Thanks bio-brat. I appreciate it. Of course Manson was over the top. So was McVeigh. I was talking garden variety wingnuts, and you brought up the heavy-hitters. As you say, a fair exchange, and again, I appreciate you’re saying so.
essvee:
And that would be…
You’re operating under the misapprehension that your opinions are inherently worthwhile.
It’s a hard world for you, isn’t it?
Well, Timmy was found competent to stand trial, for one, fuckface.
I know Ted K. was as well, but…
“The Justice Department initially sought a death sentence but accepted the life term after a court-ordered psychiatric examination, conducted over Kaczynski’s objections, concluded he was a paranoid schizophrenic.” CBS News, 3/18/92
Stick to posting about jerking off in a cup and you’ll be better off.
Furthering the Hijack
I think people take Fonda to be “conservative” now based on her religious views - See Here
Grrrr. It’s bugging me. I know I’ve read it before…
O.k, guessing time :
Is it a Frederick Forsythe novel ?
Nope, I got it ! It’s Shibumi by Trevanian, isn’t it ?!? 
So Scylla’s a troll for not taking into account the subtle differences among the mental states of nutjob murderers when making a quick comparison? And I’m pretty sure Manson was indeed competent to stand trial. I mean, he was convicted, and is still in prison.
So, are you claiming that ol’ Tim wasn’t a wingnut, then?
Bingo!
That’s quite good.
Calling people names won’t sway anyone. Throwing around wing-nuts and saying they they’re “naive, stupid, callous etc”, won’t do anything but make them cling to their ways even moreso than they already do. That goes for anyone else, regardless of spectrum. As for self-righteousness, that’s on BOTH sides. Unless you somehow consider Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Adolf Hitler and Ayn Rand to be leftists.
“I’m just mentioning the fact that liberalism carries its particular burdens.”
Yupyup. I know, I’ve dealt with some of them. I’ve dealt with worse than that…it’s the LEFTER THAN THOU groups. They scare the shit out of me…but, then again, I’ve ALWAYS been a moderate whether as a right-winger(as I once was) or a leftist.
“I also mentioned in that thread that conservatism seems to attract, the haters, the self-centered, and the rabid fundamentalists.”
I dunno…I’ve seen some haters on the left…oioioioi…
"Just a personal observation, but a valid one, I think. Both sides have what I term as “wingnuts.” "
ALL sides have them…
“I’ll even go a step further and say that liberalism is the way to go if you are an exceedingly gifted and exceptional person. I know a few.”
To be fair, I’ve seen some highly intelligent Anarcho-Captialists and Libertarians. I just don’t agree with them. HEhehe…
Wonderful. Now we have someplace to go if Bio-Brat’s thread dies. That was sarcasm. No, really.
Can we agree that the extremes on both sides are chock full-o-nuts? Now we’re trying to compare one side’s nuts to the other sides nuts? Not to cop a DaLovinDJ, but get off my nuts! The insane are probably not a good fucking basis for categorizing mainstream politics. This argument deserves to die, right now, regardless of the personalities involved.
Well, here you have him to rights. I’d like to see Scylla be a little less of the smug, preening, boorish peacock of a man who talks about his convertible, his sperm count, and his feats of strength and purchase. Since his writing style and contributions are appreciated, we understandably allow him a little license to wank amusingly about his various mid-life crises.
But I do agree with you that Scylla’s grade-school put-downs are fucking old and tired and should stop, if no other sake but his own credibility, but he seems to heed criticism and argument not in the slightest, preferring the company of smoke blowers – this in itself isn’t that rare – many people have a separation between etiquette and politics, it’s just that few go so far as the full quarantine.
Put that on a petition and I’d sign it. Twice, even.
Err… where, in this thread or the other, did Scylla mention any of that?
Not only was he found competent to stand trial, he was allowed to represent himself.
Only one person is acting like a troll in this thread, and it isn’t Scylla.
I took it as a left-over grudge from this thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=129992
But I could be wrong.
Acehole:
Well then, how I am to compensate for my small penis?
Buy an SUV, like the rest of us…uh, like the rest of you guys.
Get a DB7.
Buy an SUV, Get an Aston Marton? The hell with that. Buy yourself a nice trap gun. The Beretta Silver Pigeon’s a good one.
and just why is it that all these doper males know about compensation tactics? hmmm?? 
you’ll notice Coldie hasn’t posted