greenslime1951 is snarky and arrogant ...

[Monocracy]

And is acting like a jerk in this thread in Great Debates.

He manages to add subtle or not-so-sublte insults into almost every post. He accuses anyone who disagrees with him of being a Marxist and hating “eeeeeevil corporations”. No poster, even the ones that may feel that way, has said that in the thread.

He ignores poster’s arguments and refuses to give cites for his claims.

You want some examples, i’ll give you a couple. All quotes are snippets of greenslime’s posts:

In order to answer this question meaningfully in terms of the past decade, we’d have to get in a time machine, go back to the year 2000 or so, cancel the tax cuts on the eeeeeevil rich, and then see how things play out.

Let’s set aside the populist anti-rich rhetoric for juuuuust a moment.

You didn’t seem to understand what I meant so I’ll restate it more simply.

You seem to view increased corporate profits as an inherently bad thing, and the existence of the rich as likewise an evil.

A basic economics course would be of great benefit to you.

I’m sorry that that sounds like basic economics to you.

His painting of (increased) corporate profits as an inherently bad thing could have had no rational justification other than the populist view that businesses, corporations, rich people, etc. are themselves inherently undesirable.

His somewhat shaky logic kind of impelled me to see his posts as just another anti-big business diatribe.

Sorry, you don’t get to employ the internet kiddie tactic of sneering at a person’s argument in one breath and “adopting” it in another.

(That last one is my favorite, when someone rightfully called him out on his time machine hypocritical bullshit.)

You’re not seeing how circular your arguments are, so I should probably give up on you. You will believe what you want to believe.

I didn’t think I’d have to point out the obvious:

You know, that’s the kind of shallow thinking I thought that people here were immune to.

Look, I get it. You hate corporations and the rich. Tax 'em into oblivion and we’ll all be better off. Destroying corporations and the rich will create jobs!

This is illustrative of the fundamental misunderstandings that have permeated this discussion.

I don’t know what you think a “fair” amount would be. My guess is 100%, based on your assertion that it would be much more wisely and socially optimally spent by the government.

Oh by the way, I realized you very well might not know something:

One other thing you might be ignorant of:

To answer your question as if it were an actual question

Uh, no. You still don’t understand.

Your viewpoint and how you’ve expressed it strongly suggest a highly distorted way of looking at the subject: that of a populist hatred of the rich and a conviction that all their evil deeds are the primary cause of the current economic misery. If that’s not how you truly feel, I do apologize, but I suggest you restructure how you argue so that it doesn’t seem as if you are twisting facts because you have an ax to grind.

And yes yes yes yes yes, I know everyone’s view of the rich is that they all have immense piles of cash that they keep in the downstairs vault or in the Cayman Islands, etc. They don’t invest it, they just sit on it and cackle. They don’t really create jobs anyway. Blah blah blah. We move directly from that to a populist justification that since they’re not doing anything meaningful with their wealth, it’s OK to take it.

Uh, no. This is another basic misunderstanding.

I’ve come up with a way to help all of you to understand what is obviously a very difficult concept for you to grasp.

I’m sorry, but I am more inclined to believe what I learned in college than the postings of a few random internet loons. You’re beginning to sound even more ridiculous now.

Yes, you have stumbled on the truth, at least partially.

Breathtakingly inane.

By the way, do any of you proto-Marxists realize that the cash socked away by the evil rich still works in the economy?

Once again, you folks need to put away the comic books that show Scrooge McDuck rolling around in his money in his basement vault.

Sigh. Another thing I guess I have to spell out.

I acknowledge that you have not explicity said that the rich/corporations are evil. Your arguments and their ideological origins merely strongly suggest that you feel that way.

[Simple_Linctus]

greenslime’s a fucking retard. You should see him in the vietnam war thread - he actually tried to use conservapedia as a cite.

[kayaker]

Fucker ran over my dog and never even stopped.

[RetroVertigo]

Cite?
sorry could not help myself.

[Monocracy]

@RetroVertigo

Cite?

Oregon.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

I particularly liked his “I’ve taken 7 college courses in economics with a 4.0 GPA” technique. That certainly must have convinced some of the rightness of his argument.

Sadly for him, I have a Ph.D. in economics, a 10 inch wang and a supermodel girlfriend. So I automatically win the GISP* contest.

*Giant Internet Swinging Penis

[John_Mace]

Well, he’s not the worst of the Class of “Join Date July 2012”. He’s obviously found a new toy and maybe someday he’ll learn how to play with it.

[boytyperanma]

@Euphonious_Polemic

I particularly liked his “I’ve taken 7 college courses in economics with a 4.0 GPA” technique. That certainly must have convinced some of the rightness of his argument.

Sadly for him, I have a Ph.D. in economics, a 10 inch wang and a supermodel girlfriend. So I automatically win the GISP* contest.

*Giant Internet Swinging Penis

cite. pics preferred.

[Enkel]

@boytyperanma

cite. pics preferred.

I second the demand for pictures. There’s no way you have a 4.0 GPA.:dubious:

[Enkel]

I’d add in the thread where greenslime wants to test before allowing people to vote. In that thread s/he either wants to test for 8th grade skills and/or only allow the top 2% of ‘intelligent’ people vote. (Can’t seem to find the thread now, maybe it was deleted?)

[billfish678]

@Enkel

I second the demand for pictures. There’s no way you have a 4.0 GPA.:dubious:

Thats the Giant Penis Analysis rating. And don’t be too impressed. The scale is 1 to 100

[Der_Trihs]

@Enkel

I’d add in the thread where greenslime wants to test before allowing people to vote. In that thread s/he either wants to test for 8th grade skills and/or only allow the top 2% of ‘intelligent’ people vote. (Can’t seem to find the thread now, maybe it was deleted?)

Found it.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Enkel

I’d add in the thread where greenslime wants to test before allowing people to vote. In that thread s/he either wants to test for 8th grade skills and/or only allow the top 2% of ‘intelligent’ people vote. (Can’t seem to find the thread now, maybe it was deleted?)

@Der_Trihs

Found it.

The really funny part part of that thread is that greenslime suggests questions for the civics test and demonstrates ‘knowing’ the wrong answers. greenslime could not pass the proposed test either.

[garygnu]

He’s like a Magic the Gathering creature. A green troll that can produce 0/1 Strawman tokens using black mana and a tap. (Not that he would know what any of that means.)

[BrainGlutton]

@Enkel

I’d add in the thread where greenslime wants to test before allowing people to vote.

Sounds like common sense to me. (“Vote,” eh? Is that what the kids are calling it now?)

[VinylTurnip]

@garygnu

A green troll

Ding. Next topic.

[Voyager]

Another one from the moron:

Yes, you have stumbled on the truth, at least partially. Increasing taxes on corporations won’t stimulate consumer demand. I cannot see how anywhere in your argument, that equates to a good reason to increase corporate taxes.

What I stumbled upon is that companies don’t invest without demand. He ignored it for the entire thread. And of course he is lying about everyone else’s position. No one in the entire thread mentioned raising corporate taxes.

And he thinks his couple of econ classes make him an expert. Given the evidence in the Job Creator thread, his reading comprehension is not so good. Maybe he doesn’t cite because the internet connection in his parents’ basement isn’t any good?

It is pretty common for kids right out of school to think they know everything, but most of them are much more polite about it than Mr. Slime.

[not_what_you_d_expect]

@boytyperanma

cite. pics preferred.

I want pics too. Not of the girlfriend.

I reckon ole Mr. Slime will get himself banned before long, what with all his condescending snark.

[Cazzle]

If being snarky and arrogant is a pittable offence now, we’re going to need a bigger pit.

[Wesley_Clark]

@BrainGlutton

Sounds like common sense to me. (“Vote,” eh? Is that what the kids are calling it now?)

Voting is on paper is so nouveau anyway. In my days we had rocks, if you liked one guy you picked up a black rock and if you liked the other guy you got a white rock. Rock the vote we called it. And we were thankful to have it, not like todays generation.