I am not sure if you are aware but every time you drop the whole ‘tighty-righty cootie bomb’ crap it makes you look like a full on tool.
If your goal is to convince people that your side of the argument is correct, using third grade insults in a debate isn’t the way to do it. Of course, in the linked thread you don’t actually make any arguments so your best bet might be to post only when you have something to say instead of posting drive by snipes and one line posts with a link.
Wait, are you trying to tell me that elucidator is actually a person? Not an advanced bot of some sort that strings randomly-generated words together to make semi-coherent posts?
Well, I did reply with a link, and by the time **elucidator **responded it was already demonstrated that the ‘tighty-righty cootie bomb’ cite was lying by omission (this is the internet, not updating a site after so many years does show me how far the lie is going). And a site that it seems gave a virus alert.
After demonstrating that the cite was very likely just a Google vomit. I think joking about the site is perfectly OK.
So get back to your bit on that lousy movie sleestak.
Sometimes it is the duty of the good to point out the obvious and give a kick in the nuts to assholes. The OP clearly objects to the exercise of right of people to do that. Such objections are only made by the sort of people for whose benefit the rules of polite conversation are made. Civilization has made a trade: American lefties are going to occasionally call names. American righties are going to always call names and hope that they never get prosecuted for their death squads like Cheney’s assassination team and terrorist groups like Operation Rescue.
I do think elucidator would be a better advocate for his position if he cut down on the sarcasm and focused more on actually rebutting his opponents’ cases.
Squink, was there something more you to your post? The quote is a bit out of context, and Drudge-like in its misleadingness.
The Web site was taking umbrage with a Maureen Dowd editorial in which she referred to “a gaggle of white Republican men… .” The Aryan/Jew references come across in a different light if you include the lead-in quote from the page:
I have no idea if the site is as batshit (or more) as the Freepers or as ghastly as the Stormers, but I don’t think that quote demonstrates it.
I recall an ancient episode of Siskel & Ebert, back when it was still called At the Movies, in which they reviewed a Cheech & Chong movie (probably Still Smokin’, based on the time frame). They both agreed that they didn’t like the movie, but felt that Cheech & Chong movies would be much more enjoyable if they’d get rid of all the drug humor and stop saying “man.”
They apparently weren’t kidding, either.
Some of us use sarcasm as a tenderizer. Softens them up a bit, so our more graphomanic brethren—with their cites and logic and Field Guide to Rhetorical Fallacies—can come along and deliver the coup de grâce. (Not to speak for elucidator, of course—his English is coming along nicely these days…)
Not really, they still tell me that the people putting together the page are major league assholes.
Seriously, I’d rather have single click blind links to hardcore porn than to nasty sites like that. Obviously YMMV, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a little discretion in what debaters link to, or at least a fucking warning.
Oh, luci is a real person all right. Can’t speak for him but I am guessing the sarcasm comes from a long time of trying reasonable rational discourse and failing…so one resorts to one-liners and sarcasm. I can’t entirely blame him, to be honest.
Personally I find him funny as hell. Even though I don’t always get all of his jokes (sorry, luci, some of them refer to stuff well before my time).
Republicans, as a group, are not law abiding and infact are unrepentant war criminals. The whole party deserves an international war crimes tribunal. Utter pieces of shit they are.
Luci’s blessing and his curse is that he’s a boomer and a 60’s radical, a species I have a deep familiarity with (hi Dad!). They can be incredibly annoying at times, but also very funny, and they’ve been known to produce the occasional insight.