The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

How is that absurd, ignorant, or bad?

[Mechaman]

How is that absurd, ignorant, or bad?

Did you read his reasoning?  It's beyond absurd (ie, thinking there is some significance to linking FDR with Churchill, how people behave if they were born in a certain 'generation", "all horrible people belong to a certain generation", etc etc).

Really, even Vosem thought his rationale was absurd.

What the hell am I doing even responding to this.  It's a pbrower post for god's sake.

[traininthedistance]

How is that absurd, ignorant, or bad?

Did you read his reasoning?  It's beyond absurd (ie, thinking there is some significance to linking FDR with Churchill, how people behave if they were born in a certain 'generation", "all horrible people belong to a certain generation", etc etc).

Really, even Vosem thought his rationale was absurd.

What the hell am I doing even responding to this.  It's a pbrower post for god's sake.

Strauss and Howe have about as much to do with serious historical thought as an excess of phlegm or black bile has to do with the headache I get from reading them.

The best part is "Maybe if Obama rates as one of the greatest Presidents ever he gets his birth-year reclassified as a "Boomer" year."- tacit, inadvertent admission that their entire framework is unfalsifiable bullsh!t with zero rigor or explanatory value.

[Хahar 🤔]

It should go without saying that generational theory is bunk.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

In all honesty, Europe should do something to discourage Muslim immigration. Right now, they're acting as if the Crusades were for naught.

[Pheurton Skeurto]

In all honesty, Europe should do something to discourage Muslim immigration. Right now, they're acting as if the Crusades were for naught.

Yikes.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

In all honesty, Europe should do something to discourage Muslim immigration. Right now, they're acting as if the Crusades were for naught.

Yikes.

Funny thing is, I was called a "racist f**wyt" for making that same comment once. Should it be discouraged? No, but I do not condemn those worried about heavy immigration from any race or nationality of being afraid; demographic changes can be good, but they take some getting used to.

[Obamanation]

In all honesty, Europe should do something to discourage Muslim immigration. Right now, they're acting as if the Crusades were for naught.

Yikes.

Imagine being a European Catholic and seeing the Saracen hordes approaching, you would be scared too.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Sarcasm, guys.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's really interesting. As long as the church could 1) write history, 2) define knowledge in the absence of technology (and that's the big one, and on which everything else hinged), and 3) wield secular power through kings and magistrates, it could enforce whatever ideology it chose. This is the Church's problem: it is now an artifact, in and of itself. It's going to struggle to make itself relevant and meaningful in societies that are not developing, that are already developed - because those developed societies derive their knowledge from other sources at this point. It's evolutionary, and it's to be expected. Ultimately, the fate of religion is to be an obscure, kind of esoteric sense of personal spirituality. Not a set of dogmatic instructions, insights, and decrees handed down from On High.

And that is what makes people horrible today: their uppity aversion to authority.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Sarcasm, guys.

If you are defending Obamanations post, you should check the entire thread it was in, and then tell me if it was sarcastic...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Republicans: Large sodas are unhealthy, so I choose not to drink them.
Democrats: Large sodas are unhealthy, I want them banned for everyone.

Then liberals claim they're for individual rights. Hypocrites.

And your position on marijuana...

One's illegal, the other's not, "King".

[minionofmidas]

Republicans: Large sodas are unhealthy, so I choose not to drink them.
Democrats: Large sodas are unhealthy, I want them banned for everyone.

Then liberals claim they're for individual rights. Hypocrites.

And your position on marijuana...

One's illegal, the other's not, "King".

Nice circular logic, Mike!

[Pheurton Skeurto]

Republicans: Large sodas are unhealthy, so I choose not to drink them.
Democrats: Large sodas are unhealthy, I want them banned for everyone.

Then liberals claim they're for individual rights. Hypocrites.

And your position on marijuana...

One's illegal, the other's not, "King".

That's f[inks]ing gold

[Pheurton Skeurto]

On nice things about Fezzy:

None

[Antonio the Sixth]

Republicans: Large sodas are unhealthy, so I choose not to drink them.
Democrats: Large sodas are unhealthy, I want them banned for everyone.

Then liberals claim they're for individual rights. Hypocrites.

And your position on marijuana...

One's illegal, the other's not, "King".

This is bad even by Naso standards (!!!).

[Donerail]

How do people even survive in a right-to-scab state?

I'm not talking about execs and business owners. I'm talking about average workers.

They resort to crime and end up in jail or dead.

Both the original and the reply.

[traininthedistance]

Did denazification happen in Austria as well, or just Germany?

According to Wiki, the victorious Allies focused their postwar de-nazification efforts on Germany as well as Austria.  Apparently they fell short in Austria.  

There were de-nazification efforts?  I'm surprised on several levels, but particularly that the American government would oppose Nazis.

Just...what??!?

[Antonio the Sixth]

No. I'm in favour of a minimum property qualification, but once you meet it, your vote should count the same as a billionaire.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

My problem is simply just how BORING most of them are. Never any original material.

That kind of goes hand in hand with having a rational, logical approach to the world, you see.  Sorry that we can't all be batsh[inks] insane like a lot of you folks and your weird perspectives of reality.

[Joe Republic]

Hmm, was it the addition of "you see"?  I thought mimicking your insufferability might have crossed the line, and I guess it did.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hmm, was it the addition of "you see"?  I thought mimicking your insufferability might have crossed the line, and I guess it did.

What's absurd, ignorant, and bad about your post is the content, which was admittedly not as flagrant in its absurdity, ignorance, and badness as in the case of the execrable memphis. Congratulations, I guess.

[Joe Republic]

You deleted your half-apology?  I was about to half-accept it. 

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

You deleted your half-apology?  I was about to half-accept it. 

It's not that I retract it; it's that I thought that it made the most sense in the context of the other sentence that I removed.

Here's the original post, as best I can remember it:

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[Joe Republic]

I half-accept your half-apology.