3. TIL: Judy Garland was put on a diet while filming The Wizard of Oz. That diet, c...

TIL: Judy Garland was put on a diet while filming The Wizard of Oz. That diet, consisted of chicken soup, coffee, and ... 80 cigarettes a day. She was 16 years old.

you're being so incredibly disingenuous it's cracking me up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

In a comment thread where you just said you didn't have to prove anything, are asking me to prove that white supremacists are overwhelmingly Republican,

Yeah, except that I was talking to someone else in this post and not you when I said I didn't have to prove anything. How that makes me "disingenuous" to you is beyond me.

Also, I didn't ask you to prove that white supremacists are overwhelmingly Republican. I asked you to prove that if you're an outspoken racist, you're most likely a Republican. Racists are not just white supremacists; people of all races can be (and are) racist, not just whites.

something which everyone knows especially recently since everyone from /pol/ to Daily Stormer and David Duke have come out in support of Trump.

That still doesn't prove that white supremacists are overwhelmingly Republican. If a bunch of black supremacists came out in support of a black Democrat, does this prove that black supremacists are overwhelming Democrat? No, of course not, because it's entirely possible that those individual black supremacists who voiced their support for a black Democrat candidate don't speak for all other black supremacists. For all we know, the rest of them actually hate the Democrats and want nothing to do with them.

You can stick your fingers in your ears and demand all the proof in the world.

Hey, it's just nice to see people back up their claims with evidence. It makes me more likely to take them seriously.

I'm not even saying Trump is a racist, but you're an outright liar if you claim ignorance that white supremacists support him.

When I have ever pretended that white supremacists don't support him? All I did was tell you to prove a claim you made ("If you're an outspoken racist, you're most likely a Republican"), then point out that the article you linked to doesn't actually prove it true.

By the way, I've noticed that you still haven't showed me the part of the article where it actually proves that if you're an outspoken racist, you're most likely a Republican.

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