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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 19, 2019 22:20:38 GMT -5
Question, do civil lawsuits go to the supreme court eventually if they are appealed? The U.S. supreme court only deals with federal or constitutional issues. Cannot speak for Canada but probably the same. Civil lawsuits are private disputes between two parties and have nothing to do with federal or constitutional issues. I just wanted to be sure that these lawsuits couldn't end up being decided by your conservative majority supreme court.
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Post by TheHaitian on Mar 20, 2019 0:48:32 GMT -5
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 20, 2019 7:33:17 GMT -5
Are you guys going to spam the thread with follower counts every hour? Like on election night? You're a country of 320 million people, and the lawsuit has been front-page national news for 3 days. The fact that 300K angry people (< 0.094% of your population, even assuming all followers are American) have clicked a "follow" button on Twitter is hardly noteworthy. If/when this parody account makes it up to 6.5M+ followers (indicating 2%+ of the American public), start spamming us then.
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Post by oped on Mar 20, 2019 7:37:57 GMT -5
The cow almost has as many followers as nunes himself. He has about 390k, And nunes is now at least 3-4 down the search list of his own name.
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 7:49:23 GMT -5
Are you guys going to spam the thread with follower counts every hour? Like on election night? You're a country of 320 million people, and the lawsuit has been front-page national news for 3 days. The fact that 300K angry people (< 0.094% of your population, even assuming all followers are American) have clicked a "follow" button on Twitter is hardly noteworthy. If/when this parody account makes it up to 6.5M+ followers (indicating 2%+ of the American public), start spamming us then.
You seem a little touchy about the subject All the late night shows talked about this last night. I can't wait to see what today's count is.
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 7:51:59 GMT -5
The cow almost has as many followers as nunes himself. He has about 390k, And nunes is now at least 3-4 down the search list of his own name. Don't do that! Virgil likes to ignore the real point! He's gonna write a book now explaining why that doesn't matter!!!
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Post by oped on Mar 20, 2019 7:54:52 GMT -5
Let him. I won’t see it
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 20, 2019 8:02:18 GMT -5
Let him. I won’t see it [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/smile.gif" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile"] I tend to skip over most of Virgil's screeds lately.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 20, 2019 8:27:29 GMT -5
You seem a little touchy about the subject This thread is an open celebration of some of the worst in humanity. Malice. Online bullying. Schadenfreude. Mockery of authority. I'd be lying if I said it didn't disturb me at least a little. I'll leave you to it. It doesn't appear as though anyone's interested in discussing the suit anyway.
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 8:34:53 GMT -5
You seem a little touchy about the subject This thread is an open celebration of some of the worst in humanity. Malice. Online bullying. Schadenfreude. Mockery of authority. I'd be lying if I said it didn't disturb me at least a little. I'll leave you to it. It doesn't appear as though anyone's interested in discussing the suit anyway. I know, you prefer your mockery to be deniable like wearing MAGA hats to Native American demonstrations. Open mockery that people own up to doing is not something Conservatives own up to.
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Post by swamp on Mar 20, 2019 8:38:29 GMT -5
Let him. I won’t see it [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/smile.gif" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png" class="smile"] I tend to skip over most of Virgil's screeds lately.
Lately. The general thought when I see a screen of text is TL/DR. This is a message board, not a PhD level seminar.
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Post by swamp on Mar 20, 2019 8:40:34 GMT -5
You seem a little touchy about the subject This thread is an open celebration of some of the worst in humanity. Malice. Online bullying. Schadenfreude. Mockery of authority. I'd be lying if I said it didn't disturb me at least a little. I'll leave you to it. It doesn't appear as though anyone's interested in discussing the suit anyway. What are we supposed to do when a buffoon like Nunez does something stupid?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 20, 2019 8:59:25 GMT -5
This thread is an open celebration of some of the worst in humanity. Malice. Online bullying. Schadenfreude. Mockery of authority. I'd be lying if I said it didn't disturb me at least a little. I'll leave you to it. It doesn't appear as though anyone's interested in discussing the suit anyway. What are we supposed to do when a buffoon like Nunez does something stupid? Discuss it without malice, schadenfreude, and glorifying online bullying. Even if you want to go beyond criticism of the lawsuit, beyond personal criticism of Rep. Nunes for filing the lawsuit, to general criticism of Rep. Nunes, you can do so without cheering on mobs bullying the man on social media. Look at the AOC thread. There's no love lost between her and the American right, but 90% of that thread was criticism of her policies, and nobody went so far as to cheer on trolls harassing her on social media (assuming there are any).
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 20, 2019 9:05:23 GMT -5
Let him. I won’t see it [img src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/smile.gif" alt=" " class="smile" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png"]
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 20, 2019 9:12:55 GMT -5
This thread is an open celebration of some of the worst in humanity. Malice. Online bullying. Schadenfreude. Mockery of authority. I'd be lying if I said it didn't disturb me at least a little. I'll leave you to it. It doesn't appear as though anyone's interested in discussing the suit anyway. I know, you prefer your mockery to be deniable like wearing MAGA hats to Native American demonstrations. Open mockery that people own up to doing is not something Conservatives own up to. You and I disagree on whether MAGA hats are inherently racist. But suppose I agreed with you. In this thread you've made it clear that mocking and bullying the people you resent is something to glory in. Why would any rational person pay any heed whatsoever to your concerns about racist MAGA hats? If Mr. Sandmann is a racist as you contend, and he were to follow your example, he and thousands of others would be finding Native Americans online, creating parody accounts, and harassing them en masse while racist forums counted followers and competed to find the most hyperbolic language to describe how hard they're laughing.
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 9:21:00 GMT -5
No I haven't. I'll say like you, show me where I said that. But it is also not something Public Figures get to sue for. Now you're getting into the censorship discussion you are trying to have on your thread.
1. There is more than one way to express racism. 2. That happens.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 20, 2019 9:42:52 GMT -5
No I haven't. I'll say like you, show me where I said that. "I can't wait to see what today's count is. " Because you're torn up about the campaign? I'm sure it does. It's called 'cyberbullying', and the least any of us can do is avoid endorsing it in other circumstances so that we can condemn it sans hypocrisy. Again, I'm not saying Rep. Nunes shouldn't be criticized. There's plenty of room for discussion around the suit itself and Nunes' fitness to file a complaint.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 20, 2019 10:14:33 GMT -5
371K followers just now!
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 10:23:16 GMT -5
Virgil if you keep taking my comments out of context and misrepresenting them I am going to stop talking to you. That was a response to you saying don't talk to you about numbers until it reaches 6 million or so. The humour is that next to nobody was reading the sites until he decided to sue them.
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 10:26:36 GMT -5
And Virgil here is one of the sneaky ways you express your biases. You pretty much always come out in defense of the Conservative. I have yet to see you do this for a Liberal.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 20, 2019 10:51:02 GMT -5
Virgil if you keep taking my comments out of context and misrepresenting them I am going to stop talking to you. That was a response to you saying don't talk to you about numbers until it reaches 6 million or so. The humour is that next to nobody was reading the sites until he decided to sue them. If that's what you meant, then I apologize for mischaracterizing your view. It seemed to me as though you'd adopted the same attitude as oped, eagerly waiting to see how popular this "shitposting" (pardon the expression, but it's the most accurate term) of Rep. Nunes would become, hoping for big numbers. And Virgil here is one of the sneaky ways you express your biases. You pretty much always come out in defense of the Conservative. I have yet to see you do this for a Liberal. I've never seen this kind of behaviour from conservatives. I'm trying to remember all the times YMAM has egged on social media mob behaviour. Excluding one member who does it routinely, the only instances that come to mind are: Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, Dave Ramsey, Todd Akin, and Josh Duggar. All of those have been YMAM cheering on social media mob campaigns organized by the left, attacking personalities on the right. If I'm missing any, let me know. ETA: I spoke too soon. At one point in 2016 there was a (doctored) viral video of Hillary Clinton being hit by a golf ball circulating, and a few YMAMers were laughing at that. It wasn't an organized social media campaign like the one we're seeing here, but it's in the same vein. I condemned it at the time. ETA (x2): I spoke too soon again. After reviewing that thread, there actually wasn't anyone on YMAM laughing at it or sharing it. The discussion was about people sharing it elsewhere on the Internet.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 20, 2019 12:02:46 GMT -5
Come on everyone. Be Best.
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Post by oped on Mar 20, 2019 12:12:31 GMT -5
And the cow passes Nunes!
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Post by swamp on Mar 20, 2019 12:19:40 GMT -5
Come on everyone. Be Best. I don't care. Do you?
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 20, 2019 12:21:14 GMT -5
Come on everyone. Be Best. We know who wears the pants in the trump household.
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Post by laterbloomer on Mar 20, 2019 12:26:32 GMT -5
Virgil if you keep taking my comments out of context and misrepresenting them I am going to stop talking to you. That was a response to you saying don't talk to you about numbers until it reaches 6 million or so. The humour is that next to nobody was reading the sites until he decided to sue them. If that's what you meant, then I apologize for mischaracterizing your view. It seemed to me as though you'd adopted the same attitude as oped, eagerly waiting to see how popular this "shitposting" (pardon the expression, but it's the most accurate term) of Rep. Nunes would become, hoping for big numbers. That happens with you A LOT! You need to put all your analytical skills into making sure you are getting the point the poster is making.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 20, 2019 12:29:13 GMT -5
Come on everyone. Be Best. I don't care. Do you?
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Mar 20, 2019 12:37:44 GMT -5
I tend to skip over most of Virgil's screeds lately.
Lately. The general thought when I see a screen of text is TL/DR. This is a message board, not a PhD level seminar. Hey, this isn't even hs debate101 levels. Stop mocking phd's😡.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Mar 20, 2019 12:39:05 GMT -5
And the cow passes Nunes! Thus contributing to global morning😡
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Mar 20, 2019 12:39:47 GMT -5
Come on everyone. Be Best. I don't care. Do you? Witty!
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