The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

[Lambsbread]

Lief wins.

[LastVoter]

establishing sexual compatibility

"Sexual compatibility" as a static construct that people either have or don't have is a myth. Any couple in a healthy relationship where both parties communicate and compromise as needed are able to create sexual compatibility.

The chemistry is either there or not. Suggesting otherwise makes me wonder if one has ever felt any attraction to another person.

lol. Chemistry and attraction do not require having sex to confirm.

I never said that they did. Only that suggesting that any two people are potentially sexually compatible if they'll just work on is so ridiculously naïve that only somebody who has never experienced attraction could suggest it.

Think of England!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ah yes... The day when a total failure was re-elected President because a bunch of upper-middle class fops, handwringers and pansies couldn't hack it that the challenger was supposedly engaged in a 'war on wermerns'.

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People who think that's sulfurous need to go back and retake high school Chemistry.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ah yes... The day when a total failure was re-elected President because a bunch of upper-middle class fops, handwringers and pansies couldn't hack it that the challenger was supposedly engaged in a 'war on wermerns'.

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People who that's sulfurous need to go back and retake high school Chemistry.

Makes sense, since I stopped Chemistry in 10th grade.

[opebo]

An excellent deconstruction of sage:

Snowstalker, every aspect of your personality (particularly your political views, since you choose to define yourself that way, but also other qualities as well) is an affectation designed to project a certain image of yourself to the world. That in itself isn't inherently concerning, since all of us are guilty of that to some extent, but what is a problem is that the image that you choose to project is completely odious.

Everything you say is meant to demonstrate your superiority over other people. It's attracted attention from others in your newest far-right phase, since that's so nakedly hateful, but it's also the common thread running through your xenophobia and your cogendism and your Marxism for Dummies. You try to frame it in terms of caring about other people, because that makes you feel better about it, but it's never been about those people. It's always been about being better than the barbaric foreigners or the evil capitalists or the ignorant proles.

I can understand that when you've always been told growing up that you're gifted or special, it's easy to internalize that and feel like you're better than other people. I've certainly had that problem in the past, and often I have to work at making sure that I perceive other people as being just the same as me and act accordingly. But the key there is that I recognize the problem and try to deal with it; I don't waste my time in self-indulgent flights of fancy and then at the same time wonder why people don't like me. Self-assurance is nice, and you have plenty of that, but it's useless without self-awareness, and that's what you lack.

I don't expect more than a flippant one- or two-sentence response (if that), so really this post isn't for you, but I'm putting it out here anyway. I hope that someday if you do gain some self-awareness you'll be able to look back at it and find something of value.

What is 'sage'?

[Oakvale]

An excellent deconstruction of sage:

Snowstalker, every aspect of your personality (particularly your political views, since you choose to define yourself that way, but also other qualities as well) is an affectation designed to project a certain image of yourself to the world. That in itself isn't inherently concerning, since all of us are guilty of that to some extent, but what is a problem is that the image that you choose to project is completely odious.

Everything you say is meant to demonstrate your superiority over other people. It's attracted attention from others in your newest far-right phase, since that's so nakedly hateful, but it's also the common thread running through your xenophobia and your cogendism and your Marxism for Dummies. You try to frame it in terms of caring about other people, because that makes you feel better about it, but it's never been about those people. It's always been about being better than the barbaric foreigners or the evil capitalists or the ignorant proles.

I can understand that when you've always been told growing up that you're gifted or special, it's easy to internalize that and feel like you're better than other people. I've certainly had that problem in the past, and often I have to work at making sure that I perceive other people as being just the same as me and act accordingly. But the key there is that I recognize the problem and try to deal with it; I don't waste my time in self-indulgent flights of fancy and then at the same time wonder why people don't like me. Self-assurance is nice, and you have plenty of that, but it's useless without self-awareness, and that's what you lack.

I don't expect more than a flippant one- or two-sentence response (if that), so really this post isn't for you, but I'm putting it out here anyway. I hope that someday if you do gain some self-awareness you'll be able to look back at it and find something of value.

What is 'sage'?

It refers to Snowstalker's tendency to take very simple positions on very complicated issues all the while acting with a sense of affected moral superiority and intellectual enlightenment despite the fact that he wildly fluctuates between the far-left, far-right and everything in between on a near-weekly basis. It's about the sheer shallowness and inanity of whatever his flavour of the week political phase is.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What is "The Bell Curve?" Its a name I hear thrown around a lot but never have bothered to look up.

Example:

[Lambsbread]

[RogueBeaver]

This whole thread.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=181980.msg3934483#msg3934483

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

What is "The Bell Curve?" Its a name I hear thrown around a lot but never have bothered to look up.

Example:

You have way too much time on your hand.

[Lambsbread]

You have way too much time on your hand.

Are you calling Joe Republic an amputee?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

You have way too much time on your hand.

Are you calling Joe Republic an amputee?

Yes. The Mormon zombies in Colorado City bit him. Hershel was able to amputate the hand, and Rick fought them off. Carol put up quite a fight as well.

[Paul Kemp]

You've made a total of 78 reports to the moderators, opebo.  In case you ever wondered.

[Sol]

Ah yes... The day when a total failure was re-elected President because a bunch of upper-middle class fops, handwringers and pansies couldn't hack it that the challenger was supposedly engaged in a 'war on wermerns'.

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But, in a very small nutshell, my diagnosis is basically correct. If some people had voted with their brains as opposed to their overactive hearts, the failure would not have been re-elected.

This thread is about one year ago, not nine years ago.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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So basically, in your dystopic version of America, I will get the death penalty for murdering the blackjack dealer who beat up my pregnant hooker girlfriend who was in the middle of giving herself an illegal abortion with a coathanger because the Mexican guy who was supposed to smuggle us some Mifoprostol pills over the border got gunned down by INS.

[Paul Kemp]

It's Link but...

NYC has seen a dramatic transformation over the past few decades from a city that was losing population and riddled with crime to perhaps the lowest crime rates ever and a growing, vibrant population.

See:
http://gothamist.com/2013/11/03/nyc_on_pace_in_2013_for_least_amoun.php

Both Giuliani and Bloomberg have helped transformed the city from the days of the 1980s.

Its clear, however, that De Blasio offers a change of pace from his predecessors. How will his polities change the current trends, and will he continue to keep New Yorkers safe?

So you are torn between your alleged libertarian ideals and your feeling that it is okay to violate the rights of negros.  Quite the pickle.  I don't envy you.

[DC Al Fine]

Yes, you are the only one to acknowledge that. Watch Winter's Bone and then get back to us, Peeperkorn.

I'm not very interested in hipster stuff.

If I wanted to be a good hip I would say I love Mad Men and end of the story.

I said watch Winter's Bone, not watch Silver Linings Playbook. Not all Jennifer Lawrence movies are the same movie.

Or you could actually read a nonfiction book on the subject and develop your views on such a dangerous and ambiguous aspect of American life from there, but to each his own.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'll have to go with the post-hardcore Brand New-esque version of "All Creatures of Our God and King" my church does.

So 'All Creatures of Our God and King' then? Or does it loose something when people use pesky church organs?

[opebo]

You've made a total of 78 reports to the moderators, opebo.  In case you ever wondered.

Its always a zinger when the mods abuse their power.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It sounds like he's making fun of old white conservatives who portray their views as "conventional" or mainstream views despite the fact that they're a shrinking, ideologically extremist portion of the country?

Except "old white conservative who portrays his views as "conventional" or mainstream views despite the fact that they're a shrinking, ideologically extremist portion of the country" is a pretty good description of Richard Cohen.

Richard Cohen is an unrepentant HP and I can't believe he's still working.


He's a racist, a rape apologist, a sexual creep, a Roman Polanski supporter, and all-in-all a terrible journalist.

He seems alright to me and other conservatives. What do you have to say to that?

That you and everyone who thinks like you is also an HP?

Seriously, did you think I'd say "OH WELL IF BARFBAG LIKES HIM HE MUST BE AN OK GUY"

No I thought I'd rub it in that you're not unanimous in your thinking. Not everyone thinks like you.

Oh wow you really showed me. Here I am saying it's bad to be racist and to defend pedophilia, but you've shown me that I need to accept different viewpoints.

[Gustaf]

"RIP!!!!"

[Joe Republic]

He's saying that all of the annoying Republicans from Virginia (You, Christie's stomach, shua) are starting to blend together and you might all be the same guy.

uh, okay Seatown

A D-WA avatar is the perfect person to be talking about other posters with similar avatars blending into one another, of course.

[DC Al Fine]

He's saying that all of the annoying Republicans from Virginia (You, Christie's stomach, shua) are starting to blend together and you might all be the same guy.

uh, okay Seatown

A D-WA NY avatar is the perfect person to be talking about other posters with similar avatars blending into one another, of course.

FTFY?

[King]

He's saying that all of the annoying Republicans from Virginia (You, Christie's stomach, shua) are starting to blend together and you might all be the same guy.

uh, okay Seatown

A D-WA NY avatar is the perfect person to be talking about other posters with similar avatars blending into one another, of course.

FTFY?

R-NS tend to run together for me.

[Sol]

Individual distinctiveness is actually the main reason I have an independent avatar.