The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

[Paul Kemp]

I'm not really calling you an idiot as such. It is more that your attitudes are stupid. And not just stupid but also callous, thuggish and generally quite dangerous. The question is whether you have the capacity to change or whether you are some form of moral reprobate. A question that I can't answer - as amusing as it would be to heavily imply the latter - because I don't know you.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Oldiesfreak, please stop posting in the Deluge.

Seriously.

This is a thread specifically for posting examples of people being asshats/ignoramuses/partisan hacks, not being one yourself.

[Mechaman]

What's so important to you people about being against the death penalty across the board?  There's no slippery slope from Hitler to a kid who stole a loaf of bread from the bodega. 

Someone like Hitler did things that were so unspeakable to so many people that he doesn't belong on the same planet as civilized people.  And keeping him alive would keep Nazism alive in a sense.  I would support the death penalty for Hitler and if you one of you wimps got your way and Hitler was living in some country club prison, I would go there and kill him myself. 

Really, does anyone want Hitler writing Mein Kampf 2: Electric Boogaloo?

After that tirade I actually would feel better about you receiving the death penalty.

[Paul Kemp]

One for the ages:

I find you repulsive because nearly all the things you do, you do to glorify yourself. The african kids, the dog, etc, are all about you. You sin over and over, scam people, lie, steal and mistreat yourself and others to make yourself feel better, yet you think it's all okay because you pray to god for forgiveness and you think he will forgive.

You have African orphans call you daddy, because your grandma sends them money every month, knowing full and well you will never adopt them, which will only lead to the kids growing up confused and ultimately hurt. You steal money from your parents all the time for frivolous things like porn, trips out to eat, hotel stays, etc.

You refuse to work while living the comfortable lifestyle you wish to have off the backs of your parents, because working seems to be beneath you. You have your poor father do everything while you nap all afternoon every day and seem to be unashamed of it. In addition to that, you are morbidly obese, yet you go to McDonalds nearly every day (that seems to be the only thing you can do on your own), and refuse, despite all the technology at your fingertips, to educate yourself on proper diet that would benefit you and your sick mother, because, well, it wouldn't be about you anymore, and that's not about to happen. 

A dog was abandoned on your property, and instead of trying to find it a home, you keep it because you want a dog to call you daddy, knowing full and well you intend to leave it behind in a year, like you left your cat before it. Not only that, the dog lives outdoors in the Oklahoma heat and you only go out to see it once in a while. Oh, and it took you weeks to figure out what sex it was. Sorry, I also don't care about what dogs and humans did in the old days. This isn't the stone ages.

Finally, you claim to be a Christian and a follower of Jesus, yet you only follow the parts of the Bible that suit you while ignoring all the other parts you don't agree with, like treating your body well, working honestly, loving your neighbors, etc. But you think it's all okay because you will be forgiven despite the fact you embody nearly all of the seven deadly sins.

The honest truth is, I have never come across a bigger hypocrite than you, Bushie, and I hate to say that because I used to think you had your heart in the right place. I used to want to see you succeed, but it's difficult to want that anymore because you yourself have no interest in succeeding. You only wish to glorify yourself in your own mind and stroke that sense of sense importance that we can all feel in your words.

I don't mean to come across as harsh, but that is the honest truth. You've become a monster, and I know I'm not the only one that feels this way, and I don't like feeling this way either.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I put that in the Good Post Gallery, Mr. Kemp, since Dukey wasn't looking for a burn.......Dukey is a big softie.

[Paul Kemp]

I put that in the Good Post Gallery, Mr. Kemp, since Dukey wasn't looking for a burn.......Dukey is a big softie.

He may have not been looking for it (although he did call him "repulsive") but it's certainly one of the more epic burns in Atlas history.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I put that in the Good Post Gallery, Mr. Kemp, since Dukey wasn't looking for a burn.......Dukey is a big softie.

He may have not been looking for it (although he did call him "repulsive") but it's certainly one of the more epic burns in Atlas history.

Duke is going to make a magnificent lawyers. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's a worthy entry for both mines.

[Antonio the Sixth]

So the best the libertarians can come up with are a couple of anti-Semitic lines? Weren't most people anti-Semitic back then? I thought you guys had legitimate attacks against you know, his economic theories.

[DC Al Fine]

But banning [yellow-dog contracts] violates the right to freely contract that you said was constitutionally protected.

No it doesn't.

I see you are thinking of doing some community theatre.  Are you merely auditioning for the part of Humpty Dumpty or have you already secured the part in a stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass?  In either case, there is no need to engage in method acting here.  Save acting like a contradictory buffoon who won't admit he is in error for the stage where such a performance will be admired instead of ridiculed.

There are perfectly valid and logical reasons to hold the opinions you have of the desirability of not allowing right-to-work laws or yellow-dog contracts.  I don't agree with them, but at least they are logically coherent and honest which I cannot say for your line of non-reasoning.
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”  -- Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

[Napoleon]

This is another one of those threads that you're going to be embarrassed about in the future.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

BRTD is known to be:

The reincarnation of Hitler
A well known necrophile
He has a history yelling obscene words after kindergarders
He has a good taste in music

See I can also make sh**t up about strangers on the internet.

[Antonio the Sixth]

If you were a black youth in the vicinity of some paranoid bigot on patrol, which would you rather they have?

[Napoleon]

Less super cereal twats would probably do the trick.

We certainly seem to do well with our open-door policy for assholes, don't we?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A major prayer has been answered!! When we left Kenya earlier this month, there was a teacher's strike that prevented students from going to class right around exam prep time. After much prayer from God's people, the teacher's strike has been called off, so the teachers and the students can return to the classroom and prepare for and take the necessary exams later this summer! So proud of several young men and women in Kenya who, instead of partying while the teachers were on strike, organized study sessions with their peers to study on their own for the exams. They take their schooling seriously and with pride! That hit home to me when I heard that. Thank you, LORD!!

Wow, so not only does Bushie's version of God not dis-incentivize bad behavior, but He's also a strike breaker? At least the Catholic God isn't anti-worker.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Martin Luther King said he dreamed of an America where a person is judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I think a large majority of Americans do just that.

They'll vote for Barack Obama, but roll their eyes at Rev. Jackson and Rev. Sharpton.
They'll watch The Cosby Show and listen to Michael Jackson, but roll their eyes at B.E.T. and turn off Eminem/Hip-Hop music
They'll hang out with black friends, but never would they move into a "black neighborhood".

If that's racism, then I'd be willing to bet 75%+ of the American white population is by that definition "racist".

They'll read a thread about race relations, but roll their eyes at Mike Naso's participation in it

[DC Al Fine]

Europe already went through that.

Before, more you were educated, more you were right-wing.
In the recent years, it took a smile shape. Very uneducated and very educated people voted for the left, the averagely educated to the right.
And now, it's becoming more you are education, more you're left-wing, more or less.

Different factors must be factored too: race, religion, income, unions...

Being well educated in Europe before 1945 implied that one was almost certainly part of the Establishment. High levels of education were the norm only for entrenched elites, and working people (who were generally socialists except under fascist regimes) were usually thrown to the wolves in the economic order, often at an early age.  After WWII entrenched economic elites became less powerful if they were allowed to remain (a distinction between Romania and Italy), and as a rule post-WWII governments encouraged advanced education for anyone who could benefit from it. If there was an Einstein or Freud whose parents were industrial workers the educational system might find him and give him a chance -- especially after the people who gave the world Einstein and Freud were largely exterminated.

In the US  much the same process happened in the early 1960s, when high-grade universities quit using class identity as a criterion for acceptance or rejection. School board scores began to matter greatly and family connections (he is at the bottom of his prep-school class but a couple years at Ivy might do him some good) didn't matter so much. Why have someone like that at Ivy when you could have some middle-class Jewish or Italian-American kid from Brooklyn who takes learning seriously and has the grades and board scores? The results from such choices looked increasingly good, and they stayed in place. The kid who might use a couple years at Harvard ended up going to some 'alternative choice'.

The Republican Party used to have the advantage with educated people because the under-educated, bigoted white people of the South voted Democratic and often well-educated Northern moderate voters despised those people and identified with Eisenhower and Rockefeller. The Republican Party began to court those under-educated, often bigoted white voters hostile to highly-educated people and lost the well-educated Northern moderate voters to the Democratic Party.

The Republican party has been pandering to anti-intellectual white people; by such it lost the chance to pick up a rapidly-growing (and well-educated) Hispanic middle class that seemed set to drift increasingly into the Republican Party. But by disparaging formal education the Republican Party has lost many of the sorts of people who voted Republican at least until Dubya.

Just look at an overlay between elections involving Dwight Eisenhower and Barack Obama. In 2008 President Obama won 365 electoral votes -- all but 15 from states that Eisenhower lost. In 2012 Barack Obama didn't win any state that Dwight Eisenhower ever lost.      

      

This is a really good non-biased post that recognizes the northern affluent WASP "moderate" Republican class for the Civil Rights crusaders and open minded angels that they really are.  It's good that we have well informed non-hack posters like pbrower to set the record straight instead of someone coming on here and pointing out that those highly "educated" affluent Republicans often held bigoted paternalistic views towards non-protestant working class people of Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Jewish, (insert other non-"respectable" European ethnic group here) descent.
. . . . . . . oh wait.

[Napoleon]

Bushie.

I thought he proudly posted that he had an epiphany.

He did. It was surprising how suddenly he flipped... No wait it's Bushie. Never mind.

[Zanas]

It's a former Communist country in Europe.  Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.

Good job completely ignoring every post above you.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Opinion of hitting on neckbearded men in the hopes that they will cease to be ugly neckbeards?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

seems like a potential market inefficiency.

Ladies and gentlemen... Tweed!  A thoughtful, reflective left-communist when it comes to Taylor Swift fandom – a calculating, bloodless, neoliberal when it comes to intimate human relationships!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Great post - except that Tweed cannot in any circumstance be described as "thoughtful".

[DC Al Fine]

Obama has been the least fascist of the three, I suppose.

Kinda ironic coming from you.

[Хahar 🤔]

Great post - except that Tweed cannot in any circumstance be described as "thoughtful".

The term "market inefficiency" comes from Moneyball and is commonly used in jest in baseball circles.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Great post - except that Tweed cannot in any circumstance be described as "thoughtful".

The term "market inefficiency" comes from Moneyball and is commonly used in jest in baseball circles.

That's genuinely good to know. Thank you.