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Old 09-21-2011, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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It's the title of the YouTube video... Go yell at the one who uploaded it...
The person that uploaded it didn't title this thread. YOU did that. YOU decided to misrepresent what was in the video.

I guess an inability to accept responsibility for ones actions is part of the conspiracy nut package. All of them seem to have that character flaw.
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Old 09-21-2011, 03:40 PM
 
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The person that uploaded it didn't title this thread. YOU did that. YOU decided to misrepresent what was in the video.

I guess an inability to accept responsibility for ones actions is part of the conspiracy nut package. All of them seem to have that character flaw.
The title of the video is the title of the thread... and?...
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Old 09-21-2011, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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When you start calling YouTube video a "CT"... That's called spinning...
What are you talking about?

You claimed that I was "spinning" things in this thread. Quote me doing it, and explain what was "spun" and how.

Sheesh... I feel like I'm running a debate class for five year olds...
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Old 09-21-2011, 03:47 PM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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The title of the video is the title of the thread... and?...
...and YOU gave the thread its title, not the publisher of the YouTube content.

Since that's like the 3rd time I've had to explain that to you, and you still don't seem to be getting such a basic concept, let me give you an analogy (look it up if you don't know what the word means).

Say I started a thread with the title "All <insert ethnic term of choice here> people must die!," and in the body of the OP, I posted a link to a page with that title. How would that thread be received? Would people hold me responsible for the content of that thread title? You betcha. Would the moderators? Without a doubt. In other words, I would be held accountable for the action I took - namely, titling the thread how I did. The title or content of the page I linked to would be totally irrelevant.

Now do you get it, or should I break out the alphabet blocks?
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Old 09-21-2011, 03:55 PM
 
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...and YOU gave the thread its title, not the publisher of the YouTube content.

Since that's like the 3rd time I've had to explain that to you, and you still don't seem to be getting such a basic concept, let me give you an analogy (look it up if you don't know what the word means).

Say I started a thread with the title "All <insert ethnic term of choice here> people must die!," and in the body of the OP, I posted a link to a page with that title. How would that thread be received? Would people hold me responsible for the content of that thread title? You betcha. Would the moderators? Without a doubt. In other words, I would be held accountable for the action I took - namely, titling the thread how I did. The title or content of the page I linked to would be totally irrelevant.

Now do you get it, or should I break out the alphabet blocks?
Nah... that would be childish...

Why aren't you whining at the author of the YouTube video?...
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Old 09-21-2011, 03:55 PM
 
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Seems almost everyone who posts to your OP in your opinion is a troll, when is a light bulb going to go off in that progressive college educated head of yours that people think your riot is more like the Micky Mouse Club gathering for teenagers...

As others have said, Watts was a riot:

Maybe when you grow up you'll understand what a riot really is...
Subjective measurement, but any violent protest is considered a riot.

Did the demonstration reach the level of violence?
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Old 09-21-2011, 04:21 PM
 
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Subjective measurement, but any violent protest is considered a riot.

Did the demonstration reach the level of violence?
You didn't see the horrific bloody violence in the YouTube video?

The college kiddies being violently clubbed into pulps by the nasty bloodthirsty Police? The plumes of smoke from the torched buildings, looters running wild in the streets? Listening to the scream of the ambulance sirens as they shuttled the beaten bodies to the surrounding hospitals?

If Wall Street is considered a violent protest I wonder what Watts was?

An armed insurrection?
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Old 09-21-2011, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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Nah... that would be childish...

Why aren't you whining at the author of the YouTube video?...
If s/he were posting here, I would be. S/he isn't, and s/he didn't start this thread and give it a blatantly misleading title - YOU did that.
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Old 09-21-2011, 04:24 PM
 
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If he (or she) were posting here, I would be. He (or she) isn't, and he (or she) didn't start this thread and give it a blatantly misleading title - YOU did that.
Like I said... The title of the YouTube video is the title of the thread... If you don't like it... Get off the thread...
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Old 09-21-2011, 04:32 PM
 
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Is it any wonder the college kiddies think the way they do?

Whatever something is labeled they take it at face value.

Independent thought amongst many college kiddies is a foreign concept....
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