You know they have gone total idiot when they claim this racist.

who says working in a coal mine is racist

Some guy saw a photo of coal miners having a drink in a pub. In the photo, the miners were covered in soot and he called it racist and said they were in blackface.

The NY Times has said that Mary Poppins is racist for the scene where they are covered in soot.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/01/28/downtown-phoenix-photo-men-soot-blackface/2683881002/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/movies/mary-poppins-returns-blackface.html

Yes, because "some guy" speaks for over half the country.

Aren't conservatives all mad because people keep calling them all racists as a result of the actions of a few?

You think leftists account for over half the country? hahaha

THIS type of leftist, who sees offense in everything? Nowhere close. People who are more liberal than they are conservative overall? Absolutely.

haha! And what do you base that on?

Aside from the fact that Republican presidential candidates haven't won the popular vote since 2004? And that the total number of votes in all races have favored Democrats for the past decade? And that each new generation of voters skews more and more liberal?

Yeah. There are more of us than there are of you.

Hahah remember that little fringe group known as the moderates? Here's a lil reading material for you.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/201152/conservative-liberal-gap-continues-narrow-tuesday.aspx

https://news.gallup.com/poll/180452/liberals-record-trail-conservatives.aspx

Let's have some more current information, shall we?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/225074/conservative-lead-ideology-down-single-digits.aspx

"Almost all of the shift since 2001 toward the liberal label is the result of Democrats increasingly adopting the term."

Those "moderates" that don't identify with liberal or conservative? Yeah, they're slightly more liberal than they are conservative. It's not that they are becoming more liberal, per se - it's that they're becoming more comfortable with the term (or, more likely, uncomfortable with any proximity to the term "conservative" because of how readily conservatives have embraced Trump).

It's not about who has more hard-liners. It's about who has more of the middle. We do, and increasingly so.

My argument stands uncontested. Yes, that's a victory. I'll be watching your posts. If you make a fool of yourself again, I'll be there to point it out :)

I see you're going to continue to ignore the voter registration point and the assertion that the left owns the middle. Can't win if you don't play, sunshine.

I also see that you're not addressing the original point I was making and are instead focusing on an unimportant detail of the post. Even if you're right and I'm wrong about the numbers (you're not, but whatever), the point is that I've pointed out a gaping spot of hypocrisy of conservatives here.

Run along, I'm sure you're late for class.

The saddest part is that you're unaware of how retarded you are. Your "more current information" is based on the same study as mine, which was in 2017, and it says the exact same thing - Liberals (~2 years ago) were at 26%. That is far from "over half the country". You're also forgetting that half the country doesn't even participate in politics. You're friggin clueless

Ah, insults. That didn't take long.

You're not worth my time.

NEXT.

Not super jazzed about polls? How about voter registrations: Among the 31 states (plus D.C.) with party registration, there are nearly 12 million more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Haha! Sweet sweet victory. Never gets old. Run along now

Come back when you learn how to interact with adults. I'm bored with you.

Oh, so you're going to stick around now? :)

Your voter registration point is pointless. If half the country doesn't participate then "over half the country" isn't leftist.

"The left owns the middle" what the hell does that even mean?... Moderates aren't left or right. That's why they call themselves moderates...

"even if you're right about the numbers" You mean the exact same numbers you regurgitated to me claiming it was more current information? hahah

But even if I concede those points, when you combine the non-participants with the conservatives you get more than half the country.

Let's run through the numbers. 2016 estimated 55% voter turnout. Your "more current information" [haha!] says 35% of them are conservative. 35% * 55% = 19%. Add that to the 45% that didn't participate and you get 64% that are either conservative or don't participate. If you combine the moderates and liberals from the 55% that participate you get (34%+26%) * 55% for a whopping 33%.

You're just wrong my friend. You doubled down on it and you lost. I can do this all day bruh

Doubling down on minutiae and ignoring the actual point. How droll.

There isn't a single person in the nation that's exactly 50/50. All moderates lean one direction or the other, and there are significantly more moderate Democrats than there are moderate Republicans. You're also trying to make the claim that people who don't vote don't have political stances. That's ridiculous.

And again, this whole conversation is inconsequential. Answer to the actual point of the post.

Either learn how to lose with dignity or don't make such bold claims. I work with the data that's available. If you have stats on the political views of non-participants let's see it, otherwise you're just talking outta your ass

Also there's a ton of people who identify as social liberal/fiscal conservative. That's pretty much 50/50.

I used to consider myself a liberal when gay marriage and oil wars were more prominent voting issues. Liberals used to care about freedom. Now they want censorship and socialism and 9 month abortions. The farther left the left goes, the more voters they'll lose. It's already happening around the world. Enjoy the show

EXACTLY

And yet when some far left whackadoo says something stupid, it's ok to apply that line of thinking to all liberals? Conservatives on here love to point out hypocrisy. Why aren't the rash of memes like this being called out?

she didn't know the 3 branches of Gov.

as long as you keep the same standards for all members.

Just saying, the far end of either side isn't a representative sample of that entire side. It's why Republicans don't like being called racists and Democrats don't like being called communists. It's a false equivalency on both ends. And if you rail against being called a racist because you're conservative but insist that liberals are all hyper-sensitive whiners, that's more than kind of hypocritical.

"Just saying, the far end of either side isn't a representative sample of that entire side. It's why Republicans don't like being called racists and Democrats don't like being called communists." I agree with that but it seems the left have far more "far leftist " than the right has "far right"

The far end is always the loudest. There are more moderate Dems than there are whackadoos, by a long shot.

Its just blatant propaganda and unfounded hate. who listens hate

To be fair, what Mary Poppins was actually doing was dabbing black makeup in order to hang out with the chimney sweepers.

That's still bad. And if you can understand why an upper class woman faking a relatability with workers by scrubbing dirt over her face is in poor taste, you can understand how black people feel about blackface because it's the same thing but amplified by history.

This is a manufactured crisis by a super liberal college professor with nothing to do.. soot.. really soot is racist.. if you're falling for this you have to be really dumb.. but if you want something to bite your teeth into.. read up about how the Kennedy family didn't want ANY BLACK people at JFK's inauguration.. they didn't want to make him "Look Bad".. it's time to call out JFK for what he really was.. a racist.. and a bigot.. and if you want to take someone's name off of a bunch of monuments, roads and high schools.. there's where you should be looking !

You're one of those people who wants to talk about sixteen things at once so nobody ever gets a chance to discuss any one of them in detail, aren't you?

Right. Well, that's as much of my time as I'm going to invest in this, I think.

So I guess you think it's unrelated right.. well let me close the circle for you.. it's the same Era.. and while one movie is an innocent look at making upper class kids into better people by understanding the plight of "All people".. we had a president who was trying to keep people down because of their RACE. If you want to analyze a real problem in our history as a country I'm giving you one. Choose to ignore it if you choose, but it isn't going away, and we can't "white wash" our history because it's convenient.

I can see your point. I am predominately Italian. You should see how shows like Family guy and the Sopranos portray them.The differences is, one form of stereo typing gets a pass.

Allow me to shake your world by saying that I find Family Guy's portrayals of the Italian stereotype to be just as irritating as anything else and I wish that a) they'd stop doing that, and b) people would stop finding it funny. You'll find no inconsistency with me.

but McFarland gets a pass because he is liberal. Not right. Same thing with the black face. Megyn Kelly talked about it (dunno if she is liberal or not but hates trump) and got fired, But other ppl actually wore it and its ok? Hypocrisy. same thing with Bill Maher saying the N word a few times.

I JUST said MacFarland doesn't get a pass from me. You are intentionally ignoring me so you can project. That's not ok.

I wasn't talking about you, i was talking about the media/hollywood being very hypocritical and one sided . I should have wrote that better , my bad

Especially since Obama shut down the freakin mines

They way our economy is going shut them down. Globalization and more robots shut the mines down. Obama didnt

As someone who gets stuff on their face a lot, I should know!

Sub 2 pewdiepie

Now this I can get behind

It's been quite a week for Democrats ! :)

Ya' know? I have this rather odd feeling that those 'Leftists' you are complaining about weren't talking about Miners

lol stupid leftist call anything racist I am epic troll XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD