# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 91
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1801 "2024-03-27T03:52:59Z")
Well, despite my better judgement I engaged briefly with Iamuseless, and they’re either unspeakably damaged, uneducated to the point of being better committed themselves, or truly trolling. I’m currently leaning towards a combination of all three, but it could just be the first two taken to an extreme based on their self reporting of prior clinical evaluations of intelligence and sanity. At which point, I’ll amend my earlier feeling, I pity them, but if they aren’t trolling, whomever is directing their philosophy is evil as fuck. And no matter the causation of their ideas, it’s the sort of “idealistic good” that has gone so far as to be completely evil. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1802 "2024-03-27T04:00:40Z")
Pitiable. But lord. Who has time for that shit? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1803 "2024-03-27T14:05:58Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Well, despite my better judgement I engaged briefly with Iamuseless, and they’re either unspeakably damaged, uneducated to the point of being better committed themselves, or truly trolling. I’m currently leaning towards a combination of all three, but it could just be the first two taken to an extreme based on their self reporting of prior clinical evaluations of intelligence and sanity. Their admission to being Hindu points at a potential political cause: Hindu anti-Muslim hate, fed by India’s native right-wing nutjob party, the BJP party and its own Donald Trump-like leadership. We’re dealing with the Indian equivalent of a racist Trumper, I think. If not a current Indian citizen, then at least a radicalized follower poisoned by the rhetoric. After all, there are right-wing Europeans who admire DJT. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1804 "2024-03-27T17:44:57Z")
Your scenario is very plausible, but after engaging last night, and checking up, I’m slowly leaning more towards troll. Nothing certain of course, but the way they kept dodging my comments about putting their theories to the test, the _sudden_ springing of being a “brown hindu” which somehow never came up in their long initial thread about all their mental health and employment issues? Admittedly, it could be a perfect overlap of multiple causation as I said previously, but even if a lot of the background is true (something as I said I’m doubting) there’s more agency involved than I’m comfortable with. I don’t see them as _just_ a victim (of the system, bad sources/propaganda) anymore. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1805 "2024-03-27T19:40:13Z")
One day suspension for Capt. Dunsel. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1806 "2024-03-27T20:28:00Z")
Well, mentioning **xtenkfarpl** here rather than the troll thread was at least partially justified: > OK, I’m sorry I opened this can of worms. I was just disgusted and horrified by that Taliban proclamation. > > It was late at night and I did not express myself very clearly. I am not for a moment suggesting that the majority of muslims are terrorists. So they acknowledge, if perhaps less than I would wish and _far_ later that their OP was a mistake. Or at least they may have disproven Iamuseless’ name - that poster at least may have proved _useful_ as an example of what intolerance _really_ looks like. -snicker- So, with Iamuseless-except-as-a-bad-example on a short suspension, and xtenkfarpl reconsidering, I’m moving on to a different thread where several of us are at loggerheads with a poster. Jay\_Z is doing an amazing job of white knighting for tullsterx in the “Why does everything have to be so polarized these days thread”. This is despite several of us having rubbed Jay\_Z’s nose in tullsterx’s night-on threadshitting on the whole board, JZ indicates none of us have the right or knowledge to evaluate T’s experiences and feelings. JZ hasn’t actually come to my attention much, except that he seems to have a real problem with women where he (largely based on his personal experiences) feels they seem selfish, unfaithful, and uncaring of their partner’s happiness. But there are a lot of desperately unhappy people in this world, and not a few on their board, so I’m not passing judgement. But what was he THINKING to jump to the defense of a poster who said everyone on _this_ board is full of “crazy leftist bullshit”?! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1807 "2024-03-27T20:35:57Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > But what was he THINKING to jump to the defense of a poster who said everyone on _this_ board is full of “crazy leftist bullshit”?! It’s pretty clear what he was thinking. IMO that was “Right on! Finally _somebody_ is speaking up against the Dopish Hivemind.” ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1808 "2024-03-27T21:03:43Z")
Well, obviously you and I who are busy countering it are going to have such thoughts, but we’re emotionally compromised (not that I think it changes the validity of the analysis) - so it’s helpful to get input from others! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1809 "2024-03-27T21:10:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Dopish Hivemind. I’m so tired of having people like [insert long list of troll_esque_ posters, and Sam] falling back on that as a reason why everyone seems arrayed against them. But I have a complaint. Have you ever spent any time in the Dopish Hivemind? It’s a mess! All those childhood cartoons and bad sitcoms, and the porn is laughable. And just TRY to get directions back out! The mods are all buff superheroes with no time to help, or mad scientists too focused on truly lean pastrami and hyper-neutrinos. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1810 "2024-03-27T21:16:35Z")
I prefer lean-neutrinos and Reubens. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1811 "2024-03-27T21:20:53Z")
White fish salad and positrons ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1812 "2024-03-27T21:20:56Z")
> [@digs](#): > > But I have a complaint. Have you ever spent any time in the Dopish Hivemind? It’s a mess! All those childhood cartoons and bad sitcoms, and the porn is laughable. I have this image that when Stranger\_On\_A\_Train disappears for a few months at a time, he’s busy in the hivemind trying to clean the place up and put it in order, constantly muttering under the breath what an irrational, lazy bunch we all are in a Vulcan-like sense of disapproval. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1813 "2024-03-27T21:38:08Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I have this image that when Stranger\_On\_A\_Train disappears for a few months at a time, he’s busy in the hivemind trying to clean the place up and put it in order [-] And I always imagine he’s having way more fun than I am, and it pisses me off. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1814 "2024-03-27T23:45:12Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Jay\_Z is doing an amazing job of white knighting for tullsterx in the “Why does everything have to be so polarized these days thread” Oh yeah him. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a troll but he is definitely has an issue with wanting to educate other people directly. Not in the sense of “let me throw this fact out there, or issue, and let’s talk about it”. But in the sense of “you said something I disagreed with or don’t like, so rather than engage with your argument I’m going to attack your media viewing or news viewing sources.” And there was one thread that I remember where coverage of MSNBC and Trump was being discussed and I happened to bring up that I watch MSNBC sometimes and have first hand experience with their programming and hosts. Oh God that was a mistake. I got told that watching too much cable news is a bad thing. Well, yes I would agree with that. I also pointed out to him that he has no idea what else I read or watch and shouldn’t be making a million assumptions about my arguments based on one data point. I also threw out an invitation to meet me here, not here in this thread specifically but here in the pit, if he wanted to keep making personal comments about me. Haven’t heard a peep from him since. > [@digs](#): > > All those childhood cartoons and bad sitcoms, and the porn is laughable. Hey! Hands off! That porn is mi… You know what? Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1815 "2024-03-28T01:10:16Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Oh yeah him. This is the shortest, yet most damning imaginable insult for a thread like this one, or our parent thread. Of course, it would be even worse if someone added italics to the “him/her” part. Tickled my fancy, it did. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1816 "2024-03-28T01:34:48Z")
tullsterx, in the thread about polarization, declares that they just come here to see what crazy bullshit leftists are spouting, so they can go make fun of us to their buddies. um okay dude. You think that shows how much better you are than us, but “I go somewhere just to laugh at the dumbasses there” isn’t the flex you think it is. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1817 "2024-03-28T14:20:08Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > You think that shows how much better you are than us, but “I go somewhere just to laugh at the dumbasses there” isn’t the flex you think it is. Not agreeing with them, but isn’t that the point of the schadenfreude and “Stupid” threads? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1818 "2024-03-28T14:29:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I prefer lean-neutrinos and Reubens. Rubenesque neutrinos would certainly not be lean. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1819 "2024-03-28T14:47:34Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Not agreeing with them, but isn’t that the point of the schadenfreude and “Stupid” threads? I don’t think so. It’s one thing to say, “In my everyday life I’m unavoidably encountering this asshole, and I’m gonna complain about them/laugh at their misfortune.” It’s entirely different to say, “I go out of my way to go somewhere where I don’t respect people, and the only reason I go there is so that I can laugh at those people.” The first is what it means to be human. The second is deeply pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1820 "2024-03-28T15:24:40Z")
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