Agreed. CNN and NBC are the worst. Washington Post too. Twitter and Facebook - if they are news sources, who really knows? I am glad you can agree that we agree that you shouldn't be surprised when I say those places are biased.
The difference is, yes, I can agree that Fox News is biased. They don't try to hide that fact. As you said, they're pretty open about who they are. But, thank God. The silence from the other side on the Joe Biden Ukraine scandal is becoming deafening. The libs have impeached a president and grilled a SC justice with less evidence than we have on the Biden family.
But, I think Pelosi leaked the laptop. It's real. The Biden's have not denied it - which is part of the deal. It is going to be used to impeach Biden (Pelosi got a president impeached on much less) and in return for him getting Harris across the finish line - Biden will get Nixon'd (pardoned).
You should maybe proof-read what you write? You call out Ax1 for his definition of facts....well...what is your definition of "typical"? Is it 20%? 20% including people who lost elections because their constituents didn't support their statements?
Although, if Biden said anything stupid, his constituents would choose not to vote for him I am sure - just like the conservatives chose not to vote in some of those instances above. Oh, wait. Nevermind.
This rape and female abuse issue is something we have to tackle. I guess we are going to just have to keep punching at it, and punching at it, and punching at it. Oh, dang. I did it again. You know what I mean. Come on, man!
But, Biden IS the democrat party after all....so again, are you going to vote for him? Do you support the things he says?
They already know this. Their best argument for this being "typical" is to use 20% of the population group....including people who lost their elections because of these statements...so, um...they are including people who aren't even in the group to achieve that 20%.
I am so glad that liberals don't have prejudices and biases like us Grand Ol' Partiers! Every republican in this thread huh? I've never said anything to that effect. But...if you don't agree with those issues, and your candidate supports them (Biden and AOC back BLM no matter what) - are you going to choose not to vote for them? That's all.
As you guys so eloquently pointed out above, at least when a conservative says something way out of line, they don't get the votes.
Haha - we agree a lot here. I do think extremism is a big issue on both sides. And it can be hard to see in the current environment. You almost have to become extreme sometimes to fight the extremism on the other side - or at least that is instinctually how it feels. Not sure if it has always been like this, or if I am just getting older.
Just so you know, I feel like it can be hard on these threads to have these discussions - I think you and I would have good convos IRL - we may not agree, but that is good. That's how new ideas and solutions are created.
In the last paragraph - I don't deny it happens. But I think it's much less of a problem and we have come a long way - but it gets over-used as a defense. Like you say, the color of someone's skin has no bearing on most things. Just like you won't ever see, "Blond man shoots brown-haired man over bar dispute" in the paper. It's moronic. But on the same hand, we will ALWAYS have some prejudice and bias. It's human nature, it's a survival tactic. We gravitate toward our tribes. Our tribes tend to look like us, etc. It's human instinct. If I see someone very different than me, I may take notice and be on alert.
Now, there's a difference between that and being overly reactive to something. I mean, if I see a bum on the street I may take alert as I walk by...white or black....and I may actually be on high alert because who knows how he's going to react....but I may also come back and bring him a sandwich and a cup of coffee - because my instincts and logic don't have to be at odds. I can be cautious and reasonable all at the same time.
Now, someone seeing a black man who has done nothing wrong and following him through a store or pulling a gun on him just because they are fearful of his blackness....that's not reasonable and beyond cautious. It is just stupid.
I agree with you on a lot of this...but I also think discord is created by using black deaths to sell papers and create issues. When a cop shoots an innocent white man, I bet you don't hear that much about it. There isn't rioting in the streets. And when they shoot a violent white man, you probably never hear about it. But if they shoot a black man - whether 100% innocent or violent - you hear about the color of his skin. I'm sorry, but almost all of the videos that have come out of black men being shot during BLM have involved people undertaking criminal activities and resisting arrest. Is it tragic when someone dies over something stupid like counterfeiting money? Yes - but if you are going to resist arrest that is a risk you are putting on yourself. However, even in that case it's not clear the cops killed the guy. He was clearly showing signs of opioid overdose prior to the "choke hold" and the cop may not even have killed him. I'm not saying that is fact...I'm saying it is possible.
Now, if I saw someone NOT resisting arrest and they are just beating him over a $20 bill being fake - I don't care what color his skin is, that cop deserves to be punished HARSHLY.
But nobody cares that innocent white men are getting shot. Only black men - innocent or not.
Nobody demonizes black Trump supporters. It's not possible for them to demonize black Trump supporters - Trump supporters aren't black, just ask Joe.