Just ask for links to back up the rhetoric from the BS posters

[liberal N proud]

At one time nothing on this board was considered valid unless you could post a link backing up your claims. Otherwise it is just opinion and rhetoric.

So all we need to do is start demanding the integrity we once held everyone on this board to. I have been using this when a BSER responds with lies about Hillary. Most of the time they try to respond with more rhetoric and telling you it doesn't need to be linked. That is when you have them for the phony they are.

If you can't back it up with fact, then it is garbage.

[savalez]

1. And not a link to a RW website either!

[liberal N proud]

2. That's as good, or bad as no link

It has to be a credible link!

[wildeyed]

6. They get SO MAD

when I won't follow their stupid clickbait link or watch their propaganda videos.

[TwilightZone]

3. They don't need proof. They know it all, and that's all that matters.

And they're not afraid to tell ya that, either!

[liberal N proud]

5. I have had one or two tell me they didn't need links

[COLGATE4]

9. Yep. Ask for those nasty things, you know like "proof" or "evidence"

and they either slink away or try and bullshit you with stupid photos of Bush & Hillary or videos taken from God knows where. If you point out that, as amusing as these are they are not what a thinking adult would consider "evidence" they become quite irritated.

[TwilightZone]

4. Who needs proof when you have moral superiority?

[JSup]

12. Or loaded questions?

Or rhetorical questions?

They state on accusation and then want the guilt disproven. What is with America and assumption of guilt? Public assumption of guilt is how we get lynch mobs.

[radical noodle]

7. I've also learned to actually go to the link and read the article

because sometimes their interpretations are crap.

[sarae]

10. YES!

hah This has happened to me, too. There was one poster in particular (a different website) who always made wild claims about HRC and would always include links. At first I would skim the links and not pay too much attention but when I started looking more closely, I noticed that a lot of the links didn't back up the poster's claims at ALL. Another time, one of the links was BREITBART (not even kidding).

So I've learned my lesson – don't take what people say at face value because a lot of them are banking on the fact that most people don't really investigate the source.

[TwilightZone]

11. Agreed. Or they stopped reading, and the very next section knocked holes in their argument

That happens rather frequently. Context is important.

[yallerdawg]

8. And sometimes they don't want you...

finding their links (sources)!

Google can be devastating - we should remember.

Can't have a conversation anymore without someone with a smartphone fact-checking everything you say!

Know what I mean, Madame President?