Criticism over MV reasonable or not, I don’t appreciate the implication that I’m a racist.
Poe’s Law. When every single thing you say is off the scale ridiculous, nobody will ever assume you’re kidding.
They will assume you’re wrong, though, unless you prove otherwise. That hasn’t happened yet.
So one celebrity called Obama “the one.”
BFD. “Nixon’s The One” was Nixon’s campaign slogan in 1968. We have YouTube of that, too.
Not that I need that; I was a Youth for Nixon volunteer in 1968. We had a little song they had us sing:
Nixon’s the one,
Nixon’s the one,
Nixon’s the one for me.
We believe in Nixon, N-I-X-O-N,
Nixon’s the one for me.
No, I’m not making this up. We actually sang that at public events, at the behest of the campaign.
Of course you are. I’m also allowed to have the opinion that your opinion doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Nope, wasn’t planning on it.
Has anyone in this thread mentioned race or racism, other than the people saying “I’m not racist! Don’t call me racist!”?
See post #58.
Okay, I’lll play.
What exactly do you mean by defiant? Who or what is he defying?
Exactly what bold challenge is he making by going on vacation?
Sure you are allowed to have an opinion. It just better not be anything but worshipful respect for Obama (pbuh).
Because anything else is racist.
Regards,
Shodan
Let me ask you something, EM. Whatever happened to “I don’t agree, Quasi and here’s why:” You don’t respect me? I couldn’t care less, but you could at least respect my age. The rules forbid me to call you names, but I do have some choice ones for you, if I could.
You’re telling someone who’s fighting to keep a little sense that what he writes makes none. It’s a goddam opinion of what I think is going on and I will stand by what I wrote. You fucking wanna pile on me? Go ahead, I don’t give a flying fuck as that seems to be your method. Also, I don’t appreciate anyone insulting my intelligence with veiled accusations of hatred.
So put that up your ass and smoke it.
In my adult life, I have NEVER told anyone I hate them and at this time in my life, I don’t need that emotion, Lightnin’.
Please calm down. Please. I really mean that.
“The facts do not support your opinion” is not an accusation of hatred, veiled or otherwise.
And I’m about the same age as you.
There’s nothing going on here except that we are disagreeing about something that’s pretty meaningless compared to what’s going on in our personal lives. So please, step back and calm down. We can disagree without hatred.
Quasimodem, please take a breather. I don’t think Exapno Mapcase or Lightnin’'s were accusing you of any kind of hatred and I don’t think their posts were out of line.
This is just another case of Republicans grasping for something to bitch about . It is always shiny and brown because they pull it out of their ass.
Obama is not taking a lot of time off. He is not even close to what some others took. Congress is not in session for 3 weeks. Although Repubs are pretending it is to prevent recess appointments.
Then most presidential vacations are working vacations because for many prezes, they take staff along and hold meetings with cabinet members.
Something like this at 0:14 . . . “Computer, pause recording. YES?! :mad:”
Sorry, Marley, but I resent the hell out of being “called out” in addition to what was written. It was my understanding that any “calling out” is to be done in the Pit, not in a normal thread.
It also was my understanding we weren’t in Great Debates, were we? So the first time I stated that what I wrote was my opinion, that should have been the end of it. It was as far as I was concerned, since the OP asked for opinions?
So that brings us to my final comment: I’m going to defend myself as I see fit, and won’t back down just because someone tells me that what I write isn’t making sense. If something I write doesn’t make sense, then goddamit use the ignore function and I’m out of your life! You don’t have to “call me out”, and if you do, then do it in the appropriate place where it doesn’t make a shit to me anyway.
Huh? That synopsis may be just a bit too synopsizised.
You are in a forum that very closely follows Great Debates in style and in moderation. Quite frankly, Quasimodem, if you’re not prepared to be disagreed with, I can’t think of any forum on the SDMB that would suit you.
The Pit is where you can insult people. We don’t have a specific rule about “calling people out,” but they’re just telling you they think you’re wrong. That’s all.
Elections works under the same rules as GD.
They’re just talking and disagreeing. It’s allowed in all places on this forum, and the rules about insults and other personal comments still apply.
Hey Quasi I think it might be that “called out” means something different to you than it does to Exapno.
It looks to me as though “calling you out” is, for you, a kind of throwing down of a gauntlet, a preparation for some kind of duel where a certain amount of honor or pride is at stake?
Whereas I think that for Exapno what is meant is more like a “call” in Poker–as in, he means (I think) just that he thinks he’s found a point where you’re incorrect about something and he’s asking for evidence or explanation. Albeit the use of “call out” also implies a presumption that he’s in the right and you’re not–but then, it’s a debate, so of course he presumes that!
I am certain he didn’t mean his words to be taken particularly personally and didn’t intend them as insulting. I think this was just a miscommunication, possibily due to dialectical differences.
Gawd I hope so!
He’s done more damage to this country in less than 3 years than just about all other Presidents. Combined.