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« Reply #100 on: June 05, 2012, 12:11:42 AM »

How about we call this thread a free speech(troll) zone? Anything goes here except for obviously unacceptable things like gore, porn and other shocking images.
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« Reply #101 on: June 05, 2012, 12:16:38 AM »

How about we call this thread a free speech(troll) zone? Anything goes here except for obviously unacceptable things like gore, porn and other shocking images.

Well that's not what the creator of the thread wanted.  Most pro-Deluge posters don't want it to be a place of hackery and arguing.  And nowhere on this board is going to be a zone where trolling is allowed.
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« Reply #102 on: June 05, 2012, 01:23:09 AM »

One man's "completely indefensible or undeniably ignorant" is another's obvious common sense.

What do you think "common" means? And if you're talking about people like Bushie or Teddy, they aren't normal at all.
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« Reply #103 on: June 05, 2012, 10:13:54 AM »

One man's "completely indefensible or undeniably ignorant" is another's obvious common sense.

What do you think "common" means? And if you're talking about people like Bushie or Teddy, they aren't normal at all.

Well, for example;

Blue Avatar:  "Most people on welfare are life-long moochers who wouldn't take employment even if it were available."

Red Avatar: *posts in this thread*

It might be considered "common sense" on this forum that Blue Avatar's statement is "absurd," but if you did a poll of the American public odds are that you'd find a substantial majority agreeing with Blue Avatar.
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« Reply #104 on: June 05, 2012, 04:26:10 PM »

The MSM defeated the Tea Party to nominate Romney, the most far-left GOP presidential nominee in memory (at least since Nixon).  The MSM is on a roll, having in 2008 defeated the Clinton Machine to force the Democrats to nominate their most far-left nominee in living memory (at least since McGovern).
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« Reply #105 on: June 05, 2012, 04:28:10 PM »

One man's "completely indefensible or undeniably ignorant" is another's obvious common sense.

What do you think "common" means? And if you're talking about people like Bushie or Teddy, they aren't normal at all.

Well, for example;

Blue Avatar:  "Most people on welfare are life-long moochers who wouldn't take employment even if it were available."

Red Avatar: *posts in this thread*

It might be considered "common sense" on this forum that Blue Avatar's statement is "absurd," but if you did a poll of the American public odds are that you'd find a substantial majority agreeing with Blue Avatar.

You're misunderstanding the meaning of "common" in "common sense".  It's not the common of "Cancer is common among smokers."  It's the common of "The air is a common resource of humanity."
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« Reply #106 on: June 05, 2012, 05:06:05 PM »

One man's "completely indefensible or undeniably ignorant" is another's obvious common sense.

What do you think "common" means? And if you're talking about people like Bushie or Teddy, they aren't normal at all.

Well, for example;

Blue Avatar:  "Most people on welfare are life-long moochers who wouldn't take employment even if it were available."

Red Avatar: *posts in this thread*

It might be considered "common sense" on this forum that Blue Avatar's statement is "absurd," but if you did a poll of the American public odds are that you'd find a substantial majority agreeing with Blue Avatar.
That's not common sense, common sense is what 90%* or more people agree on. If 51%* people agree on something, it's narrow majority opinoin.

*Numbers we're pulled out of my ass.
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« Reply #107 on: June 05, 2012, 05:13:21 PM »

The point is that not only would a majority of people not find Blue Avatar's statement "absurd," they'd actually agree with it.  You cannot, therefore, claim it's a violation of "common sense."
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« Reply #108 on: June 05, 2012, 05:14:04 PM »

Stop whining, guys.
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« Reply #109 on: June 05, 2012, 05:24:11 PM »

How about if someone quotes you into this thread you just ignore it and don't act like a whiny child?
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« Reply #110 on: June 05, 2012, 05:48:45 PM »

The point is that not only would a majority of people not find Blue Avatar's statement "absurd," they'd actually agree with it.  You cannot, therefore, claim it's a violation of "common sense."
To put it more simply majority opinion != common sense.
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« Reply #111 on: June 05, 2012, 06:36:55 PM »

The point is that not only would a majority of people not find Blue Avatar's statement "absurd," they'd actually agree with it.  You cannot, therefore, claim it's a violation of "common sense."

Yes, but whether or not an opinion actually is absurd, ignorant, or bad has nothing to do with whether or not a majority of people hold it.
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« Reply #112 on: June 05, 2012, 08:07:54 PM »

Oh, for Dave's sake.

Don't argue about the thread.  Use the thread or lose the thread.

Do not respond to this post.  If you are tempted to respond to this post, consider hunting down some absurd, ignorant, or bad posts and posting those instead.
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« Reply #113 on: June 05, 2012, 08:24:05 PM »

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« Reply #114 on: June 05, 2012, 08:41:16 PM »

Oh, for Dave's sake.

Don't argue about the thread.  Use the thread or lose the thread.

Do not respond to this post.  If you are tempted to respond to this post, consider hunting down some absurd, ignorant, or bad posts and posting those instead.
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« Reply #115 on: June 05, 2012, 09:48:13 PM »

The real class warfare is not "Rich v. Poor" - it is the entrenched political class and public unions V. us the taxpayers
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« Reply #116 on: June 06, 2012, 12:30:05 AM »

Oh, for Dave's sake.

Don't argue about the thread.  Use the thread or lose the thread.

Do not respond to this post.  If you are tempted to respond to this post, consider hunting down some absurd, ignorant, or bad posts and posting those instead.

Someone's been taking humor tips from Snowstalker, I see...
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« Reply #117 on: June 06, 2012, 03:37:24 AM »

This thread is dead.

See Inks, you eventually got what you wanted without even having to intervene. Tongue
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« Reply #118 on: June 06, 2012, 12:10:31 PM »
« Edited: June 06, 2012, 03:10:48 PM by shua, gm »

Oh, for Dave's sake.

Don't argue about the thread.  Use the thread or lose the thread.

Do not respond to this post.  If you are tempted to respond to this post, consider hunting down some absurd, ignorant, or bad posts and posting those instead.

Someone's been taking humor tips from Snowstalker, I see...
Careful, you're tempting Mikado  to pull the trigger.
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« Reply #119 on: June 06, 2012, 12:31:29 PM »

That's why the wis-dems and even the national dems are so prone to making huge blunders.  They live in these bubble-enclaves that are surrounded by reality.  Mob mentality is a natural result of their situation.  It's unhealthy. 
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« Reply #120 on: June 06, 2012, 03:05:36 PM »

It's nice to know that with all of the real problems we have in this country, let alone in the world, that people have their priorities right. Invented rights for invented minorities clearly trump poverty, debt, international conflict, ect.
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« Reply #121 on: June 06, 2012, 06:52:03 PM »


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« Reply #122 on: June 06, 2012, 06:53:56 PM »

That's why the wis-dems and even the national dems are so prone to making huge blunders.  They live in these bubble-enclaves that are surrounded by reality.  Mob mentality is a natural result of their situation.  It's unhealthy. 

Have you ever been to Madison, Miles?
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« Reply #123 on: June 06, 2012, 08:53:58 PM »
« Edited: June 07, 2012, 07:55:45 AM by The Great Pumpkin »

Madison actually has more of a cross-section of white Dems than it's often given credit for; it's not all the university and the state civil service. On the one hand, there's quite a few Bay-Area-type private-sector young tech workers who are solidly D without being exactly old-school leftists. On the other hand, there's still an industrial working class presence on the north and east sides that, like in Minneapolis or Duluth, has bucked the usual R trend due to the more liberal Scandinavian churches and the lack of white-flight/crime issues.
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« Reply #124 on: June 06, 2012, 10:19:16 PM »


I am proud because I'm free from the totalitarian dominance exerted by the "fitness" dogma and by the absurd cannons of modern society. Because I'm not brainwashed into doing something painful and time-consuming simply because the society tells me it is a good thing to do. Because I'm fine with my current body and I don't feel the need for an overly muscular one, especially if the price to pay for it is daily torture.

Being free from totalitarian dominance will not help you get girls.
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