There are many similarities. Both are fanatically committed to their partisan POV, yet unable to defend their beliefs other than by repeatedly parroting canned talking points. Neither have any shred of intellectual integrity. and habitually engage in breathtaking flights of hypocrisy. Both routinely lie, change the subject and invoke strawman arguments when it’s pointed out that they are wrong. Both constantly derail threads by coming in and saying the same stupid shit they say in every thread. Both, at the end of the day, are dumb as fucking rocks.
On the whole, I think I actually prefer Ditka. At least he can write grammatically correct sentences and often provides actual cites for his claims; his cites rarely prove what he thinks they do, but at least he takes that little bit of effort to pretend to be trying to have a real discussion. Also, he can discourse on a slightly broader range of topics than DrDeth, who AFAICT never has anything to contribute to any discussion other than “Progressives are eeeeevil!”
OTOH, DrDeth serves the useful purpose of preventing Democrats from getting smug and thinking that* all* the idiots are on the other side. That’s, I suppose, something.
If you’ve read one DrDeth post, you’ve pretty much read all of them, but this thread gives a representative example of his act, including, at post 133, the all time classic line “So taking money from Big Oil can mean you are into Green Energy.” Ditka…eh, he’s already got a whole thread here.
But why choose just one? There’s no shortage of room on the ignore list!
Be careful what you wish for. “Quando dio vuole castigarci, ci manda quello che desideriamo” (mandatory West Wing quote)
Ignore them at your peril, indeed “ignore them” is a key contributor to why a profoundly mis-qualified candidate waltzed through your supposedly rigorous primary process all the way to the White House.
Regard their divergent views as functioning as a political coalmine canary.
Yes, they regularly shit in their cages and need to feed them and their welfare attended to, and you mightn’t like their song much either but if they cark it, you are in really deep trouble.
That’s…quite a thread. Still, he did manage to write an OP on a subject unrelated to the evilness of Bernie Sanders, so I guess he’s not quite as much a one-trick pony as I’d thought.
Well, as usual I’ll go against the grain. I don’t think either is a troll. There have been posters I suspect are trolls, or who act like them from my perspective, but neither of these guys would be on my own list, FWIW (probably not a lot :p). I think they just are coming at things from so different a position and world view that many on this board really can’t even grasp it, so it seems trollish to them.
I think there are things they could be Pitted over that the OP could do, but trolling ain’t one of them, at least IMHO.
To me a troll is just someone who winds people up for no apparent reason. I don’t think either are trolls. Their online personas might be watered down versions of who they are in real life, but it wouldn’t surprise me if what they say online is the same as what they say in person.
He, of course, doesn’t get that accredited degrees have requirements for the aspiring student to earn the things. Also, just because one has a degree that specifies a particular field of study does not mean the degree-holder will be limited to jobs in just that sector of the job market. The fact that the degree-holder now holds a degree will make them more attractive for employment outside of the focus of the degree, with a few obvious exceptions (as a linguistics major, there’s no way I’ll be working on a nuclear power plant, for example).
I haven’t dealt with Ditka too many times and the handful of times I’ve found myself in a thread with DrDeth I quickly learned that if you don’t quote him, don’t reply to any questions he directs at you and generally just ignore him, he’ll focus his energy on another poster. Of course, like any other similar posters, as long as someone continues to interact with him, he’s not going anywhere.
The problem is often times you don’t even realize you’re playing right into his trap or if you’ve never dealt with him you don’t even realize what’s going on until you’re a dozen back and forth posts into it and you’re sitting there going ‘wtf is this guy going on about’.
But if you learn to recognize the signs and you have the discipline to stop responding they’ll leave you alone.
Dio really gets all the credit for teaching me this important lesson.