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Perhaps this wouldn't happen had you changed your user name whenrequested. Demonstrating a little respect for the administration atThe Peoples Cube wouldn't hurt either. But then we are allprogressives right? Everything is owed to us, at the behest of ourtemper tantrums and sense of entitlement, to what anyone elseowns? Earning things, earning respect, respecting others property,respecting others, and boundaries of decorum is so 18th century!
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I'd respect others on this site more if they'd show a little bit more respect towards others, themselves. Speaking of temper tantrums, go to Youtube & type in either "town hall meeting", "Joe Wilson" or "9/12 movement".
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Gipper, fisking someone takes more than a snarky attitude.
But random douchebaggery disguised as arguing is easy, right Commissar Theocritus?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Comrades, let us rejoice! We have SuperTroll here! And he has resilience! And a spelling checker too.
No, I just know how to spell correctly. It's pretty basic stuff. Surprised you didn't know that, Commissar.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:And like all good trolls, he misses the point of everything. But he's still a troll cub.
Let's not drive him off.
Yes, because your awesome debating prowess is capable of "driving me off".
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Oh. SuperTroll, please go to
www.jessicaswell.com. I do duty there and would just love to frolic with you.
Commissar Theocritus, I don't know what's creepier: A guy with a Dracula avatar working on a site called "jessicaswell.com" or that that same guy is inviting a younger man to go over there.
Comrade_Tovarich wrote:Random AssO wrote:Don't worry guys, I'm back and I'm here to answer my love letters!
A crass "get-in-their-faces" name reeking of the under-21 kid who thinks him-/herself omniscient.
I know I'm not omniscient. However, I know for a fact that you've resorted to changing this "under-21 kid"'s name to "Random AssO" because you can't out-debate "him/her".
Comrade_Tovarich wrote:
Been there, done that.
Ain't touchin' this one.
Comrade_Tovarich wrote:Don't I get a Mountain Dew for saying that?
Sure, if you go out and buy one for yourself. I'm not giving you anything, you lazy commie.
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Comrade_Tovarich wrote:On Republicans and Democrats by partysolidarity, you might try the breakdown of numbers, election wins,districts, and more in "
Republicans and Democrats: A Tale of Two Bases." I like the phrase
gentry liberal, since it seems unintentionally condescending.
I don't think the American Enterprise Institute is exactly an unbiased source there, shooter. Nice try, though.
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:Good Lenin...
Good you?
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:when are we ever going to get a decent troll? I'm tired of these sniveling, pussyboy types.
Only when you stop being a "sniveling pussyboy type".
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:I say we go forth to all the prog sites and try to recruit some good prog talent.
Sounds like Custer going to Little Bighorn to "recruit some good Sioux talent".
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:Some progs that will atleast be moderately interesting. What we've encountered lately just isn't cutting the Poupon.
Huh. Guess you're just more elitist than me, I don't even own any/like Poupon. Way to prove I'm the out-of-touch liberal, Lenin.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Now, L-n-T, we have to take the trolls that we get. I know that they snivel. But I'm trying to raise this one right.
The creepiness factor on this one is off the charts.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:They're cute when they're young, though, aren't they?
This isn't helping your case, Theocritus.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:One of the things that I have learned to enjoy is that liberals are the wealthy people now
This is so ridiculous I'm not even going to argue with it.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:--they have bought all the cars and houses that they want.
No, we couldn't buy all the houses we want. John McCain bought most of them.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Now they're buying superiority.
You can't buy logical superiority, tiger.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Instead of leaving people alone.
Same argument used by racists to defend segregation & slavery. Excellent point, Commissar.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Because that's no fun, and that doesn't let them inject their nasty little personalities onto other people.
Yes, because the conservatives/libertarians are just
so much more polite & civil in debates than those nasty liberals.
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:Naw...this one isn't very cute.
My self-esteem has just been destroyed, I hope you're happy.
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:Just annoying.
Facts & reason are annoying little things, aren't they?
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:An annoying,snivelling little puss.
Again with the "puss" card, Lenin? Don't you have other means of defending yourself than calling your opponents "pusses" or "pussboys"?
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:Makes me almost miss that other one...what was his name? I think itstarted w/ a "J". Atleast he was entertaining to a degree. This onegoes beyond redundancy in its posts.
Not going to even waste my time on this one.
Lenin 'n' Things wrote:Endlessly sneering. In other words...your typical,GOP conservative.
Fixed.
Navigator wrote:[Comrade Random AssO,
Don't address things to yourself, Navigator. It's a little unseemly.
Navigator wrote:Your comments are all fine and dandy but remind me of a revolving door complaining about it's hinges.
I'm choosing to believe that this was an unintentional bad analogy & leave it at that.
Navigator wrote:Sooner or latter you must pick up your shovel and dig with us.
Believe me, I'm the only one digging through bullshit here.
Navigator wrote:You are making the rest of us look good
It would take a team of plastic surgeons to make you look even decent, Navigator.
Navigator wrote:and, as you know, this administration abhors stand outs.
OK, we get it, Obama's a "socialist/communist/fascist". You're as funny as a root canal without anesthesia.
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Comrade Random AssO wrote:
Of course, any other job that a twentysomething with a couple yearsof college education besides Americorps is going to be a thankful,awesome job. Yep, private sector jobs are always rewarding.
Doesn't it suck to be young but not be the CEO of something?
Nice strawman, there pinkster.
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Damn those mean old white guys who started out just like you.
See above.
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:It's not fair! They worked their way up theladder getting richer and more successful, and all that did was make itharder and more daunting for people like you who want it all NOW.
Since this was never my argument at all, I'm going to go take a nap until Pinkie thinks of something half-way relevant to talk about. *shambles off to go take a nap*
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Because no one should have to earn their success--it's so much more rewarding to have it handed to them!
Zzz...
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Obama's going to change all that--and he's already leading by example!
*snores*
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:After all, he didn't have to work too hard to get where he is, certainly not as much as those CEO's.
*stirs* huh, what?
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:He's living proof that you can make it to thetop not through experience and hard work, but through the awesome powerof identity politics and perpetual victimhood!
*yawns* Your argument (and probably you) are retarded. *goes back to sleep*
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:
And he fired those CEO's for their unfairly acquired success. But who shall take their place? Of course--the Government!
Zzz...
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:And the Government will give you everything, soyou won't have to work for it. That, in turn, will give you plenty ofextra time to wait in line for their services.
*snores*
Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Though I notice you seem to have a great deal oftime already for someone who claims to be a college student working hisass off to pay for it.
*Wakes up, gets up and yawns* That was refreshing. Of course I have free time, there, Pinkie. I get a lot of financial aid for being from having parents who don't make that much, plus getting good grades in high school. Add that to the fact that from May to August I work like a dog, means I'm pretty set for the school year. Nice try, though.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Pinkie, all that His O'liness ever did was work his look.
Trust me, I'm not as vain as you, Ubermensch.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:That's all there is, isn't there? I mean, why learn things and achieve real things?
I smells me a rehash of every argument Commissar Theocritus ever had with me.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:It's because you EXIST, not that you achieved.
Yep, it's a rehash. I should probably just sleep through this one.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Achievement is hard. Our shape-shifting troll, whose screen names change
Mostly because admins seem not to understand that "Gipper" isn't a racist name at all. Don't worry, though, I've adapted. It's called evolution. Try it sometime.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:but whose sniveling doesn't, irritated me enough on another thread that I had some fun with him.
By "fun", you mean "I tried to debate someone who I acknowledge is atleast 25 years my junior and got my ass handed to me on a silver platter", then yeah, you & I had "fun".
Commissar Theocritus wrote:And absent a reply from him on the other thread
I'll get to it after I'm done with this reply.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I have no more to say and so repeat myself here:
You seem fond of repeating yourself, anyways.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Beaver Bait? I don't know which is worse: trying to pretend to be the Exalted Ronald Reagan or suggesting that you are, er, Beaver Bait.
I'm pretty sure that having admins change my name to something demeaning & then calling me that is the forum equivalent of taunting a kid because his nickname is something ridiculous. Way to show me how to debate, pops.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Unless you mean that you're a sapling beside a stream.
If that were true, that means you've been getting your ass handed to you by a tree.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Of course Chappaquiddick is not the same as one of the Bush daughters getting an illegal drink
We finally agree on something.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:(which is not the Bush daughters drunk. This is a canard). Teddy Kennedy was a murderer, oh, all right committed manslaughter,
*facepalms* You don't learn anything, do you?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:a distinction without a difference, and legalistic nitpicking.
Says the guy who less than two sentences ago "legalistically nitpicked" my post.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:The left's stock in trade is false equivalency.
And the right's is knee-jerk name-calling. Continue.
Commissar Theocritus" wrote:I refer you to a comment when you were incarnated as Gipper:
So, you're saying that Muslims (because they are Muslim) are fanatical religious zealots who will stop at nothing to kill all of those that aren't members of their group (so, basically Nazis with a crescent instead of a swastika). But then, your solution to opposing them is killing Muslims, and doing it ruthlessly until they submit to your will? I'm savoring the irony.
That will be entered into the sweepstakes for false equivalencies.
I doubt I'd win. You have so many entries already.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I chose the Chappaquiddick/underage beer episode to demonstrate that the left specializes in false equivalencies.
I'd make a snarky comment here, but it already feels like I'm playing a child with Down's syndrom at chess, so I'll refrain.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Since all you have is precious attitude.
Creepiness, Theocritus, creepiness.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Beaver Bait wrote:I would've bothered to trudge through your post, but it was just more bullshit than I was able to deal with.
I hope that you didn't press the back of your hand too hard against your forehead and that your sighing didn't bother the neighbor's dog as you rolled your eyes in your
precious sophistication.
What did I just goddamn say?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Ah. Someone got me a Word-a-Day calendar? Hardly.
Here comes Theocritus whipping out his e-c**k.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:There are things about philology that you ought to know.
I want to see this.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:First, you may knows words through their etymology, and that's wonderful and good fun. I try never to use a word against its etymological derivation but confess that I'm limited to classical words. If it's not Latin or Greek I have a hard time with it. German I don't like. Genosse Pieck, pardon me and I <i>am</i> German.
But second, all words are not subject to the quick study--the vitamin pill--of a word a day. Even <a href="
https://awordaday.com/">A Word A Day</a>. Some words just take living to understand.
Well, this is actually reasonable. I hope it contin-
Commissar Theocritus wrote:For one, <i>solipsism</i>,
Aw, Christ, this shit again?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:which you do not yet understand,
Is your memory as bad as your arguing skills? 'Cuz it looks like it to me.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:and I suspect that you do not understand <i>hubris</i> either.
I understand that you obviously don't understand how ironic the words "I suspect you do not understand hubris" are coming from your mouth.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Reading the definitions of these words will do you no more good than reading the definition of integration by parts. You have to roll up your sleeves and get into it.
(If you can help me distinguish meanings of <i>practical</i>, <i>pragmatic</i>, <i>realistic</i> and <i>cynical</i> I'd appreciate it. I don't think that I'm making a crack by throwing <i>cynical</i> in with the others. I've been working on that group for over 30 years. This is a case where a lexicon is of little practical--see?--use.)
I'm willing to learn, master.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Trust me, there, shooter, the concept of solipsism is easily one of the least horrendous concepts I've ever heard of.
That could be the motto of every dictator or serial killer who ever lived.
Or person who challenges himself and reads things that are outside his comfort zone. Your call, boss.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:You <i>have no idea</i> of what the word means.
Christ, will you drop it already?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:If you ever do come to grips with it you will writhe in embarrassment.
Having to rehash this argument so often is embarrassing enough as it is.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I suspect though that your psychological defenses will keep you from ever apprehending that word, your mind glancing off it, repressing the self-knowledge that it would bring.
*Laughs in Commissar Theocritus' face*
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I'm not being nasty here: for you to exist as a fully functioning individual you need to understand what <i>solipsistic</i> means. My informal definition is, "It's all about me!"
That sounds somewhat reasonable.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Is this in any way different from sociopathy?
Yes. Anyone with any grasp of what sociopathy entails would know that.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Some quarter of a century ago I had such a boyfriend
From what I've seen so far, your boyfriend was probably literally a boy.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:and to this day I cannot determine where the uncaring, self-referential solipsism ended and where the sociopathy started.
Because you don't know what sociopathy is.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I am keenly attuned to the disease.
Um...okay?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:If he had had a sadistic streak or were greedy, he could have been a real monster. Are you beginning to understand </i>solipsism</i>? As it was he was merely very leavable.
If he were a sociopath, do you honestly think he would let you leave if he "loved" you?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:The best thing that you can do is to realize that words mean something <i>outside yourself</i>.
"I r rehash master this r rehash post."
Commissar Theocritus wrote:The major disease of college is incarnated in the matriculation address, where you are told that you are the light of the world. I recall my matriculation in 1973 at Rice--I knew it was bullshit. We were college kids and there to learn. I resented the flattery. And even knowing that at 18 I still had to learn that it's not all about me.
Cool story, bro!
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I got a very good education at college,
*snort*
Commissar Theocritus wrote:but it taught me nothing about life. I took EE courses for grins and knew as much EE as high-school classmates in five-year courses at state schools, and still knew nothing more about life than they did. College proves that you have put up with four years of bullshit and proves to an employer that you can put up with more if you have to, and that's its major advantage.
Well, your last sentence was insightful, hopefully this will continu-.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Grow up.
I should really stop assuming brief flashes of logic will turn into anything substantial.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Your only chance at avoiding a life of impotent rage
My rage could just get Viagra for that. Hay-oh!
Commissar Theocritus wrote:is subjecting yourself to reality and one of the best ways to do that
Teach me, O Lord of Reality. I am at your Otherworldly Mercy.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:is not to grapple words and concepts and meanings into whatever pleases you,
Stop projecting your failings onto me. It's a little embarrassing.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:but looking at them head-on. It's tough. Lord it's tough. I hope that you will believe me when I say that I learned that one the hard way.
I honestly hope that you didn't get hurt doing that. I mean that in all seriousness. I know the world's a tough, uncaring place.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:But eventually, when you are paroled into the big, cold, cruel world you will find that it simply doesn't care about you and your precious ideas or the rubbish that you've heard from professors and in bull sessions.
Holy shit. More than two agreements in one post. I'm pleasantly surprised.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Life doesn't care about me and my precious ideas either. But since I know that I don't have nearly as far to fall. Because I have fallen.
Same here, brother.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I mean, seriously, what is "reality" for you? Is it something that'll "teach" me to not be a "librul"? Please. I doubt that living in your parents' basement really is the same thing as being a middle-class college student from an economic death zone, like I am, working my ass off to pay for college.
Modern-day liberalism is a temper tantrum.
And back to the argument. I'm not going to "fix" this one for the sake of good will, but next time...
Commissar Theocritus wrote:The world should cure it; if the world doesn't, then the world will collapse owing to reality being stretched beyond support. The modern-day conservative is always fuming that the world doesn't correspond to his demands
Fixed. Told ya.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:and to make it do so is always regulating, yelling, and passing laws.
Last time I heard, not many liberals were yelling. In fact, I know this one guy, name is Joe Wilson...
Commissar Theocritus wrote:In other words, a temper tantrum.
Also, see Teabagger movement, 9/12 project, Joe Wilson, etc.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I too was a middle-class college student and I worked during the time that I was at Rice. A computer-science labbie. Studying real things, like math, instead of inflated matters of opinion like sociology, or god help me, English.
While it's good that you studied math, slandering other subject that are substantial & useful does nothing to further your argument.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:And living in my parents' basement? Hardly. I beg the indulgence of old-time Cubists for the repetition, but <a href="
https://gallery.mac.com/daustins#100378">here is my house</a>, which I designed, and paid for myself.
The Superman returns! He can design AND pay for his own house. Truly he is a god among men!
Commissar Theocritus wrote:With money I earned by bowing to reality instead of having hissy fits.
OK, this is just getting boring. Please come up with new arguments.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:You think that I'm not cynical? You think that I like having to deal with wide-eyed True Believers who'd sacrifice their first-born child before raising taxes 0.01% to pay for a poor family's health insurance?
This is
not rubbish.
Fixed.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:First, True Believers are defined as leftists
True Believes do not belong to one ideology or another. A true believer is, basically, a person who buys so much into an ideology that opposing it even in the slightest is unthinkable to them, i.e. a fanatic.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:who believe, against all evidence, that statism works. That temper tantrum again.
Getting awfully old, Theocritus, please come up with something new.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:And your assertion that raising taxes 0.01% to pay for a poor family's health insurance is merely risible. It is the weakest polemic that I've heard in months.
You should listen to yourself then.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I defy you--and you need to know that <i>defy</i> is not the same word as <i>deny</i>,
OMG, Captain Obvious is really Commissar Theocritus! Alert the presses!
Commissar Theocritus wrote:another part of your ongoing philological education--to give me evidence of what you say.
If you walk up to M. D. Anderson in Houston you get the best medical care on earth, regardless of your ability to pay. If you try to pay for medical care in Canada
And here is the inevitable Canadian/socialist health care bashing.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:you cannot get it and you get lousy medical care for the taxes that you do pay.
Go to this page:
https://www.dneiwert.blogspot.com & read a post entitled "Postcard from Canada: Why I Missed Obama's Speech". It should be the latest post.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I defy you to give a single convincing argument that raising taxes, even more than your absurd 0.01%, will give better medical care. There is utterly no evidence of it. None.
See above.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I doubt that kicking & screaming about [Kennedy's causing the death of Mary Jo Kopechne] after 40 years & after he just died is going to kickstart a new investigation.
First, "after he just died" is cheapjack sentimentality.
Or, true. He died less than a month ago.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:You might learn the difference between <i>sentiment</i> and <i>sentimentality</i>; you would not have said that if you knew it.
Or, you could learn the difference between "basic human decency" and "douchebaggery". Might teach you something.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:I have no desire to start a new investigation.
Could've fooled me.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:That drunken bum Kennedy
See the decency/douchebaggery post.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:may as well have put a gun to her head--the result would have been more merciful than letting her die,
What part of
it was a goddamn accident don't you understand?
Commissar Theocritus wrote:of asphyxiation, breathing the increasingly rancid air trapped in the roof of his Olds Cutlass as he slept off a drunk.
Is there something wrong with you, mentally? Because to me this degree of separation from reality is frightening.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:My charge to you is that Teddy Kennedy, the Lion of the Senate, was a goddamned <i>murderer</i> and since it is demonstrably true (pages of documentation on request), it is not a smear.
I'm going to bet your "pages of documentation" are:
- From right-wing media sites & will have inherent partisan bias
- Slanted to make Kennedy appear malicious/guilty of murder
- Will distort facts & reports with carefree abandon
- Will ignore the findings of law enforcement who investigated the incident
Commissar Theocritus wrote:f you think that an inconvenient truth is a smear, then you are morally bankrupt.
If by "inconvenient truth", you mean "character smear on a recently deceased brain cancer victim", then you'd be correct. As for the "morally bankrupt" part, I'm a heathen, godless liberal, remember. I'm apparently one step away from Satan himself.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:And if you think that murder is ever tired, then you are morally bankrupt in another dimension.
Oh, snap! Now Theocritus is going
Twilight Zone on my ass! Damn, homes!
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Quit yapping, puppy.
Then quit whining, bitch.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Get a real degree.
I'm working on my degree right now.
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Become a plumber.
Wait, what? I don't think plumbers are known for their "real degrees".
Commissar Theocritus wrote:Better the shit in someone's pipes than the shit that you're paying for at college.
Oh, snap! I see what you did there!
Commissar Theocritus wrote:On the evidence, though, I might however be able to sue my university for fraud.
Fixed.