I can see why a segment of the population here like the idea of a 75-option poll.
Repeatedly almost drowning someone would qualify as torture in most people’s book. I don’t think “left” or “right” has much to do with it.
That’s not even the worst of it. I was reading a thread discussing the Paul Ryan budget proposal and someone actually described it as containing a “tax cut” for the wealthy instead of the far more accurate term “theft reduction”! I reported it like ten times, but the mods didn’t do anything. It was ridiculous! What is this, “1984” by George Orwell?
The whole thing makes me want to apply some enhanced interrogation techniques to someone until all the socialism in the world won’t keep them from having to pay the double taxation death tax. :mad:
I thought right-wing people preferred not to deal with that pansy PC crap and tell it like it is.
Hey! “Right wing” is hate speech! The correct term is “moderate”. :mad:
Trying to sling “enhanced interrogation technique” as a valid euphemism for torture (or worse, trying to say they’re totally different and not the same in any way whatsoever) isn’t a mark of political affiliation. It’s just bullshit.
Would you like some cheese, with that?
When, after WWII, the U.S. executed Japanese for waterboarding, the U.S. considered it torture. That seems a pretty safe precedent. Since no one was reprimanded for using the euphemism “enhanced interrogation techniques,” I rate this revivification of a zombie thread to be nothing more than an attempt to see if you can yank any chains.
Fail.
And we disagree with “threadshitting.” Which is what you’re doing here.
If you’re not going to contribute anything useful here you should close without posting again.
Let me try one more time to get you to actually think about this issue instead of reflexively spouting bullshit (as is your wont, whether modding or not).
Imagine an extreme right-leaning board (say, the freepers). Now imagine that OP on that board, and those replies to that OP. Do you think the mods would say that people using the word “torture” were threadshitting or being a jerk or at least taking the discussion in an off-topic direction?
I’m really not sure what you’re saying here. Was I threadshitting in the “torture” thread? Was I threadshitting in my post to this thread about the torture thread?
I’m honestly not trying to bait you here or anything, I just don’t understand what you are saying.
Certain people using the word “torture” for waterboarding are distinguished Professors of Law.
I guess he was doing it to be a jerk, not because there are legal arguments for it being considered such.
And other legal professors (such as John Yoo) think those other legal professors are wrong.
All of which is beside the point of this thread.
And don’t get me going on how they call them ‘suicide bombers’ instead of the Fox-approved ‘homicide bombers.’ Buncha fucking Marxists!
Which, of course, was simply to whine about being called on your threadshitting in the other thread.
No, the point was to bring up the topic of modding for content when we have a live example. Which your posts in this thread have contributed nothing to. Your last post in particular was a threadshit pure and simple.
There has been no “modding for content” in the GD thread and your pretending that there has been is simply attention seeking. The word “torture” has been used by numerous legal authorities in regard to waterboarding, so complaints that it is inappropriate to use in a thread in which waterboarding is discussed is baseless. Despite your denial, I actually pointed this out, already. I also noted that “modding for content” would have involved reprimanding those who used the euphemism rather than “torture”–an action that has not occurred–so you are just inventing a complaint.
Yes. (Even though we have refrained from issuing you a Warning for that action.)
So what? This just indicates they disagree with it, not that it’s wrong.
The point of this thread, if any, has not been clarified by any of your recent posts. However, in your post above you took the position that the word “torture” should be prohibited in connection with waterboarding. Given that respected legal experts have made the argument that waterboarding is torture, this is not a reasonable position.
Nope. I used the torture example in conjunction with the race/IQ example to show how the mods on this board select which topics to moderate and which to leave alone.
Have you been threadshitting in this thread?