# In the history of the SDMB has anyone ever been wrong about more things than adaher? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639 "2013-08-31T04:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/561 "2015-06-30T20:54:03Z")
With almost every post, **Adaher** confirms the veracity of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/562 "2015-06-30T20:59:55Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > If there was less water carrying on boards despite people on boards having zero water carrying power… …then you wouldn’t make things up about people, and make blind assumptions about their beliefs and motivations? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/563 "2015-06-30T21:09:34Z")
I wouldn’t have to read between the lines. Some people here need to stop acting like political operatives. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/564 "2015-06-30T21:17:39Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I wouldn’t have to read between the lines. Some people here need to stop acting like political operatives. Says the mindless partisan that clucks whatever it takes in the moment to make a point. Without regard to that clucking comporting with reality. Adaher, you’re a fucking stooge. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/565 "2015-06-30T21:25:15Z")
Different kind of complaint. When Republicans say something stupid or just outright lie I agree with those who point it out or defend it if there’s merit to defending it. Was there a single liberal Doper who admitted that people would lose their health insurance? Was there more then three who thought the Democrats were campaigning stupidly in 2014? There were a lot more than three the day after, not so many the day before. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/566 "2015-06-30T21:31:23Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > At least I’m using their own words, not my assumptions about who their friends are. Just for the record, neither of my friends is gay. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/567 "2015-06-30T21:45:37Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > You know, as soon as I find out some one is a Tea-Partyisque “taxes are destroying America” type my first thought is “You make $40,000 a year, right”? You’re close in this case. > [@Will The Republicans ever figure out why they lost?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-republicans-ever-figure-out-why-they-lost/645224/1564): > > Well, I’m making $45,000, and I won’t accept a tax increase. But you knew that. > [@Will The Republicans ever figure out why they lost?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-republicans-ever-figure-out-why-they-lost/645224/1612): > > I can’t decide whether this is sad or funny. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/568 "2015-06-30T21:57:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Just for the record, neither of my friends is gay. As far as you know. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/569 "2015-06-30T22:14:31Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Never understood why liberals need to identify those they debate with. You have no idea about who I am other than my political opinions. You don’t need to know anything other than my political opinions. No, we know a fair amount about your thought processes, leading me to conclude that you’re either a paid shill for the Republican party or that you are severely shortchanged on critical thinking skills. You still don’t seem to get just what was the most astonishingly dumb claim you made. It is this: > [@](#): > > … Republicans have no interest in passing any anti-gay laws, or standing in the way of repealing old ones. … How can you conceivably believe this? Republicans have been talking about little else since the decision. If it weren’t for a few other decisions last week which they found equally unpalatable, it would have been ALL they were talking about. Since your thought processes lead to conclusions like this … maybe there’s some kind of assisted living home you can find. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/570 "2015-06-30T22:17:55Z")
And in South Florida, that isn’t hard, either. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/571 "2015-07-01T04:53:11Z")
Paid shills don’t concede that the Republican brand is shit. Paid shills do put on a brave front in the weeks before an election when the party is clearly driving themselves into a ditch. We must have a lot of those on the liberal side here judging by the commentary on the last election just before it happened. I’m seeing the same idiocy now. Clinton’s weaknesses are so obvious, yet denied up and down, as if anything you say here can influence the election. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/572 "2015-07-01T11:22:44Z")
So, mental defect then. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/573 "2015-07-01T11:47:46Z")
Again with the “we” versus “you”. This mob mentality is weak, cheap and unnecessary. If you disagree with someone, why not just keep the disagreement between them and you? Invoking the “we” really is a sign of a lack of confidence in one’s own position and/or ability to make and argument. It’s the tactic of punks, weaklings, bullies and those who need a gang around them to stick their chests out. It’s a cheap tactic. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/574 "2015-07-01T12:01:37Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Paid shills Is anyone here being paid? If so, please give me the phone number – I really want to get in on that. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/575 "2015-07-01T12:03:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I’m seeing the same idiocy now. Clinton’s weaknesses are so obvious, yet denied up and down, as if anything you say here can influence the election. You were totally unable to see Romney’s weaknesses, so I’m rather unswayed that you have any special insight into Clinton’s (or anyone else’s). You’ve yet to demonstrate that you’re anything but terrible at predicting presidential elections. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/576 "2015-07-01T12:08:25Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Again with the “we” versus “you”. This mob mentality is weak, cheap and unnecessary. If you disagree with someone, why not just keep the disagreement between them and you? Invoking the “we” really is a sign of a lack of confidence in one’s own position and/or ability to make and argument. It’s the tactic of punks, weaklings, bullies and those who need a gang around them to stick their chests out. It’s a cheap tactic. Warm round of applause for **magellan01** , for his tireless efforts in the fight against blind partisanship. Let’s hope the punks, weaklings and bullies learned something about the merits of honest debate. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/577 "2015-07-01T12:10:43Z")
That’s why I love this place. I’m a punk, weakling AND a bully, so I get triple minutes on my phone plan. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/578 "2015-07-01T12:11:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > That’s why I love this place. I’m a punk, weakling AND a bully, so I get triple minutes on my phone plan. But are you a paid shill? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/579 "2015-07-01T12:14:49Z")
I work for the patron saint of punks, weaklings and bullies – Chris Christie. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639/580 "2015-07-01T12:35:13Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Paid shills do put on a brave front in the weeks before an election when the party is clearly driving themselves into a ditch…Clinton’s weaknesses are so obvious, yet denied up and down, as if anything you say here can influence the election. How much \*do \*they pay you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-history-of-the-sdmb-has-anyone-ever-been-wrong-about-more-things-than-adaher/667639.md?page=30)