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Girard442

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5. This kind of thing was inevitable in a post-truth society.

Reply to yallerdawg (Original post)

Thu Aug 3, 2017, 11:55 AM

Aug 2017

Someone stands in your way? Create a whole alternate reality where they are the vilest of the vile.

Creationists and pro-lifers have been in this groove for years.

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Are you starting to hear rumblings about a Democratic Party/Nazi Fascist link? [View all] yallerdawg Aug 2017 OP

This makes perfect sense, accuse the left of doing what the right is doing right in front of your Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1

I heard the Joe Scarbrough crew make the association this AM... yallerdawg Aug 2017 #4

They've been claiming that fascism is a liberal ideology for years Azathoth Aug 2017 #2

God fucking damn these people. Initech Aug 2017 #3

This kind of thing was inevitable in a post-truth society. Girard442 Aug 2017 #5

Dinesh D'Souza - Why am I not surprised? N/t TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #6

Who cares what a felon thinks? Gothmog Aug 2017 #7

Fox News, Breitbart News, Infowars, One News Now, freeperville, yallerdawg Aug 2017 #8

Oh, sometimes I am up for a good prison memoir!! nt m-lekktor Aug 2017 #12

Some more Fractured Fairy Tales of history from the republicans. Dread Pirate Roberts Aug 2017 #9

Fake historian. Sad. sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #10

As others mentioned in regard to this book the other day, Jonah Goldberg already did this m-lekktor Aug 2017 #11

That was some years back, long enough that... JHB Aug 2017 #13

Good points that i didn't think of!! m-lekktor Aug 2017 #15

When did he get out of jail? He's preaching to the choir. No one will believe that but trump's base. brush Aug 2017 #14

The Right has been claiming Hitler was a Leftie forever. Hieronymus Aug 2017 #16

These are the people that think Communists, Socialists and Democrats are all the same. progressoid Aug 2017 #17