Yet again, since you seem to have missed it:
You’re posting on a message board which you admit you hate.
Are you doing this because you’re very stupid?
Are you doing this because you’re a masochist?
Are you doing this because you’re a troll and here to pick fights?
This may be because my experience with Smashy has been majority pit related, but I’m not seeing aplomb. All I’m seeing is a series of particularly verbose hissy fits.
Hey I’m one of the rich! \o/
Love me peons! Love me!
Hissy fits with élan, my friend.
I don’t know what threads FinnAgain was reading, but I sure didn’t see SmashTheState being proved a liar. He provided cites, and his posts on neurodiversity were no in way refuted. As for the statement on Spanish cultures, albeit the information was not correct, he let people know where he got the information, and once proved wrong admitted it.
I agree that there almost is a prescribe reality of “What is truth” here. Take for example if someone here perceives that his is harassed by police. What happens? People here follow the “party line” and start blaming the OP. As for spirituality that is not either an organized religion, or atheism, it is treated as a joke here.
And back to Smash, how many of you here doubted his stories from the streets and about his political actions? How many of you here bashing him accused him of being a troll and lying about those actions? Many of you here attack what doesn’t fit comfortably in your world view and automatically judge the poster as a troll or liar, and now even though his actions & political history has been proved through cites, you continue to attack. Is it that you were proved wrong, and he really has done what he said, and you were forced to perhaps rethink the way homeless people are treated? Or is he just so different, and different scares you? Does this make you rethink anything, or just seek for something else he posts that could possibly confirm your bias against him?
His posts can be pedantic and wordy at times, but he makes points that lead me, and others who actually read them think. I admire Smash for his work with the Panhandler’s Union, and honestly I think if this place’s goal is to fight ignorance, isn’t it a little ignorant to dismiss him so.
No, you simpering git. I’m posting on a message board that has some people who are intellectually interesting, and some who are funny. I’m posting because I like those people, but the signal-to-dipshit ratio keeps getting lowered by shitbricks like you.
Alas, I know that you aren’t going to leave, because you’re the kind of person who is too incompetent to know they are incompetent. You’ll cruise along, spouting the meme of the day, basking in the smug contentment of the philistine who just bought a painting of dogs playing poker.
So you ask why I post? I like pissing you off because I don’t like you, and because maybe there are some people out there that agree and don’t want to say it for fear you’ll come along and spout your useless blathering at them. I, on the other hand, don’t give a shit if a weaksauce little sycophant like you thinks I’m an asshole or a troll. I hope that maybe you’ll find a little moment of honesty at the bottom of a bottle and realize you’re not so dissimilar from that NASCAR fan who doesn’t want faggots getting hitched, because you’re both insular followers without the courage to put your nuts on the chopping block and take a chance that you’re wrong. It’s always easier to just fit in and let someone else do your thinking.
Of course, given your performance so far, someone needs to do your thining for you, because you seem to be a little out of practice.
Meanwhile, are you going to go away too?
Or are you just another one who’s posting on a board you hate so that you can… fill in the blank here. Spend your time in an environment that causes you discomfort? Pick fights? What?
And no, when a frothing loon like Smashy starts farting all over a thread, one isn’t obliged to then spend time debunking his stupidity lest they prove that they’re “talking out of their ass”. Of course, it’s the same sort of idiocy that pretentious wastes of space like Kimmy like to babble, too. It really isn’t worth refuting, because quite frankly people like Kimmy and Smashy are fucking stupid and people like you are self admitted losers who spend time on a message board in order to, under the most charitable assumption, spend their time in a place which they intensely dislike.
Speaking of useless mouthbreathers, it’s not an argument ad populum, but a statement that something is so fucking stupid that it doesn’t merit further discussion. Much like we aren’t obligated to spill any ink to disprove the “the Elders of Zion secretly control the world” hypothesis, either.
So on one hand we have a trained medical professional, who has knowledge, experience, and who happens to be right… and on the other a pair of useless, arrogant idiots like Smashy and Kimmy, and you decide that losers like them are the ones worthy of admiration.
Look how stupid you are.
Oh, and?
Although schmucks like you and Kimmy don’t deserve it, I’ll fight your ignorance a bit anyways, not that I imagine it’ll penetrate much. You’re like the idiots who claim that flouride is toxic waste that ‘Big Business!’ poisons us with to make a buck.
Nutra Sweet is not harmful.
Methanol and formaldehyde are naturally produced by human metabolic processes and, just as naturally and safely, removed by metabolic processes. In fact, you get a much higher dose of methanol by drinking fruit juice. Nutra sweet has been absurdly tested and found safe.
It’s been tested so much because of over credulous woo slinging wastes of space like Kimmy and Smashy who are too busy being pretentious gits to use their heads as anything other than hat racks.
And Good lord but folks like Smashy and Kimmy would be useless if they were only being used as paperweights.
I see Finn has partly beaten me to this, but as amplification, here are some facts and deductions for Kimmy. Facts first.
- Methanol is commonly present in the diet apart from aspartame; it’s found in fruits, vegetables and alcoholic beverages. 2) Formaldehyde is a breakdown product of methanol, so it’s also commonly found in the human body. 3) Both of these substances are not harmful in the low concentrations in which they’re normally present in the body, which includes that attributable to consuming products sweetened with aspartame. This is an illustration of the well-none doctrine “the dose makes the poison”, which also applies to such things as oxygen and water, both of which are toxic at very high doses. 4) Scaremongering about methanol as a breakdown product of aspartame is therefore idiotic, and 5) you’re a moron.
Wouldn’t let me edit any more - but I wanted to add that if anyone attacked Polycarp’s religion, or started mocking atheists, this would not be tolerated, yet his own beliefs are being trolled about. Or if DTC was mocked at every point, this would not be tolerated yet, it seems people are following him around trying to find flaws in every post.
The word of the thread is git
Okay, as you’re very stupid and very angry, I’ll take this slowly.
- This is a public message board. If you believe that most people are stupid and horrible and bad, then by posting to this board you will expose yourself to all of them.
- If you believe there are a few diamonds in the rough worthy of your prodigious intellect and powers of discernment, then there’s email, AIM, snail mail, the phone, meeting in person, etc…
- So if you post to a board where you know for a fact you’ll come up against the super-majority of posters who you loathe, you are in fact subjecting yourself to an experience which you, yourself, claim is unpleasant and which has shockingly simple remedies that you ignore deliberately.
Yah, that’s pretty much the definition of trolling.
You aren’t too bright.
Thank you ivn1188 for your courteous reply. And yes, it would seem that way…
~S.P.I.~
From a Smash The State post a page up or so, I’m not quoting the whole thing:
Neurodiversity. Neurodiversity?
I like it.
It rolls off the tongue in a way that ‘having issues’ or ‘bat-shit crazy’ doesn’t quite.
Good stuff there. Your wit is as the razor, your riposte of “NO UR DUMB” the apex of cutting remarks.
In your (only) other thought, you seem to be implying that instead of trying my humble best to make the world a better place (like SmashTheState, oddly enough), I should simply pack my bags and let imbeciles like yourself continue to exist in your little self-sufficient mutual congratulation society. I wish you were there a few decades back to tell MLK to stop rocking the boat.
And your accusation of trollery is priceless; the first refuge of the low-functioning.
But no, it wouldn’t.
It’s the same thing in this latest bout of ignorant, arrogant, obnoxious idiocy about how nutra sweet breaks down into “dangerous” chemicals that, well… turn out to be 100% safe in the context of actual human beings actually consuming Nutra Sweet. So, ya know, not dangerous at all because Smashy is too stupid to understand the function that context serves in rational analysis. And of course, as a member of the Fighting Ignorati, it’s dubious at best that he’ll thank Jack for trying to point out that he was being stupid.
Smashy said something really, really stupid. And really, really ignorant.
Kimmy, the Yipping Chihuahua of Condescension, bouncing faithfully at his heels, chimes in and farts angrily at Jack.
Ivn, hating the very act of posting on this board and being too stupid to get a pen pal instead of using a public message board where he’s guaranteed to have a bad experience, decides that Jack is the one at fault since wastes of space like Kimmy and Smashy must be defended for the, ahem, valuable contribution they make to this board.
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They’re getting the responses they’re getting because they deserve them.*
Just so we’re clear, your argument is still “Your stupid!”, right?
Seriously, stop frothing, stop posting, and look at how stupid you are.
Much like the babbling morons you’re defending, you know nothing about me and yet you keep making this insanely stupid statements about me. The only thing worse than your absurd ranting is your ignorant idiocy.
And, you pompous fool, if you think that trolling the SDMB will make the world a better place, you seriously need to get over yourself.
Also, you arrogant asshole, you should be ashamed of comparing yourself (or Smashy and Kimmy, for that matter) to a hero like Martin Luther King.
No joke, this isn’t just internet snark. You are a vile wretch who should be ashamed to use such a rhetorical device even in a fugue of vociferous stupidity.
I do not mean to take away from your otherwise enlightening post, but you misunderstood me. “And yes, it would seem that way,” was referring to ivn1188 telling me that Smashy (and friends) were missing my posts because of all the other posts speeding by.
I agree with this. Another possibility is that I am far too boring to read.
All good theories,
~S.P.I.~
Nah, my apologies for misunderstanding you.
To be perfectly honest, I envy folks who are able to keep their blood cool when dealing with aggressively stupid, arrogant blowhards like Smashy. I’ve always admired, for instance, that Malthus can make similar points to me in some threads while I’m getting increasingly annoyed and he stays cool and collected.
Apology accepted. I am not familiar with Malthus, but he sounds like a cool dude.
I don’t mean to self-deprecate, but I don’t believe my posts are really that meaningful. I don’t contribute to this thread as well as others, so that might be another reason people glance over my posts.
I forget why I came here anyway, I am sure I had something to add…
~S.P.I.~