(08-31-2022, 08:47 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote:

I thought the GOP thought that the wealthy are the ones holding up the government budget and that those blue collar types weren't really paying much, if anything. Seems like an inconsistent argument to me.

(08-31-2022, 01:00 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I thought the GOP thought that the wealthy are the ones holding up the government budget and that those blue collar types weren't really paying much, if anything. Seems like an inconsistent argument to me.

masonbengals posts in this thread remind me of the impact of Jesse Waters on Fox. It's the result of watching dumb TV intended for dumb people because they don't question the dumb shit they're told which is almost always easily debunked with a simple fact check. But here's the catch, if they were interested in truth, they wouldn't be watching Fox in the first place.

(08-31-2022, 01:00 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I thought the GOP thought that the wealthy are the ones holding up the government budget and that those blue collar types weren't really paying much, if anything. Seems like an inconsistent argument to me.

They don't even keep their arguments straight.  They re better off saying the truck driver is paying the loans of a lazy minimum wage worker who spent $150k on a worthless liberal arts brainwashing degree. 

I spent $150k being taught to hate straight white working class patriots who love Jesus and now they need to pay off my terrible choices. 

This playbook couldn't be easier.  

(08-31-2022, 03:52 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: masonbengals posts in this thread remind me of the impact of Jesse Waters on Fox. It's the result of watching dumb TV intended for dumb people because they don't question the dumb shit they're told which is almost always easily debunked with a simple fact check. But here's the catch, if they were interested in truth, they wouldn't be watching Fox in the first place.

You sure know you're Fox programming content for someone too smart to watch it.

Shitty attacks on other's intelligence is what limits participation & discussion here.

I may post differing opinions than others but try to never cross that line.

Or that's the way I see it over here from the dumb side.

(08-31-2022, 04:48 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote: You sure know you're Fox programming content for someone too smart to watch it.

Shitty attacks on other's intelligence is what limits participation & discussion here.

I may post differing opinions than others but try to never cross that line.

Or that's the way I see it over here from the dumb side.

In all fairness, Fox itself has a pretty low opinion of its viewers when you hear the legal arguments they have to make to defend their right to spout nonsense that no reasonable person could be expected to believe. 

(08-31-2022, 05:15 PM)Nately120 Wrote: In all fairness, Fox itself has a pretty low opinion of its viewers when you hear the legal arguments they have to make to defend their right to spout nonsense that no reasonable person could be expected to believe. 

I agree for the most part.

If I was somehow put in charge of defending Fox I wish someone would have told me. LOL 

In our current state I sure could use that extra cash about now. 

This one's for my fan club.

(08-31-2022, 05:23 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote:

This one's for my fan club.

If that's who I think it is it's more likely he just OD-ed.

(08-31-2022, 08:47 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote:

the g-nop is really off message.

Lauren Boebert: “Joe Biden is robbing hard working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.” pic.twitter.com/pgzTfQfnPX

— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) August 27, 2022

 

(08-31-2022, 04:48 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote: You sure know you're Fox programming content for someone too smart to watch it.

I sure do know my Fox programming, but here's the catch, I also watch CNN, MSNBC, PBS Newshour along with checking in on the national and local news programs and unfortunately, I also snoop around Newsmax and OAN. I've found it's much more beneficial than watching only one side. You should try it sometime. You probably wouldn't post so much stuff that's so easily debunked.

Quote:Shitty attacks on other's intelligence is what limits participation & discussion here.


I may post differing opinions than others but try to never cross that line.

Actually, I appreciate differing opinions, that's why I check in so many networks. You should fact check more, then you probably won't be called out for posting so many mis-guided memes.

(08-31-2022, 05:23 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote:

This one's for my fan club.

Not everyone that disagrees with a conservative is a liberal.

And I'm not offended in the slightest. The feeling I most often have when I see an underinformed conservative is either sadness or pity.

(09-01-2022, 02:01 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: I sure do know my Fox programming, but here's the catch, I also watch CNN, MSNBC, PBS Newshour along with checking in on the national and local news programs and unfortunately, I also snoop around Newsmax and OAN. I've found it's much more beneficial than watching only one side. You should try it sometime. You probably wouldn't post so much stuff that's so easily debunked.

Actually, I appreciate differing opinions, that's why I check in so many networks. You should fact check more, then you probably won't be called out for posting so many mis-guided memes.

Nothing speaks louder for your appreciation of differing opinions than calling other members post dumb. 

(09-01-2022, 08:45 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: Nothing speaks louder for your appreciation of differing opinions than calling other members post dumb. 

Would you rather I lie to you instead?

(09-01-2022, 10:25 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Would you rather I lie to you instead?

I would agree that quite some memes of the user in question are tainted, oversimplified, distorting facts to fit a certain ideological worldview.

It's just, there are quite some memes from the left side of the spectrum that are similar in that regard.

Both instances imho should not result in calling someone dumb. That does not help in any way, and it's of course bad form. I'm all for honesty, but only up to a point.

(09-01-2022, 03:07 PM)hollodero Wrote: I would agree that quite some memes of the user in question are tainted, oversimplified, distorting facts to fit a certain ideological worldview.

It's just, there are quite some memes from the left side of the spectrum that are similar in that regard.

Both instances imho should not result in calling someone dumb. That does not help in any way, and it's of course bad form. I'm all for honesty, but only up to a point.

While I did not directly call him dumb, I can see where people would think so . . . He pretty much only posts memes here. I wasn't calling him, any of his written posts or his beliefs dumb. Most of what he posts in this thread, which was what I was commenting on, appears to be from some right wing redditt or some site like that where it's intended for an echo chamber of Fox/OAN/Newsmax viewers. I think the memes that he posts here are major hits in those forums, but they're so distorted with little connection to reality. They're mostly focused on trying to pwn teh libs than actual comedy.

Most of the corrections or questions of memes in this thread are from what he posts. While I did reference him by name, my mistake, it was more of an attack on Jesse Waters and the impact of his style of . . . *ahem* . . . "journalism". Other Fox hosts may be more dangerous, but fewer openly spew more straight bullshit than Waters.