03-26-2016, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by rostasi
The original comment was about "mass hysteria" at rallies.
I'm saying that looking at a group of excited people at a rally for
their preferred candidate (Trump, Cruz, Clinton, Sanders...) is not
necessarily "mass hysteria." It just might be their joy for the candidate
that they think is their sensible choice. Like I said, "it's possible, you know?"
This was followed by the even more misanthropic statement that,
well, you know, those "people are just sheep" and so that's why
they're all excited - cause, you know, [put your favorite candidate's name here]
supporters couldn't possibly get excited of their own volition. Heavens!
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Calling my point misanthropic disproves nothing. I don't know what logical fallacy that is, but I'm sure it has a name. You simply can't get more than a certain number of people all in the same room and have them still be a collection of objective free-thinkers. Political rallies are nothing more than mobs with a specifically chosen ringleader.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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