The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Overall I very much support gun rights more as part of my puritanical support for absolute right to private property (means of violence should be allowed for someone to protect their private property.)  On pure merits of this amendment as is I am mostly neutral about but I lean against it most based on the fact that I think it can be a part of a slippery slope toward a gun ban.  Of course ever after Obama raised taxes on 450K+ my view of the Obama regime now pretty much channels Mao Tse-Dong Thought "We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports" (Mao 1939)  From that point of view I applaud this amendment's defeat.

Dang it, I was about to post that.

Came to post that. Oh, libertarians...

[Donerail]

Overall I very much support gun rights more as part of my puritanical support for absolute right to private property (means of violence should be allowed for someone to protect their private property.)  On pure merits of this amendment as is I am mostly neutral about but I lean against it most based on the fact that I think it can be a part of a slippery slope toward a gun ban.  Of course ever after Obama raised taxes on 450K+ my view of the Obama regime now pretty much channels Mao Tse-Dong Thought "We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports" (Mao 1939)  From that point of view I applaud this amendment's defeat.

Dang it, I was about to post that.

Came to post that. Oh, libertarians...

It's largely what McConnell already said. The Mao quote at least.

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

...wow.

[Torie]

Some really think the government is out to get you, as part and parcel of a plan to create a 1984 Orwellian world. With those, there can be no meaningful dialogue. It's their own little particular secular religion. The public square can only try to deal with reality, the testable stuff based on empirical data and experience - not hard wired leaps of faith.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nonpartisan redistricting can be enacted after the GOP uses gerrymandering for a century as punishment.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

That gun post made me sick to my stomach. It is unbelievable that people can actually think that way and not be institutionalized because of it.

[Mechaman]

Someone ought to inform that joker that Texas ain't that much of a better place to live than North Korea.

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

Nonpartisan redistricting can be enacted after the GOP uses gerrymandering for a century as punishment.

It's really tempting to start engaging him again, but I know no good can come of it.

[Torie]

Nonpartisan redistricting can be enacted after the GOP uses gerrymandering for a century as punishment.

It's really tempting to start engaging him again, but I know no good can come of it.

Fighting against personal sin is a lifelong endeavor.  Be brave!

[Vosem]

I think the time for me to move to England is rapidly drawing near.

Moving to England over privacy issues.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I think the time for me to move to England is rapidly drawing near.

Moving to England over privacy issues.

It's more of the sentiment, mate.

[Vosem]

I'd certainly rather live in Greece than Arizona..,

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'd certainly rather live in Greece than Arizona..,

To be clear it is Vosem's posting of that post here that I find absurd, ignorant, and bad.  While depending upon what one considers important, one could prefer Arizona to Greece, the converse is certainly true.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm pretty sure that for white upper middle-class people (the main demographic on this forum), Greece is a pretty nice place to live in.

[Insula Dei]

Yeah, the weather is pretty pleasant, the food is nice, and the people by and large are quite pleasant. Greece comes pretty close to an ideal place to live if you've got some money.

Arizona on the other hand might conceivably have served the Tsars as a good substitute for Siberia should their imperial ventures not have stalled on the Wester shorelines of the American mainland.

[TNF]

social security should at least be partially privatized.  that is a very progressive position. 

payroll taxes are regressive.

[traininthedistance]

I support this; the Flaming Lips are awful music.

[RI]

I support this; the Flaming Lips are awful music.

This isn't the place for posts you disagree with...

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I support this; the Flaming Lips are awful music.

This isn't the place for posts you disagree with...

Right, it's a place for absurd posts.

[RogueBeaver]

The audit will take a month, BTW. Shudder to think what the regime will do over that time.

If the opposition wants to protest, they can. But they killed 7 people the other day, that's not pacific. If that happened anywhere in Europe, protest would be restrained as well.

[politicus]

I support this; the Flaming Lips are awful music.

This isn't the place for posts you disagree with...

Right, it's a place for absurd posts.

Its not absurd to say that something generally considered excellent is awful, its just a minority opinion. Even "Shakespeare is awful" is not an absurd statement.

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[Vosem]

I'm pretty sure that for white upper middle-class people (the main demographic on this forum), Greece is a pretty nice place to live in.

But Franzl's post was on a thread about working conditions in Greece, so he seemed to be implying that the Greek economy/working conditions in Greece/and such was more desirable than Arizona's (which is pretty absurd). Obviously preferring Greek weather to Arizona's is fine (stating the reverse might just be eligible for inclusion in this thread ), but that wasn't the context of the post.

[Franzl]

I'm pretty sure that for white upper middle-class people (the main demographic on this forum), Greece is a pretty nice place to live in.

But Franzl's post was on a thread about working conditions in Greece, so he seemed to be implying that the Greek economy/working conditions in Greece/and such was more desirable than Arizona's (which is pretty absurd). Obviously preferring Greek weather to Arizona's is fine (stating the reverse might just be eligible for inclusion in this thread ), but that wasn't the context of the post.

When did I say or imply anything about economics? Merely that I prefer Greece to Arizona and would feel more comfortable there.

[Vosem]

I'm pretty sure that for white upper middle-class people (the main demographic on this forum), Greece is a pretty nice place to live in.

But Franzl's post was on a thread about working conditions in Greece, so he seemed to be implying that the Greek economy/working conditions in Greece/and such was more desirable than Arizona's (which is pretty absurd). Obviously preferring Greek weather to Arizona's is fine (stating the reverse might just be eligible for inclusion in this thread ), but that wasn't the context of the post.

When did I say or imply anything about economics? Merely that I prefer Greece to Arizona and would feel more comfortable there.

Well, that's what the thread was about; any comment in it was in the context of the economic situation in Greece.

You preferring Greece over Arizona still strikes me as a very odd position -- Germans aren't exactly in vogue there, first of all, and second of all you (I think) don't speak Greek but do speak English. But to each his own.