Ah, “umadbro.” Great! I think you and **magellan01 ** should have an insult throw-down. It would be pretty comical.
Ludovic nails it in post #2.
OP, sorry about your lay off, I’ve been there fairly recently and wouldn’t wish that on anyone except maybe Republican Leaders.
I disagree on who’s to blame for the economy and will vote for President Obama in November.
Cad did post this nonsense railing against the inheritance tax: Why is an estate tax constitutional? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board
I’d venture to guess he has little understanding of economic issues.
His salutation? Or is that just the title of the thread.
What he actually said was
So, it’s actually a fact that the economy is recovering and unemployment has gone down. There’s no two ways about that. However, it’s also undeniable that things aren’t good enough yet.
However, it’s typically conservatives who think that austerity will help. So, someone has to get austeracized. Here’s a graph showing the problems that public sector employment has caused on the overall recovery:
http://www.epi.org/publication/public-sector-job-losses-unprecedented-drag/
Unfortunately I barely got "C"s in my Introduction to Rap Battles class.
Let me see if I can summarize this thread’s response to the OP’s pain and economic distress:
- Cool story bro. Sucks to be u.
- But your experience doesn’t mean anything, cause you’re just one guy.
- And look here! This chart says Obama has improved the economy!
- You cannot hold the president responsible for the economy.
- Whatever’s still wrong with the economy is the fault of the previous president.
- Either way, your unjust attack on Obama makes you sound like one of those conservatives!
- So you’re getting what you deserve! Ha ha!
Far from it for me to discourage you guys in this winning approach. As election day approaches, the economy continues to flounder along and one out of every six Americans remains unemployed or underemployed, I encourage you to redouble your efforts in getting this message out and educate voters about how they ought to feel about their crappy situations. If all Obama supporters take it to heart, I have some hope we will finally start to see things improve after November.
You really are that pissed off because I told you to look it up yourself. I’d apologize but you really should look it up yourself.
Also, my response wasn’t only for you. mhendo seemed to think that something other than what was already in this thread was causing all the sarcastic replies. My position was and still is that there need be no other reason for the sarcastic replies than what was already in this thread.
I am seriously a little flabbergasted at how badly you’re taking my search it yourself post.
I’m generally against firing teachers. Kids need to see that teachers can sometimes be stupid adults, and thus we need conservative teachers like you. We all understood from your OP that you were pitting people who praised or in any measure approve Obama’s handling of the economy. We understood it because we can read.
The federal government has very little to do with hiring and firing teachers. Local school districts do that.
If you are going to make a career out of babysitting at a public school, please give my condolences to the faculty that have to pick up your slack. It is a lot more difficult than just babysitting.
You are the one with a government job. There are private teaching jobs out there. Go get one. Yeah, it will be with less pay and less benefits, but you are against unions anyway, aren’t you?
Your hypocrisy and stupidity are not just skin deep. It goes all the way to the bone. When you are a conservative trying to reduce the public payroll and destroy unions, stop crying so fucking much when it actually happens. Dumbfuck.
Dumbfuck.
Dumbfuck.
Dumbfuck.
Have you picked up on the fact that your politics support cutting off your own food supply? Most everyone else in this thread has.
Swing and a miss. Where’s the part about failing to connect tax cuts to education layoffs?
Uh, yeah. This.
It was both. He used the thread title as a salutation, so the audience could self-define either in it or not.
This really seems pretty clear from the OP. As an analogy, if someone wrote a thread and had as the title,
“To all knee-jerk, liberal douche bags who rarely actually contribute to the the discussion”
And then went on to say that the mothers of these people are doberman-fucking cum sluts, I wouldn’t be offended in the least, as the person is clearly not talking to me. But if, say, Lobohan, took issue with those comments and tried to rush to the defense of his mother, that would make perfect sense.
[QUOTE=magellan01;14953739But if, say, Lobohan, took issue with those comments and tried to rush to the defense of his mother, that would make perfect sense.[/QUOTE]
By the way, she wants you to stop sending her gifts, it’s over.
Thanks Lobhan. I pass/failed Rap Battles 101, but now that Biggirl has doubled down on the *umadbro *I know I’m way out of my league.
I kind of picture the OP as an accident victim (car, not pants). He’s dizzy and reeling from shock, standing in the cold rain outside his car. As the tow-truck operator slowly pulls it from the ditch, he’s bitching to his wife that they’re scratching the paint on the way up and, and, though it’s making it out of the ditch it’s not going fast enough for him. Also, the truck operator’s bastard cousin–and competition–is there slashing the OP’s tires and doing his best to fuck things up so he can try “rescuing” the car.
Someone hand the OP an umbrella.
Did you miss all the posts that said they were sorry for his situation, even f they disagreed with his argument?
Okay, thanks! But tell her I was unable to cancel the order for the pair of mastiffs she paid me for. They should be there any day now. But after this, she’ll have to go back to stealing those junkyard dogs. Unless, of course, she can get her loving son to help her out.
Saint Cad–OK, fine. Stay home on Election Day and whine about how disappointed you are in Obama’s first term, or vote for the Green Party, or even Mitt Romney, if you think Republicans give a goddamn about public employees. If you think taking money away from the schools in order to give vouchers to the upper class, knock yourself out. But you’ll be pushing this country a little further down the road to being irredeemably right-wing and regressive in its political, social, cultural, and economic structure.
Never forget: Republicans vote. Every. Time.
If I were to write a thread entitled “To all you Zimmerman apologists, go fuck yourselves” and included in the post the sentence: “Why don’t you pull some shit out of your ass (right next to your head) about how we can’t know who attacked who first,” I would clearly be calling those with that opinion Zimmerman apologists, and you would have the right to mad at me, despite the fact that you don’t consider yourself even pro-Zimmerman.
Nope. As I think you’d agree, people can argue in good faith, and perhaps a mind will be changed once every ten years. 
But the term apologist refers to a blind type of believer, someone who will never give an iota or admit fault on his or her side—even if a particular point of defense oct attack may be used by both groups. So, your logic falls there. Now, if he didn’t write the title the way he did, I could see non-apologists being offended. But as it is, zero “Obama NON-apologists should be offended.”.
I don’t disagree with the dictionary definition, though it really is somewhat antiquated, harkening back to when science/philosophy books were published with an Apologia. Now, technically, a kid who apologizes to another kid for hitting him is also an apologist. But when it comes to people being “apologists” for causes, etc., it takes on the flavor of what I said. I’m pretty sure you know that. And know what I meant.