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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
58. I am well aware. But "most" is nowhere near 99.5%. It's a plurality, but not 99.5%.
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 05:25 PM
Aug 2018

Yes, a plurality of LEO are Republicans. Nothing, NOTHING, I have written denies that. So please don't try that rotten debating trick of impugning my knowledge by willful reading in what is not there. It weakens your argument; does not strengthen it.

There are assuredly FBI offices where most agents are Democrats. Your fact is wrong and your binary thinking is wrong.

In 2015, about 40% of Feds were Republican or Republican leaning:
https://e.infogram.com/party_affiliation_of_feds?src=embed
There Are More Democrats in Federal Government Than You Might Think
August 2015.

99.5%? You think that 99.5% of FBI agents are not professional and can't do their jobs professionally? You think the Democratic FBI agents are magically professional when their colleagues are not? You think that Mueller's LE team is somehow automatically professional because many donated some money to Democrats? Is that what it has come to, that you think that everybody is all about Party over country? Except Democrats, maybe, because they are as pure as the driven snow? 99.5%?

Nonsense. Your 99.5% is a symptom of binary thinking. Binary thinking is one name for a large class of closely related fallacious thinking.

What national leader is tarring the FBI with a broad brush too?
What national leader is saying the FBI is politically biased?
What national leader is undermining public confidence in the FBI?
Why are you writing as if (nb: AS IF) you want to make common cause with his Orangeness?
Why even use the same kind of tactic?

Republicons don't do nuance. Be a Democrat who does.

Please do not prejudge FBI and law enforcement officers. We depend on many of them. Not just Mueller's direct team, but thousands of agents and support personnel nationwide.

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Right? ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #3
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you are no doubt 100% correct ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #8
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Totally agree. WinstonSmith4740 Aug 2018 #39
Two other tactics Retrograde Aug 2018 #22
Right, that's how he intimidated other people who weren't cops/the feds ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #30
He only ran for office one time. Cops/feds are 99.5% repugs and the partisan hackishness... brush Aug 2018 #42
Comey's role in all of this goes back to the poisonous Whitewater investigation ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #46
Nonsense. Utter nonsense. Tarring a whole group with a 99.5% brush is prejudice & bigotry. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #48
the RW doesn't say that 99.5% of the FBI are democrats ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #49
"Heavily biased" is very different fr 99.5% AND that's just 1 office. He tarred them NATIONWIDE. nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #53
You need to perhaps recognize the literary device ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #60
Yeah, but he wrote as if he really believes it. Is tRump hyperbolic swinging opinion against FBI? Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #63
you might, for example, read "99.5%" as an alternative way to say "a very large majority" ProfessorPlum Aug 2018 #70
Wake up buddy. Cops and FBI agents are mostly repugs. Why don't you know that? brush Aug 2018 #50
Wake up buddy. Binary thinking is not clear thinking. Why don't you know that? . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #54
You're actually serious. You don't know that most LEOs are repugs. brush Aug 2018 #56
I am well aware. But "most" is nowhere near 99.5%. It's a plurality, but not 99.5%. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #58
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$$$ tavernier Aug 2018 #6
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