Yes, what a brave misogynist piece of crap he is, boldly denying a woman’s accusations of sexual harassment that were backed up by witnesses. Truly, he is a paragon to which we all should aspire - after all, almost nobody reflexively doubts the accounts of harassment victims despite evidence! Why, if more people did, imagine what a world we would live in.
He’s a troll, he moves goalposts in arguments all the time, and contributes so little so consistently to this board that you could write a bot to impersonate him in minutes.
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Oddly, I’m reminded of the way one of Trump’s spawn argued that Trump wasn’t a misogynist because of how he was always nice to her.
Having never seen a picture of the poster in question I cannot comment about the “human shape” part, but the poster in question did argue that the Bush Administration wasn’t having people tortured because it said it wasn’t, and the poster in question was still willing to vote for your current travesty of a president after said travesty announced his intention to have prisoners executed and their families put to death. These are both major symptoms of being a pile of shit.
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Yes, what a brave misogynist piece of crap he is, boldly denying a woman’s accusations of sexual harassment that were backed up by witnesses. Truly, he is a paragon to which we all should aspire - after all, almost nobody reflexively doubts the accounts of harassment victims despite evidence! Why, if more people did, imagine what a world we would live in.
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You do realize that I didn’t say any of this, right? I also don’t recall the misogyny aspects, but frankly, I didn’t participate in that thread and only skimmed it so maybe I missed it. Basically, my own point was on the health care aspects, since it’s such a huge difference between where most of the board is at wrt Obamacare and just healthcare in general and where Bricker is at.
It is interesting that your response to me saying it’s a good example was to go on the attack, though.
I don’t really have “a problem” with either Bricker or Shodan.
Side comment to Shodan…
Why did you drop the “bless your heart” sig? I thought it was hilarious, in a Southern (means a whole 'nother thing) kind of way. Yes, I know what it means
Politics are the measure of a person’s moral character, because it’s there you find out what they really value when it comes to interacting with others.
Turns out, right-wingers are degenerates, because all they care about is dominating others and forcing them to conform in areas where they’re not hurting anyone, and exterminating those who don’t.
Ohh, you didn’t actually read the post the Pit thread is about, you were talking about the linked THREAD, not the linked POST. I interpreted your words according to their meaning, not what you meant to say instead. My bad for not being a mind reader.
So all right-wingers want to kill all people who don’t see eye to eye with them on political views? How do any of you left-wingers still survive around?
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Hitler loved dogs.
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And Stalin loved classical music and westerns (well, no accounting for taste)…and managed to slaughter more of his own people than Hitler ever dreamed of. And let’s not even get started on Mao…
And left wingers are nuts, love dominating others and forcing them to conform, and at the extreme left wing have caused more human misery and slaughter than any other political philosophy in human history, at least from a pure numbers perspective…pretty sure as a percentage of total population Genghis Khan is going to be the overall champ in that category. Not that Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot (not to mention Lenin and several others) didn’t give him a good run.
What does all this prove? Not much…but then you were just lashing out at ‘conservatives’, right? To me, both left and right winger types are either loons or short sighted assholes, and it’s amusing when one side tries to take the high moral ground in these sorts of discussions…
In what universe were Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot left-wingers?
Politics is action. If your actions (domination and oppression in pursuit of the benefit of the few, as opposed to peace and cooperation and liberty in pursuit of the benefit of all) are those of right-wingers, you’re a right-winger. The rhetorical language you employ is irrelevant.
Unless you seriously believe that North Korea is democratic–in which case you’re just a moron.
No, you simply read it such that, to you, it meant you needed to be in attack dog stance and bristled up for a fight. Here, this is what you quoted:
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The linked post on health care I think is a really good example of the difference in accepted board wisdom and Bricker going against that, as was the fact that it was cited to demonstrate the very qualities given in the OP for why he is supposedly ‘a Pile of Shit Sculpted into Human Shape’(tm…arr).
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See? It has nothing about being a paragon, nor anything about aspiring to be like him. It doesn’t get into the supposed misogyny and basically just says it’s a good example of the disconnect between you and he. Granted, I didn’t go into any great details, but then, you didn’t ask…you just decided attack was the thing to do. Then you doubled down. I’m starting to see a trend here, and I didn’t know much about you as a poster before this thread so it’s firming up.
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In what universe were Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot left-wingers?
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In the same one where Hitler was a right-winger of course. If you are going to use the modern political left wing/right wing characterizations then left wing=communism and right wing=fascism. Personally, I think it’s wrong, but you were the one who decided to go there so just playing along.
I seriously think you love building men of straw. As to your level of intelligence, well…personally, I’m not impressed with you in the threads I’ve seen you in thus far, but perhaps it’s the foam spraying from your muzzle that’s getting in the way of real appreciation of your finer attributes…
See the part where you said post, when you meant thread? Which points to the objectionable POST of Bricker’s that prompted this thread, not the behavior of Bricker in the thread as a whole? The POST of Bricker’s that you were praising has him agreeing with the vicious slander that Anita Hill endured as a part of the Clarence Thomas hearings.
I don’t know much about you as a poster, either, but if you don’t know the difference between post and thread, you’re not much of a reader.
So you agree that Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot weren’t leftists, then? After all, what they were creating were in no way communist societies. The Soviet Union was capitalist as fuck; as for China and Cambodia, I’m not familiar enough with them to have any sense of what you’d call them, or if they were sui generis, but they definitely weren’t communist: they had states and they had social classes, after all.
I’ve generally agreed with the defenses of **Bricker **that have been given, but I’ll be damned if that’s not a totally on-point summation of his style on partisan topics.
Ah…I see. Yes, I used post when I mean thread. My apologies for the confusion. Reading is not my forte.
Just to clarify something, I wasn’t praising Bricker…others have done so in this thread, but I meant a more neutral tone. I think you are underrating Bricker as a poster since he obviously sets you off, but I also don’t always agree with him myself.
In a world where Communism is considered a left-wing ideology - in other words, by most mainstream political-science classifications.
This is a No True Scotsman. Your logic basically boils down to, “Everything that is good and correct, is left-wing. Everything that is bad and wrong, is right-wing. If something is bad, it can’t be left-wing.”
No, the Soviet Union was not ‘capitalist as fuck’, yes, they were left wing based on the communism is left and fascism is right, and if you are going to associate conservatives = right wing = fascism then it’s equally valid to associate the left wing with the bad shit that the communists did as to associate modern American conservatives with Hitler…which is to say it’s fucking stupid, but as I said I’m perfectly fine playing along and seeing you go through contortions to try and have it both ways.
That’s an oversimplification. Authoritarians can pretend to espouse left-wing views to seize power. I mean, Marx was a left-winger, but the people who have tried to implement his ideas have largely been authoritarians who didn’t actually believe in the good of the common folk that was at the core of the philosophy.
That’s a pretty good Bricker impression.
I also don’t recall the misogyny aspects, but frankly, I didn’t participate in that thread and only skimmed it so maybe I missed it. Basically, my own point was on the health care aspects, since it’s such a huge difference between where most of the board is at wrt Obamacare and just healthcare in general and where Bricker is at.
