The Klartext Landfill for Absurd, Ignorant, and Deplorable Posts VI

[Mr. Smith]

Very similar to me.  I actually dislike Trump as a person and all things equal prefer Clinton policies overall when compared to Trump but will vote for him for being anti-PC.  Also I want to vote for White consolidation.

Is he a West Virginian?

LOL, like clockwork, you never fail to show up when WV is mentioned...

You never fail to bring WV up out of nowhere, you're less amusing than IndyRep's NH thing.

[Mr. Smith]

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, Sanchez, but why on earth should it be for-profit?

It provides a motive for people to go in and give it their best. As long as their goal is making a comfortable living while still offering quality care, it can work. People who love what they do tend to do it a lot better as well as living a lot better, regardless of profession. If the motive is purely profit, than the quality of care will of course suffer. Which is why a strong regulatory framework should and hopefully would be in place.

For-profits have a way of stiffing whatever service they are supposed to give in favor of cutting expenses wherever, even when there is regulatory oversight.

This is simply not a good risk to take with people's lives on the line and precisely why healthcare is as effed up as it is.

[Mr. Smith]

awww safe spaces even extend to online now

Do you get upset when people say Happy Holidays?

No?

Just checking. A lot of people who go on about "safe spaces" are the same who need a safe space when someone says "happy holidays"

I just say "all holidays matter"

Right-wing PC is worse than left-wing PC in many, if not most, cases.

Anyways, happy generic non-denominational winter solstice holiday (TM Cathcon-I think).

There's no "right-wing PC" - there's only PC implemented from the Left and it gets people killed like yesterday in Berlin.

This one's low hanging fruit, but still needed.

[Mr. Smith]

Not mean-spirited, bigoted, or ignorant by any measure. But definitely absurd and disturbing.

what this really is is a lesson to never elect a Republican, no matter how moderate they may seem.

Normally this would go straight to the BPG, but seeing as I am a Cooper supporter, can't really do that for a post from this specific thread without looking hypocritical. If you care about not seeing your posts in the BPG, consider yourself lucky.

[Mr. Smith]

And people still think god exists?

Given the context, this does not belong here.

No, it totally does.

[Mr. Smith]

This technocratic obsession with "competence" and "qualification" as the being most crucial criterion in choosing political leadership, as if politics is nothing but a managerial job - as opposed to, you know, a question of choosing between values, ideas and models of society. This is one of the most insidious ideological tools for the promotion of neoliberalism.

Not a bad post.

Indeed, this belongs in the GPG.

[Mr. Smith]

God, please enough with the dynasty politics. Enough Clintons. Enough Bushs. Enough Kennedys.

I still seethe every time I think about how the parties tried to set us up for another Bush/Clinton race.

Can you say Run Ivanka Run!

Actually now that I think about it Ivanka would be a good fit for New York. She's fiscally moderate while being more liberal on social issues.

Irony thread seems better.

[Mr. Smith]

Supporting Rubio in the primary was expected. Already followed and loved him in 2012. And since I supported Romney in 2012, supporting Rubio in the Republican primary was a logical step anyway. However, I could never have foreseen that I would support Hillary Clinton, and if 2016 DavidB would have told libertarian 2012 DavidB that future DavidB would be #WithHer, that would certainly have been a big WTF moment. Did I become a liberal, or did the Republicans nominate David Duke?

-Given your economic score on the Political Matrix, the former.

I guess afleitch, Devout Centrist, and a few other red avvies are quite the conservative then.

And I guess Dwarven "Aaaah socialism is wrong and evil...go Kasich" Dragon is a liberal.

...or not.

[Mr. Smith]

With eHarding gone, it's time for a new name for this place.

[Mr. Smith]

Hillary without a doubt in my mind. Tulsi is not a progressive and has clearly cast herself as an Assadist. The only reason why she endorsed Bernie is because she wants the wing to support her in the future, even though she's everything they fought against in the establishment.

LBJ was a racist dixiecrat before he passed the Great Society. Careers wind around and the past remarks can be poor indicator of future policy choice.

No understanding of LBJ whatsoever in this post.

[Mr. Smith]

As was said before, he turned many people who would have been perfectly fine with Clinton against her. Before the primary I had zero problem with Clinton. I would have happily supported her when she wrapped up the nomination in a traditional primary. But then Sanders came. And because sanders decided to make things about some style-based progressive movement, he got a lot of young people (including me, to my shame) rallied up into a cult-like state. Clinton was the one who got all the hate because she was standing in the way of Bernie(among other things). The big problem was that bernie didn't concede when the dust was settled and it was clear that he lost, he kept delusionally fighting on, and his fanbase(again, including me) kept being riled by "bernie can still win" BS. The constant uphill struggle, the attacks on Clinton that were much harder to brush off then most primary attacks, and the seceding into a little group self-divided from everyone else on the left were devastating. Bernie didn't have to make Clinton "the enemy". Bernie didn't have to refuse to consider her "progressive enough" over petty nonsense. Bernie didn't have to frivolously declare the democratic primary rigged against him when the advantages in super-delegates came from Clinton's advantage in the primary(and he got an obviously undemocratic boost in caucuses), he didn't have to let a cult of personality form around him(and probably let it get to his head). I remember early in the primary looking at Clinton's website(I knew of bernie at this point), and thinking she'd be cool, getting excited for her. But because I got swept in the bernie wave I later hated her. I honestly wouldn't have been able to name a real problem I had with Clinton if I was asked, and I remember a thought that Hillary really wasn't much different from bernie. But I dismissed it, because I was caught up in the bern. Bernie didn't have to do all of this.

[Mr. Smith]

http://forsetti.tumblr.com/post/153181757500/on-rural-america-understanding-isnt-the-problem

Someone who has a lot more experience with white rural america then you.

As someone who has a lot more experience with white rural American than you, I can assure you that that article is bullsh1t.

It's hyperbolic, but it gets at the fact that there is a pretty big information bubble in many of these places. It was obviously colored by the experience of its writer (growing up in a white rural area).

http://forsetti.tumblr.com/post/153181757500/on-rural-america-understanding-isnt-the-problem

Someone who has a lot more experience with white rural america then you.

...

Never call yourself a "leftist" ever again.

Leftism isn't about who you think you can convince to vote for you.

That's all any ideology is about, otherwise you just have some person's mad ramblings.

[Mr. Smith]

such a weird argument.  Linwood knew he was going to do something wrong, that's why he wore a mask.  Linwood knew he had done something wrong, that's why he ran away.  I don't know why that's so hard for fans of his to see.

legally wrong ≠ morally wrong
this shouldn't be a difficult concept, even for you

legally wrong ≠ morally wrong = not mutually exclusive
this shouldn't be a difficult concept, even for you.

[Mr. Smith]

Just asking, would anyone else support a rename of this thread? Sure, ER's views are deplorable, but there are many posters here who are more deserving of the title.

I propose either evergreen or Runeghost.

By that logic, EnglishPete, Klartext, or krazen would be best. But they too are consistent. It should be after a blatant concern troll methinks.

[Mr. Smith]

I'm not against the suggestions here, but is it worth changing it when the thread has only about 10 pages left? At the rate it's going, we'll have a new one soon.

Fair enough. Kinda distressing how fast this went by.

Can't recall if the Oldies/bobloblaw one went out this quickly.

[Mr. Smith]

Holy f-ck, angus actually is that legitimately clueless. So embarrassing.

Tbf, Hagrid was right in that case.

He really wasn't.