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OftenBen  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump - Will it be awful? Will it be successful? What are your predictions?

    We're going to observe a country's worth of good, kind human beings discover, slowly and painfully and against their will, that their ideology is toxic.

Is that the lesson that's going to be learned? I was a fundie, and if there's one thing the fundies do really well, it's shift blame. It's not their fault that their pure, sinless daughter got pregnant, it's those damn liberals giving her the idea that she's allowed to make decisions on her own, this sinful world that made her trip and stumble from the path of the faithful. It's certainly not the fact that nobody ever sat the young woman down and explained to her 'If a boy shoots a load of sperm in you, you can get pregnant.'





kleinbl00  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You presume that the people who voted Trump are fundies. I'm not sure that's true any longer. The pentecostals have been taking a lickin' lately and the kids ain't signing up.

OftenBen  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I presume that those who vote Republican are fundies to one degree or another.

kleinbl00  ·  2878 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think that's a safe assumption.

OftenBen  ·  2877 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kleinbl00  ·  2877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

sigh

You are arguing that fundamentalists are Republican. I am arguing that not all Republicans are fundamentalists.

This is akin to you pointing out that all dogs are mammals when I argue that not all mammals are dogs.

OftenBen  ·  2877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I am arguing that not all Republicans are fundamentalists.

I accept this as a fact. Not ALL Republicans are fundamentalists.

I'm positing that the republican party, those who vote republican, is mostly composed of dogs, while various other species of mammal actually run the show.

kleinbl00  ·  2877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude, argument yesterday:

    You presume that the people who voted Trump are fundies. I'm not sure that's true any longer. The pentecostals have been taking a lickin' lately and the kids ain't signing up.