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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 04:13 PM
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Critical thinking. Its a good thing.
It never seems to occur to some people that a person who doesn't support their candidate (cult leader, to some) may, at the same time, not be a supporter of the **other** candidate either.

The reverse is also true. One may like both candidates but choose to back one over the other.

I made a post the other day that sent the swarms from the hives. I had the nerve to say Clinton can't win and that Obama people ought to just let her go down in a blaze of self immolation.

In the course of the many completely silly replies, I was accused, in the same thread, of being an Obama supporter and a Clinton supporter.

You can't have it both ways.

There are some people who like them both.

There are others who think they both suck.

So maybe you can engage on issues. And not jump to stupid conclusions that simply fit the preconception (no matter how off base) that infected your head before you gave some critical thought to what it is that was actually being said.

Okay?
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 04:23 PM
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1. "swarms from the hives"
LOL.

More like a conditioned response.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 05:16 PM
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2. Hehehe
You notice this thread gets nada from the same swarms ......

"Huh? Me? Not me. It was some other cultist. I'm in the good cult."
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 05:19 PM
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3. This should stir a lot of critical thinking.
"cult leader"
"swarms from the hives"
"jump to stupid conclusions that simply fit the preconception (no matter how off base) that infected your head"
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crankychatter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 05:21 PM
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5. oh.... kerr-SNAP
yeouch

hurt just watchin'
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 06:08 PM
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6. If the shoe fits ......
..... that might be (the rhetorical, not personal) you in the mirror.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-19-08 05:21 PM
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4. Yep!
:D



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