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16. Using fact against bullshit alway elicits that response.

Thu May 17, 2012, 07:37 PM

May 2012

I call it "The White Flag" response, because they know they cannot reply in any valid way.

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The futility of tryinhg to discuss anything at all with a right-winger... [View all] markpkessinger May 2012 OP

Ask him to review the facts first before putting idiotic graphics on Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #2

Post this back. sinkingfeeling May 2012 #3

Thanks, I'll do that! n/t markpkessinger May 2012 #7

Republicans don't get the difference Mariana May 2012 #4

LOL! K&R savalez May 2012 #5

Thomas Paine said it best: hifiguy May 2012 #8

This is how I would have responded ErikJ May 2012 #10

They have their reality, and the rest of us have ours. DearAbby May 2012 #11

Aarrrgghhh! 2labslib May 2012 #12

3 wars? treestar May 2012 #13

And they seem to have forgotten 2labslib May 2012 #14

Many people take arguing about something as a battle for dominance killbotfactory May 2012 #15

Using fact against bullshit alway elicits that response. Ikonoklast May 2012 #16

Exactly! . . . markpkessinger May 2012 #17