Weirdly, pseudotriton hasn’t deigned to answer Skald’s 4 simple mostly predictive questions, yet he hammers OMG for not agreeing to his silly bet. Weird.
I would agree that OMG is bullshitting us, but only to the extent that most people do: I’ve heard all manner of bold claims that collapse once a wager is offered, even with minimal pecuniary stakes. In this regard OMG isn’t unusual.
OMG has an odd posting style though. He is thoroughly butthurt about being a modern conservative. He isn’t butthurt about being black though, and while he is curious about black conservatism, he isn’t butthurt about that either. And his handle suggests that he thinks the intersection between his African American heritage and conservative beliefs would be thought remarkable. I can only roll my eyes: for one thing there are plenty of socially conservative blacks, just as there are plenty of conservative Democrats. And in 1960, there were quite a few black Republicans as well as a fair number of liberal Republicans. Nixon’s southern strategy and subsequent Republican dog-whistling changed all that. Yet OMG doesn’t seem to grok to all of this.
I make no accusation: the internet is a big place after all. But it is peculiar.
The link is above. He didn’t ask you anything, he just posted a predictions thread. FTR, I assume you overlooked it: it isn’t hard to answer. But you should, since you’re hammering OMG for not putting his money where is mouth is. Step 1 is stating your position in a coherent manner in an agreed upon location.
I find your hypocrisy - if that’s what it is - perplexing. OMG has summarized his views FTR. PRR has not.
I can’t figure out what the big deal is. You should be able to state your beliefs and summarize why you believe them. Then we can compare track records after the election. OMG has done this in the designated and forum-appropriate thread. PRR has not.
Maybe if I repost them, in a somewhat clearer format:
"…To answer your question, the “it”, which seemed evident to me from the context, is “OMG’s refusal to accept your bet”. His refusal doesn’t prove your thesis that this proves he is a troll, any more than Trump’s offer to Obama, which Obama ignored, proved Trump’s thesis that Obama is therefore a foreign citizen/fraud/poor student/whatever Trump could fling against the wall. Other, plausible, reasons for OMG’s declining, (including OMG himself, of course) were offered by various posters.
If your opinion cannot be disproven/falsified, as you posited in an above post (#66 “I stated my opinion (that OMG is trolling, that he doesn’t believe what he professes to believe, and that is why he refuses to make a wager about the election results)–how can my opinion be wrong?”) , does that suggest that all opinions are equally valid, including Trump’s opinion of Obama, and yours of OMG’s being a troll? If not, why not?
BTW, have you noticed that the majority of posters to this thread don’t seem to agree with your assertion? (My general impression, I haven’t kept a running tally). What, if anything, do you make of that?.. "
I responded to this in Post #94, invited to address the content again in Post #96, repeated it again yesterday in Post #107, and you accuse others of ignoring what’s too ‘obvious to miss?’
I find that, well, ‘I find that despicably weak and lame.’
You’re not fooling anyone, I suspect, except maybe yourself. Do you like to think of yourself as possessing any intellectual honesty at all?
Get lost. When you quit a thread in a huff, I’m no longer interested in discussing things with you. (Starving Artist rule.) I will discuss your points with anyone else who cares to voice them, I suppose, but I don’t think anyone cares that much. Too bad for you.
So you’ll respond, but not discuss. Well done. If only you hadn’t Yelled at me to answer your question. Then, when I do, so clearly that even you can no longer pretend not to understand (and it was a pretty idiotic attempt to pretend to fail to comprehend), you pull a retroactive “too late”, new rules!
You leave **no doubt **where the BS lies…
Or, to quote another of your oh-so-witty ripostes, “Fail.”
Have a nice day.
