Are there any conservative posters left around these parts who meet ALL of the following criteria?
1. You believe Trump lost the election, as in it wasn't stolen from him.
2. You believe the vaccine works and isn't killing people in large numbers.
3. You think the people who entered Congress last January weren't Patriots (not New England Patriots).
LOGICAL FALLACY: Sweeping Generalization
An argument is constructed in which a simplistic general rule is assumed to be more widely true, therefore an exception is ignored. Its form: Some X are Y. Therefore all X are Y. Example: Some cats are orange. Therefore all cats are orange. This fallacy combines two mistakes: Ignoring evidence. Insisting on a simple rule (the sweeping generalization) when the situation calls for a more complex understanding.
https://firmitas.org/logic-generalization.php
LOGICAL FALLACY: Hasty Generalization
When The Evidence Doesn't Support the Conclusion. A hasty generalization is a fallacy in which a conclusion that is reached is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence. It's also called an insufficient sample, a converse accident, a faulty generalization, a biased generalization, jumping to a conclusion, secundum quid, and a neglect of qualifications.
https://www.thoughtco.com/hasty-generalization-fallacy-1690919
Direct Headline: Maher:
Let's Not Confuse 5,000 People With 74 Million; You Can Hate Trump, But Not All His Supporters
"Let's not confuse 5,000 people with 74 million," Maher said to his audience. "Yes, even supporting the insurrection in spirit is, well, deplorable. But there's a difference between holding illiberal beliefs and acting violently on them...."
By Ian Schwartz January 16, 2021
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/01/16/maher_lets_not_confuse_5000_people_with_74_million_you_can_hate_trump_but_not_all_his_supporters.html
Time Magazine: "Shadow Campaign" Influenced 2020 Election Against Trump (2/9 1:54 PST)
https://forums.footballguys.com/topic/792804-time-magazine-shadow-campaign-influenced-2020-election-against-trump-29-154-pst/
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Your post is a smear all on all Conservatives and/or Republicans on this site. The best way to respond to logical fallacy bombing is to just point out the logical fallacies being used. As I always say -
Your free speech is yours. I won't deny that to you. But the price tag slapped on it is mine. And it's going to cost you.
Sometimes I see other Conservatives rationalizing the amount of harm inflicted on J6 ( I wished personally no one did that, and point to note, my viewpoint on J6 and all the rioting/looting in 2020 is the most draconian on this entire forum, i.e. stripping citizenship and mass deportation) but I don't see anyone calling it an act of "patriotism" I also don't see anyone here saying the vaccines are some kind of Mengele like universal death sentence. Many Conservatives here are Pro Vaccine and Pro Mask but Anti-Mandate, but that seems to get ignored when it's time to try to hose down every last Republican on site.
I will say there is a fair argument to be made that BOTH SIDES of the aisle tried to cook the 2020 election. I have no doubt in my mind that Trump did what he could to cheat, lie and steal to get reelected. But I also have no doubt that major elements of the Democrat Party and their supporters in Big Social Media, Big Tech, Hollywood, Big Education, Big Finance and the activist complicit MSM also cooked their end of things too.
One can point out that many things were clearly wrong about the 2020 general cycle without saying Trump was completely right in all his claims. But that's another logically fallacy at work ( false dilemma) when there are those here who want to deny that.
Some of the woke cancel culture radical leftists want to push the belief that since you can't criticize everything, then you shouldn't be able to criticize anything about the 2020 election and it's integrity. It's just a cheap dirty way to attempt to silence people. I'm less offended that some zealots want silence and more offended at the lack of skill and effort to do it. If you want to silence people and smear all Republicans, then at least put in the effort to do it right and effectively.
If you want to smear all Conservatives by just fabricating the ugliest things you can repeat from some zealots on social media, I won't stop you. My views on the principles of free speech are far different than yours. But just like football, if you choose to do it, you will have to grind for every push forward. I will make you run through quicksand for every dirty inch of it. I will carpet bomb you with high value posting and simply raise the level of discussion until you've been crushed to a thin pile of pulp. I've done it before, people here have seen me do it all year long.
The actions of a few don't indict all. I don't hold your viewpoints, ugly as they are, against the traditional liberals here. I urge all my Conservative and Republican brothers here to embrace the traditional liberals on this site. The common enemy are low information zealots, no matter what side of the aisle they reside.
Posts like yours are begging for confrontation. Keep up your sweeping generalizations and I'll see that you get it.
