The Irony Oremine

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

This is actually the honest-to-god opinion of EVERY SINGLE Berniebro I've spoken with.  Either this, or "I'm voting for Trump because at least he'll blow the whole thing up and we can have a revolution."

You have to remember that the vast majority of Sanders supporters are well-off white people. So they can afford to vote for Trump and not feel the effects of his presidency.

White Sanders/Trump/Cruz supporters: We're so angry!  The system is run by a bunch of elites who have rigged everything against us!

People of color: Oh, really?

Yeah, one big takeaway from this election is how entitled and out of touch some people are.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Your towering ego and small intellect will be missed.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Bad, bad, bad. No cohesive arc. It's like they took all the promises of the Force Awakens and shoved it down a garbage chute.

I know this is off topic, but your signature irks me.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

In light of the poster’s username:

Committing actual election fraud to steal a state legislative chamber is far worse than anything Northam/FairFax/Herring did/are being accused of, no questions asked. We should not let someone guilty of such election fraud become Governor in any circumstance.

FairFax is innocent; the allegations against him are false.
Herring only made a minor bad joke when he was 19 years old that he has sincerely apologized for, and clearly shows that this does not resemble his current behavior.
Northam is the only of the 3 who actually needs to go.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I think his cult would try to kick me out before I ask anything

To be clear, only GoTfan saying this warranted placement in the Irony Ore mine.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Even if you think Sanders would have a hard time he’d do better than Buttigieg. Pete is showing himself to be the candidate for wealthy virtue signaling white liberals who fetishize Bush 43’s presidency because of Trump’s tone.

Says the poster with the username "Beto Bro"

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

It shouldn't have taken Leip intervening and mods threatening to resign for the right thing to happen.

Wait which mods were doing that?

Oh hai.

If only you did

What is your opinion on Matthew27 and do you think he should have been banned

He was literally the only person to vote against recalling Matthew27 in atlasia when it happened successfully so what do you think? (I guess Ben Kenobi also technically voted against too but he was ineligible to actually vote in it)

And I abstained from that vote because I still don't know or care to know what someone who was already going to be banned anyway supposedly said that was so bad - particularly when the posts in question had already been deleted.

Was it typical pearl clutching by the liberal suspects or something worthy of banning? How am I supposed to know when the evidence has been destroyed? The same cabal seems to gang up on and antagonize anyone who dare disagree with them time after time, almost always out for blood and banning. I don't take a word they say or their characterization other people's remarks at face value.

The level lack of self-awareness it takes to whine about pearl-clutching in the quoted post is truly remarkable.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

L-M-F-A-friggin O.

You all would’ve accused Harris of stereotypical racism if that was her and not Pete. I’m convinced Pete is paying members of this forum to fawn over him...

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I like him. As to why most of the forum doesn't... because this forum is overwhelmingly establishment liberals.

Not just this. Many of the partisans on this forum (I'm looking at you, Atlas Democrats) do not like independent thinkers who are willing to work across the aisle and do not believe that their political opposition is "pure evil".While I don't think Yang is qualified for the Presidency at this stage (even though he's one of the Democratic candidates I would vote for if he were the nominee), I also don't think there is any legitimate basis to dislike him. And to claim that he is a tool of corporations is laughable.

Emphasis mine

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The Six-Day War is a classic example of a preemptive offensive. The war itself was a just war. The problems stem mainly from what Israel did later with the territory it occupied, not the war itself.

Why? Because a second Holocaust was imminent? Get real. The Israelis knew that they would win a war with the Arabs rather easily. Gen. Matituahu Peled, chief of logistical command during the war, said:

"The thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war."

Just because Israel was likely to win the war that Nasser was doing his best to start was no reason to sit back and take the first blow. A truism of war is that often the best defense is a strong offense, or at the very least securing the initiative.

Nasser made some very poor decisions, yes. But I'm not very interested in defending non-Palestinian Arab leaders/states. While often lumped together, they have had different motivations for opposing Israel. And in some cases, have been actively hostile toward Palestinians (see: Black September, Sabra and Shatila massacre, etc...)

You do realize Black September was a terrorist organization that murdered numerous innocent people, right?  I only ask because you seem to be quietly implying that opposing the group constitutes unwarranted hostility towards Palestinians and I want to be sure I'm not misinterpreting your post.

I won't be gaslighted Israel apologists calling Palestinians child-murderers. It shows an unbelievable, stunning lack of self-awareness.

Emphasis mine

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

That was a joke I'm not actually retarded

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1300193398477946883?s=19

Here is you go Fuzzy.
How is trump doing so far, to be the great "unifier" you seek for our nation?

Are you saying that we should just ignore and forget this man who was murdered by terrorists in our own country?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Not really sure what Fuzzy’s supposed to have “done wrong” here.  He’s simply expressing a more than reasonable grievance about a mod decision that - rightly or wrongly - would probably leave anyone in Fuzzy’s shoes feeling pretty pissed off in a thread that more or less exists for said purpose (technically the appropriate thread would be user complaints, but we all know that’s not the issue here).  Honestly, the fact that folks are so intent on dogpiling him for doing so doesn’t exactly dispel the idea that he is being treated with an unfair double-standard.  

I agree with Torie that the situation is what it is and for better or worse, nothing is going to change Re: the outcome at this point.  Fuzzy made his point, folks are gonna either agree or disagree.  Sometimes you fight the good fight, but things still don’t work out and you’ve just got to take the L and move on.  At the same time, Fuzzy is raising a perfectly legitimate complaint and the reaction has basically been “loooolz piss off and shut up!”  That’s really not right and I don’t blame him at all for pushing back.

It would be one thing if he were just posting his complaints in the appropriate threads, but he keeps bringing it up unprompted in other boards.

So put him on ignore.  Problem solved!  I put certain folks on ignore b/c they really annoy me or diminish the quality of the forum and it has done wonders for my blood pressure

If someone is spamming a thread over and over and over again, mods have intervened in the past about someone who is disrupting the thread.
It is inconceivable to me that a mod would now come here and tell people to just "put him on ignore. Problem solved!"
That is not an appropriate response the community would want to hear from a moderator. People are expecting you to consider the overall situation, and do your job.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The irony of all this is that Disney isn’t making woke content.  What they do is a less-competently executed version of what Barbie did last year: insert only the most blandly inoffensive, corporate-friendly, and above all superficial kind of performative wokeness without actually touching genuinely progressive, feminist, or pro-diversity ideas with a 50 foot pole, at least not in an even remotely meaningful way (if at all). 

As others have noted, this is in the financial interest of both far-right Daily 15 minutes of hate internet grifters and the studios.  Clowns like Ben Shapiro get an easily recognizable property to whine about.  And folks like Landslide Lyndon get suckered into enthusiastically paying to see whatever generic slop gets tossed their way because it does the most superficial of pandering and makes the Trumpers mad.  It’s basically “wasting your money watching crap to own the cons”

It's hilarious that just because I said that all the hysterical criticisms about Marvel "destroying cinema" or about "The Last Jedi" being the worst movie in history are excessive hyperbole I suddenly became a hardcore Marvel/Disney fan.
It just shows once again that some people are so insecure that they consider even the slightest disagreement a personal affront.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The irony of all this is that Disney isn’t making woke content.  What they do is a less-competently executed version of what Barbie did last year: insert only the most blandly inoffensive, corporate-friendly, and above all superficial kind of performative wokeness without actually touching genuinely progressive, feminist, or pro-diversity ideas with a 50 foot pole, at least not in an even remotely meaningful way (if at all). 

As others have noted, this is in the financial interest of both far-right Daily 15 minutes of hate internet grifters and the studios.  Clowns like Ben Shapiro get an easily recognizable property to whine about.  And folks like Landslide Lyndon get suckered into enthusiastically paying to see whatever generic slop gets tossed their way because it does the most superficial of pandering and makes the Trumpers mad.  It’s basically “wasting your money watching crap to own the cons”

It's hilarious that just because I said that all the hysterical criticisms about Marvel "destroying cinema" or about "The Last Jedi" being the worst movie in history are excessive hyperbole I suddenly became a hardcore Marvel/Disney fan.
It just shows once again that some people are so insecure that they consider even the slightest disagreement a personal affront.

Please show me where I attacked somebody because he didn't agree with my opinion about a movie.
Thanks.

I would, but it is against TOS to repost previously infracted posts.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

People are totally misinterpreting my comment, which is par for the course.

If people misinterpret your comments is “par for the course”, then you need to change the way you communicate.

The problem lies more on other people for failing to try to understand him in this context. Not enough specific questions too much presumption and assuming the worst of others.
"But it sounds like!" is generally stupidity as far as standard setting is concerned.

Is this your first day on the forum or something? This child has always been either blowing massive dog whistles or saying something deranged to get a rise out of people. Thinking there's some hidden meaning that can only be ascertained by playing 20 questions is ridiculous.