# Can right and left agree on anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-right-and-left-agree-on-anything/802094 "2017-11-19T19:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 173
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-right-and-left-agree-on-anything/802094/173 "2017-11-20T23:46:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Short story. **Clothy** claims to have been mowing his lawn. Alleged libtard woman complains about the mower fumes. Clothy fails to capitalize on the perfect opportunity to humiliate said libtard due to the fact the mower is electric with a bright orange cord(a Trump-cord, if you will). > As evidence of this encounter, \*\*Clothy \*\*offers a photo of someone’s back from a block away. For the record, here’s the story: > [@Stupid liberal idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6102): > > Okay, I just might have won my own thread. > > I’m kind of old-fashioned. I actually like to mow my own lawn. And given the weather issues lately, it hasn’t been mown for a while and the grass had gotten rather long. > > So I’m out there this morning, mowing away. I stop to dump the grass catcher bag when I was confronted by a woman who was out jogging and who crossed the street to berate me. Why, you might ask? Well, according to her, I’m polluting the living hell out of the environment with the fumes from my lawnmower. She went on and on about how she could smell it and how she didn’t appreciated having to breathe the fumes and what an “insensitive jerk” I was to the needs of the planet and the people around me, and more typical liberal treehugger BS. > > I started laughing at her and couldn’t stop. She got even more upset, to the point where she yelled, and I quote: “It’s not funny, you sorry asshole. You’re killing other people and you don’t even care!” > > [Here’s her offended little ass jogging away from me.](https://i.imgur.com/Mk5f1lu.jpg) I’m just sorry that I don’t have a video of her tirade to share, but I couldn’t get to the phone quick enough. > > Now, the reason I say I win is that stupidity of this magnitude can only be marveled at. You just can’t make up stuff like this; all you can do is cherish it for the absolute moronic stupidity that it is. > > All the while that she was yelling at me about polluting the world and killing people, [this is what she was looking at.](https://i.imgur.com/xZQXNxc.jpg) Personally, I don’t doubt that the encounter went pretty much as described. That said, I struggle to find any reason to accept his interpretation of it as conclusive proof\* that the ideas of liberals are generally stupid and worthy of nothing more than dismissal. Sure, he points out that pictorial evidence shows him to be innocent of the accusation of using a gasoline-powered lawnmower. The woman’s attention to detail can obviously use some work. But if later on during her jog she were to encounter another resident actually USING a gasoline-powered lawnmower, and treated that resident to an identical scolding, her criticisms would have been entirely on point. One imagines that if she HAD noticed the zero (direct)-emissions nature of Clothy’s lawnmower, yet still felt an urge to chastise him, she would have done so on the basis of the resource-wasting character of lawns in general. Which ALSO would not have been stupid, _per se_. No, whether **Clothahump** is a liar and/or a troll is a secondary issue. It may well be that he is simply too stupid to recognize a poisoned well when he sees one (because that excerpt that he chose to put into his OP is inarguably and patently a poisoned well, even without getting into the distinction between actual conservatism and whatever is being advanced as conservatism there). _I assert that “Okay, I just might have won my own thread” is a claim that he has demonstrated his thesis._\* **N.B.** \* to **Clothahump** : “demonstrated his thesis” means “proved his point.” \*\*\*N.B. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase _Nota bene_, which means “Note Well”; the idea being that I’m directing your attention to it, so you have a better chance of understanding it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-right-and-left-agree-on-anything/802094)._