The Oldiesfreak Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts III

[Lief 🗽]

I suggest we name this one in Bushie's honor, after his most recent antics.

Anyway, does it really matter at this point?  I still lost 2 pounds as a result of the 4 sloppy joes.  I guess if I had starved myself by having just one tiny sandwich, I could have lost 3-4 pounds.  There is absolutely no use or no reason to keep bashing me over the head for a dinner choice when I actually benefited from it.  Unless, of course, you want to attack for the sake of attacking, which is mostly what this is all about.

[Lief 🗽]

Don't you think you're maybe being a tad oversensitive?

Not at all.  Considering how the nativists in the 19th/early 20th century used the term as a slur, I don't think so.  It's like a conservative commentator calling a liberal black journalist by the N-word.

[Lief 🗽]

A little bit of light trolling brings all the latent white supremacy out of the cracks, I love it.

[Lief 🗽]

Yes, of course. It's a disgusting racial slur, it's a name explicitly picked because it was a disgusting racial slur, and it is representative of an ugly period of racism and segregation in American sport.

The worst part is in bold.  

But in fairness to Lief, it was chosen by those evil racist Republicans, wasn't it?

Maybe actually learn about this before you go off sounding like an idiot, okay?

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The Redskins used to be called the Braves. Then their unashamedly racist owner changed their name to the Redskins to appeal to racists. This should be simple enough for even a moron to understand.

[Lief 🗽]

What does that have to do with anything?

[Lief 🗽]

What does that have to do with anything?

It means the idea that he changed the name in order to appeal to racist Southerners is ahistorical nonsense.

The team name is racist, it was changed from a neutral name to a racist one, the man who changed it was racist and proud of it, and he marketed his racist team to racists. There's no way of proving what the guy's exact motives were, but it's pretty obvious.

[Lief 🗽]

These accusations were inane

Learn how to spell, Mr. English Is My First Language.

[Lief 🗽]

Yeah, but you don't get to decide what the connotations of words are. That's not how language works.

[Lief 🗽]

Seriously overrated, like all Melville.

[Lief 🗽]

If I said "f****ts should be able to marry each other" or "ns should be able to vote" then those are still bigoted statements, even though they're advocating legal equality. Ignoring "terminology" as inconsequential is ignoring a significant form of discrimination. It's great that you think that prostitutes should be legally protected, but it's also bad that you're using a slur to describe them at the same time.

[Lief 🗽]

Sexual liberty is not a bad thing - you're right - but prostitution =/= sexual liberty.

Don't presume to judge for others - it is precisely that for some.  The sexism of you prude-leftists is shocking!

Funny how you've been arguing all along that it was no different from any other toil, but suddenly at a drop of a hat it's sexual fulfilment and how dare I (we?) judge!

Um... some people enjoy the job, some do not. Enjoyment of the job is strongly correlated with its legal status, its legal protections, working conditions, social stigma against the job, etc. Similar to any other job.

[Lief 🗽]

Petition to delete all the Update threads and to permaban Bushie if he ever starts another one again.

[Lief 🗽]

mods, please ban^^^

[Lief 🗽]

I'm hardly implying that only men want abortion to be illegal for that reason. Plenty of conservative women do as well.

[Lief 🗽]

There are no concrete meanings or ideas that can be attached to symbols.

[Lief 🗽]

Maybe Jefferson is. But otherwise, no, of course not.

[Lief 🗽]

"Hmmm..." he pondered aloud, as he stared at his computer. "How to best to announce my return to the Atlas forum after a long hiatus?" And then it hit him, like an abusive husband hits his wife. He began furiously hitting away at the keys on his keyboard, like an abusive spouse furiously hits his or her spouse. Triumphantly, he hit down on the left mouse button--in much the same way an abusive spouse hits down on the battered mother or father of her or his children--posting the thread. "This domestic violence joke will really win them over," he smiled, like an abusive spouse smiles after abusing his or her spouse.

I'm Back yet again!

The Atlas is like an abusive husband!

You hate it for beating you but yet you run back to it anyways!

[Lief 🗽]

public transit is of course a ridiculous idea

[Lief 🗽]

Petition to rename this thread after Snowstalker.

Certainly more fascinating (and probably more tragic overall) than the circlejerk Americans are having today.

[Lief 🗽]

The root of black failures (for example) is primary cultural, and for trying to equalize everything doesn't make sense until THEY THEMSELVES do something about it.

[Lief 🗽]

Do we really want more woman posters if they are going to be like this one?

Quite frankly, all Republicans now are either racist or in denial about the state of their party.

I understand a lot of young posters here don't really care about issues and care more about the sport of politics than how policy actually affects lives. I get it. But the team you're rooting for in this sport is batsh**t insane now just so you know.


Well maybe that was a little harsh. I'm sure a lot just don't care about racism instead of actually being racist themselves. It's natural for people with that world view to be self centered after all. All I ever see from Republicans is making excuses and sweeping things under the rug when tragedies like this happen though.

Of course. Becca's just a straight-talker. Sorry if the truth offends you.

[Lief 🗽]

Our society is eventually going to go down one of two paths; the brothel or the burqa. My money's on the burqa.

[Lief 🗽]

[Obama] was in danger of losing. Michael Barone who never missed a state until the last election had Romney at 315. The only poll that matters is Election Day.

[Lief 🗽]

Yeah either word could be correct depending on what opebo meant to say, I'm pretty sure.

[Lief 🗽]

^^Thank you for posting your ignorance directly into the thread.