Wait, that’s it?
My post in 51 wasn’t any dumber than the shit that proceeded it, yet still only slightly smarter than blaming witches. Even after that post, we still get our resident economics professor emeritus bitching about a house that sold for $325k a few years ago that now has no equity.
That whole thread is a parody of modern politics. What a surprise that a bunch of liberals rationalized a way to blame Reagan and bankers.
Hell, we could replace [financial meltdown] with any number of different topics and get exactly the same thread.
“I blame liberals!”
“I blame conservatives!”
“I blame bankers!”
“I blame rich people!”
“I blame poor people!”
“I blame witches!”
The fucking melt down was 3 years ago, how many threads have there been on exactly that same topic, with exactly the same people, and exactly the same arguments?
The best part is that when we get another crash in a couple of years we’ll still be arguing about this one. How is that going to work?
“His method seems to be to try to make the people he’s arguing against look foolish,”
They are foolish, but worse they are both repetitive and popular. You can’t use reason to persuade a person away from a position they didn’t use reason to arrive at. So if slowly and calmly trying to educate a person about the events leading up to the crisis hasn’t worked for the past 3 years, what’s left? Eventually the most foolish get banned and the board moves back towards sanity.
"I, for one, have a hell of a hard time ever working out what that guy is actually for. "
It’s right there in the banner at the top of the page. The point here isn’t to pick a side and then defend that side ad nauseum. Which results in hilarity like discussions about US health care, if I correct a lying conservative I’m labeled a liberal, if I correct a lying liberal I’m labeled a conservative.
This was the best exchange:
I’m a Canadian, living in the US, that prefers the Canadian health care system. Yet I’m also a believer in the for profit system and parroting rightwing mantra? hmmmmm
This message board is a fascinating case study in how people rationalize a decision they’ve already made. There was a thread recently where someone kept rationalizing stupid things poor people do: Drink? It helps numb the pain. Eat shitty food? They’re tired and it’s easy. Gamble? They can’t afford a 401(k).
Damn, my first pitting, so much less than I had hoped for. At least septimus showed up to bitch about libertarianism, although that’s really all he/she/it does so it might have been in the wrong thread.
But before I go, here’s a link to an article I haven’t read that is in no way related to the discussion