Frankly I think his participation in his pittings would be largely pointless. And he doesn’t frequent the pit. Of his last 25 posts, 21 have been in Great Debates: none were in the pit.
That brings us back to 8/6. So over about 11 days we have 2 posts to the BBQ Pit, neither one of which were directed against an active member: both were jokes. FTR, I recall a time a couple of years ago when he said it was his policy not to respond to his own pittings (with exceptions) but at the same time he avoided pitting others. Fair is fair or so he said, IIRC.
Glancing over his other contributions: yes, most involved pronounced hyper-ventilation.
I now want to rape Iraqi women ('cuz they’re so HOT) at gunpoint while I scream “**DerTrihs **said I’d do this!” at them while I give them unwanted pregnancies. And shit.
And if you’re a true Christian you will then handcuff them to the bed for nine months and rub your hands gloating as they die in childbirth, if I’ve correctly understood the Gospel According To Der.
I think to complete the circle you also have to impregnate a woman and conspire to bleed some poor unsuspecting sap dry via lightning flashhorse cries CHILD SUPPORT lightning flashorgan music
So “Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal Building in Oklahoma City was supported by some Republican congressmen” is pretty reasonable to you?
You have a strange definition of reasonable. That comment is just batshit insane no matter how many times you insert the word “some”. And Der Trihs has made such comments in almost every thread I have followed him in.
They aren’t reasonable but too absolute. They are the insane rantings of a man who has gone, barking fucking mad.
It used to be almost a cliche to say “I am not a bigot; I hate everyone”, and it’s always annoyed me. I have a soft spot in my heart for true misanthropes: I kind of admire the independent spirit and self-containment implied by a person that really just doesn’t like anyone, that dislikes people for their persistent people-ness. Der Trihs is the antithesis of that.
I do feel sorry for him, though. I think he truly believes in the world he is always talking about, one where Capitalistic Fat Cats sit around smoking cigars and boasting about how much money they made feeding chalk dust to minority babies, where Bush actually sat down with Cheney and said 'What the best way to kill Arabs and Iraqis? Some sort of invasion? Start a civil war?", where every cop he sees he knows is a man who lives only to beat and abuse people, every military uniform represents someone who would drown babies with a smile if they were ordered to, every woman he encounters is plotting to get whatever she can from him and would see ruining his life as a bonus. It must be a hellish place to live.
A couple of years back, someone started an MPSIMS thread for women to discuss their experiences of being raped and sexually abused. He and a few other posters hijacked the thread when women who had been raped admitted the resulting anxiety and fearfulness around strange men/circumstances similar to the rape. He attacked the rape victims for being sexist, because they had PTSD. The level of vitriol he had was just insane. It was probably one of the single most disturbing things I’ve witnessed here. And even more disturbingly, he frequently references that thread as ‘‘evidence’’ that women view all men as potential rapists. That is seriously what he got out of that thread.
But not because of his religious beliefs but due to Bush’s views on American strategy which somebody Christopher Hitchens (incidentally a far more likable and less self-righteous anti-theist activist than Der Trihs) supported
Well, no, many former friends did dislike Hitchens for his full of fail reasons on supporting the war in Iraq. He thought that his biggest failure was not to convince others of following his folly:
Thanks for looking that up. I just remembered that he had stated be never “does” the pit and then being surprised when I saw him in threads. This was over several years. I have no idea how often. I still think he is a coward. He hides behind his keyboard saying things he would never say to someones face. And he is a doper coward because he won’t go into his pit threads and knows that going after him in other threads would be threadshitting. He pokes people with pointy sticks then runs away.
Agreed. He is basically a caricature of a basement Internet dweller.
Der Trihs doesn’t really bother me. As I said earlier, he doesn’t derail threads like some of our other famous problem posters. There’s no “Der Trihs show” like there were Dio shows and Liberal shows. His over the top opinions seem more crazy and sad than rageworthy. Manda Jo nailed it perfectly. And he can be witty sometimes, especially when he’s not dealing with one of his trigger areas.
What does continue to baffle me are the large numbers of posters–including many in this thread–who praise him as being intellectually stimulating and a strong debater. It just leaves me speechless. I’m an atheist, I think George Bush was a terrible president, and I strongly opposed the Iraq war, so I’m not against him on any ideological fronts (Other than the misogyny.) But he’s so ridiculously over the top, it ruins whatever point others are trying to make. Bush didn’t have a bloodlust to kill Arabs, Christians do not get off on torturing women and are not out to kill him. I just can’t see how anyone, no matter how left they may be, can read his posts and think “These are the writings of a sage individual, bringing reason and evidence to bear on important topics.”
Where I used to work there was this guy I’ll call Eddie who’d hang out by the corner handing out scribbled tracts about how the Twelve Tribes of Israel were controlling his mind by using psychic torture. I suppose I could have been offended by Eddie, but he was such a sad stunted man I could only feel pity and a sort of morbid fascination. However, not once did anyone ever say “That Eddie’s got some smart ideas. Really makes you think.” That would have been, well, surreal. I would have never expected it to happen. And yet here we are.
ETA: and seriously, comparing him to GWB? that’s kind of silly. It’s very easy to not kill hundreds of thousands of people when you have no political power and rarely leave the house.
If you weren’t such a numbskull, you’d realize that I’m talking about his mindset and how he frames his arguments. Gee, he didn’t start any wars or anything. No shock, Sherlock.
Now, if you want to hitch your wagon to DT and defend him as quite a few people like to do, knock yourself.