# Bricker, You're a Jackass Extraordinaire

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 12, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734 "2012-05-12T23:13:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/401 "2017-03-30T22:16:57Z")

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> [@Mighty\_Girl](#):
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> Yeah, with you I can be friends. 😉

“An excellent man: he has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

Attrib. Wilde, regarding that little bitch G.B. Shaw.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/402 "2017-03-30T22:42:20Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> This, though in my case it’s more like 98.6 degrees.

meow…

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/403 "2017-03-30T22:47:00Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> The Socratic Method sucks for use in conversation, though. First off, it presupposes a hierarchy of an enlightened teacher who needs to get through to a dull student–and that both people in that dynamic accept that. It also presupposes that there is a Right way to think about something and that “Socrates” knows what it is.
> 
> What’s more, it also presupposes a situation where you are trying to convince someone of something. So, in situations where you are actually asking an expert about how something works, it’s still not good. You didn’t ask to be convinced that this is the Right way to do it.
> 
> The Socratic Method is useful in certain limited contexts. It otherwise comes across as annoying smug, frustrates people just trying to get answers, and causes people to disengage, hence convincing no one.
> 
> If it worked, people would be using it all the time to convince people. Not just lawyers who were taught it and got enamored with it, while not realizing its pitfalls.

The Socratic method may have limited use outside of classrooms, but you know what sucks even more? Condescending scolding lectures from people without relevant experience. Motes and beams, dude.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/404 "2017-03-31T04:18:40Z")

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> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> Hey look a bump.
> 
> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=822264&page=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=822264&page=4)
> 
> This thread really does display all the ways in which **Bricker** is just an _infuriating_ tosser. Can’t acknowledge the blatantly obvious without having it spoonfed to him, insists on diversions in attempts to trap liberals and show them being hypocritical, as if _anyone_ gave a shit or it was in any way relevant to the discussion, and just all-around sophistry. Buddy, we _all know you know the answer_. Stop fucking asking us and just make your goddamn point. Are you seriously autistic? Because if so, I apologize, and everything makes a _lot_ more sense. Otherwise, yeah, this is why people hate you.

This is incredibly silly.

Bricker is posting in a debate forum. His typical approach, when he identifies a point or argument with which he does not agree, is to question the specific point posted. Rather than simply attacking a poster or attacking the views that he believes a poster holds, he asserts his actual challenge (if the post is clear) or he seeks to have the poster explain the actual statement in the poster’s own words, without relying on his own assumptions regarding what he believes the poster meant.  
This, of course, differs from the approach taken by a very large number of other posters, (perhaps the majority), who generally assume that they “know” what another poster “really” meant and who then attack the beliefs that they ascribe to the author of the original remark.  
Many posters find Bricker’s style to be irritating, even infuriating. However, he has been employing the same style for his entire life on the SDMB. Unlike a number of posters, he has been known to actually change his own opinions (“War on Christmas,” "Same Sex Marriage) when presented with facts or logic that contradict his own initial assumptions. Of course, unlike a number of posters who simply judge all discussions based on their own beliefs regarding what is “bad” or “good,” he will periodically challenge arguments that he regards as flawed, even when they support a position that he actually holds. Those who judge all debate on whether one is on the “good” or “bad” side of a question will especially finds his discussions infuriating.

That said, his username appears at the beginning of every post he submits and people who simply cannot deal with his style are perfectly free to ignore his posts.

Whining about his style while clearly failing to understand both his style and his motivation is silly and simply indicates that one has not been paying attention for the last 17 years, or however many years one has been encountering his posts.

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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/405 "2017-03-31T04:34:47Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> This is incredibly silly.
> 
> Bricker is posting in a debate forum. His typical approach, when he identifies a point or argument with which he does not agree, is to question the specific point posted. Rather than simply attacking a poster or attacking the views that he believes a poster holds, he asserts his actual challenge (if the post is clear) or he seeks to have the poster explain the actual statement in the poster’s own words, without relying on his own assumptions regarding what he believes the poster meant.  
> This, of course, differs from the approach taken by a very large number of other posters, (perhaps the majority), who generally assume that they “know” what another poster “really” meant and who then attack the beliefs that they ascribe to the author of the original remark.

I may be guilty of doing that once or twice myself. But there is nothing more annoying, to me, than someone telling me what I really think or mean.

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**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/406 "2017-03-31T06:51:21Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> This is incredibly silly.
> 
> Bricker is posting in a debate forum. His typical approach, when he identifies a point or argument with which he does not agree, is to question the specific point posted. Rather than simply attacking a poster or attacking the views that he believes a poster holds, he asserts his actual challenge (if the post is clear) or he seeks to have the poster explain the actual statement in the poster’s own words, without relying on his own assumptions regarding what he believes the poster meant.  
> This, of course, differs from the approach taken by a very large number of other posters, (perhaps the majority), who generally assume that they “know” what another poster “really” meant and who then attack the beliefs that they ascribe to the author of the original remark.  
> Many posters find Bricker’s style to be irritating, even infuriating. However, he has been employing the same style for his entire life on the SDMB. Unlike a number of posters, he has been known to actually change his own opinions (“War on Christmas,” "Same Sex Marriage) when presented with facts or logic that contradict his own initial assumptions. Of course, unlike a number of posters who simply judge all discussions based on their own beliefs regarding what is “bad” or “good,” he will periodically challenge arguments that he regards as flawed, even when they support a position that he actually holds. Those who judge all debate on whether one is on the “good” or “bad” side of a question will especially finds his discussions infuriating.
> 
> That said, his username appears at the beginning of every post he submits and people who simply cannot deal with his style are perfectly free to ignore his posts.
> 
> Whining about his style while clearly failing to understand both his style and his motivation is silly and simply indicates that one has not been paying attention for the last 17 years, or however many years one has been encountering his posts.

There’s having a style, and then there’s being an obtuse, incredibly stupid motherfucker. Yes, I get that this is what **Bricker** does. A lot of the time, it’s a sensible, reasonable approach. The rest of the time, you want to shake him and scream “DO YOU EVER TURN OFF LAWYER MODE” while slapping the stupid out of him. This is one of those cases.

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**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/407 "2017-03-31T06:59:27Z")

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And then there’s [his defense of FOX News as not significantly worse than the new york times](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20104457&postcount=299).

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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/408 "2017-03-31T07:38:01Z")

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> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> There’s having a style, and then there’s being an obtuse, incredibly stupid motherfucker. Yes, I get that this is what **Bricker** does. A lot of the time, it’s a sensible, reasonable approach. The rest of the time, you want to shake him and scream “DO YOU EVER TURN OFF LAWYER MODE” while slapping the stupid out of him. This is one of those cases.

IIRC, it’s ixnay on the otherfuckermay even in the Pit.

After reading the many Pittings of Bricker over the years, and the fact he stays around and doesn’t change tells me it’s a compulsion he’s unable to control. If there wasn’t already a perfect job for a smug asshole in love w/ his own perceived superior intellect, his guidance counselors would have had to prepare him to starve. I pity all his classmates, must have been miserable to grow up around that.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/409 "2017-03-31T09:17:22Z")

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> [@Larry\_Borgia](#):
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> The Socratic method may have limited use outside of classrooms, but you know what sucks even more? Condescending scolding lectures from people without relevant experience. Motes and beams, dude.

Do you disagree with what I said, or not? It seems you don’t, but just wanted an excuse to use that outdated meme to attack me.

I haven’t condescended about stuff I don’t have experience with in a long, long time–years even. It’s that, because so many of you know about my mental illness, you **ASSUME** I don’t have the experience.

It’s extremely frustrating, and is why I typically don’t reveal my mental illness to people. Because I know it will be used against me. You won’t listen to what I say based on my arguments. I can say the exact same thing as someone else, and I still get crap while the other people don’t.

I’m not going to sit here and go through everything I’ve ever said to show how I have experience in what I’m talking about. I clearly have enough experience for what I said about the Socratic Method, and that’s what’s relevant to this thread.

I will admit to being condescending at times, though. And, no, it’s not the best method to convince people. I just have a hard time with it when I’m frustrated. I’d work on it more, but I get crapped on anyways, so sometimes it just feels like “What’s the point?” Plus, well, it’s not like I’m remotely the only one, and people do listen to them.

It’s not even easy doing what I’m doing now. Obviously my post stands no matter what you think of my attitude in other threads. But, rather than just say that, I’m being patient and trying to explain how I feel about the whole thing.

I guess we’ll see if it works.

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**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:** [March 31, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/410 "2017-03-31T09:54:28Z")

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**Bricker** is by far the most intelligent right-winger on the Board. I’ve no idea who’s in second place, but it would be a distant second. It’s easy to put a clinical moron like **Shodan** on Ignore, but **Bricker** ’s behavior and ignorances attract interest! For example, consider one of the bizarre ignorances that provoked this zombie to be bumped:

[QUOTE=Bricker]  
Right. They [N.Y. Times] are less biased [than FoxNews], but I don’t agree the difference is significant.

[/QUOTE]

Is there any other sentient humanoid that would make this claim? There’s no way to cope with such nonsense outside the Pit. To assert such a thing is to be awash with right-wing blather, but to debate **Bricker** on his own terms would be legalistic masturbation. **Bricker** would alternate among (1) complaining about comma placement and other minutiae, (2) pseudo-Socratic sophistry, (3) a never-ending string of _Tu Quoque_’s. **MaxTheVool** summed up some of Bricker’s asinine style in this post:

> [@I pit Bricker for subtle reasons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bricker-for-subtle-reasons/568403/59):
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> … Instead he did something more subtle, which is that he asked if the OPer would be equally outraged if a Democrat proposed such a bill. This does several clever things:  
> (a) it strongly implies that Democrats do and have proposed such bills without having to actually outright state such (which would of course open him up to being called on it)  
> (b) it puts the OPer on the defensive… now for your thread to continue you have to prove that you’re not a hypocrite. Which is very hard to do  
> (c) it tends to totally derail the thread entirely, until the original complaint is lost and forgotten

Especially sad is that such an intelligent man is incapable of learning anything new. I still recall vividly a thread I started, in which OP documented, with citations, some of the malicious, probably-criminal, shenanigans of the GOP top fraudster Karl Rove. **Bricker** entered the thread defending Karl Rove. I was confused and kept quiet — was **Bricker** playing some semantic trick? Was it just the legal truism that nobody is “criminal” unless convicted of a “crime”? But eventually it came out that **Bricker** knew nothing whatsoever about Karl Rove and had just dropped into the thread like a Pavlov’s dog eager to salivate for one of the GOP stars, _without even bothering to read the OP._ Before that I had thought of him as an intelligent right-winger — as rare as a four-leaf clover and capable of benefit to the SDMB. I was stunned to find out that, whatever his expertise on legal issues unrelated to politics, once U.S. partisan politics were involved he was as willfully ignorant as any Yahoo blogger.

AFAIK, **Bricker** has never deigned to educate himself on Karl Rove’s record and continues to venerate him as a key Republican icon.

No matter what the facts, **Bricker** is always ready to jump in with a _Tu Quoque_, whether factual or imagined. In one recent thread he insisted we Google Joanna Broderick or such. Heavens. Dennis Hastert (once 2 heartbeats away from the Presidency) is in federal prison right now for charges related to molesting an underage boy, while Clinton has never been convicted of a crime. Can you imagine Bricker’s squealing were the party alignments reversed here?

I offered an opinion earlier in this thread which still synopsizes why I find **Bricker** ’s rhetoric hypocritical.

> [@septimus](#):
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> There are two modes by which we might view any issue:  
> [ul][li] (1) A way which combines morality, common-sense and reason to reach a correct answer, the “whole truth.”[/li][li] (2) A hyper-legalistic way which might work against a judge or jury, especially if a witness is particularly stupid.[/li][/ul]
> 
> If **Bricker** consistently adopted mode (2), he would have a function. We could turn to him when we wanted a legalistic view, e.g. if a health or environment advocate were preparing a court case.
> 
> The problem is that Bricker cheerfully bounces between modes 1 and 2, depending on whichever suits his obnoxious right-wing views in the issue at hand. The one constant is his holier-than-thou attitude, condemning mode 2 when he’s temporarily in mode 1, and vice versa.
> 
> A sad thing is that one often detects a glimmer of rationality and candor in his posts. For example, he is not wrong when he blathers “How about if it costs 17 trillion dollars to save a citizen’s life. … should he still get free care? Hunh? Hunh? Hunh?” But the obnoxious holier-than-thou attitude is constant, making it hard to like him even when he’s right. I’d put him on ignore but, frankly, he’s become one of the more amusing animals in the zoo for me.

> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Any Republican who didn’t vote for Trump can’t be all bad.

Recall that Trump used to be a moderate, and it was partly on this basis that **Bricker** declined to support him. Now that he has populated his cabinet and inner circle with right-wing scum and anti-government incompetents like Steve Bannon, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Scott Pruitt, Jeff Sessions, etc. **Bricker** is as delighted with Trump as a pig wallowing in shit.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/411 "2017-03-31T12:51:44Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> I may be guilty of doing that once or twice myself. But there is nothing more annoying, to me, than someone telling me what I really think or mean.

What you _really_ mean is, there’s nothing more _embarrassing_ to you than someone who understands _exactly_ what you mean when you’re _pretending_ to say what you really think. Just admit it!

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**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/412 "2017-03-31T13:07:43Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I haven’t condescended about stuff I don’t have experience with in a long, long time–years even. It’s that, because so many of you know about my mental illness, you **ASSUME** I don’t have the experience.
> 
> It’s extremely frustrating, and is why I typically don’t reveal my mental illness to people. Because I know it will be used against me.

Ah the old victim card. People are attacking you because of your mental illness. That’s terrible and a big no-no these days. Let’s all rally to your side.

But if people attacked you over your mental illness you would see some reference - at least a sort of semi-hint to it - in their posts. I’ve never seen that.

What people are saying is that as a practical matter you have no experience dealing with issues that you pontificate on. Whether this is the result of your mental illness or not is completely immaterial. You still don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s nothing easier than a guy who doesn’t actually deal with the real world to come up with a high-minded righteous approach to situations that he knows nothing about. And when the guy persists in doing it anyway, many people find it annoying.

If you wanted to be a doctor but couldn’t deal with medical school because of some mental illness, you are probably not an authority on medical issues, and people who object to your posing as one are not using your mental issues against you. Similarly, if you wanted to become an auto mechanic and did not because of physical issues you probably don’t have auto-mechanic experience with car issues, and people who object to your posing as one are not using your physical handicap against you.

Note that in my own case, my primary objection to you is not related to the above, but rather to the fact that I believe you’re pretty much a moron (who can crib some superficially intelligent-seeming jargon, by virtue of the enormous time spent absorbing it from other sources). But there are many who object to your constant lecturing despite a lack of life experience, and it’s misleading to portray that as using your mental illness against you.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/413 "2017-03-31T14:00:29Z")

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I have a lot of respect for Bricker and I always read his arguments. He knows a lot about criminal law and he has a keen debater’s mind.

However he has huge moral/ethical blind spots and the one that I find the most dismaying is his absolute support for voter disenfranchisement based on his purely partisan bias and ridiculously justified by the idea that legal voter suppression is needed to assure the voting public that there is no cheating going on, despite the fact that the fear of such cheating was entirely manufactured for this purpose.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/414 "2017-03-31T15:17:22Z")

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> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#):
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> IIRC, it’s ixnay on the otherfuckermay even in the Pit.
> 
> After reading the many Pittings of Bricker over the years, and the fact he stays around and doesn’t change tells me it’s a compulsion he’s unable to control. If there wasn’t already a perfect job for a smug asshole in love w/ his own perceived superior intellect, his guidance counselors would have had to prepare him to starve. I pity all his classmates, must have been miserable to grow up around that.

Yeah, he’s the only Doper possibly guilty of this. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/415 "2017-03-31T16:00:13Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> What you _really_ mean is, there’s nothing more _embarrassing_ to you than someone who understands _exactly_ what you mean when you’re _pretending_ to say what you really think. Just admit it!

No, it’s that so many Internet people take the lazy way out and argue against what they _wish_ their opponent said, rather than what they _actually_ said.

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**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/416 "2017-03-31T19:56:06Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I haven’t condescended about stuff I don’t have experience with in a long, long time–years even. It’s that, because so many of you know about my mental illness, you **ASSUME** I don’t have the experience.
> 
> It’s extremely frustrating, and is why I typically don’t reveal my mental illness to people.

(post shortened)

Just to be clear, you are the one who repeatedly mentions your mental illness. Is that considered typical?

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**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/417 "2017-03-31T20:11:22Z")

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> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
>
> Hey look a bump.
> 
> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=822264&page=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=822264&page=4)
> 
> This thread really does display all the ways in which **Bricker** is just an _infuriating_ tosser. Can’t acknowledge the blatantly obvious without having it spoonfed to him, insists on diversions in attempts to trap liberals and show them being hypocritical, as if _anyone_ gave a shit or it was in any way relevant to the discussion, and just all-around sophistry. Buddy, we _all know you know the answer_. Stop fucking asking us and just make your goddamn point. Are you seriously autistic? Because if so, I apologize, and everything makes a _lot_ more sense. Otherwise, yeah, this is why people hate you.

Your just sayin’ that 'cause your stupid.

Slee

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/418 "2017-03-31T20:24:48Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> Yeah, he’s the only Doper possibly guilty of this. :rolleyes:

I’m personally driven by deep seated compulsions to be hilariously witty at all times.  
It’s exhausting.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/419 "2017-03-31T23:30:12Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> I’m personally driven by deep seated compulsions to be hilariously witty at all times.  
> It’s exhausting.

You are the Mike Trout of wit 🙂

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/420 "2017-04-01T01:02:48Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Do you disagree with what I said, or not? It seems you don’t, but just wanted an excuse to use that outdated meme to attack me.
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> I haven’t condescended about stuff I don’t have experience with in a long, long time–years even. It’s that, because so many of you know about my mental illness, you **ASSUME** I don’t have the experience.
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> It’s extremely frustrating, and is why I typically don’t reveal my mental illness to people. Because I know it will be used against me. You won’t listen to what I say based on my arguments. I can say the exact same thing as someone else, and I still get crap while the other people don’t.

Nobody gives a shit about your mental illness – you’re the one who keeps bringing it up, every time someone criticizes you, or says something you disagree with it. Your illness isn’t an excuse to be a douchebag. You’re not the only one here who’s every had a mental illness, and nobody else expects special treatment for it. Suck it up, buttercup.

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