NP - Reductio ad absurdum on FB

[David Morris]

Aren't you also a Truther? Conspiracy becomes your life's breath, right?
Nope. Not for me.

On Tuesday, November 15, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thing is? She fucking won.
>
> Popular vote, electoral vote, she won them all.
>
> The PROBLEM is that the paperless voting machines didn't reflect that fact.
>
> Evidence of a stolen election
> http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/
>
> Yet more evidence of a stolen election
> http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/can-we-count-
> election-results-exit-poll-discrepancies-and-voter-suppression-are
>
> And yet even more evidence of a stolen election
> https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/
>
> That last one is particularly good if you dig into the materials about
> 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014 (all stolen) as well as 2008 and
> 2012 (attempted steals).
>
> Exit polling raw data is the gold standard for determining if an
> election is rigged. By that standard, every federal election, both
> presidential and mid-term, has been rigged.
>
> J.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:46 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > A FB sage (& P-lister) recently reasoned that Hillary's loss proved that
> she
> > was the "wrong candidate" for this election, presumably as a lesson to be
> > learned for the future.  I challenged that we had the "wrong electorate,"
> > willing to vote for a clearly visible moral monster over a qualified and
> > rational human being.  His counter was that her loss was proof of his
> > thesis: She lost, therefore she was the wrong candidate.
> >
> > Beneath his logic was a belief that Trump voters first need to be
> > understood, and not destained.  Understanding is always useful, but it
> > doesn't follow that such understanding will become mutual. Nor should it
> > imply that opposition to those assholes should become less vehement.
> > Understanding a rapist doesn't make him sympathetic.
> >
> > Hillary's loss doesn't make her the wrong candidate. It only means she
> lost.
> > By absurd logic she only became the wrong candidate at the moment of her
> > loss.  Before that we all knew she was winning.  And this absurd logic is
> > accepted as the premise for too much post-loss analysis.  Trumps voters
> are
> > a mix of deplorables, nihilists, racists, opportunists, religionists,
> and a
> > list of other "wrong" electorate qualities.  Our country is less noble
> than
> > many of us thought.
> >
> > Lesson learned?
> > David Morris
> >
> >
>
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