The Seriously? Theatre of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts V

[RFayette]

Is Cassius like a parody of conservatism or something?

I've never seen someone call themselves a corporatist, ever.

[RFayette]

There's no point in even having polls, since they're never right anymore.

In every country in the world except the United States, if the election results contradict the polls, that's considered evidence the election was rigged.

[RFayette]

lol dudeabides

John Bolton as Secretary of State, Kim Davis as Attorney General, etc....

John Bolton is a lot smarter than Ted Cruz, he would never agree to work for such a windbag.

If a Harvard grad and Princeton debate champ, as well as President of the Hispanic Law Review is a windbag who is far dumber than Mr. Bolton, what does that make you?

I'm for eliminating affirmative action preferences in college. Equal rights means equal rights. You can probably figure out why I'm bringing that up.

[RFayette]

Never. Just because a bunch of racist limousine liberal families in a wealthy CT suburb suffered a tragedy doesn't mean that the rest of the country should lose their right to self defense.

Half of the country would put that in the Good Post Gallery.   Divisive issue.

Same with a pretty huge chunk of posts here.  The secular progressives here on Atlas thankfully do not represent the viewpoints of the majority of Americans.  If they did, that would be genuinely terrible.

[RFayette]

Is IndyTexas drunk?

I hope so.  That's some nasty anti-Semitism there.

[RFayette]

Ah. When I was a youngster, I was super-liberal without really knowing anything about anything. Oh, how things have changed...

Same.  My progression over the years has basically been more and more conservative, with a bit of a blip a year ago or so.  At this rate, I'll be a full-fledged theocrat in a couple years.

[RFayette]

What about the young people who vote Republican? Is there such an animal? Is the Republican party attracting the youth vote at all? I'm so curious about how Bernie attracted them. It wasn't about the Dem party, it was about what his message was all about. The Republican party doesn't appear to do anything to attract the young vote, or the female vote for that matter.

I have said this before ....
In our world, our nation and our communities, we are ALL becoming slowly and more and more "liberal" as time continues to tick. Because information is easily available online and on our phones, we learn more easily about different cultures and people, and thus become "more accepting."
And the earlier in life we are exposed to this (as children), the more of a chance that you will follow an ideology that is more liberal as an adult (and then the more of a chance that you pass-on and educate your own children, with this same ideology and acceptance.)
This trend will not change.

I hate to say it, but the Republican Party is not a party of "accepting" different cultures and people. The GOP is stuck in the 1950's or 1960's. Members of this party continue to use vocabulary and statements, time and again, which refuses to embrace anyone who is not white, Christian and heterosexual.

Most young people today, don't "get this." They see and become friends with someone different from them, and don't have a problem. It's older generations that are stuck in time, and refuse to change. Luckily all of us old bastards, die off ..... and we leave the next generation to govern and make laws that allow ALL PEOPLE their right to live and be accepted in society, equally.

God, here we go again.

Good Post Gallery is that way ----->

Yeah, so that explains why there are fewer religious minorities in the Middle East now than there were 50-100 years ago, right?

Not to mention the fact that fundamentalism of all kinds is on the rise (outside the West, of course).   The idea that the end result for the world will be "All Liberal, All the Time" is laughable. 

[RFayette]

It's a very Whiggish idea of history, isn't it?

Ironic considering what happened to them.

History is cyclical.  We tend to see things right know as J-shaped growth in terms of progress and social change due to rapid technological changes, but not everything goes in one direction.

[RFayette]

The funny thing about Harry's quote is that his line of reasoning can end up near social Darwinism without too many extra steps of thought.

gender studies ,religious studies , and many degrees which are useless

Literally a computer (my comment is more about religious studies than the first one listed; love those classes).

Gender studies are great too (normal, not a sexist).

Maybe, but computer science and statistics classes are far more interesting than either.

[RFayette]

California is just wannabe New York, but at least it's got its priorities straight

Decent jokes don't belong here.

East Coast supremacism is a vile, hateful ideology that deserves to be fully condemned.

[RFayette]

Are you agreeing with me or deluging that post?

Whoops, I am agreeing with you.  I didn't realize the implications of the empty-quote on this thread.

Silicon Valley is one of the best places on Earth, no doubt.  And San Francisco, LA, and San Diego are a trio of awesome-ness.  NYC doesn't even hold a candle to it.

[RFayette]

Words fail me.

Note the context in which he's posting this.

Words fail me as to what an HP Jaichind is. One gets the impression he loves money so much he'd open an overseas teen brothel if it was highly profitable and he wouldn't get sued or lose social status over it.

Not kidding.

Thank you for your feedback.  I guess I have several response to this

1) Yes, I would absolutely be willing to invest in the adult entertainment industry if I thought the ROI was better than other industries.  In fact several years ago I looked into a fund which explicitly invested in brothel in Australia.  I did not put any time looking into it further on the basic reasoning that the demand for brothel services must be long term trend decline  the hook up cultural we live in while the liberalization of third world economies would increase supply.  That fund did not go anywhere folded anyway.  In fact I think I read a few economic papers after that which pretty much said the same thing.  The relative drop in the relative compensation of an escort from a hundred years ago is actually quite dramatic.  A friend of my at work did have a chance two decades ago to get into internet porn distribution industry but choose not to and has kicked himself ever since as he missed out on a bundle of money.  Now that was an investment worth getting into a couple of decades ago and perhaps even now.
 
2) The best I would do is to invest in such an enterprise as a passive investor and not try to run it.  While I am fairly successful as a middle/upper management type I would actually be a pretty horrible entrepreneur as I am pretty poor at thinking outside the box.  So even if I would try to make money out of this industry I would not "open" any brothel or related entities but invest in or loan money said  enterprise.

I have to assume this is a self-parody........right?