# Bricker is a Pile of Shit Sculpted into Human Shape **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 30, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344 "2017-03-30T13:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 434
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/434 "2017-09-23T17:43:37Z")
Many of us are turned off by **Bricker** ’s despicable right-wing opinions. > [@$400 million bribe if the GOP repeals the Affordable Care Act? It can't be true, right...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/400-million-bribe-if-the-gop-repeals-the-affordable-care-act-it-cant-be-true-right/796934/69): > > I don’t support the ACA. > > The reason is that I believe there is value in establishing the norm that, whenever possible, people pay their own costs, as opposed to demanding that all of us share in a risk pool. > > Now, this is obviously a non-falsifiable assertion on my part, since such value is not quantifiable. But the whole point of non-falsifiablity is that . . . wait for it . . . you cannot falsify it. It’s simply an assertion, a postulate just as its opposite number is. > > You mention “death,” as a sort of a trump card (no pun intended). But death is preferable to many worse outcomes. I’d rather die, myself, than experience a whole host of other fates. How can you PROVE this is a poor choice on my part? People who do not have health insurance cannot survive a major health crisis, but **Bricker** is happy to let those people die. And then, to increase the irritation, he babbles on about “non-falsifiable” — if anyone challenges his assumptions he’ll invoke his faulty standards of proof — and also (despite that he seems to claim all morality is relative) call his detractor “immoral.” Notice how he twists the point at the end of the excerpted post: “I’d rather die, myself, than …” The discussion wasn’t about _ **Bricker** _ dying; it’s about his complacency in supporting Ryan\_No\_Care which would cause the _deaths of others_. Many right-wingers are too ignorant to cope with economic analyses or utilitarianism. Some are obsessed with hyperlibertarian thought and have let Alex Jones and other YouTube bugs or [mises.org](http://mises.org) make them honestly believe that health care for all would magically arise if the gummint just got out of the way. But neither of these describe **Bricker**. He’s fully aware that his policies would destroy the lives of millions and _that delights him_. His post shrieks: “I’ve got mine. Fuck you!” If he were a multimillionaire he might be able to enjoy life by knowing that others can’t fly on private jets or eat caviar or hire the best hookers. Since he’s not so successful, he likes knowing that poor people can’t get medical treatment, can’t go to the opera, etc. I doubt if he was some childhood bully who enjoyed crippling living animals, but in adulthood he’s become a bitter little man. He’s got me on Ignore or I’d have clicked on the above post and asked him, since he wants “people to pay their own costs,” about police protection, public schools, public defenders. I suspect that he supports public education but not because he wants poor people to improve their lot for themselves, just because he thinks general education(\*) will improve life for the “better people” like himself. - - By “education”, he means training to become cogs in the economic machine that supports the elite. I’m sure he opposes taxpayer-funded teaching of critical thinking skills, social sciences, or humanities. In another thread he opposed all federal spending on art or science until the weight of evidence was sufficient to expose his hypocrisy. He tries to avoid making his inhumane views clear, preferring to babble on and on about states’ rights: if the sovereign Commonwealth of Virginia wants to discriminate against the poor or a minority race, that’s “democracy at its finest. Your side lost. Giggle giggle.” There are a few right-wingers at SDMB with views as despicable as **Bricker** ’s. But they are mostly doltish drones who idolize Trump and only read [RightWingLies.com](http://RightWingLies.com). **Bricker** , OTOH, is obviously intelligent and probably even clicks on mainstream news sites. That’s what makes his hatreds so sad. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344)._