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I love how seriously non-smokers take the issue of smoking. It just makes it that much more obvious that they've never smoked. It's like a virgin devoting his life to the cause of abstinence and expecting to be taken seriously.

Yeah, I mean, I don't really care if someone never wants to smoke (or drink, or whatever), but I don't understand why you wouldn't even want to try it. You've only got one life, and there'll be plenty of time to be a prude when you're older, guys.

just the opposite, I plan to do my most serious drug using when I am nearing death.

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An old post from a poster who has moved on to bigger and better things in life

is this known, or just a kind cliche?

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An old post from a poster who has moved on to bigger and better things in life

is this known, or just a kind cliche?

Well clearly Colin Wixted has found better things to do with his life than post on this forum.  

which assumes anyone who leaves voluntarily does so because they are doing better things; which begs the question, what is the fundamental defect of those who continue to post?

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Beet's posts in this thread are f'ing fantastic: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=156803.msg3373766#new

Beet is really shining strong in that thread. Of course, it goes right over Politico's head.

and it begs the question, why does Beet feel the necessity to jostle with an obviously inferior interlocutor. 

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I didn't look it up, but are these in reality the Republican respondents' sample from their Florida poll? Because they seem awfully similar to what the makeup of the Republican Party is - 85% white, less than 1 in 10 under the age of 30, 53% male, etc.

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though nothing's sexier than a very attractive heterosexual female man-hater.

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chill out bro.

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Glad I'm not the only one that loves super corrupt and "unlikeable" Democrats. They're some of my favorite politicians!

I love them.  Though that wasn't the only reason that was a good post - to me it was the most muscular kind of feminism - when a woman can embrace being a powerful villain. 

I just learned that my 'step-grandfather' was on trial for criminal conspiracy re: the Garment Workers union in the early 80s.

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Margaret Thatcher was not a monster. Monsters are made and created by people to create a crude caricature of their own fears, angers and vices and that was true of Margaret Thatcher. You can disagree with her and you can disagree with the direction in which she took this country but for many she was a person on to which they could direct their own anger. People had a very tough time in the 1980’s because of what her government did, people suffered, people lost and had to pick themselves up my own family included, but many people had a tough existence because they didn’t strive to better themselves when opportunities arose. I came from a family and a town of miners and steelworkers. But come the end of the 20th Century the mining stopped and the steel working stopped and for some their whole world ended. I fully understand it. It must have felt the same for my family and my town at end of the 19th Century when the cotton mills stopped because that was all they knew or for my family at the end of the 18th Century when they were thrown out of their farmland. But you pick yourselves up and you move on and adjust to the new economy because it will always change; that is the capitalist system. And workers have always responded to those demands; they’ve been smart enough to do that. My family did that and had that same spirit, yet some of my neighbours did not. You cannot blame that one woman thirty years later if you still have not adjusted and re-skilled to meet the demands of the economy and missed the opportunities because you pine for a past that really wasn’t as idealistic and as community spirited as you feel it was. That is my address to those who are of a certain age but it’s not really appropriate on this board.

For those on this board who are not of that age, then you don’t really have the right to ‘claim’ her, either as a great woman or as a monster. It wasn’t your life or your existence.

what meaningless, middling tripe.  why comment on anything at all.

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I'm glad I bug you enough for you to trail me around here and make one-offs.

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I've counted four or five more or less non sequiturs in the past four days.

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We should seriously ban teenagers from posting here.

Good things I'm officially not a teenager anymore since last month.

of course Al and Kemp posted tens of thousands of times as teenagers.