# cornopean, conservatives are not oppressed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989 "2013-10-23T01:14:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/21 "2013-10-23T11:38:31Z")
And don’t forget, greed [IS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16777858&postcount=15) good! He can’t be as stupid as his posts would lead one to believe. Which leaves the scenario that he’s merely dragging shiny fishing lures of ignorance behind his trawler. What’s that angling technique called? Yeah, feel free to ignore. Hopefully his posting dries up and goes( It already blows) away… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/22 "2013-10-23T11:47:23Z")
Cornopean, if you come in, would you kindly explain the username? It’s got me baffled. I can’t disagree with any of the comments made so far. To him, reality seems to be whatever is in keeping with right wing orthodoxy. One can only hope for a transformation similar to that of St. Paul. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/23 "2013-10-23T13:47:25Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > That was once said about me… Well, they were mistaken even then. You were 13 at the time and even then thoughtful in your black and white view of the world. The black and white view of the world seems to have given way to shades of gray and 48 bit color. Thoughtfulness commands respect. Don’t get cocky kid! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/24 "2013-10-23T13:49:55Z")
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/25 "2013-10-23T13:55:00Z")
I’m amazed you Dopers bother to engage with his kind of tripe. The nonsensical memes that taxes are theft and government ventures always less efficient than private have been so discredited, I don’t know why you don’t just _“… refer [del]idiotic[/del] honorable Doper to answers given in previous threads.”_ I just ridiculed him a bit in the recent thread (happily escaping Mod Warning). > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Protip for **cornopean** : being the right-wing version of **Der Trihs** is not really something to aspire to. Sometimes Der Trihs goes ape-shit with extreme leftism, but he’s obviously intelligent and, more often than not, spot on in his comments. You should be ashamed to compare him with imbeciles like cornopean. When I hear from such imbeciles, I just pity America that such are allowed to vote. What irritate me far far more are right-wingers with 100-plus IQs, like Will Farnaby. To give some idea of Farnaby’s “thinking” (though he’ll try to backtrack now): [ul][li] The “misallocation” in the 1990’s where people were employed building excess fiber-optic capacity instead of being unemployed and trying to feed families was a disaster so severe as to demonstrate at once that abandoning the gold standard was a mistake.[/li][li] But, the eradication of smallpox, presented as an example of something that could _only_ be accomplished with government coercion, is “irrelevant.”[/li][/ul] ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/26 "2013-10-23T14:00:36Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Cornopean, if you come in, would you kindly explain the username? It’s got me baffled. I assume he’s like a European, but from someplace they grow corn. A real common clay of the new West sorta place. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/27 "2013-10-23T14:18:45Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I assume he’s like a European, but from someplace they grow corn. A real common clay of the new West sorta place. I thought of that, or that he has some urinary disorder due to overconsumption of corn. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/28 "2013-10-23T14:53:23Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Sometimes Der Trihs goes ape-shit with extreme leftism, but he’s obviously intelligent and, more often than not, spot on in his comments. You should be ashamed to compare him with imbeciles like cornopean.[/LIST] Now, now, I more often agree with **DT** ’s amusingly predictable rants than not, but the fact remains that they tend to veer off-topic and derail threads into us/them snipefests. I’m not going to argue my point any further than this post, but when **DT** “goes apeshit” IMO his behavior is no different in character, nor significantly less obnoxious, than that of our guest of honor, and I don’t feel at all ashamed to make that statement. Who got a Warning for “pointless bashing” in that thread, and was cited by the Mod as a reason for closing the thread as well? Twasn’t **cornopean**. I’m just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/29 "2013-10-23T15:22:48Z")
Der Trihs may go over the top at times, but what he says is generally factually correct. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/30 "2013-10-23T15:27:11Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Der Trihs may go over the top at times, but what he says is generally factually correct. Seriously? You mean anybody who espouses any religion at all is seeking to dominate and demonize anybody who doesn’t? That each and every conservative is literally a monster who earnestly wants to stomp on “lesser” people? Bullshit. When **DT** sticks to facts, they’re generally correct. The problem is **DT** veers off facts and into la-la-land straw-manning and personal opinion pretty damned fast. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/31 "2013-10-23T15:52:52Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > When **DT** sticks to facts, they’re generally correct. The problem is **DT** veers off facts and into la-la-land straw-manning and personal opinion pretty damned fast. Remember the old cartoons with the absurd machinery? Like the mill that takes entire logs and chops them down to a single toothpick and then daintily puts it in the toothpick box? Now I’m imagining Der Trihs as one of those old cartoons; as a combine that drives through a field harvesting straw and dropping straw men out the back end. ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/32 "2013-10-23T16:35:10Z")
Can we keep this thread on topic, or at least related topics, namely, the conservatives who like to pretend hate crimes don’t exist? Take the bitching about other posters elsewhere. The “attacks on conservatives are strawmen” really isn’t appropriate in a thread that includes a link to a guy who says people who burn down mosques are pro freedom of religion. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/33 "2013-10-23T16:38:32Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > Take the bitching about other posters elsewhere. The “attacks on conservatives are strawmen” really isn’t appropriate in a thread that includes a link to a guy who says people who burn down mosques are pro freedom of religion. Two wrongs don’t make a right. So, there are conservative idiots. What of it? That means it’s ok to demonize all conservatives? If you want to bitch about **cornopean** , go right ahead. There’s plenty of idiocy there to complain about. But you’re painting with a mile-wide brush when you’re trying to paint a significant portion of the US the same way, including several posters here who aren’t the atavistic night terrors you make them out to be. ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/34 "2013-10-23T16:40:51Z")
Great. Make your own fucking pit thread. There’s this button called “New Thread” you can press. Instead, you’re taking a thread slapping down a guy who claims conservatives suffer more violence than other groups and making it into how conservatives get treated so meanly on a message board. Maybe have some fucking perspective. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/35 "2013-10-23T17:05:49Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > Great. Make your own fucking pit thread. There’s this button called “New Thread” you can press. Instead, you’re taking a thread slapping down a guy who claims conservatives suffer more violence than other groups and making it into how conservatives get treated so meanly on a message board. > > Maybe have some fucking perspective. Thing is, there’s nothing about cornupean that can’t be summarized in a single mocking paragraph. His stated views simply don’t lend themselves to nuanced analysis. And once we exhaust the limited opportunity he presents, why _not_ take a shot at Der Trihs? Personally, I find Trihs to be monotonous, predictable and repetitive, downright consistent in his redundancy. ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/36 "2013-10-23T17:10:55Z")
> [@](#): > > And once we exhaust the limited opportunity he presents, why not take a shot at Der Trihs? Because that’s not what this thread is for. People complain that Der Trihs hijacks posts, and now you’re hijacking a post to complain about him for the reason of “Why not”. The pitee hasn’t even responded/seen the thread yet, and you want to change its subject to be about somebody else. Seriously, go away. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/37 "2013-10-23T17:22:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Cornopean, if you come in, would you kindly explain the username? It’s got me baffled. It’s a portmanteau word meaning “ **corn** ucopia for a Eur **opean** table,” which is a centerpiece that Europeans put on their table for the feast they always have to fuel up for the beginning of the Christmas Shopping season. Or the European War on Christmas. It could be either of those. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/38 "2013-10-23T17:28:20Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > Can we keep this thread on topic, or at least related topics, namely, the conservatives who like to pretend hate crimes don’t exist? 😕 Is that the thread topic? From the title and OP I suspected it was about conservatives who are perfectly content to concede the existence of hate crimes, but that conservatives are the only victims of them. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/39 "2013-10-23T17:30:50Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > **Because that’s not what this thread is for.** People complain that Der Trihs hijacks posts, and now you’re hijacking a post to complain about him for the reason of “Why not”. The pitee hasn’t even responded/seen the thread yet, and you want to change its subject to be about somebody else. **Seriously, go away.** HAHAHAHAHAHA! You’re adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989/40 "2013-10-23T17:39:16Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > Because that’s not what this thread is for. People complain that Der Trihs hijacks posts, and now you’re hijacking a post to complain about him for the reason of “Why not”. The pitee hasn’t even responded/seen the thread yet, and you want to change its subject to be about somebody else. Seriously, go away. Why would he? I’ve never been the subject of a pit thread, but you can be damned sure I would make no effort to explain or defend myself within it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornopean-conservatives-are-not-oppressed/671989.md?page=3)