10-11-2016, 05:45 PM
Quote:Stage 5 of Kotites debate cycle is in full flow. I predict he will find faults with my post instead of answering a simple question.
I was right.
Quote:Stage 5 of Kotites debate cycle is in full flow. I predict he will find faults with my post instead of answering a simple question.
Quote:We don't. The Brits are a mess right now.
Quote:For the love of God.. you are thick. I do not care about whether or not Trump is being truthful. I do not care if he was making a joke.
I do care that there is a blanket excuse that was made which does not accept the possibility the incident was not consensual simply because one person in the incident (it could be any incident) says it was. You cannot absolve a person from the possibility of wrongdoing simply by getting their version of events. Period.
This is not about humor or Trump.
Quote:Only in America...we have our choice of:It truly is sad that one of these two will win.
A: a woman bashing chauvinistic pig
or
B: a lying, war criminal, borderline extortionist, and oh yeah, murderer
WAY TO GO 'MERICA!!
Quote:IT DOESN'T [BAD WORD REMOVED] MATTER IF IT IS TRUE OR NOT! I DON'T CARE.
Answer the question I posed. Honestly. Can we as a society absolve any man over any potential improper touching simply because the man involved claims "she let me" without having been there, seen it, or heard from the woman who allegedly "let" him?
Quote:Wow. Still arguing over a non-issue.
Quote:We don't talk about sexually assaulting women.Question, did you actually listen to the conversation? Not read it but actually listen to it? Did you hear the pauses, the inflection in his voice?
Quote:Question, did you actually listen to the conversation? Not read it but actually listen to it? Did you hear the pauses, the inflection in his voice?
Quote:Don't have time to review the whole thread, so pardon me if this has already been pointed out.
I've heard it said rape and sexual assault aren't about sex, but power. It is the assertion of one's power over someone who is helpless to resist, for reasons of actual or perceived weakness. True sexual predators get off on the power, not the sex act.
I don't know if Donald is a groper, but his statement about "grab them by the _______" because you can get away with it when you are "a star", speaks to what he wants to do with his power.
If we are stupid enough to give this man more power than he already has, he'll be grabbing his perceived enemies by the genitals. He pretty much told Hillary that in the debate with the "you'd be in jail" quip. The trumpettes like this about him, because they think he'll be the authoritarian that will subjugate the Mexicans, Muslims, Iranians, and the GOP establishment. The problem is, when you disagree with him - and you inevitably will - he's going to give you the same treatment, no matter who is wrong or right.
Other men and women do great things with their power. They adopt orphans, they help eradicate diseases, they fight hunger, they try to make the world a better place.
Donald just wants to grab the genitals of whoever he wants on any given day.
He is a petty, incredibly small-minded human being that has made the world a little worse via twitter for the last 5 years. He will not behave like Eisenhower, Lincoln, or T. Roosevelt, he will behave pretty much like Burlosconi, Pinochet, or Marcos (No way he's up there with the Hitlers and Stalins, gives him too much credit).
While I understand anger at the establishment, I don't understand cutting off your nose to spite your face. That's what we would have done if we elected Donald. Now, thanks to his own big mouth, it doesn't look like we will.
What a wonderful October surprise.
Quote:Thats not what was said. What was said is that if you presume that what Trump said to be pure truth then you also have to assume that the "lets me" part is also true. Which would mean it is not "crime"
"You cannot absolve a person from the possibility of wrongdoing simply by getting their version of events."
You cannot judge a person to have commited a crime based on a joke, with no evidence and no input from people that it supposedly happened to.
You keep saying this isn't about Trump when this whole thread is about Trump and the non issue that you are so upset about.
At least be honest with yourself when you are being destroyed in debate. Its not a good look for you.
Quote:No, you just invoked the memory of another infamous linguistic argument.24 pages later and finally a post condemning Trump over this incident I can agree with. +1
In the case under discussion, acceptance, or not, is exactly NOT the point. There are two levels at which Trump can be judged from his recorded statements, neither of which result in him being anything less than a disrespectful, arrogant jerk.
If he wasn't joking, that he has actually walked up to women and grabbed their crotch, he's a disrespectful, arrogant jerk. If it wasn't accepted, it's sexual assault, even if it happens without him getting slapped or reported. He seemed to feel empowered to do it because of his star status. If he's right, does it make him any less of a disrespectful, arrogant jerk? I mean, seriously, what adult does that, even if they will get away with it? Pimps, maybe.
If he was joking, and it was just locker room banter with the guys...oh wait, he wasn't with his buddies, bonding after a tough day on the course, he was with strangers on a bus, yet he felt comfortable enough to talk about using his star status to grope and kiss women. He can't help himself so he keeps a breath freshener handy so as to leave a good impression. He can't sully the memory of what he assumes will be a special moment for the objects of his attention with his bad breath. I suppose in that way he was a little bit less disrespectful.
It's just one more indication Donald Trump is a disrespectful, arrogant jerk. Nothing we didn't know before. It doesn't necessarily disqualify him for the presidency, but it does matter when evaluating his character.
Quote:Thats not what was said. What was said is that if you presume that what Trump said to be pure truth then you also have to assume that the "lets me" part is also true. Which would mean it is not "crime"Every post I have made on this from the time the definition of the word "let" was introduced has been about the false argument that a person cannot be given a blanket excuse that since they said an act was consensual it must be so. From that post pages ago, my argument has never been about Trump, whether he actually did it, whether he was joking or anything else. Go back and see for yourself. I have been saying the same thing a hundred ways. You and others have been coming in and making this an argument about Trump's guilt, intention or innocence and I have been consistently fighting against the notion a person cannot be automatically given a free pass simply because they say a woman let them do something. It does not matter if we are talking about this incident or a person on trial for rape. You cannot simply draw a conclusion about a situation based on one person's account of an event. Trump was the basis of an argument, "he says they let him so it must not have been a big deal." I could care less about him. I care that an argument is made that a guy's account is all that is needed to make a judgment of what was or was not a consensual event without even taking a moment to get any details. A blanket excuse was made ..because Trump.. that defies logic and I rightfully called it out as bull manure. You agreed with the only point I was ever trying to make. So how is that getting destroyed in a debate? I cannot help if you were arguing about something different.
"You cannot absolve a person from the possibility of wrongdoing simply by getting their version of events."
You cannot judge a person to have commited a crime based on a joke, with no evidence and no input from people that it supposedly happened to.
You keep saying this isn't about Trump when this whole thread is about Trump and the non issue that you are so upset about.
At least be honest with yourself when you are being destroyed in debate. Its not a good look for you.
Quote:The "let me" doesn't mean consent. It means they fear the consequences of responding negatively.
If I walk outside and get punched in the face by a random person, but don't fight back or report the crime, it doesn't mean I have consented to being punched in the face, it just means I didn't want to fight in the street or the hassle and attention of reporting the crime.
Quote:Are all Australians as lazy and socially inept as you?
Quote:Every post I have made on this from the time the definition of the word "let" was introduced has been about the false argument that a person cannot be given a blanket excuse that since they said an act was consensual it must be so. From that post pages ago, my argument has never been about Trump, whether he actually did it, whether he was joking or anything else. Go back and see for yourself. I have been saying the same thing a hundred ways. You and others have been coming in and making this an argument about Trump's guilt, intention or innocence and I have been consistently fighting against the notion a person cannot be automatically given a free pass simply because they say a woman let them do something. It does not matter if we are talking about this incident or a person on trial for rape. You cannot simply draw a conclusion about a situation based on one person's account of an event. Trump was the basis of an argument, "he says they let him so it must not have been a big deal." I could care less about him. I care that an argument is made that a guy's account is all that is needed to make a judgment of what was or was not a consensual event without even taking a moment to get any details. A blanket excuse was made ..because Trump.. that defies logic and I rightfully called it out as bull manure. You agreed with the only point I was ever trying to make. So how is that getting destroyed in a debate? I cannot help if you were arguing about something different.
Quote:With your candidates I'd be regretting the whole getting rid of the Brits thing.Well you got me there.
Quote:The "let me" doesn't mean consent. It means they fear the consequences of responding negatively.
If I walk outside and get punched in the face by a random person, but don't fight back or report the crime, it doesn't mean I have consented to being punched in the face, it just means I didn't want to fight in the street or the hassle and attention of reporting the crime.
Quote:Don't have time to review the whole thread, so pardon me if this has already been pointed out.Sadly the other option is no better. Great post!
I've heard it said rape and sexual assault aren't about sex, but power. It is the assertion of one's power over someone who is helpless to resist, for reasons of actual or perceived weakness. True sexual predators get off on the power, not the sex act.
I don't know if Donald is a groper, but his statement about "grab them by the _______" because you can get away with it when you are "a star", speaks to what he wants to do with his power.
If we are stupid enough to give this man more power than he already has, he'll be grabbing his perceived enemies by the genitals. He pretty much told Hillary that in the debate with the "you'd be in jail" quip. The trumpettes like this about him, because they think he'll be the authoritarian that will subjugate the Mexicans, Muslims, Iranians, and the GOP establishment. The problem is, when you disagree with him - and you inevitably will - he's going to give you the same treatment, no matter who is wrong or right.
Other men and women do great things with their power. They adopt orphans, they help eradicate diseases, they fight hunger, they try to make the world a better place.
Donald just wants to grab the genitals of whoever he wants on any given day.
He is a petty, incredibly small-minded human being that has made the world a little worse via twitter for the last 5 years. He will not behave like Eisenhower, Lincoln, or T. Roosevelt, he will behave pretty much like Burlosconi, Pinochet, or Marcos (No way he's up there with the Hitlers and Stalins, gives him too much credit).
While I understand anger at the establishment, I don't understand cutting off your nose to spite your face. That's what we would have done if we elected Donald. Now, thanks to his own big mouth, it doesn't look like we will.
What a wonderful October surprise.