The Klartext Landfill for Absurd, Ignorant, and Deplorable Posts VI

[Santander]

Was Jerry always this aggro?

This is what I find funny about this forum.  Everyone keeps thinking I'm aggressive, yet all I do is make posts and just say what I see occurring with different people on the forum.  I'm very perplexed why people keep up with this.  I've seen no change in my demeanor, nor has anyone I personally come into contact with. 
Alas, some things will elude me, since no one wants to try and explain what changed with me and just keep trying to pile on.

Maybe stop calling people you're arguing with "Honey." It comes off as condescending.

Nah, just absurd, ignorant, bigoted and just plain awful.

[Santander]

The mentally disabled should not be killed. They are humans. At the same time, they are absolutely a burden to society and anyone who says they are a blessing is clearly just trying to make themselves feel better about the horrible situation they are in. To minimize their burden to society, the government should run care homes where these people can be taken care of. If people want to take care of their own mentally retarded relatives by themselves, they should of course be allowed but if there are quality care homes, very few will choose that option. Also, as soon as a mental disability is diagnosed, a fetus should be aborted. This should not be mandated by law, just encouraged by society. People whose families have a history of mental retardation should also be discouraged from having children, again, not by the law, just by society. Eugenics is fine as long as it's not racial.

*sigh*

Of all the changes in our culture, that is the one that upsets me the most.

That was the most heinous post I've ever read on Atlas, period.

Yeah, this is a horrifying expansion of the welfare state.

[Santander]

Atlas does not know how to deal with the alt-right.

[Santander]

Atlas does not know how to deal with the alt-right.

I don't know that there's any morally acceptable reason why we should be expected to learn.

The more you resist, the stronger they get.

[Santander]

No clue who she is (until I googled her).

As for the question: I'd nail her, yes.

Emphasis added

Someone doesn't get it.

[Santander]

The love of my life, despite her flaws.

[Santander]

All things equal diversity is a weakness and not a strength. 

Yeah, that was one of the worst posts I've seen in a very long time.

[Santander]

So firstly this also proposes massive benefit cuts, people will be getting a lot less money while affluent people get tax cuts. The age criteria has no logical justification or calculation. 69 is downright steep. I also don't understand why they make the middle class suffer & give tax breaks to billionaires. Someone with 3M pays says a lot less as a % of income than say someone with 250K$

If you have read basic macroeconomics you will understand why a flat tax is disastrous - How a progressive tax shields the economy from over-heating, how it prevents from a collapse (in the US the consumption function of GDP has rarely fallen despite so many recessions, GDP = C + I + G + NX). This is not even a flat tax, you pay less as % of income the more you earn, a decreasing tax. This will be terrible for the economy in general. Lift the cap, make the billionaires pay same % of income as ordinary people - You could even expand Social Security...

How can people in good faith support these crooks? I understand you are concerned about solvency, but then why would you slash the revenue further - You don't cut taxes when you are not raising enough money & are cutting benefits.

This is just flat out violation of Trump's proposal to fully protect Social Security, he said he will not touch it when Rubio offered to raise the Retirement age - He was the only Republican to flat out say he will not touch Social Security!

[Santander]

Proud member of the 36%!

You're a Mormon?!

I'm an evangelical Christian.

[Santander]

The effect on the Mexican Peso will be interesting.

Mexico will pay for the wall ten times over if this continues - simply through lost business and investment.

$1.6Bn plant in Mexico is a lot of jobs.

The FORD company clearly did this as a result of Trump and the only thing that was not surprising was the slimy executive saying it was the right decision for Michigan.

When Obama was President, did Michigan get a mention in the companies' future plans?

You do know Obama is still president, right?

[Santander]

The effect on the Mexican Peso will be interesting.

Mexico will pay for the wall ten times over if this continues - simply through lost business and investment.

$1.6Bn plant in Mexico is a lot of jobs.

The FORD company clearly did this as a result of Trump and the only thing that was not surprising was the slimy executive saying it was the right decision for Michigan.

When Obama was President, did Michigan get a mention in the companies' future plans?

You do know Obama is still president, right?

Again just because you disagree with a post doesn't mean it is bad.  You really need to get over yourself.

A company made a decision on a long-term investment that hasn't even broken ground yet - Obama is only president for 16 days.

[Santander]

Economic: 34
Cultural: 33

Authoritarian Capitalist

I do prefer the more scientific term True Conservative™ though.

my score proves im more of a free market conservative so you should stop laughing when I call my self a free market conservative.

[Santander]

Sometimes what's right isn't what's popular. Hence her hesitancy to embrace Bernie Sanders' dishonest "free everything" platform (though he certainly pulled her to the edge).

Yeah, letting people die because they can't afford healthcare is definitely the right thing to do. How principled.

Sometimes what's right isn't what's popular. Hence her hesitancy to embrace Bernie Sanders' dishonest "free everything" platform (though he certainly pulled her to the edge).

Healthcare and college are not "everything."

Quite rich coming from you, considering you get free healthcare and very cheap college tuition in your country.

Look at both of these gems...

[Santander]

Why does consent matter in terms of morality? Is it acceptable to take drugs, because you consented to it. Is it acceptable to have a sword fight to the death if both parties consented to it? Consent matters jack shyte, in laws or morality.

Well, I would say that the lack of consent matters a very great deal to morality and laws...

Lack of Consent, yes, giving consent should not matter on a vast of majority of circumstances.

This is a fact. Consenting to something does not make it moral.

[Santander]

Democrats are supposed to pretend to not be total pawns of Wall Street. So Bain Capital directors are bad running mates.

[Santander]

Democrats are supposed to pretend to not be total pawns of Wall Street. So Bain Capital directors are bad running mates.

Didn't you used to be a populist?

That does not mean I cannot be pro-finance and it does not make what jfern said any less ridiculous.

[Santander]

To be honest, what basically happened is me seeing that museum last night. That kind of triggered me. See as you probably know Minneapolis has a very large GLBT community. I saw that and thought about how awful it must be to be a GLBT individual and see THAT, especially in such a progressive and GLBT-friendly city like Minneapolis, and how it shows there are no safe spaces. I was very badly triggered and it got to me.

Thank you for insulting us so completely by hijacking/abusing the concepts of triggering and safe spaces (meant to give victims of sexual and domestic violence, marginalized groups, etc. a safe place to feel safe and not be attacked) to further your BS anti-Russian agenda.

I want to say "f[inks] you" so badly.

[Santander]

1. Are you seriously proposing that we go back to the day where men and women are charged different rates? Talk about a political non-starter. I doubt a single Republican female Congressman or Senator would vote for that, nor would some of the moderate Republican men. Just imagine the tweets: "Republican health plan: raise rates on women to give men a break!! #WaronWomen"

Yes, I am serious. Men pay more for car insurance than women, but I don't see any politicians crying out calling it an injustice. Insurance is discriminatory by nature and by righting one wrong, you just create another.

People choose to speed or drive drunk. Nobody chooses to get cancer.

[Santander]

The rise of Communism in America.

Communism has a good track record of quashing fascism.

[Santander]

That is a genuinely absurd post in light of the fact that Communist parties have a hilariously poor track record at crushing fascist and fascist-aligned movements (Germany, Spain, Italy, Hungary etc).

In that sense, sure.

What other "sense" is there?

[Santander]

The people who need to get an education are those Trump supporters who sit around waiting to get paid $50 an hour to glue parts to something and blame minorities for those jobs going away. Let's be real about who is sitting around blaming other people for their own failings.

I guess, democrats are going to be the party of thatcher now!

JFC...

[Santander]

I think it's really simple: Trump supporters are amazingly stupid.  Not an "I don't agree with them" stupid. And not  just "not that smart" or "missing some education stupid". They have a sort of aggressive, willful stupid that is only possible with real effort. And  I think the cause is fear and cognitive dissonance.

Things are bad for a lot of people in the US. And they're also deeply challenging and uncomfortable to a lot of people, often the same people. And they're not going to get better, or go back to being the way they were without change that doesn't seem really possible right now. Including from Trump. But they've already bit on the Trump bait. Admitting that he's the pinnacle of Dunning-Kruger would be both admitting how screwed they are, both ideologically and economically, AND it would be a huge blow to their self esteem because they'd need to acknowledge just how stupid they've been. And they'd rather die or kill than do that.

[Santander]

Anyone is better than McMullin, I guess. Still, Hatch isn't bad and the fact that Wulfric and other Democrats are supporting Huntsman worries me.

My support of Huntsman shouldn't shock you. Centrists like him and Tester are exactly my preferred type of politician. And I don't care that Huntsman endorsed Trump - It was simply his duty as a republican, not a reflection of his character or views.

I realize this is kind of low-hanging fruit, but...

[Santander]

Write-in: Ronald Reagan was not a race-baiting, anti-intellectual who ran a corrupt administration

aren't you a Trump supporter tho

I also admire Nixon, Wallace and LBJ, all of whom were all of the above. I'm just saying that both sides have whitewashed Reagan's legacy and turned him into an abstraction that borders upon deification.

And no, I never claimed to be a "true Republican"... why would want to be that? I happen to be aligned with the GOP on almost all of the issues, but I abhor the party itself and most of its politicians.

Dude the reason Reagan is so liked is that he was the most successful president at least in the past 55 years, not because Republicans think he is a demi-god  .

[Santander]

What a pig. What about the rights of poor people who need legal defense? He is a Rockefeller Republican who uses wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage to trick liberals. He's no better than war criminal Schumer. Just utter trash.