talking points that piss you off

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Thinking of ones that haven't already been mentioned:

-Basically any defense of the Electoral College, especially the idea that it forces candidates to campaign across the country instead of just the most populated states, when it just disenfranchises tons of people like the conservative parts of California and all the blacks in the Deep South, and just means that only a handful of large swing states matter. It does the opposite.
-People who act like it's unfair that a candidate can win a state election or the popular vote with just a few urban counties with the vast majority of the state's geography voting against them. The funny thing is that the reasoning is usually that it's not fair for some area and demographic to be able to dominate the rest of the state on a numerical advantage and candidates should need to have a broader appeal, but such urban counties are much more diverse and have a broad range of interest groups than a ton of tiny rural counties.
-Any scared suburbanite who acts like US cities are similar to Sarejevo in the early 90s and any random person is likely to get shot.
-This isn't really used by anyone besides libertarian-ish trolls/quasi-trolls, but the idea that it's hypocritical to support "state intervention" in things like health care and yet also oppose things like the War on Drugs or PATRIOT Act, sort of based on the idea that your political philosophy must be that all government intervention is good if you support it in some areas.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This was actually an interesting thread despite some weird tangents including some by trolls.

Here's an addition I can't believe wasn't mentioned: Anything about "Reagan Democrats". Words can not describe how much of a stupid f**king term this is. And perhaps the only thing more idiotic than it is some of the areas that it's used to describe. Anyone who says this basically should be considered of having no credibility whatsoever, period.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This was actually an interesting thread despite some weird tangents including some by trolls.

Here's an addition I can't believe wasn't mentioned: Anything about "Reagan Democrats". Words can not describe how much of a stupid f**king term this is. And perhaps the only thing more idiotic than it is some of the areas that it's used to describe. Anyone who says this basically should be considered of having no credibility whatsoever, period.

Unless you mean Reagan supporters who are now Democrats, but yeah, that's not what they mean.

It has an obvious historical context in Democrats that voted for Reagan. The problems are:

1-Reagan is dead.
2-Reagan hasn't been in an election for 28 years (meaning the youngest one can be and still have voted for him is 46.)
3-Reagan hasn't been in office for 24 years, and has no relevance to contemporary American politics.

Calling someone a "Reagan Democrat" is about as logical as calling someone a Mugwump or Bourbon Democrat today, it's meaningless. The fact that it's used to refer to certain groups that Reagan didn't even do all that well with just underscores the stupidity even further.