“The will of the people will not be denied, even by the people.”
I want to carve this onto the side of Mount Dipshit. Milum,are you Yogi fucking Bera’s moronic right-wing cousin?
Yes, Viet Nam was what was holding the Soviet Union together! Of course! I think not, do I!
Everything out of this guy’s mouth is delivered like he’s fucking Moses, but instead of the Ten Commandments, all we get is a river of uncited, unsupported SHIT! Wouldn’t be so bad, but he’s posting in GD. The sample above is just one of many gems.
I wish he would either:
stop posting, or
Read, attempt to understand, and then correct his own fucking nonsense.
So take heart Milum-haters, most dipshits stop posting eventually, and not knowing any better, your children and grandchildren will thank you for it. (sic)
I think if the Chicago Reader printed up a few thousand “Milum is a babbling fountain of shit” t-shirts and sold them for $20 a pop, they’d raise enough money for a new server.
I don’t hate Milum but I have learned to ignore most of his posts. More importantly, which would be the better band name, Mount Dipshit or Yogi’s Right Wing Cousin?
I’m no Milum fan, and I think he’s done lots of Pit-worthy stuff, and I certainly disagree with what he says in the quote, but it seems odd to Pit someone simply because you disagree with what he said in a GD thread.
It’s not just the stupid things he says, it’s the needlessly asinine way in which he says it. to wit:
The above post would be appropriate in the Pit, but it is factless and pointless, so it is “right out” of GD.
I hope his wacky fonts, etc. showed up in that paste.
I’d like to disagree with the title of this thread. I think it’s misleading and uninformed. It misrepresents Milum as a person, as a poster, and a member of a board dedicated to irradicating ignorance. As a replacement, I’d offer the alternative:
Damn, didn’t come through. Blowero, I see your point, but it’s the combination of the fact that he’s more full of shit than a Christmas goose, AND acts like he’s our God-given Anti-Chomsky, that made me hit the Pit.
BTW, ** Milum**, regarding your first quoted post: the Vietnamese Communists overthrew the Khmer Rouge, ending the genocide the U.S. did nothing to prevent. But don’t worry, you’re only 90% wrong.
Also his grammar and spelling are for shit, but I’ll let that pass.
It would put us years closer in our fight against ignorance, that’s for sure. Still that much concentrated stupidity in one room would be quite dangerous. I guess we could give them a large supply of tin foil and some live journal code to keep them out of trouble.
Prevent? The US SUPPORTED the Khmer Rouge as a supposed stopgap against the Vietnamese Communists.
[Cite: “A Problem from Hell” : America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power].
And this bit of mishegoss:
The Soviet Union collapsed from its own inefficiency and corruption, not from any American military efforts. Moreover the defeat of Vietnam was not caused by “hippies” but from the combination of American underestimation of the enemy’s determination and the utter ineptitude of the South Vietnamese government.
A reading list for Milum:
The March of Folly, by Barbara Tuchman, pp. 233-378
Vietnam, by Stanley Karnow
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan
Gobear: You’re 100% right. I couldn’t find a ref. that handily summarized America’s shameful support for Pol-Pot. Then I didn’t even put in the link I did find. Once again, my day job ruins a good post. BTW, I think he’ll need those books on tape.
Snax, I missed that other pitting Milum received. Too bad. I was about to work my way around to the feverishly shitty work he did on that “FOX and liberals” thread, but I guess I don’t hafta.
I would buy the Milum t-shirt, especially if the back had an artist’s depiction of Mt. Dipshit, where I am now chiseling the immortal words of The Shame of Alabama.