The best post in forum history?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Discuss and nominate. My personal choice is by Napoleon in a thread that Einzige made about prostitution--that thread is lost to the ages, but I saved the thread:

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[Lief 🗽]

Probably one of poor, innocent old opebo's many gems.

[King]

Probably one of poor, innocent old opebo's many gems.

Opebo's first post in the first Update thread about the electric company ended up carrying as much weight and truth as any post in history.

[free my dawg]

Naso's 9/11 post.

[Mr. Morden]

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[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I'm afraid that Obama's election in 2008 was entirely about voters in the middle (virtually all of whom are white of course) choosing to vote for him despite their preference for a white, because of an overwhelming reason - the Republicans had just destroyed the economy.

Now, in 2012, there is no overwhelming reason to vote for a black (of course, the Republicans will destroy the economy again, eventually, but this is impossible for most swing voters to understand). Without the overwhelming reason of a crisis or a white opponent who is clearly antipathetic to them, there is no way that these white working class voters will preference a black.

As Politico has said, all Romney needed to do was appear 'not a monster', and he is right, though he doesn't give the right reason.  The reason is racism.  White working class swing voters flirted with voting Obama when Romney was seen as the epitome of the class which is destroying them, but now that they saw him, a white man in a suit, lying well and in a soothing tone, next to a black - well, its all over with them.

The key is - seeing a black next to a white.  It is that simple I'm afraid:

[Lambsbread]

Anything Mechaman has ever drunk posted.

[memphis]

I hope no one other than Einzige has missed the point of this thread - jmfcst wanted to brag.  And now he has, and we have listened.

Good for you, jmfcst, for the high income.  Kudos, enjoy it.. or at any rate what ever passes for 'enjoy' in your case.  You are very right to value your social position and its material reward, and to remind others of their inferior position.  This is good old fashioned simian behavior, and nothing the rest of us have any basis to question. 

I present my submission to you in (symbolic) kind:

 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Naso's 9/11 post.

That's actually the best thread in Forum History........hands down.

[free my dawg]

Not the best, but here's the funniest:

But.......but you're 19 :/

[Keystone Phil]

Naso's 9/11 post.

That's actually the best thread in Forum History........hands down.

I was cracking up in public re-reading this one this morning.

[WalterMitty]

the vanderblubb bushie parody.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

This thread:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=195876.0

[Lambsbread]

This thread:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=195876.0

...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There is simply no way it can be any other one than one of these two:

No, no, no.  If you are a poor, and you have a job at the Electric Company, you stay there, and say 'yes sir' and 'no sir, and just batten down the hatches and wait.  It will all be over soon enough.  No need to rush it by getting conned up the a**s by some Kiwi b******s and ending up living under a bridge.

Seriously, I know poors who work at the Power Company (true they're from the previous unionized generations so they made $70,000/year, but still), and they survived.  Every one of them - and they will get to die in hospitals with medical treatments.  Yes, Public Utilities are not government jobs, but they're the next best thing.

ok, Inks, I won't curse you out.  just don't do that anymore.  because you want the numbers to look a certain way.  we all do.  but hey, it doesn't work out like that.  let me tell you a story, Inks.  back in the summer I hung out with this group.  we called it, The Group.  we hung out from mid-afternoon everyday to past midnight.  but then this girl came in.  well, she was there anyway, but she ed sh**t up hardcore.  and one of my friends was in love with her, but it was painfully obviously he'd never get with her.  then another of my friends fell in love with her around August 10th.  and she actually liked him.  but there was a problem.  my two friends that were in love with the same girl, they had been best friends forever.  literally.  so the friend that.  oh who cares.  the point is, it ed sh**t up.  and now The Group is no longer.  and I've tried to wink towards my past, but winking towards it doesn't work.  I've become obsessed with it.  and I want The Group back, but it's no longer.  I want the numbers to look a certain way.  but they don't.  sorry Inks.  it happens.  so don't mess with my entries and I won't mess with yours.  it's better that way.

[Lief 🗽]

the vanderblubb bushie parody.

Yes! The one with the grapes! That was legendary.

[Vosem]

Does a full, original account of the "De-mod Gustaf" thread ( https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=114348.25 ) still exist somewhere? It would have to be something from that. Or Vander Blubb's timeline about Obama eating Joe Lieberman.

EDIT: I miss Vander Blubb. https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=105572.0

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mods will have access to it.