"People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity."
Is a play off of "People are innocent until proven guilty"
It contrasts the so called "court of public opinion" vs the actually lawful court of the US.
But then you guys fell for it and jumped right in with your court of public opinion rendering Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! proving the thread of truth in an otherwise absurdity that makes a really good joke funny. Without that, was fairly lame. But you guys made it hilarious by falling for it hook line and sinker!
"People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity."
Is a play off of "People are innocent until proven guilty"
It contrasts the so called "court of public opinion" vs the actually lawful court of the US.
But then you guys fell for it and jumped right in with your court of public opinion rendering Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! proving the thread of truth that makes a really good joke funny. Without that, was fairly lame. But you guys made it hilarious by falling for it hook line and sinker!
How does what Brennan said represent the standards and attitudes of the left?
But then you guys fell for it and jumped right in with your court of public opinion rendering Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! proving the thread of truth that makes a really good joke funny. Without that, was fairly lame. But you guys made it hilarious by falling for it hook line and sinker!
Jokes are not even funny any more if you have to explain it to someone who doesn't get it. But having gone there and they still don't get it....becomes pointless. Wasn't even my joke. So just drop it, or ask someone else to explain it to you!.
Jokes are not even funny any more if you have to explain it to someone who doesn't get it. But having gone there and they still don't get it....becomes pointless. Wasn't even my joke. So just drop it, or ask someone else to explain it to you!.
We all understand what the joke was supposed to be.
But the premises that are supposed to match up to reality for it to be funny... don't.
What Brennan said did not mean that people should be guilty in any sense simply because there is an accusation.
And even if he had, a single line from a single non elected person who happens to be on the left does not represent anyone else much less the left in general.
Jokes are not even funny any more if you have to explain it to someone who doesn't get it. But having gone there and they still don't get it....becomes pointless. Wasn't even my joke. So just drop it, or ask someone else to explain it to you!.
I find it disturbing that in a forum such as this, this thread has resulted in more posters than I would have expected have outing themselves as racists.... and who some of them are, shall we say, has surprised me.
One thing that recently occurred to me - the way that republicans claim that "democrats", or "the left" use racism, is the exact same way that they have recently been using "anti-Semitism." Consider:
Rep Omar's statement that she will not be pushed to "pledge allegiance" to "another country" has been used repeatedly to claim that she, along with reps. Tlaib, Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez, are all anti-Semites who say that jews are "Evil" and have "Dual Loyalties". This despite the fact that Omar doesn't mention jewish people at all, but is in fact discussing a plainly unconstitutional anti-BDS law pushed by the christian Marco Rubio.
Compare to the below video, of Dolt 45 speaking to a group of US, Republican Jews:
"Your Prime Minister." Somehow *not* a claim of "dual loyalty", despite literally claiming that jews in the US consider Benjamin Netanyahu to be "their" Prime Minister. Again, a complete failure by the GOP to call out actual anti-Semitic, white nationalist rhetoric, because by and large they (or at least their elected officials) see these as mere attacks, rather than actual dangerous ideologies.
For example: I've seen nobody actually defend the remarks - but I have seen several people on my ignore list. People who I knew years ago were eager to use old stereotypes (eg. "thug" - also known as the brute) to justify or celebrate multiple murders of black men and boys at the hands of police or vigilantes, who insisted that Black Lives Matter was/is "a terrorist group", and so forth, on the Social Issues board. If these same people are defending the crowd chanting "Send her back!", well, the birds of a feather have flocked together. Wouldn't be shocked if I were to see the same people defending Dolt 45's concentration camps.
And even if he had, a single line from a single non elected person who happens to be on the left does not represent anyone else much less the left in general.
"People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity."
Is a play off of "People are innocent until proven guilty"
It contrasts the so called "court of public opinion" vs the actually lawful court of the US.
But then you guys fell for it and jumped right in with your court of public opinion rendering Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! proving the thread of truth in an otherwise absurdity that makes a really good joke funny. Without that, was fairly lame. But you guys made it hilarious by falling for it hook line and sinker!
And again, this was a comment on a private Facebook page, one accessible only to Friends and Friends of Friends. A public statement would have been much more serious to me.
I think the opposite. A person yelling on a street corner that someone needs to die is much less sinister than a person saying it to a like-minded cabal.
One is likely to be met with a lot of opposition, the other will be met with only reinforcement and encouragement.
I notice instead of calling everyone you consider a nazi a conservative "a RAYcis!" (like most of the locals do), it's now "conspiracy theorist". You show 'em, I'm sure it's mortifying to them!
I notice instead of calling everyone you consider a nazi a conservative "a RAYcis!" (like most of the locals do), it's now "conspiracy theorist". You show 'em, I'm sure it's mortifying to them!
Isn't it the truth? What is the idea of Omar's crimes presented here, if it is not a conspiracy theory? Just as Trump's tweets and the support for them are appropriately called racist. What should be mortifying, but sadly is not, is that those charges are true.
So the joke is that Bogative brought up something that's completely irrelevant but pretended that it had some tangential relevance, and people "fell for it" "hook line and sinker" by pointing out that it wasn't relevant? That's what I can gather from your attempts to explain it, and if that's accurate then what you're describing isn't "making a joke" but "trolling".
So the joke is that Bogative brought up something that's completely irrelevant but pretended that it had some tangential relevance, and people "fell for it" "hook line and sinker" by pointing out that it wasn't relevant? That's what I can gather from your attempts to explain it, and if that's accurate then what you're describing isn't "making a joke" but "trolling".
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Bogative joked about Omar marrying her brother. It's eeewwwww mostly, unless you are from West Virginia or Arkansas, but also illegal in every state including West Virginia and allegedly even a misdemeanor in Arkansas though never enforced.
Any sane person knows she really did not marry her own brother, and the chances she faked it with paperwork for some sort of immigration fraud is diminishingly small too. It's absurd political mudslinging. But what was far funnier than Bogative's unfortunate joking, was what came next about how he said "Using Brennan's philosophy, Ohmar is guilty of marrying her brother because someone alleged she was involved in criminal activity."
The reaction to that was absolutely hilarious! It was the internet version of Evergreen State College! Like trying to prove someone is a racist by being a racist yourself.
"People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity."
Is a play off of "People are innocent until proven guilty"
It contrasts the so called "court of public opinion" vs the actually lawful court of the US.
But then you guys fell for it and jumped right in with your court of public opinion rendering Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! proving the thread of truth in an otherwise absurdity that makes a really good joke funny. Without that, was fairly lame. But you guys made it hilarious by falling for it hook line and sinker!
That never happened. People called out the BS present in the "joke". No one fell for it. No one jumped right in declaring Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Indeed, the same people pointing out the ineptitude of the "joke" are the ones saying she is not guilty. Duh!
You and Bogative merely got upset about being called out for being Hypocrites.
I notice instead of calling everyone you consider a nazi a conservative "a RAYcis!" (like most of the locals do), it's now "conspiracy theorist". You show 'em, I'm sure it's mortifying to them!
That never happened. People called out the BS present in the "joke". No one fell for it. No one jumped right in declaring Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Indeed, the same people pointing out the ineptitude of the "joke" are the ones saying she is not guilty. Duh!
You and Bogative merely got upset about being called out for being Hypocrites.
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So just drop it, or ask someone else to explain it to you!.
