# What happened to Bricker?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249 "2018-08-25T09:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/41 "2018-08-27T07:17:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Grasp that straw and wield it as if it was a sword. :rolleyes:
> It’s as if you _wanted_ to post as a parody of yourself.
Yeah, I’ve seen cases where a [literal straw man meant to make **Bricker** look like an idiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21142274#post21142274) actually came away looking better than [**Bricker** ’s actual response](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21144691&postcount=10951). The consistent problem: **Bricker** cares about the means. Consistency in the means is the crucial, important thing to him. The ends? Eh, who cares. Who cares that in one case, a wildly unpopular monument to white supremacy got torn down and in another 169 people _fucking died_ - the means were both illegal, ergo liberal hypocrisy, ergo… I don’t fucking know. **Bricker** is deranged. Probably an excellent lawyer, given that being a lawyer means fighting not for what’s right or what’s true but rather for your client, but utterly deranged.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/42 "2018-08-27T08:25:47Z")
Bricker is the epitome of a bot. There is no nuance, no humanity, no reading between the lines with him/it.
It’s black and white and nothing else should be considered in any discourse.
How sad if he is actually a human. If he IS a bot, then…well, what can I say?
Fuck it? 😃
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### Author:  [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/43 "2018-08-27T08:54:58Z")
> [@BeenJammin](#):
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> **Funny how Facts get in the Way of Emotion**
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> - Especially when they don’t jive with your heartfelt feelings. Nitpick all you like. Sorry Bricker makes you feel inadequate. Too bad you don’t get to have your own version the facts.
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> Rage against factual impingement upon your fantasy world util you’re blue in the face, but it ain’t Bricker’s fault. Now let’s see how shooting the messenger proceeds…
Hmm.
A snide jab designed to provoke an emotional response while containing absolutely no logical or factual substance.
Seems a tad contradictory to your premise.
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/44 "2018-08-27T15:01:48Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> it’s difficult bordering on impossible to defeat him.
[I let him keep all his fingers.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8759134&postcount=81) Oddly enough, it was a proportionality of response issue at the question there as well. Or maybe it’s not odd, and that’s just his thing.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/45 "2018-08-27T15:15:52Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Cop to citizen: Sir, you failed to stop at the “Stop” sign.
> Citizen: Well, I slowed down!
> (Cop removes baton, begins bashing citizen about the head and shoulders…)
> “You want me to stop? Or just slow down?”
Did you come up with that on your own?
Because that is gold.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/46 "2018-08-27T16:01:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> **SA** , that’s true only to the extent that “effective in debate” means he’s simply obstinate, and “it’s difficult bordering on impossible to defeat him” means he can’t admit when he’s lost and that you’re not quite smart enough to recognize it.
It is richly ironic that one of the few Dopers who is willing to concede a point or be persuaded, comes in for this same kind of accusation.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/47 "2018-08-27T16:11:48Z")
> [@Mtgman](#):
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> [I let him keep all his fingers.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8759134&postcount=81)
Huh, once upon a time Bricker _was_ capable of being moderately funny.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/48 "2018-08-27T16:17:48Z")
> [@Shodan](#):
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> It is richly ironic that one of the few Dopers who is willing to concede a point or be persuaded, comes in for this same kind of accusation.
Have you checked the voter suppression thread lately?
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/49 "2018-08-27T16:23:27Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> Probably an excellent lawyer, given that being a lawyer means fighting not for what’s right or what’s true but rather for your client, but utterly deranged.
I don’t even give him that. When he serves as court-appointed lawyer for those who can’t pay, I’d bet he does just the bare minimum to avoid getting disbarred and doesn’t give a flying fuck about his clients.
He’s a pony of few tricks. He fucking loves his guns, probably whacks off with them. He hates undocumented immigrants because he considers himself to be one of the “good Hispanics” and morally superior to the riffraff coming in now. He obsesses over betting on politics and thoroughly loves rubbing wrong predictions in the faces of others. He thinks the only debate that one ought to have is whether something is legal, regardless of whether others are arguing morality or efficacy. He fucking knows that there is no problem with illegal voting but argues for voter ID so that the “wrong” people that he considers morally inferior don’t get to vote. He may be a savant on legal knowledge in the same way Ben Carson was on brain surgery, but it’s wasted in the smallness of the man.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/50 "2018-08-27T16:26:01Z")
> [@Mtgman](#):
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> [I let him keep all his fingers.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8759134&postcount=81) Oddly enough, it was a proportionality of response issue at the question there as well. Or maybe it’s not odd, and that’s just his thing.
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> Enjoy,
> Steven
Very much the sort of thing I am thinking about. [Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8755927&postcount=54) and [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8757206&postcount=63) are his responses.
Now - Trump sure sucks, don’t he?
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/51 "2018-08-27T16:32:05Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Huh, once upon a time Bricker _was_ capable of being moderately funny.
I know right? The board was different back then. That thread even had [**Shayna** defending **Bricker**](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8756018&postcount=47). Oh the times they have a chang-ed.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/52 "2018-08-27T16:32:06Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> I don’t even give him that. When he serves as court-appointed lawyer for those who can’t pay, I’d bet he does just the bare minimum to avoid getting disbarred and doesn’t give a flying fuck about his clients.
Oh, I think the effectiveness he brags about, to whatever extent it exists, is from the same shit we see here - just toss enough of the debate-club stuff he loves so well out there that it sounds smart and reasoned, and fool the jury into thinking it’s reasonable doubt. It works on enough Dopers, too, to keep the fun going for him.
But you’re right that it’s about him, not his clients.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/53 "2018-08-27T16:37:04Z")
> [@steatopygia](#):
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> Did you come up with that on your own?
> Because that is gold.
No. Old joke.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/54 "2018-08-27T16:53:34Z")
Don’t have the link handy (I’ll look when I’m able), but **Bricker** admitted that his views about US policy re: Cuba were largely based on his own personal feelings about the Castro brothers. That was big of him at least (though I’ve since asked him to revisit those thoughts, with no response).
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### Author:  [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/55 "2018-08-27T16:55:56Z")
There are several posters on the board whose posts I will read in any thread on any topic because they tend to have thoughtful, thought provoking, or interesting responses. Posters who if they had an actual newsletter I would subscribe. Bricker is among that group of posters. Many of the other posters responding in this thread are not.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/56 "2018-08-27T17:09:38Z")
At least ge’s got \*\*Bone \*\*and \*\*Shodan \*\*on his side. I’m sure that’s comforting.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/57 "2018-08-27T17:13:29Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> At least ge’s got \*\*Bone \*\*and \*\*Shodan \*\*on his side. I’m sure that’s comforting.
I was going to put out a newsletter, but I’ve certainly got second thoughts now that I don’t have a guarantee that **Bone** will subscribe to it.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/58 "2018-08-27T17:19:36Z")
Is it already time for the annual \*\*Bricker \*\*pitting? Next you’ll tell me that pumpkin beer is back on the shelves!
I wish this board had more like him. He’s not perfect. None of us are. But he has a number of sterling qualities–including a willingness to admit errors–which is more than most posters can claim.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/59 "2018-08-27T17:20:23Z")
Grampa? What’s a “newsletter”?
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/60 "2018-08-27T17:32:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> I was going to put out a newsletter, but I’ve certainly got second thoughts now that I don’t have a guarantee that **Bone** will subscribe to it.
All you have to do is assert that the Second Amendment provides for him to be in a militia that can resist tyranny with his AR-15 and he’ll consider that “thoughtful, thought provoking, or interesting”. :rolleyes:
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