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[–] CaptainKickass 12 points 4 weeks ago (26 children)

That's bullshit, you Russian troll

[–] return2ozma -4 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

It's from CNN. Is CNN Russian now?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (15 children)

Okay, so this is an example of why I think you're some sort of fake leftist. You've said this exact thing to me earlier and I didn't really dwell on it all that much -- but it is very bizarre for a supposedly far-left person to hold up CNN as a trusted source. Almost everyone on the left in the US regards CNN as corporate garbage.

The time before, you actually were arguing with me when I was criticizing a CNN article I think, something like you don't know how much more liberal it can get than CNN and you don't see why I would question it, which I interpreted as one of those accidental big slip-ups where the mask comes off a little bit. Maybe I am wrong in that, of course. Surely there are people on the left who for whatever reason trust CNN. But I think the ones of them that are also rabidly anti-establishment-Democrat are probably a lot more rare than you realize. It struck me as much more a statement that would come from someone outside the left, who was accidentally using their own viewpoint on CNN (that it's "liberal") and not the fake leftist view they were supposed to be using.

But yes, CNN criticizing Biden on immigration means more or less nothing. I actually talked a little more at length -- I think with you -- about the ACLU's criticism of him, which although I would take a lot more seriously I also don't agree with, and I explained some of the reasons why. But, predictably, you ignored it and just went back to repeating over and over again that Biden is bad on immigration.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Man, I really do commend the effort you put into this. I'm so far into cynicism land that I don't think I can find my way back.

I just can't help feel like you're wasting your breath trying to reason with ozma (as is evidenced by his hilarious reply to the same comment I'm replying to)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Well I mean what else is he supposed to say 😃. Honestly he played it off pretty well; I think trying to argue the point definitely wouldn't have been a smart thing to try to do.

(The one from this thread was just a little off kilter, honestly. The thing from before where he was surprised that I, a left person, would ever have anything bad to say about CNN, since after all it is liberal -- that was super weird. I was just reminded of it when he did a lesser version of it here.)

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