Big surprise, a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo from some ivory tower egghead trying to weasel out of his responsibilities on a technicality. Listen, professor, we may not all have your complex understanding of politics and the Internet, but the fact remains that when I turn on my computer and type words into the little box, other people read them and type their own words back. That makes me part of a system and thus 100% responsible for every part of it.
You ever see that movie “The Matrix”? If not, you should – it will answer all your questions. Also, that movie was awesome!
You might wanna review what Funk & Wagnalls’ has to say about immolation. The actions and consequences of immolation are far more serious than simple ignition.
Can everyone here do us all a favor and STFU and let this thread sink to the bottom where it belongs? Do you really think you’re going to convince this idiotic OP to reconsider his/her/its position? What else should we work on while we’re at it? Getting a screening of Brokeback Mountain at Westboro Baptist Church on Sunday?
That’s because you are a fucking idiot. Everyone can get behind that; pro-DP, anti-DP - it doens’t matter. I’ve used fish bait that could formulate more intelligent opening posts. Hell, I’ve used fishing lures that could do better.
Here’s a smack upside the head with a clue-by-four: post a semi-intelligent anti-DP post, and a significant portion of this MB, including Texans, will side with you. They’ll give you good arguments supporting you. Dissenters will give strong reasoned opinions and arguments on why they have a different view.
Tap blindly on keys like this and you become a dart board. And that comparison is an insult to dart boards everywhere.
Seriously, I think we’d LIKE to fight ignorance. Why this board is here, and all. It doesn’t always work – it doesn’t even work most of the time – but we can TRY. Silence equates agreement.
Unless you’re in the South, at which point you know that if your statement has been answered with utter silence (of which there are multiple timbres, and shocked or embarrassed silence has a sound all its own) you have offended, perhaps seriously.
Yeah, I knew a guy who would do that to. Constantly. And he didn’t smoke, so he didn’t have any of his own lighters. I finally had to tell him to knock it off because I was sick of having to buy a new pack of lighters every time he came over.
As soon as I saw the title, I said to myself, “Self, that looks like a thread that’ll be full of half-assed supposition and sweeping generalizations stated as fact.” I’m glad to see I wasn’t wrong.
Sometimes it’s just too easy.
FTR - Texas is evil, but not because they execute a lot of people, nor because they brought us GW, nor what they did to the Republican party. Texas is evil because they’ll slather a nasty, thick tomato sauce on beef and call it barbeque.
You know, I would never, ever break the board rules and wish death on someone (The one time I was accused of doing so it was a moderator who unilaterally declared (wrongly) that I had wished death on another poster and then closed the thread, preventing me from responding to his ludicrous conclusion), but if you think that suicide is the “noble” solution to this problem that you imagine Texas has, why aren’t you headed to Austin with a 5 gallon jerrycan and a match? Or is your “noble” solution only apropriate for other people, not for yourself?
(I am not wishing death on this poster, I’m just asking why she doesn’t practice what she is preaching)