Seriously? :dubious: The whole point is that people can come in here and insult everyone and be “potty-mouthed” or whatever you call it. If you’re going to insist on hanging out around here, either suck it up, or get the fuck out.
Coming into a forum where the whole purpose is flaming and acting all butthurt over people acting rude and swearing is completely fucking retarded.
:rolleyes:
“Democrats aren’t interested in playing fair. They cheat their own (as Bernie learned, to his amazement), so you know they’ll cheat their opponents.”-In the interest of veracity, Bernie is not a Democrat.
Do you have something to say? Seriously, go ahead. Tell us how everything was so great back in the Nifty-Fifties when everyone was all “Golly-Gee Willikikers!” and nobody every got naked in public or admitted that they were cheating on their spouses.
(No, really, I’m tired of people who insist on hanging out in the Pit and then whining about everyone swearing being rude. You can’t have it both ways.)
He can do that, but it works better if you give him some paper towel tubes to demonstrate.
No, actually what I had to say but decided on a smilie instead was that it’s so cute when you try you pretend to have the status or authority around here to boss people around. Given your own history here, you lack the gravitas to be making such pronouncements and instead come off looking like a wannabe trying to hang with the cool kids.
Gosh, got a mental picture of poor Guin, curled up in agony on the floor and crying out for ice cream to sooth the humiliation and despair. Total burn!
How many people remember those ads for EF Hutton, where everyone within earshot would stop to listen to this brokerage’s opinions?
“Well, my junior mod on the Straight Dope is Starving Artist, and Starving Artist says…”
But this time, literally nobody cares. In fact, people instinctively pick up their activity levels and some even start singing LALALALALA to themselves.
Her credibility is leagues beyond yours, until such time as she tries to use paper products to explain the difficult mechanics of child-rape.
Curious you should mention that. As with the paper towel tubes, I initially tried to get the point across in a more subtle manner. But sometimes you just gotta hit people over the head with something before they get the point.
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I hope you’re proud of your dirty, filthy mouth. Why I’ve never and I mean NEVER seen a poster use such language. I’m surprised this board allows it. Even in the Pit. I thought it had integrity. Well, ignorance fought SDMB! Now I know all the dirty words and I can’t forget!
Why? It’s pretty much your defining moment on this board. You were so incensed that icky liberals were being unkind to someone you liked, that your brain went from “half-power” to completely “off” and you spouted one of the most ridiculous thought experiments ever conceived.
A license to act demented is not a mandate. FYI, I’m not telling anyone how to act. I understand and support free speech. Not that the Pit has free speech but that’s beside the point.
Well, feel free to express your prissy sanctimony and we’ll feel free to mock you as we see fit, profanity optional but highly likely.
Thanks for making your position plain. I recognize that this is a community dedicated to fighting ignorance; I am afraid I can not help you further. Good luck to you.
Posts 14, 31, and 74, among others, demonstrate conclusively that your premise is nonsense. As usual, you have completely ignored substantive arguments against your premise to whine about how mean the “liberals” are being to you.
Your well-poisoning doomed this thread right from the get-go. No one likes bullshit arguments being raised to demonize them politically. This is just as valid a reason for the responses you are getting as anything you have proposed above.
No, it really isn’t. Real people are in this thread telling you what they think and believe. If you can’t accept that much, then what are you getting from this board?
You later admitted that it was indeed physically possible for a tall person to penetrate a short person from behind (as is obvious to anyone with an internet connection), so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to reinforce.
Because he believes we are lying to him because his sources told him that we are liars.
Because it continues to reinforce his self-image of being a righteous warrior against the forces of evil liberals.
I wish that was a joke, but I’m pretty sure it’s true. Let me re-iterate an earlier point:
This is key; the nonsense quoted in the OP in the Town Hall article is the sort of material that gets passed around many right-wing sites and, combined with a heavily dualistic worldview, exacerbates the hyperpartisan views of its audience: not only are they the good guys, but by exclusion anyone who disagrees with them must be the bad guys. They define themselves in the most positive light and then ascribe those characteristics or their diametric opposite to people depending on whether the people involved are an “Us” or a “Them”.
To take one example, this is why many Trump supporters insist that Trump - a man who has shown no evidence whatsoever of faith apart from some minor lip service, is profoundly ignorant of the church he purports to belong to, revels in self-aggrandizement and wealth, brags about cheating other and molesting women, and literally owns a golden chair in a golden room in a golden tower built to his own glory - is “in his heart” a devout Christian, but Obama - who spent decades attending church (remember Reverend Wright?), devoted his early career to helping the poor, and has openly declared his faith in Jesus as his “Lord and Savior” - must be a Muslim and/or atheist.
The problem is that not only can you not reason someone out of a position they haven’t reasoned themselves into, there’s nothing you can offer them to persuade them from a position which provides them with a great deal of personal comfort and reassurance and, if abandoned, would reveal them to have been gullible fools taken in by unscrupulous politicians and businessmen. No one wants to believe they’ve been conned, and this is a big - and for many people a lifelong - con.
I do want to add a big caveat or two here: the above does not apply to all conservatives, many of whom are shrewd, smart and self-aware enough not to fall for the Alex Joneses and Glenn Becks of the world. And there are also plenty of lies that insular left-wingers tell themselves, often tied to the same sort of Manichaean worldview, although the machines driving those lies are much less central and well-funded than the right-wing ones are at present.
But Clothahump? His faith in his worldview is a mighty wall that insulates him from all that might challenge it, and reality be damned.
On preview: I took so long to write this that DrFidelius ninja’d me with a one-liner saying the same thing. But I wrote this and dammit, I’m gonna post it.