I refer you to this post.
Consider yourself clamped, unless you think retweeting a blatantly anti-semitic Twitter account called @White GenocideTM isn’t, you know, anti-semitic.
Which it would appear you don’t.
You’re boring the shit out of the forum. Let’s remember that you make racist jokes about Asians when you think it’s a bit of craic but you’re pretty fucking serious about taking fellas up on shit the minute it’s Trump related.
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Boring the shit out of you: aim achieved. Your concentration threshold isn’t very high.
Now get back to fixing that vending machine. Letterkenny IT students will want their Mars Bars in the morning. 
this freak 
I’m sure the Trumpster will be straight on the blower 
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Good man @Sidney. Just feel it’s worth reminding you of your own racism every now and then when you’re up on your anti anti semitic high moral ground crusade. Carry on.
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Just reminding you of this:
Not sure what bearing that has. Are you suggesting Laois people are a different race?
A different race to who? Why are you assuming that all Laois people are the same race?
That’s pretty racist.
I don’t what?
We were discussing supporters here, let’s park Trump for a second. You came out with this gem the other day on another poster.
You made a claim about “many” of Trump’s supporters being anti semites, an easy way to vilify a grouping of millions of voters. This was your “evidence”;
A one off example
I pointed out to you that this made up just 4% of Trump voters, pre supposing they were all Trump voters. It also pre supposes that all of those tweets were made by individuals, and not a smaller number of people repeating the same thing over and over.
You then claimed that Palestine had nothing to do with the tweets and that what actually constituted anti antisemitism couldn’t be questioned in the study, when in fact the tweets did mention Palestine. All this because it has been shown that Republican voters and by extension Trump voters are pro Israel. All here.
As I mentioned, Trump carried most normal Republic voters and it has been shown consistently by hard data that pro Israel. That was the only data we had about “many” of Trump supporters and attitudes to Judaism.
When your bluster had got you nowhere and your data/evidence to support your claim was proven to be rubbish, you came out with this;
A quite astonishing thing to say from someone who will whine about Trump acting on feelings, talks about fake news and claims to abhor anti intellectualism.
The reason for your hypocrisy? Because you want to vilify people as you have very little depth to your understanding of issues. It is your default when debating after you have googled your way to oblivion in trying to find some news article to support your political viewpoint. From whatever newsfeeds you follow, you see the latest bit of Trump bashing and that’s what you run with. Someone makes a claim about some of Trump’s team being anti semites? For Sidney this now shows that “many” Trump voters are antisemites.
You are the type of person who scours the top of the news, but never digs in. Someone in the Guardian tells you to by the latest from Piketty, so you do so. You might not even read the book, but it’s on your bookshelf to show people and you can look up someone else’s review of it when you want to debate online. If you had the personality for the airwaves or the tv, you could be a talking head on Newstalk or RTÉ and bluster your way into being perceived as being an expert on US Affairs by some moronic producer, but you would fail if you ever had to do some actual journalism.
This is why Trump gets away with misrepresenting things and telling some lies. Because people have seen through the bullshit peddled for year and just see someone now who isn’t skilled at lying, but comes off as more genuine a person than the suits and so called intelligentsia who have distorted facts and figures for years.
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But we’ve already established many of Trump’s supporters are anti-semites. You tried to brush over that.
And now you’re tying to brush over his anti-semitism.
Do you think that twice retweeting a blatantly anti-semitic account called @White GenocideTM is something that would strongly indicate that person has racist or anti-semitic tendencies?
Your answer will tell a lot about you.
70 bomb threats.
Many incidents of racist graffiti.
Widespread anti-semitic abuse of Jewish journalists.
White supremacism being downgraded away from being a terrorist threat by the man himself.
Can you refer me to a previous US presidential candidate, or a previous prominent US politician, where this sort of thing has happened as a result of their candidacy?
1 - Again, you don’t measure whether something is anti-semitic based on “data”, as you’ve continually tried to claim.
You don’t measure whether a swastika daubed on a wall is anti-semitic based on data.
You don’t measure whether retweet for a white supremacist account is anti-semitic based on “data”.
2 - I’m not the one who has a problem understanding issues, or whose knowledge is superficial. That’s clearly you. And it is hilarious to see you claim such when you clearly have such little knowledge.
What you do, as @anon7035031 does in a more blatant and obvious way, is to try and deflect, distort, muddy the waters with text and going down rabbit holes, to avoid answering questions.
You’ve done it again here.
When I gave you a list of questions to answer about what Trump was doing and whether you supported it, you refused to answer.
Now that is something which undoubtedly displays superficial knowledge on your part.
Like @anon7035031, you picked a side, went all in, and are now having serious problems defending your position, because you know full well it’s indefensible.
This piece shows recognition of an issue
Two retweets is your concrete evidence that a man with Jewish-converted daughter is anti-Semitic? If the fucking man on the moon paid Trump a compliment he’d retweet it. You going on about this like it’s the Zapruder tape is ludicrous.
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It’s fairly pathetic at this stage.
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Oooh. Bluster.
I follow the news and I read, mate.
You should try it, especially if you want to comment on a thread like this and be taken in any way seriously - you’ve already admitted you don’t follow the news and that you hadn’t even heard of Trump’s bogus terrorist attack claim.
Instead you say you “follow the markets” and “read the business pages” - “important stuff”. That should give give you a “non-superficial” analysis, not.
I’ll just repeat that for effect and to let it sink in - you weren’t even aware of the biggest worldwide story of last week.
And you have the neck to call other people’s understanding “superficial”. 
Now you’re into full blown @anon7035031 meltdown mode.
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I’m enjoying the fact that you are posting on this thread. You come across as someone who knows what he’s talking about; someone to take seriously.
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Being taken seriously is something that is very important on the Internet.
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