The Sage Garden

[Joe Republic]

Countries aren't the biggest threats to world peace, the international ruling class is.

[Joe Republic]

I'm pretty sure that it qualifies as a 'failed attempt at edginess or profundity'. You may not think that it failed. I do.

That's basically Tweed's tagline, after all.

[Joe Republic]

Revolution should be encouraged worldwide against the ruling classes in all nations.

It's a shame that the Ukrainian revolution wasn't a class revolt.

[Joe Republic]

Ugh, Nathan's posts here and in the original thread are literally disgusting.  Both the indefensible position he is defending and the way in which he does it.

[Joe Republic]

See?

[Joe Republic]

Ignoring your verbiose personal attacks (that I'm sure you're very proud of yourself for), some of us believe that forcing a medically unnecessary permanent surgical procedure on babies who obviously cannot consent is not something that should be allowed, and really ought to be plain common sense.  In much the same way that forcing women to cover themselves up or denying gay people the right to marry, all because it's traditional in some religion, should not be allowed.

[Joe Republic]

I actually have to agree with Joe on the main point, though I'd like if he'd put it in less condescending terms.

Oh come on.  It was Nathan's typically condescending tone that inspired me to call him out for it.  It's incredible how people here constantly praise him for it.

[Joe Republic]

Actually, it kinda is related...  Why else would the US once again be bucking the trend of the rest of the civilized world?

But no, Antonio, I quickly got Nathan's holier-than-thou treatment as well as soon as I called him out.  But hey, at least it was better than that other guy who keeps posting that picture of the fat guy wearing a hat whenever someone states an opinion that religion is weird and annoying.

[Joe Republic]

But no, Antonio, I quickly got Nathan's holier-than-thou treatment as well as soon as I called him out.  But hey, at least it was better than that other guy who keeps posting that picture of the fat guy wearing a hat whenever someone states an opinion that religion is weird and annoying.

Your first post in this thread was calling Nathan's argument "literally disgusting". I agree with you that it's wrongheaded, but come on, circumcision is nothing worth getting so outraged about.

Correct, it isn't.  The main part of what was disgusting about Nathan's behavior - which spurred me to interject stating as such - was this:

Whoooa, easy there, sport! Hold your horses! Cool your jets! Don't hitch your wagon to a star!

sarcastic use of old-person cliches and posting in the Sage Garden without remark are all that such a stupefyingly disgusting suggestion deserves. On further reflection, should instead have said 'Poo-tee-weet?', but oh well, it's too late now.

You sound like, quite literally, a bad joke.

Not to interrupt your hysterical and frankly worrying straw-manning of the position on this

No, you still don't know what you're talking about, sorry.

memphis: Defender of the defended! Voice for the vocal! He Helps The Well-Served!

Fortunately, I don't care about your proudly and apparently invincibly uninformed opinion on anything even tangentially related to religion.

Treating the word 'disgusting' as one to which 'literally' can be applied in a way that makes sense is an interesting choice, though, and as always the form of your magisterially ignorant pronouncements on such matters is of far greater value than their content.

Doesn't matter what topic is actually being argued over; nobody should be able to be such an arrogant blowhard and not be called out for it.