It appears the left does indeed believe that poor folks choose to be poor.
"They voted for this"
"don't realize it"
#15 | Posted by eberly

I hope you warmed up before that stretch.

Jesus ------- Christ....YOU are the fanatic, Zed.
Not them.
YOU.

#19 | Posted by eberly

Hardly.

When their actions are born out of spite and in the end hurt everyone, including their own, well being, it's perfectly rational to care about who and what they voted for.

You're just trying to play some nonsensical gotcha game as if we don't know where this is all going and what eventual outcome will be.

Poor people in rural Texas? ---- them...they deserve what they get.

If you can't see the difference between voting for someone who's going to make society better vs someone who's going to rip it apart for their own profit, well, then I can't help you.

It's not true. You're making a lame point that I'm not sure you've fully thought through, especially regarding the known quantity this administration was going to be when they pulled the lever and committed to slowly killing themselves in third world fashion.

That you're taking personal.

Pointing out a poor comparison being made as a weak gotcha argument isn't taking it personally.

It's just a bad argument.

At some point, you stop caring when people are self-destructive, especially when that self-destructive behavior starts to harm you and loved ones.

I think even more so when it's based on something as foolish as voting for a conman for POTUS and his authoritarian friends who are doing exactly what some people said they were going to do. Refusing to take them seriously only after they're finding out their poor choices and objecting isn't a lack of empathy.

Do you even realize that's exactly what I said originally and you attempted to refute by calling it stretch?

You were trying to frame it in some partisan angle to then jump up and down and point while yelling "see! you don't care about the poor!"

When it's not "the poor" that's even at issue here.

just a few posts ago you argued with "choosing to be poor"....then you manage to post that.

First of all, that's your trope, not mine. I don't think the vast majority of people "choose to be poor." So *here* take back your straw, please.

Second, it has nothing to do with poor or not poor. That's more of your own straw to take back.

Third, the instances I've seen first hand with regards to giving up on someone involved substance abuse/mental health issues and the user making it clear they weren't interested in help or were taking help and using it in unintended ways. Empathy holds out far longer (if not forever) in situations rising from genuine health issues. Voting for Donald Trump despite everything they were going to do does not warrant that level of understanding and compassion because, again, it's nothing to do with being poor and everything to do with being an uninformed, gullible voter who makes stupid choices out of spite or ignorance.

let's be honest....that's the only self-destructive act you care about.

#30 | Posted by eberly

In a complete and utter stranger? Yup. They can do what they will and their family/loved ones can intervene if it's necessary.

You're an idiot if you look at people cutting off their nose to spite their face by voting Trump and feeling anything but revulsion and disdain given the global impacts it is having.

What other destructive habit would have that far reached consequences?

it's 100% about who they voted for.
Their plight (healthcare in this instance) is irrelevant to you.
#34 | Posted by eberly

Are you really struggling with this this much?

Of course, it's 100% who they voted for when they're reaping the "rewards" of their gullible stupidity or ignorance.

It's got nothing to do with poor or not poor

This was your claim, remember?

But you place "voting for Trump" ahead of those choices. got it.

For reach of consequences? Absolutely. You're an idiot if you argue otherwise.

Do you have kids? please tell me this isn't how you've attempted to guide them in their lives.

You're this obtuse but want to act like you've got a leg to stand on here?

You're teaching them voting for a republican is the "most destructive habit with far reaching consequences" above those other choices they could make?

Still getting a very simple concept wrong. You day drinking?

Jesus....you're a bigger fanatic that Zed. I merely placed you as the side kick holding his beer while he yells at the refs. ----, you're worse.

#35 | Posted by eberly

No, you're just obtuse, stupid, both or trolling.

I'm saying it plain and clear.

And what you're saying is wrong, distorted or just absurd, which is why you've moved the goal posts multiple times.

OMG. We can stop right there. You've jumped into a sphere of absolute absurdity that even Zed is scared of you.

When a schizophrenic off his meds holds up his family along with his junky girlfriend at Thanksgiving dinner for drug money, that sucks.

But it has no where near a global reach like the wrecking ball elected into office by dips*&^ Americans.

Since I know you're not this stupid and are clearly trolling, I'm not responding to your idiotic nonsense again.