I browse SDMB to learn about science and world affairs, not to take sides in intra-SDMB squabbles, but I still get to know some of the players. There are about a dozen Dopers who I’ll know I’m going to agree with, and about another dozen who I know will teach me something new.
Sometimes I even conflate two Dopers: I think I even conflated Stvanger on Trains and Starveng Artisn for a short while :smack: – their first names are anagrams, as are also their last names.
I try to ignore the most useless posters – those whose posts are too right-wing, too condescending, or too robotic – but recently another one of those foisted his attention on me.
Reviewing his posts, I see that Condescending Robot has a good high school-level knowledge of some topics, but – Wow! – his hatred for our current President sure seems hard to understand.
Why this disproportionate hatred?
I’m sure Condescending intended this as a condescending joke. At the same time, it seems a reasonable working hypothesis.
Sorry for the poorly formulated OP. The thread title “Shall we pit?” asked for help in formulating this Pitting!
And I should have clarified that Robot’s hatred seems directed less against “Emperor Jesus” (his Condescending name for our President) than the religious fanatics (:smack:) who voted for him. Since the electoral alternatives were, first, an old man who chose Sarah Palin(!) as his likely successor and, second, the blithering hypocrite who chose [del]Ayn Rand[/del] Paul Ryan, the adjective I would use to characterize Obama voters isn’t “religious fanatical” but rather “sane.”
I know very little about Condescending Robot beyond that he insists on the ridiculously condescending name “Emperor Jesus” for Obama. Did he condescend similarly when referring to GWB, who was at least as guilty of “war crimes”?
In the last quote, I was mocking the notion put forth in GD (before some halfhearted backpedaling) by **Ibn Warraq **that the only reason one could oppose the Obama foreign policy is due to being racist against black Presidents. You seem to be intent on living up to some sort of caricature by actually believing this. Good job, you fucking idiot.
Since (in the other BBQ Pit thread) the Robot based his entire flatulence against me on the chronological fact that Obama was an Illinois Senator when I implied he was a U.S. Senator from Illinois, it may amuse to learn how unaware Robot was, as late as 2012, of the influence of Ayn Rand on such American leaders as Alan Greenspan and Paul Ryan:
This gibberish is contemptibly – dare I say it – condescending.
Here’s another post demonstrating that the Robot’s username is well-chosen:
Is he some right-wing nut who hates the Socialist president or some lefty nutjob who thinks Obama is stealth Bush?
I don’t follow his post enough to know… just going by what you linked to in the OP. And yes, I may have excluded some middle there-- maybe just “nut” explains it.
Yeah, it’s amazing what people will resort to in order to label and dispose of anyone who questions the American war machine–I must be the world’s first far-left socialist racist Ayn Rand fan Romney voter who is both insane and obviously just trolling.
If you want to make this about me, the real answer is that I agree with what most Democrats claim to believe about the economy, that it should be basically a free market system but with tax-funded welfare provisions to ensure a minimum standard of living for all. Another point on which I am definitely not Ayn Rand is the issue that people take such offense at, my opposition to the mass murder of Muslims in South Asia, which I assure you is something that Rand, and her modern-day successors, enthusiastically demand and support.
If you must know more about my personal beliefs as alluded to above, I also despise Bush and think he should be brought to justice for war crimes, including but not limited to torture, extrajudicial detention, and the Iraq occupation as a whole.
The reason I am posting about Obama is that he has been the President for nearly four years and it is his supporters who are now carrying the torch for terror-bombing, which is morally unacceptable. Why this issue is considered beyond even the pale of discussion is a question that begs psychological explanations. The reaction from the Obama devotees (denying things reported in the NY Times and Washington Post as conspiracy theories, calling anyone who believes in human rights insane, recycling Bush propaganda garbage about “Al Qaeda”) is very much like those who feel their religion or family is under attack. The messiah syndrome among Obama fanboys is deeply disurbing, at no time less so than when it is used to handwave the dropping of bombs on schools, weddings, and ambulances.
Yup, anyone who supports human rights or disagrees with anything Obama does is one of them Republican agents. They’re everywhere, you know. It’s the only explanation.
He is a shrill hysteric who attributes the worst motives to anyone who disagrees with him and cannot make a single statement without crassly insulting people. He is unshakably convinced of his own moral superiority and is thus not worth engaging on any subject, except to caution others against engaging with him.
Of course I did not vote for the soulless, prevaricating homophobe Mitt Romney nor did I ever consider doing so, though I’m sure my words will do nothing to damage your belief that the only reason one would oppose Obama’s murder policy is due to Presidential two-party politics.
Here’s the thing, about the drone attacks and all, honestly, I don’t think most people care all that much. I know, I really don’t. I mean, it’s certainly bad if innocent people get killed while we’re going after Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but I really don’t think the US government’s saying, “You know, lets go kill innocent people on purpose just to be evil”. It’s just a thing that happens, because when the bad guys are around innocent people, it’s really hard to target them without other people getting hurt. I don’t really like that fact, but I don’t think there’s anything I can do about it. And it’s happening in a far away country that I don’t feel any special attachment to, so it’s just something I don’t think about all that much or can get worked up when I do think about it.
And I think most Americans feel pretty much the same way I do about this, both Obama and Romney supporters. I don’t think there’s a partisan divide there.
Again, what’s the plan, Conde? If our enemies would simply stand down and let us leave, we wouldn’t need much of a plan, now would we? See any evidence of that?
So, we need some means to discourage them, don’t we? What do you have in mind for that? As we draw down, we have less and less personnel to defend our personnel. So, what do you have in mind?
– condescending.