Overheard "conservative" conversation

[retrowire]

"Assad gassing his own people? Hell Saddam Hussein wasn't even that bad!"

"You know, I just wonder why don't they (the Syrians) themselves storm the gates and put him at the gallows? That'll show him!"

So Democrats.

Why don't the Syrians just overthrow Assad? And... Saddam never committed genocide? Is that true? I'm pretty sure he did....

[tazkcmo]

1. This is an example

Of why I no longer engage with conservatives. You can't have a discussion about reality with someone from an alternate reality.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. One ends up throwing up their hands and

just except the fact that Ignorance is Bliss to this crowd.

[louis-t]

4. When you tell them a truth, you get

silence. Their minds can't comprehend that dumpy said one thing then did another. You cannot convince them that dumpy said Syria should not be attacked without approval from Congress, then did just that. You cannot make them believe that dumpy complained about Obama golf and expenses, then made the previous administration look like cheapskates with their excessive spending and weekly golf outings, then lying about it.

[guillaumeb]

5. Hussein attacked the Iraqi Kurds.

Genocide? Not in my view, but he attacked them during the Bush Sr. Presidency.

[maxsolomon]

6. they are ignorant

they don't pay attention to actual news. ask them the religion of the people assad is gassing. ask them if they're sunni or shia.

they won't even know the difference after all this time fighting sunni fundamentalists.

pure ignorance.