Doesn’t sting from this end, just makes you look kinda stupid. I’m beginning to believe looks aren’t as deceptive with you as I’d cautiously assumed. (Default respect for others being one of the many careful habits I’ve developed as a liberal.)
Well yes, obviously, but can you go beyond the bare acknowledgement and consider how that affects your “self made” logic? After all, it was an award based on your academic merit, it wasn’t actually an amount of spending power you could reasonably have earned through contracted service.
I’d like to see the argument. I imagine you’ll address the deleterious affects of the broad reach of means tested programs versus the uplifting power of very narrow and focused availability of merit based prizes.
Nobody’s forcing you, brother. But thanks for definitively answering the question. Many of your fellow thinkers aren’t as tolerant of the sunlight. Makes 'em all squinty and sweaty.
I’m curious as to why ads for Dig Dug and Galaga would be associated with this thread. Is it that the argument about lazy liberals holding down the poor opened up a wormhole to the 80s? Or are these things associated with fucking around at work?
I don’t know what you think you’re doing on this board, Bricker. You may win the occasional battle through picking apart a post and turning a thread into being about what the definition of what “is” is, but you’re not contributing to winning a war. You are not changing ppl’s minds, you are not furthering your cause. You are one of the more intelligent conservatives I’ve run into on the internet. Most places, all I get is, “Suck it Libs.” However, you choose not to use your intellect to win minds, but to win pissy little semantic arguments. If you are among the best the conservatives have to offer, that’s a shame. Your arguments do no challenge worldviews, merely grammar and sentence structure.
I believe you are arguing on the internet because you like to argue, and your chosen techniques make me think your goal is simply to win an argument, any argument. Obviously, you are in the ideal profession.
I was under the impression that is basically what this board was all about. Yeah I know, the “straight dope” and all that rot. Far as I can tell it’s just a bunch of disenfranchised maladjusted dipwads with too much time on their hands who like to argue. :rolleyes:
Poster #1: Come see the laziness of the liberals! I’m conservative and I work hard and deserve what I have. No handouts here!
Poster #2: Where is this laziness you speak of?
Poster #1: I’m leaving this thread!
I believe in hard work. It’s an ethic I learned from my father, who for most of my childhood worked away from home, in Ft. McMurray, at his union job. That ethic is now applied to my (low paying, due to the effects recessions have on the price labour can demand) job, which includes building something Bricker’s government uses to keep Bricker safe from those nasty terrorists. What has Bricker ever done for me?
Wow, this nonsense of some right wing torture-apologist desk jockey telling me I don’t believe in hard work really pisses me off to no end. I don’t think this intellectually dishonest clown even believes what he says, much less expects us to believe it. I can’t believe anyone would take Bricker’s nonsense seriously.
There are enough people here that gladly kiss his ass. Personally, I think he’s overrated. Any lawyer with infinite time can make all the silly semantic arguments that he never tires of making. Anyway, he’s wasted enough of my time. I’ve had him on ignore for some time now, however I’ve overridden that on occasion to see some individual post. No more.
Its about balance! These guys are a burden, karma-wise. You figure you can keep things on an even keel or a little positive with just a few senseless acts of random kindness, not having to push it past being a nice-enough guy.
The Fart of Darkness stinks up the place, you can’t just be good to the people you meet, you gotta go find people to be nice to, get things back in balance.
I guess it’s all things to all people, but I kind of hope to learn something, to have my ideas challenged. I get tired of endless, disingenuous, pedantic post deconstruction. I don’t give a rat’s ass if someone scores a point. When someone makes me look at something a different way, they’ve impressed me.
That’s why I think it’s a valuable thing to have the conservative point of view. A static belief system is doomed to failure. But if they’re going to insist on presenting theirs and if they do it well, it helps ensure that ours doesn’t decay into one liner dogma.
Bricker seems to be (from a newcomer’s perspective) more flexible and at least on the face of things offers more give and take than most of the conservative posters here. He still runs discussions from the playbook, but at least acknowledges a foul every now and then and asks a reasonable question along the way.
