# I pit all conservatives who have bought into the Halbig/King ACA trutherism nonsense **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-conservatives-who-have-bought-into-the-halbig-king-aca-trutherism-nonsense/707625 "2014-12-19T00:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 239
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-conservatives-who-have-bought-into-the-halbig-king-aca-trutherism-nonsense/707625/239 "2015-01-10T08:03:46Z")
Wow. Just wow. In a thread lamenting that the maniacal right is hoping to deny health care to indigents (which side is working toward “death squads” indeed?), our **Esquire Bricker** has diverted attention to the Reverend Martin Luther King’s alleged misuse of the word “inhumane.” And he’s whining that the “liberals” aren’t joining in to chastise Dr. King. What a supreme asshole. I’ll stipulate that Bricker’s 4th-grade debate coach drilled into him the useful trait of using words very precisely. I try to be precise when I’m writing journal articles: proofreading, rewriting, etc. But when ranting and screeding on a board like this, I just hope to avoid the most egregious of typos. Here’s the latest Bricker garbage that led me to post here: In another thread I mentioned that FoxNews “usually” changes the party designations of Republiopaths in scandal to “(D).” This was an incautious statement on my part – the word I meant was “often.” It turns out that Wikipedia has a list of 6 instances of FoxNews doing that; > [@Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell & wife indicted \[ed: and convicted\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-virginia-governor-bob-mcdonnell-wife-indicted-ed-and-convicted/679414/50): > > [Yes.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fox_News#The_party_switch) likely they missed others; does anyone think such errors were not deliberate? The interesting story is Fox’s reprehensibility; with a pattern like that all good-spirited Americans should be envouraging a mass boycott of that network. But what aspect turns on the Brickhead? > [@Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell & wife indicted \[ed: and convicted\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-virginia-governor-bob-mcdonnell-wife-indicted-ed-and-convicted/679414/51): > > That site provides several examples, but does not support the claim that it is a “usual” practice. Stupid septimus used “usual” instead of the better “often” or “typical”. Bricker would have beat septimus in the 4th-grade debate society! Ha ha ha. Nadder nadder nadder! What a pretentious constipated twit. > [@Bricker](#): > > Maybe he’s tired of a board where silly arguments are left alone when they come from liberals and challenged when they come from conservatives. Point us to a specific “silly argument” and we’ll comment. I have no problem with Dr. King’s use of “inhumane.” “Inhumane”, much more so than words like “usual” or even “typical”, is one prone to different meanings for different people. It’s a word that inherently cannot be perceived as an _objective_ word. You were the star of your 4th-grade debate class and you didn’t even learn about words like that?? Search shows me that I’ve used the word “inhumane” a few times on this Board. To save Brickhead the bother, I’ll quote them, and provide rancid right-wing rebuttals. > [@The ambushed cops: So, it's all Obama's fault now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ambushed-cops-so-its-all-obamas-fault-now/707867/351): > > But it seems more reasonable to blame those cops … and also retarded right-wingers whose _ **inhumane** _ attitudes foster bad cop behavior. BRICKSHIT: What’s inhumane is black felons forcing the police to waste taxpayer-bought bullets. That’s why my friends and I carry guns and pay for our own ammunition. We’re ready to help out! > [@Condemned inmate croaks right before execution. What to do.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condemned-inmate-croaks-right-before-execution-what-to-do/685183/30): > > Until society decides whether executions are intended to be painful revenge or _ **humane** _ eliminations, it should avoid them altogether. BRICKSHIT: Maximum pain and torture. That’s the humane way to treat inhumane criminals. > [@Denmark bans halal and kosher slaughter. Justifiable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/denmark-bans-halal-and-kosher-slaughter-justifiable/681724/35): > > I don’t know about Denmark, but in U.S. the “lifestyles” of most cows are so _ **inhumane** _ that the creatures, if intelligent enough to form such a judgment, might welcome an end to their tedious life, whether in a death that takes 10 seconds, or one that takes 30 seconds. (I’ve read that a main slaughterhouse torture for cows is waiting in queue after they’ve figured out what’s happening.) To focus on that possible 20-second difference, especially since the evidence is unclear and it could go either way, strikes me as bizarrely stupid. It’s the kind of lame-brained reasoning that gives fodder to right-wingers who think “liberals” aren’t very smart. > > The legislation seems so silly from an animal-rights perspective, that I wonder if it’s actually intended instead as a jab at non-Christian religions. BRICKSHIT: Bravo! “Liberals aren’t very smart”! … From the mouths of inhumane centrists! > [@Will the LIBOR banking scandal manage to finally force banking reform in the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-libor-banking-scandal-manage-to-finally-force-banking-reform-in-the-us/627270/48): > > … So the premise that the common man fell victim to his own greed is incomplete. He had a lot of help; naive homebuyers were strongly urged to buy homes more expensive than they’d intended. > > But even if your premise were correct, the conclusion is wrong. 49% of the people are below average in intelligence. To blame such average people for being victimized by con men is _ **inhumane** _. It is precisely because people are imperfect, and because average people are not expected to take a college class in Bubbles and Burstings that regulation is needed. BRICKSHIT: The bilking of the stupid was Laissez-Faire Dog-eat-dog capitalism at its finest. Transferring money from the stupid and poor to the smart is the quintessential American dream. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ So Brickshit has shitted all over another thread, insulted that Martin Luther King used the word “inhumane.” Brickshit’s particular opinions about a particular word are more important than healthcare for the masses. It’s hard to believe this pretentious dolt was once a respected poster here. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-all-conservatives-who-have-bought-into-the-halbig-king-aca-trutherism-nonsense/707625)._