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Old 09-12-2007, 02:14 AM
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Default Re: Convincing a neocon

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This has worked on my inlaws. I have not been confrontational with them at all; rather, I agree with them on everything (in terms of goals), and then show them how government incompetence is not magically any better at achieving one subset of those goals than it is at achieving the others.

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You forgot to mention the secret weapon: the eyepatch. Nobody argues with pirates.
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