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

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I've said a few times now that regardless of what one thinks about the way Mormons tend to get involved in politics--in terms of policy, in terms of strategy, whatever--the fact that they do have a strong tradition of dynamic, on-the-ground political involvement, and in most cases seem sincere and idealistic about it, is itself worthy of admiration. The same is true of black churches.

There is nothing admirable about religion muscling its way into our civic institutions. It's a very problematic thing, especially coming from "sincere and idealistic" people.

Does that include Martin Luther King Jr. [1]?

[1] Yes I realize he did not believe in the divinity of Jesus at least when he wrote his thesis, but nonetheless he mobilized the black church for political action as well as his own moral authority as a minister.

The major difference is that MLK and the civil rights movement, while structurally organized and inspired by the faith of black churches, didn't try to implement the theology of the AME Church or any other denomination into law. Simply characterizing a basic belief in the rights of African-Americans to dignity and equality as part of those church's "theology" is  VASTLY overbroad.

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When a Muslim commits an act of terror, we often ask why the Muslim community isn't standing up to repudiate their actions.

Should white Southerners be asked to apologize and condemn Dylann Roof's acts of racial violence?

Should they be asked to take their racist, hateful flag down from their pubic buildings and unequivocally admit, once and for all, that their ancestors were treasonous traitors on the wrong side of history?

Wrong thread, TNF

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Nader was/is a narcissistic jerk, as many 3rd party candidates are.

What on Earth is wrong with this? Many long-time Nader workers have expressed this view of him.

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my prayers go to him in his battle against cancer.

Obvious HP = obvious, and I'm not too surprised about his illness: something had to fill that massive empty space in his head.

Nasty.

Whomever sang Only the Good Die Young hasn't met David B. Either that or he's 80.

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yeah i don't see how this is remotely funny. good luck antonio

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Mild FF. I'd outright admire him if he didn't essentially make himself president for life. I admire his piety and zealous defense of Christianity while our pathetic leaders in the godless West worry more about not offending minorities than fighting terrorism and promoting the values that made the West great in the first place. For centuries, Russia was the bulwark of Christendom, and under Putin, she is fulfilling her destiny once more.

Had a feeling this might end up here, and frankly, I'm honored.

Thank you for posting directly into the thread.

In honor of Putin's system of governance which you so admire, for daring to dissent you will be viciously curb-stomped in public by several secret police posing as street thugs, and subsequently framed and imprisoned on bogus charges. To help you get through the inevitable gang sodomy encouraged by state prison officials, try thinking of your favorite strongman and pretend he's merely proving what a strong and fearless leader of men he is.

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A reminder why this thread is named for him

Trump should pick Bernie.  Make it an outsiders vs. insiders election.   He'll lose half the Republican party but he could get away with "it's not the policy that matters, it's that we're the only two politicians willing to take on a corrupt, rigged system."  All the Bernie Bros. would come over and he'd win a lot of angry moderates as well.  It would throw the election into total chaos.  Bernie is selfish enough that he might accept.  Anything for "the message", right?

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A cogent reminder of why this thread is titled for him.

It looks like a 3rd world country.  The left extremism is tearing the country apart.

The democratic party could and should be doing far more than it is to put down this kind of behavior.

You have the CANDIDATE. TRUMP HIMSELF!!!!!! Heartily encouraging physical violence against protesters and hecklers, and you want to blame THE DEMOCRATS for not doing enough?!?

Congratulations, you're both far, far beyond hacks or capable of making a salient point during intelligent discourse.

Go home and play with your blocks.

So Trump said a few things like "I wish someone would knock him out" and that's supposed to be morally equivalent to the democratic party's silence as thousands of people riot in the streets and commit countless acts of violence?

I only ever hear of violence from Trump's people as one-offs, someone throwing a punch every couple weeks.  That isn't at all equivalent to these gigantic, violent, destructive, illegal "protests" (they're riots, not protests) on the democratic party's side.  

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Our thread's namesake is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

People insult the KKK all the time but although I too am white I don't feel personally offended or threatened by it.  Neither should hispanics feel personally offended or threatened by rhetoric against illegal immigration.  Both groups are criminal subsets of the population that just happen to be dominated by a particular ethnic group.  If someone went on TV and said the KKK were a bunch of rapists and murderers I would say, yes that's right they are, not go "oh no, he said something mean about some white people, all my white friends and family members are being threatened."  If hispanics insist on taking it to mean them anyway that's their problem, not Trump's.

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Our thread's namesake is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

People insult the KKK all the time but although I too am white I don't feel personally offended or threatened by it.  Neither should hispanics feel personally offended or threatened by rhetoric against illegal immigration.  Both groups are criminal subsets of the population that just happen to be dominated by a particular ethnic group.  If someone went on TV and said the KKK were a bunch of rapists and murderers I would say, yes that's right they are, not go "oh no, he said something mean about some white people, all my white friends and family members are being threatened."  If hispanics insist on taking it to mean them anyway that's their problem, not Trump's.

My God, I'm a regular here, but I clearly have a long way to go to catch up to this...

Strive hard, young paduan.....

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Petition to rename this thread after Seriously?

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Context:

The one who's not a Southerner.

Well, in his defense, the South sucks.

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dear atlas forumers,

my friend krzysztof who you knew as ‘kalwejt’ died earlier today after bad accident. because he told me about this forum and how he liked some of other posters i feel i should inform you

peace
damian

The awfulness of this post goes far beyond what this thread is about.

True, but still glad Muon posted it. What vile trash would post that?

Um, tell me it wasn't Kal.....

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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?

If you've read his posting history, then you'd know the sad, revolting answer.

He's serious. He would--if not himself sell--invest in selling 3rd world grandmothers as sex slaves as long as the bottom line was sufficiently profitable (including avoiding any blowback from even weak foreign laws, clever lad that he is to consider).

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I'd like to remind everyone that this guy also said that deflation, even if it results in a recession or depression, is something he prefers to even a small amount of inflation since there's no guarantee his own salary will always keep up with inflation...so basically millions of people being laid off is a preferable outcome to losing <1% of his purchasing power.

Yep. Jaichind in a nutshell. And the fact he posts in a moderated restrained tone tends to play down the utterly horrid views, or even that he realizes more than a modicum of the impact on anyone outside his bubble.