No real dog in this fight (I generally find Sam a good poster and enjoy reading his posts, but have noticed a lot of more partisan type threads started by him lately), but…why me?
Just curious, like I said…don’t want to detract from the theme of the OP but was puzzled to see my name in this thread.
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I actually agree with you.
Sam Stone is the best poster on this here smorgasbord. I don’t know why he does it either, but he argues the shit out of everyone who crosses his path. I mean, he really embarrasses you guys, reduces you to sputtering and moaning morons. It’s a beautiful thing. I sure as hell don’t want to take the time and energy to respond to your drivel in detail, but I like watching when Sam does it.
Sure, but you’re a retard.
You should read the linked thread. He spews out an infantile and factually incorrect OP in GD, then pisses down his leg and runs away home, all in a couple of hours.
I guess you might be right about embarrasing us, because I was embarrased for him.
Lol. You’re the biggest failure on this board if you discount the barely functional like Chlothahump and Don123.
Keep fucking that chicken, Rover.
Trade barbeque and Tex-Mex for single payer health care and sub-110 degree summers? That’s actually a pretty tough call.
I read it. What happened was that a bunch of the usual idiots came on by with ad hominem attacks, and Sam apparently decided he was fed up with it. Can’t say I blame the guy. Casting pearls before swine can get tiresome after a while.
I respected **Sam **before but not after he showed support for the coup in Honduras and demonstrated to be just a copy pasta maker for climate change denialists.
And, as I demonstrated before, you are a certified Moron.
Ah. You read it, you just didn’t understand it. Thats OK, sometimes the SDMB can be hard. Keep working on it. You get a gentleman’s C for effort.
How did you demonstrate that exactly? Did you drive by and post a link to a website you think supports your position (i.e., your standard posting pattern)?
Show how I don’t understand it. I don’t think you understand the meaning of the word “understand.”
Nah, even you admitted that you were wrong when affirming that Republicans would overturn the health care law when taking over congress, I only had to point at the fact that even if so they had to override a presidential Veto. Of course later the law passed and your affirmations to the contrary on the thread showed to all the dunce that you are.
Of course I found what a moron you were early when in another climate debate you also showed how blind you are to time-lines and history.
I remember this post. I got over-exuberant and said something about Republicans overturning the health care reform bill if they regained control of Congress. Someone (maybe you) came along and pointed out that just having control wouldn’t do much for the Republicans because of the veto. I admitted I was wrong about getting so excited about them having a simple majority. So how does that make me a “Moron” exactly?
You are blind to how science works. You have declared victory for your side based on your political views–I’m sticking with the science, which isn’t conclusive yet (unless you believe the highly politicized bodies that were used to manufacture a “consensus”). You are the moron on this issue.
I simply dislike non-U.S. citizens talking about our leaders, regardless of party. Everyone’s entitled to express an opinion about another country or their policies, of course. One may hear about Uganda’s proposed legislation to kill gays, for example, and feel the need to blast it or debate it in a post.
But if damn near all you do is talk about one particular country and its leadership all day, as Sam Stone’s post clearly indicates he does, then one may reasonably ask why this person doesn’t put his money where his mouth is, do the hard work of earning citizenship, and get a real stake in the debate. It’s certainly understandable why someone would want to talk American politics on a board dominated by American citizens, who aren’t likely to know (or care) about what goes on in Canada. But after awhile most citizens of a country, regardless of political party, will get a little tired of a non-U.S. citizen bashing their leaders’ positions from afar: because in the end, it’s really none of a Canadian’s goddamn business what the citizens of the United States choose to do with their own country, and many of us would prefer not to hear jeers from the non-participatory peanut gallery.
Your exuberance in affirming that. And then not learning much from that.
What science says that AGW “isn’t conclusive yet”?
The reality is that you are demonstrating stupidity when you can not see that you are being made a sucker by the denial media, they are reaching now for the same bag of tricks as creationists.
:rolleyes: I posted something like: “It would be great if Republicans win majorities in Congress in November so they can repeal the health care reform bill.” And someone said “But they need more than a majority.” And I said “:smack: Oh yeah.” That doesn’t demonstrate I’m a moron. It shows that I temporarily forgot something.
What science says that AGW “isn’t conclusive yet”?
The reality is that you are demonstrating stupidity when you can not see that you are being made a sucker by the denial media, they are reaching now for the same bag of tricks as creationists.
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The bolded part says it all. “Among those who agree with us, 97% agree with us.” Also, thanks for posting a link without comment. I daresay you show your own moronity by being unable to argument yourself without simply posting a link.
Also, your side is the one showing “creation science” tendencies. You’ve constructed this elaborate model that fits your political worldview and keep adapting the science to fit that model. You aren’t simply letting the science take you were it will.
A very large contingent of SDMB posters don’t pay taxes and don’t add much of value to the economy. They work some shit job (or try to find some shit job) and then go home and fuck around on this messageboard. If they get to post stuff on here about US policy, then Sam does as well.
Canada’s economy and policies are inextricably linked with the US’s, so he does have a personal reason to care.
Sam is interested in the topic of how to run a country, so he posts about the country that most SDMB members (and many humans in general) care about. I don’t see you getting on other people’s cases about not having a personal stake in the issues they like to discuss–people can be interested in things that don’t impact them personally.
The reason why then one assumes then that you are not too bright is that to say that, you **have **to ignore the real history of how we got to the current consensus and the current consensus of the evidence.
Saying that climate change deniers are like creationists is pertinent when I see denier media stuck in the past when making their criticisms, putting research in journals that later are demonstrated that they do not do a good job of review and then blogging the hell out of it. Ignoring basic evidence that shows, for example, that the sun is currently in a low activity period and still deniers tell you that the sun is causing the recent warming.
Like creationists, climate deniers are now mostly busy with attempting to change public opinion, as they already see that they lost the war in research, academia and even the science press. They just grab suckers like you.
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I could rest rest my case here.
I did made a comment and you just showed all that you are incapable of finding good evidence to support your say so’s.
Piffle.
So here is your chance to demonstrate what dizzying intellect you have, show all that you are capable of identifying good sources from moronic ones, lets see your evidence.