(08-13-2018, 08:57 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-13-2018, 08:19 AM)jj82284 Wrote: And the explicit derogatory connotation of a masochistic act (a man with BAD INTENTIONS). 

But hey it's all in fun.  When the media says Trump does something LIKE Hitler they don't really mean that he's racist because that's a simile not a metaphor and Mike redefined the word similie with a non-existent inherent benevolence that he can use any time he wants to defend one of his lefty buddies.  

And he would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for me and the little dog that DIDN'T eat my English homework.

How far you stretch a simile, how many other things the two have in common, is in the eye of the beholder.

Similes are not "inherently benevolent" and I never said that.

Here's the thing.  I'm going to criticize lazy thinking whenever I see it.  The right wing victim complex is mostly based on lazy thinking.  There is also a left wing victim complex, and it is also based on lazy thinking, but those guys don't seem to post here.  My dad dives into a left wing victim complex whenever we talk politics.  "Oh the media lets right wing guys get away with X and Democrats never get away with X!". Tiresome.  Lazy.