although it says a lot about Brad..what does it say about you?
Biden isn't my first choice and he's no saint, but at least he doesn't act like he is. Grow a spine. You KNOW right from wrong. It's not acting like a p*ssy to stand up for what's good about humanity.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)No minds will be charged and nothing will be gained. There is no prize.
Ahpook
(2,749 posts)Do something more productive towards this fight. I can assure you there is no freaking way to get back the hardcore Trumpers. At this point it just isn't happening.
110% waste of time
LeftInTX
(25,101 posts)Someone was telling me that absentee voting was secure and voting by mail was fraud. I'm in Texas and both are the same thing and have the same process. She also told me that you did not need to be out of the county to vote absentee...WTF?? Then she said, "You're a Democrat and your full of s....". WTF???
They're so weird and don't even think. I checked her voting record and it's pretty much zilch.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I cant argue with that, and no. I will not defend Trump.
-Laelth
kaotikross
(246 posts)at this point it's more writing exercises than anything. so bearing that in mind, how was it? I was attempting to make them think because there are a ton of Brads out there, most everybody has dealt with one.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)However, I think that most trumpians would like Brad.
Again, my two cents.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Why put yourself in that theater? Volunteer to do online work for Joe or something constructive.
We need all the help we can get right now and tilting at windmills is probably not the best course.
Just my two cents and not meant to demean your attempt to debate the rethugs.
equite
(20 posts)Much less a whole sentence? I'm surrounded at home I talk to myself for the Trumper that lives here. But others won't let me finish a complete sentence. Others get worked up start telling at me calling me names (lack of anything legit to say). So I just walk away. Fuckit. I'm in Texas and it's not for me to have an opinion much less the truth. I don't think they want to know. Period. My husband doesn't want to know. But I got off Facebook years ago. My daughter was called ignorant by her aunt then unfriended when she spoke out. I haven't seen that aunt since before that. I am happy at home in my room by myself. So nice to find a place where I can vent. Thanks. I do needed this. Thinking I would explode as noine sees the Trump corruption as painfully obvious as I do. My dad is another whole topic that I avoid. Thanks.