Unfuckin’believable.
Thank you for keeping us informed of each new development in this endlessly dying relationship.
Fuck em’, OP. I’m interested.
So kook who has always been a kook is still a kook. Did I get that right? Its early I sorta dozed off in the middle somewhere.
Snakes are ducks?
Well … who knew?
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfuckin’ ducks on this motherfuckin’ thread!
Please desist immediately from using this obvious allusion to our copyrighted legal name.
Bubbadog
Chief Legal Authority
Snakes-R-Us
I’d be so tempted to email Uncle Doofie back with a long, torturous explanation (with dozens of cites and diagrams and maybe a powerpoint), all detailing why snakes are indeed not ducks.
ETA: Heck, get all your friends to email him: a whole InBox full of subjects like “Wait, are snakes really ducks?” “SNAKES ARE NOT DUCKS!” “Snakes vs Ducks: What the gubmint won’t let you find out”, “Does a snake’s quack echo?”, etc etc.
OP, I feel your pain but I think you made a grave tactical error when you decided this idiot was worth responding to. I get that you thought the guy might be salvageable, but really, as soon as anyone plays the conspiracy card they’re basically declaring themselves to be beyond hope. Any evidence which supports a conspiracy theorist’s view proves him right, but any evidence which undermines his theory proves the existence of the conspiracy against him, which also proves him right. That’s genuinely how they see it, and they don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. Talking sense to these people is like showing a card trick to a fucking dog. All you do is baffle them and rile them up. No matter what you say you can’t convince them. The only way to win is not to play.
I’m currently in the early stages of building a little website devoted to debunking all manner of weird conspiracy crap, from AIDS denialism, to anti-vax bullshit, to 9/11 “Trutherism”, to ancient astronauts, to the law of attraction and any other batshit conspiracy gibberish that gets on my tits. It’s nothing fancy, just a little Wordpress thing. Mostly it’s a reaction to seeing this nonsense posted by some of my so-called “friends” on Facebook. One day, I’ll have it finished and then every time they ask me what I think about whatever harebrained crap they’re puking over my newsfeed that day, I can just link to the appropriate page on the site. I know it’d be easier to unfriend them, but maybe I can help a few other people as well. My advice to you would be to do something similar. You can’t convince these people on a 1-2-1 basis, but the more good info that’s out there, the fewer people will fall for it in the first place. I hope.
Snopes is run by a bunch of communist pinkies who helped get Obama elected, with the help of the Russians and the Chinese, to ruin America.
http://defeatcommunism.com/profiles/blogs/snopesanother-propaganda-tool
This is a great idea which I ultimately don’t have the effort or interest to go through with.
Well, I did a fairly exhaustively researched rebuttal of several major HIV myths, to this asshole, which might be of use to you. If you’re interested, PM me.
But of course it does, that’s an immutable feature of board culture.
Besides, what option is there to start a partial thread?
Hasn’t there been a monthly mini-rant thread for the last little while?
If this is “mini” then the list of threads that shouldn’t be put there probably come down to stuff AskThePizzaGuy wrote.
Is this a whoosh?
Because I don’t want to attack these sources if I turns out you’re not serious. :dubious:
Pretty much everything Drunky Smurf writes is a whoosh.
This may or may not be a whoosh.
Yeah, from what I’ve read of his posts, me and him aren’t on the same side of the spectrum.
I was about to post this quote, which is one I like to dig out on occasions like this (much like the doper favourite, “You can’t reason someone out of a position he didn’t reason himself into”):
I’ve always thought this was said (or written) by Herbert Spencer, the Victorian philosopher, but Wikiquote has informed me that it’s actually misattributed, and was actually originated in the 18th century by a guy called William Paley. You learn something new every day.
Quote is still true, though.
Yup, it’s true. They’re funded exclusively by George Soros, who is a well-known totalitarian communist trying to destroy America at the bidding of his Societ/ChiCom masters.
And worse? They’re academics!
Always a bit disappointing to find out the people you admired when very young are really just glib assholes. But that happens to us all. The best revenge is thirty years from now when one of your best friend’s kids discovers that you too are just a glib jerk and not really cool.