The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[The Mikado]

I find the thought of teenaged or young adult women who, because of a mistake or an episode of poor judgment, are forced to cut short their dreams and goals to raise a child that will always be on at least some level unwanted much more upsetting than the thought of my parents hypothetically aborting me.

As a person who was likely an accident, I can say that it sucks.  Particularly when it's two random people who hate eachother who are forced by their silly morals to stay with eachother.

I see fewer unwanted kids as a good thing.  But even then we'll have the problem of insanely idiotic 14 year old girls who want to keep their fetus.

this post was just disturbing.

What, because you can't wrap your head around the idea of someone placing more value on a nearly adult human being's potential than a fetus? The 14 year old girls who get pregnant aren't idiots because they decided to abort or not abort; they just tend to be idiots in general.

no the first half was bad enough (like cry for help bad), calling everyone that might be traumatized about terminating something that might call them mom an idiot especially if they're mixed up kids just made it worse.

Oh yeah that was indeed weird.

I'm just saying that based off of my first hand experienced all girls at my school who have gotten pregnant, whether they aborted or didn't abort, have been morons. Either way they weren't going to go anywhere. The ones who decided to keep the kid were evangelical or catholic, the ones who didn't were fairly non-religious. I honestly don't see the contemplation behind both choices being very in-depth or rational tbh.

I think I might be a misanthrope some days.

edit: I'm done, sorry thread creators and mods. Delete my posts if you want.

I have no desire to police this whole thread, and if I did, it'd probably just lead to more death points.

There's really 4 options:
1. Make your own rules and use the honor system to not be a hack / engage in stupid debate in this thread.
2. Make your own rules and have me enforce them but not have rule-breakers punished via points, which gives no incentive for posters to abide by the rules and causes a headache for me.
3. Make your own rules and have me enforce them with points, which will cause outcry from the anti-mod crowd.
4. I lock the thread.

I'm not going to do 4, and I'm not going to do 2.  I really don't want to do 3, but 1 really isn't working.  So, figure this out amongst yourselves for now, and if you want to chagne how this disaster of a thread works, let me know.

If you won't do 4, I'd be willing to take the heat this time.

So, yeah.  Either you guys learn how to play well with others, or the thread goes bye-bye.

[The Mikado]

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.

[The Mikado]

"Muslim race" ? LOL

Seriously, ban this idiot.

Way ahead of you.

[The Mikado]

Was Vermin Supreme a sock?

No, just a racist troll.

[The Mikado]

Inks, I thought we were trying to discourage arguing in these threads, not joining the arguments.

[The Mikado]

North American literature is Faulkner + A Confederacy of Dunces + the first half of Catch 22.

Everything else is "fine" and that's all. I've always felt sympathy for Fitzgerald, but his novels are quite irrelevant. Twain is G rated.

Hemingway is trash.

In poetry Whitman and Ginsberg are great.

And that's the end of North American literature.

I'm more curious as to the strange definition of "irrelevant" he uses.

Also, what the hell's his problem with Mark Twain?

[The Mikado]

You know, we could keep out a lot of awful new posters if there was a requirement of like 1000 posts or so to post on the 2012 forum. Has there ever been a quality poster who had a majority of their posts there?

Tender, if you count the polling subforums, is a fine user.

Tender's basically a human RSS feed, but the information he posts is useful.

[The Mikado]

Whyte Supremacist Rain should be banned for that Krystalnacht post.

He apparently has been.

[The Mikado]

Hey, Nathan, why don't we both be trolls for a week, and show the kids how to do it properly, meaning you rile up the opposition, but make it hard for the mods to hand out death points? The troll skill level around here these days is really pathetically low. It's an embarrassment!

In terms of "rile up the opposition, but make it hard for the mods to hand out death points," you're all novices compared to Politico.  He is truly a master of the craft. 

[The Mikado]

"Subprime mortgages would have never existed if not for Carter's meddling." What the....

Actually that's not even the most absurd thing in that post...

What earned it its place here was the Lennon angle. Although the way it builds up to that is... a work of art, really.

Months and months ago I said that if Romney won the election, I would be happy to step down as a Moderator and give my post to Winfield if he wanted it.  I stand by that, though I'm starting to regret not saying Politico.

(The logic being that if America has to have a Romney Administration, Atlas should have to endure it too)

[The Mikado]

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Anyone want to guess how long this one lasts here?  Two days?  A week?

[The Mikado]

OK, no.  This thread does not go there.  Go back to posting about other people's absurdity, ignorance, and bad posts, not posting absurdity, ignorance, and bad posts of your own.