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Call it whatever you want, but you know you are only distracting from the point of comments like these. That point is that you need to be consistent. If you have a problem with som…

Agreed, in a true definition of a conspiracy theory only the last one meets the criteria, though I was trying to match ideas on the other side generally lumped into the conspiracy …

Interesting take. Thanks for that. I think what also contributes is the idea that the brain will twist and contort reality to protect foundational beliefs (beyond my own observatio…

Initially, the point was that it is only Trump supporters that are uninterested in actual facts, but sure, plenty of conspiracy theories on the left as well (was just trying to kee…

"Violence against Trump supporters is justified because he is literally Hitler", "Even though everyone knew the rules of the game up front, Trump is not actually the legitimate pre…

In addition to the other responses here, at the beginning of the year he announced his personal challenge for 2017 was to meet and chat with people in every state. That seemed to g…

In my opinion, the AMA and the FDA are the main blockers of machines replacing doctors (outside of surgery). Nurses can do, and to a large extent already are doing the majority of …

You started this thread with "And yet there are enough politicians who reject even those statistics, and that seems like a totally different category of stupidity". Now you say "I …

Ok, it's clear you are just trolling at this point. It's really not that difficult. In October of 2009 the unemployment rate was 10.0%, and today it is 4.9%. Democrats use this sta…

I think you misunderstood much of my last comment, sorry if it was my fault. First, none of these are really "my argument", I was just explaining some of the behavior that you are …

> Specifically with respect to unemployment rates, you and I may simply have been reading different things Certainly possible, but what I generally see is: "the unemployment rate i…

The right tends to prefer to reference labor participation rate, whereas the left tends to prefer unemployment rate. The reason for this is obvious: right now, unemployment rate ad…

Links? Thanks.

This is one thing I still have a hard time understanding about people. I understand that hypocrisy and the like are baked deeply, inextricably into our DNA, but the thing is we've …

While the official war on drugs was started as a means of suppressing and discrediting blacks by the Nixon administration, the reason it won't end any time soon is that it has long…

This is a natural result of hyper-partisanship, which is a natural result of groups separating into their preferred echo chambers, which is a natural result of it being easy to mov…

Let me preface by stating that these are vague, short statements that we are trying to use to extrapolate to some fairly large assertions, and we all come into them with a bias and…

Wanting to limit immigration doesn't make you racist, though. I take it as saying, essentially, if such a significant percentage of jobs in a top industry in this country are held …

I agree, those articles are all one sided. To me, that material comes off as the same way that groups like the Black Panthers or Nation of Islam / Farrakhan target their audiences …

Sure, his Breitbart days count, I was just saying that what you typically hear is "Breitbart is racist" without any actual justification, so I was looking for actual examples that …

The quote from his ex-wife is a fair point and does support your case. In the interest of full disclosure, would that statement be equally bad if you replaced the word "Jews" with …

That is fair..though it might be more beneficial to add a comment stating this at the first point in the tree where things go off topic. Once it gets down this far, everyone's mind…

What about the one discussing getting the New York primary moved up if Clinton were to get a big challenger so that she could get an early victory and kill that momentum? What abou…

Do you have any evidence you can provide of concrete behavior showing Bannon as racist? I don't mean responses like "duh, CNN, Maher, Oliver, etc. say he is so duh", or "duh, he wa…

Those things don't match up like you think they do. The equivalent of /r/The_Donald banning users is equivalent to /r/politics banning anyone who posted critically of Clinton betwe…