The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[minionofmidas]

That is a sad tale, but where is it absurd or ignorant or a bad post?

[minionofmidas]

The whole thing is pretty ridiculous, but the bolded part stands out the most:

I can only concur.

I always said Rick was more electable than Romney for precisely this reason. Mitt's just so easy to attack.

Ditto, except I've always said that Romney was the easiest GOP opponent for Obama to beat.  That's why the MSM made him the candidate.  (Santorum, because he's so socially conservative and sort of an economic-liberal, would have been the second-easiest for Obama to beat, which is why the MSM left him to last.)

This is hardly absurd, are you trying to tell me Santorum is some kind of social-democrat?

Sort of. He'd be easy to imagine on the technocratic old right of any western European major center left party if he'd just shut the inks up about gays.

[minionofmidas]

Looks like a sock account, just from the third sentence.

[minionofmidas]

Why are they called "sock accounts"?

I think it's on account of the idea of using a sock as a simple handpuppet.

[minionofmidas]

Context:

And...I was under the impression that anarchism fell under revolutionary socialism

What's wrong this this?

Check what's it in answer to...

[minionofmidas]

Conservatives have always been in favor of racial equality.

Racism isn't something unique to conservatives.

Indeed it's not. Or rather, any definition of the Left that excluded all the people with any hateful rightwing trait would be a very small select band uncapable of winning any elections...

Nothing to do with the absurdity of the above post though.

[minionofmidas]

Most foreigners love seeing America struggle, so naturally they love Obama and want the next four years to be like the past four years.

I'm going to start interacting with him as if he were the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Are there a lot of trolls on this forum?

Yes, and Politico is one of our most notorious ones. The 2012 board is pretty much open season for even good posters to be trolls, though. Welcome to the forum!

Be prepared to say goodbye to RhodieIII, Nathan.

God damn it. My sock perception skills are clearly not great.

That one stank from a mile away. (But I didn't bother thinking about who it might be.)

[minionofmidas]

Given that I'm a gayer and stridently anti-clerical I think the Nazi's would have repulsed me.

The statement might be true because of the first bit but the bold part is rather absurd considering how many Nazis that also applied to (including Hitler).

That is a vile lie closely related to the similar ones American protonazis peddle about Hitler and Guns and especially Hitler and Abortion. He wasn't a hyper-pious Catholic Fascist a la Franco but more a standard-issue tribal/subnational identity Catholic, and on the edges of his party (especially in the early SS) some strange ideas about reviving Nordic religion played a role, but that's about it. And despite some dissent (and more whoppingly, despite the Nazis' being actually headed by a Catholic), the relationship between Evangelical Lutheranism in Germany and Nazism is best described by the word "osmosis".

[minionofmidas]

Space Exploration: Scrap all further space exploration.

This isn't quite the only position on that particular issue that wouldn't qualify for inclusion, but it's close.

[minionofmidas]

Feel free to post the greatest hits here!

Editting the title only really works if you do it to the first post, Phil.

[minionofmidas]

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.

There was such a tradition for the Goldmines. This is why they were eventually superceded by the Institute, which is eternal and will never close.

[minionofmidas]

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.

There was such a tradition for the Goldmines. This is why they were eventually superceded by the Institute, which is eternal and will never close.

Oh, well apparently I missed that discussion.

Oh, I don't recall any such discussion either. I am just stating the apparent facts to a n00b who probably can't remember the Goldmines. The Institute has I think (I may be mistaken) been around longer now than any of the Goldmines ever lasted despite the occasional fistfights in its Hallowed Halls.

[minionofmidas]

I don't think the original goldmines were ever locked when they were exhausted... someone just started a new one. This was in the days before nannymoderators.

[minionofmidas]

I think that was an attempt at understated comedy.

[minionofmidas]

Steadily decreasing unemployment? Hell yeah, I want that.

Now can someone please delete this?

I am trying to spur discussion about the next debate. Why are you afraid? Why do you think this is a place of partisan censorship?

BTW, it would take 17 years of 114,000 jobs per month to create 23 million jobs. If millions had not stopped looking for work, unemployment would be 11% today. 50% of
college graduates this year have been unable to find work! Do you want to be one of them at some point in the not-so-distant future?

Dude, have you ever wondered, WHY we need to create 23 million more jobs anyway? What event and who's policies made it so we those 23 million jobs aren't still here?

The why is complicated yet also simple: Subprime mortgages and the unity of investment/commercial banking.

It is simple to blame Bush like a simpleton. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

Exactly, these problems go back at least to the waning years of the Clinton Adm. If you expected over 12 years of mess to get cleaned up in 3 1/2 than there's something wrong here.

Reagan. Though the Clinton years are very much part of the problem.

Not that Obama has been ready to tackle the problem... it would hurt bankers's bonusses.

This, like many problems in America, goes back as far as Carter. Subprime mortgages would have never existed if not for Carter's meddling.

I strongly believe Carter is a man of morality who cares about America, and honestly wanted what was best for America. However, I am absolutely 100% convinced that at least one or two people in Carter's inner-circle were Soviet spies, or at least lone wolf Soviet sympathizers, who somehow managed to slip through the cracks, and remain undetected even after all these years. For example, its probably not a coincidence that John Lennon went into retirement right after Carter was inaugurated, and came out of retirement right after Reagan's rise. I know the sad implications of this statement.

I don't even

[minionofmidas]

"Subprime mortgages would have never existed if not for Carter's meddling." What the....

Actually that's not even the most absurd thing in that post...

What earned it its place here was the Lennon angle. Although the way it builds up to that is... a work of art, really.

[minionofmidas]

OK it doesn't top the previous entry, but still needs to be mentioned:

Good to see Heller will break the vicious gerrymander

...in reference to a Senate race.

Pretty sure he was making fun of krazen.

Belongs in the sulphur mine.

[minionofmidas]

Surely there are politicians you agree with less, considering you and Romney share that whole foreign policy hawk thing

Oh definitely.  My hatred for Romney is at a personal level.  I think he is human scum, the crystallized scum that lines the toilet bowl.

Perhaps, but unlike what I think about Paul Ryan, I don't want to punch Mitt Romney in the face.

Me neither. Neither of them, too.

Would feel like I'd never get the grease off my palm.

[minionofmidas]

I do not need to do this. I am voting for one of His followers and chosen representatives on Earth over the follower of a false prophet and false church and his atheist-worshipping running mate.

Trying way too hard.

Surely there are politicians you agree with less, considering you and Romney share that whole foreign policy hawk thing

Oh definitely.  My hatred for Romney is at a personal level.  I think he is human scum, the crystallized scum that lines the toilet bowl.

Perhaps, but unlike what I think about Paul Ryan, I don't want to punch Mitt Romney in the face.

Me neither. Neither of them, too.

Would feel like I'd never get the grease off my palm.

If you're worried about your palm, you'd be doing it wrong, anyway.

It would ooze through between the knuckles. Yuck.

[minionofmidas]

Now, let's hope that Paul Ryan's career will follow the same trajectory as that of John Edwards. 

The poor woman that will have to sleep with him.

[minionofmidas]

I thought those places were outside real America and could go hang?

Then again, Oklahoma is no more part of Real America than is Alaska, I guess.

[minionofmidas]

Or if you are a member of any other but a Christian faith.

Or if you are aware that Mormons, whether you consider them Christians or not, certainly worship Jesus as Christ.

Or if you are just not of the opinion that Christians ought to go out of their way to be annoying in order to "proselytize", especially not (or just: at least not) among minorities with a long historical memories of persecution by Christians.

Or if you're aware that Mitt Romney won't notice this ridiculous attempt at converting him.


Or... I don't think there are any non-absurd people left by this point, so I won't seek to prolong the list any further.

[minionofmidas]

Or if you are a member of any other but a Christian faith. Nah, most religious people dont consider each others belive systems absurd.

Or if you are aware that Mormons, whether you consider them Christians or not, certainly worship Jesus as Christ. That is beside the point. The issue is whether he is a good Christian, not if he is a Christian

Or if you are just not of the opinion that Christians ought to go out of their way to be annoying in order to "proselytize", especially not (or just: at least not) among minorities with a long historical memories of persecution by Christians.
The statement said nothing about a conversion, just finding God, which could happen within the framework of the Mormon faith. But anyway this is based on your opinion, not logic, hence not absurd ].

Or if you're aware that Mitt Romney won't notice this ridiculous attempt at converting him.
You can pray for other people without them hearing it, thats actually the normal way to pray. Again this is only absurd if you dont believe in God.

Okay, I'll add another one: Or if you're not aware of the context and are therefore misunderstanding what Red is trying to convey here.

[minionofmidas]

It's the plain common truth.

[minionofmidas]

Native Americans have been made dependent on government as the result of liberal Democrat welfare state policies.

(Materiel as in the other two sentences of the post above is also getting quoted into this thread all the time, but does not really belong here. This sentence does.)