Yes. The people who have their curiosity piqued enough for your purposes but not enough for anything else. Just like they have enough time to do the things that you want, but nothing more. This bizarre segment of the population that conveniently does exactly what you need them to do to fit into your tiny idea of how people behave. Those people.:dubious:
You seriously think that this situation that you have tailored to fit your exact needs constitutes some sort of reasonable anything. It blows my mind. It really does.
I think that spending time defending the honor of imaginary people is a sign of a very serious mental condition. I know it sounds like I’m just being a dick (because I am) but I’m totally concerned. I think you should speak to a professional.
Well, I could have saved you a lot of typing. Nobody cares about the people who don’t know if Obama was born in Hawaii and don’t give a shit, regardless of the post you’ve been addressing lo these many pages.
Funny you should say that considering the only people that seem to fit into your comedically precise category of behavior only exist in your mind. The fucking Sims have more autonomy than the ones you’ve made up.
I call you names because you really are a ridiculous bastard. You’re literally making shit up and expecting everyone else to treat you as if this is a perfectly logical way to carry on an argument. I’ll repeat that because you seem to be unclear as to why nobody will take you seriously. You’re making shit up.
You’ve created this mythical segment of the population that behaves exactly as you need them to for the purposes of your argument and your argument alone and expect everyone else to take it seriously. You’re making shit up.
When did I say anything about the willfully ignorant?
Still, that raises an interesting point. I’m sure that you, for example, are willfully ignorant of a very great deal. We all are. No one can know everything there is to know about everything. Thus we all have to decide which things we’re going to try to learn more about (and to what extent) and which things we’re going to let slide. There are a lot of people out there who for whatever reason have chosen to let the issue of Obama’s birth slide. Big deal. It doesn’t mean they’re stupid and it doesn’t mean they’re worthy of condemnation. It simply means they’ve chosen to focus their attention elsewhere.
The willfully ignorant I’m referring to are the people who affirmatively believe Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii. As opposed to the plain ignorant, who you claim to represent and who I have no truck with.
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That’s exactly my point: you haven’t. Several people have asked if you believe Obama was born in Hawaii, and what you think of people who strongly believe otherwise, and you won’t answer the question. You are effectively doing the same thing as Trump: trying to have your cake and eat it by defending the theory without actually addressing what you think of it.
What have I made up? The only alternative to what I’ve been saying is for there to be no such thing as an intelligent person who doesn’t know that Obama was born in Hawaii. That’s clearly what you’re saying, and it’s the issue you’ve been calling me silly names over for pages.
If I’m wrong and you are indeed cognizant of the fact that intelligent people can be unaware that Obama was born in Hawaii, then what are we arguing about?
In that case, what are we arguing about? I have said repeatedly that the first group falls into the category of being “birthers” and that I wasn’t defending them.
I don’t recall anyone asking me what I think of people who strongly believe Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii. My thinking on that subject (which is another subject entirely) is that if they believe it that strongly, they are wrong and probably willfully ignorant. But that still isn’t the same thing as being “stupid”. I regard stupidity as an inablility to learn or to properly apply that which has been learned. Willful ignorance is another thing altogether. It may not be admirable or desirable, but it still isn’t stupidity.
As for what I think about Obama’s birth, I haven’t answered for the simple reason that I’m not arguing about my beliefs, and I’ve had a hard enough time as it is trying to contend with posters who act like my explanations of other people’s behavior is somehow my own.
Defending hypothetical people is not smart, it is just pitiful. Equally pitiful, is that you are ignoring timelines so you are defending imaginary people that literally were born yesterday.
Well, to be strictly, ruthlessly fair, GIGO, we can’t really say definitively that such people are hypothetical, neuro-teflon, a non-stick surface, cognitively speaking. We only know we haven’t met any, or, having met them, forgot them instantly.
AS difficult as we may find it to believe that such *tabula rasa *actually walk amongst the living, it is not impossible! And if any of us would know such people, who more likely than SA?
So, instead of the imaginary fringe of the lunatic fringe of the ignorant fringe, we have to think he is defending the possibly real fringe of the lunatic fringe of the ignorant fringe?
I don’t get this at all - FOURTEEN pages? REALLY!?!? This thread went off the rails back on page 5 or so when SA reared his head and started spouting his BS.
I don’t know what is more pathetic - his totally senile blithering or the fact that normally more or less sane posters continue to engage him! Did all of you have your cable go out or something?
“Blithering”? You mean as opposed to these brilliant arguments…
*Ah. It’s not a fart. It’s a brainless insignificant insect.
Hey coward! Any chance you gonna take a moment to address my post?
I resort to schoolyard taunts because you run away like a scared child.
Since you’re a cowardly liar…
Isn’t this the point where you announce you’re going to take a pill
Hey liar. Enjoying pretending that you’re correct?
Just say it. You’re scared…
you’re like a big ol’ carp rising whenever we throw day-old waffles in your pond.
Starving Artist is so completely devoid of any basic human intelligence that he has ruined nearly every chair he’s ever owned because he lacks even the mental faculties to get up when he needs to use the bathroom. I’m simply saying that some intelligent people (and furniture store employees) are asking some very reasonable questions. That’s all I’m saying.
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And that’s just a minor sprinkling of the type of the debate I’ve been getting from your “more or less sane” posters over the last eight to ten pages.
It’s telling that you think I’m the one who’s been blithering.
This hypothetical scenario that you’re treating as an argument. These fictional people that previously didn’t have time for the internet that now have time to surf the drudge report and are curious enough to read an article but not curious enough and don’t have enough time to do more research that magically don’t qualify as willfully ignorant. This fantasy that you’ve tailored to suit your exact needs in an attempt to prove something.
It’s shit. It’s complete shit. You’re creating morons of the gaps whose lifestyle suits the undefeatable argument that you think you’re making. It’s made of fairy dust and pixie eyelashes and goblin toenails. It’s complete and utter shit and once again you think the turds you’re dropping are golden eggs. They aren’t. You’ve made shit up and nobody should be humoring you by pretending you haven’t.
Other things have piqued my interest from time to time, but not enough to actually see what they’re all about. Plus I only have so much time. Enough time for this, but nothing else. Then I have to do other things that aren’t this thing and are also not other things. You wouldn’t understand because I’m in the real world and you’re just some liberal elitist who doesn’t understand what life is like.
