RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Operation Northwoods

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the G-man said:
You're trying to be clever, but not doing a very good job of it.

First off, you abscribe to me an unwillingness to believe anything negative about the U.S. to show how "pig headed" I am.

Now, when that apparently failed, you try to abscribe to me a belief that anything short of "blind obedience" to the government is "un-American."

You're also "yelling" at me that "even if we were on the verge of a dictatorship, IT WASN'T YOUR DECISION TO MAKE. You need to be sick to think that, under any circumstances, it was." However, you're doing so almost immediately after I acknowledged that very point.

Essentially, you're engaging in the old "straw man" tactic, to wit, arguing against points I didn't make, in order to discredit me, in lieu addressing points I did make.

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You might argue that the U.S. had no "right" to decide which form of dictatorship you got and that you should have been able to choose which form of dictatorship you had. And on that you may have a valid point.

However, even on that point, you need to accept that you still would have been under a dictatorship anyway.

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