I’ve posed him a simple arithmetic riddle in another thread. Before letting him make a fool of himself, I even tried to help him figure it out, writing “D+R total.” Nobody help him now please! He’ll probably just double down, and whine that it’s a Wikipedia vs Septimus dispute. In the unlikely event that he’s numerate enough to figure out the point, he’ll be caught in a dilemma: (1) Continue to pretend he’s innumerate, (2) Make a fool of himself defending his error.
The 3rd choice — “Oh, I see. Good point!” — is beyond the capability of a right-winger. Their philosophy has nothing to do with reason, reality, or even simple arithmetic truth, so an admission of mistake would be logically impossible. Whatever slime oozes from one of Trump’s orifice (or from one of their own) is “Truth” for them.
No surprise in the Kavanaugh thread that HD values Republican political concerns – confirming Kavanaugh ASAP no matter what – far, far more than maybe considering whether an attempted rapist is about to be seated on the SCOTUS. He doesn’t give a shit about protecting women from sexual assault, as should be extremely clear by his posts over the last year or two.
Again, he’s not the only one. In fact, not one of the self-described Republican supporters in that thread have stated what would be a deal-breaker for them - not perjury, not money laundering, not even rape. It isn’t just Party First, it’s Party Only for them.
And hey, I feel bad being mean to you because I can see that you’re a genuinely nice guy. But shitty posting motherfuckers only exist because they’re engaged by other posters. And the gee golly motherfuckers who post pitworthy shit elsewhere on the board, but pretend to be too “classy” or whatever to participate in the Pit should just be starved the fuck out. Peace, Andy.
They feel free to *express *their “views” with the world on message boards, but that doesn’t mean they *hold *those views *because *of message boards. They’d believe that stuff in the absence of the Internet, like previous generations did. But ,here, they’re subjected to actual inquiry and analysis, and at least have the *opportunity *to learn something.
The most amusing thing about HD in the Kavanaugh thread is watching him wrestle with his apparent certainty that he’s an upright and morally decent family man who would never tolerate sexual assault, with his obvious nigh-infinitely greater interest in sticking it to the Democrats over actually preventing sexual assault and rape or listening to and getting justice for victims of sexual assault and rape. Lately it seems like he’s short circuited – he’s not even trying, just going with some variation of “b-b-b-but Feinstein!” over and over again.
My fondest wish for her is that she becomes fully conscious of her father’s attitudes toward women (“schemers or useful idiots”) and can work herself free of their yoke.
Now he’s trying to pretend an honest account with no denial of teenage groping is the same as denying a credible accusation of attempted rape. Probably trolling, he can’t possibly be that stupid.