The Atlas Asylum of absurd/ignorant posts IX

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The NBA is just a sports branch of the Democrats.

My hopes that the new account was going to be focused on the fantasy animal book series by Brian Jacques have been dashed

Bruh, you know how sick that would be!? This really is the worst timeline.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

On a night when maybe this same issue is happening all over the city, your specific home or business will be lucky if it gets priority. This has little to do with malevolence or even incompetence.

EDIT: I feel the fact that contemporary unrest is happening in response to perceived injustice by the police is an important piece of subtext that is being overlooked. This opens us up to two additional possibilities: (1) law enforcement will be under increased scrutiny and not have freedom of action--this appears unlikely at the moment but should not be ruled out; and/or (2) actions taken by law enforcement will, perhaps regardless of merit, inflame the situation even more.

Additionally, sans calling in the NG, having a police force with enough staff to respond to citywide unrest will probably mean that either your force is at ordinary times bloated with extra personnel, or that they are pulling from other shifts/functions, thereby furnishing the city with a police force that is at crucial moments overworked, interspersed with older or more bureaucratically-oriented members (and as such deprived of behind-the-scenes admin personnel), and sleep deprived.

Tack, I feel like you're looking at the situation as it should be

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

On a night when maybe this same issue is happening all over the city, your specific home or business will be lucky if it gets priority. This has little to do with malevolence or even incompetence.

Normally, riots are concentrated in a specific area as well, it's not like they are dozens of buildings burning, several km apart.

In fact, said specific area is usually some sort of big avenue or square in the city center.

Property damage will unfortunately always exist, but it can be reduced or concentrated to a certain area.

This is perhaps a fair point--the geographic dispersion of stuff like that is an area I would love to study. That said, my impression of such time periods is that they would be almost universally "busy nights" for law enforcement, resulting in delayed response times all around.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Appears to be a liberal, like all American judges.

I think it's time for a thread rename

He's using the objective definition of liberalism, not the American one.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

(In before "posting directly into the thread")

1. PSOL makes a fair point in that the US and friends (as he humorously calls it) did humanity a service by saving some of the greatest centers of Western civilization (Rome, Paris) from Soviet domination. It stands out as perhaps Franklin Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment.
2. While probably better than Nazi rule, which aimed at the extermination of races, I'd say that Communist rule is far worse than much of Eastern Europe deserved, and for many in Eastern Europe, rescue from the German army did not in any sense mean "liberation".

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

(In before "posting directly into the thread")

1. PSOL makes a fair point in that the US and friends (as he humorously calls it) did humanity a service by saving some of the greatest centers of Western civilization (Rome, Paris) from Soviet domination. It stands out as perhaps Franklin Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment.
2. While probably better than Nazi rule, which aimed at the extermination of races, I'd say that Communist rule is far worse than much of Eastern Europe deserved, and for many in Eastern Europe, rescue from the German army did not in any sense mean "liberation".

How was Rome saved from 'Soviet domination' during Roosevelt's administration?

No, actually, don't answer, before my inner Pasolini gets unduly triggered.

I will enthusiastically ignore your command and attempt to answer the question. My galaxy brain theory is that a WWII with no Allied invasion of Western Europe is one where the Soviet Union is left to write the rules of the continent in the new era. This may go as far as Soviet occupations of Axis-held territory in places such as Italy and France. If we accept as true that the Red Army almost singlehandedly defeated the Axis powers in mainland Europe, then we must surely entertain as realistic the idea that, left alone on the continent, they would have driven farther west than Berlin, especially if it was consistent with war aims.

ADDENDUM/EDIT: Acknowledging now that you may be in the process of writing a wicked response to skewer me, I observe two chief weaknesses in my claim. I seek to address them here. (1) I will of course entertain the possibility that, without the US Army on the continent, Stalin would have felt less of a need to set up the vast East European security belt, but the dismemberment or complete takeover of all of Germany seems a pretty obvious security priority, and if you have the chance to install a puppet regime with relatively minimal effort, why not? (2) I'll also admit that domestic resistance movements in places like France may have turned against hypothetical Soviet occupiers, but some assuredly had left-wing sympathies, and the anticommunists may have simply met the same fate as their compatriots in Eastern Europe.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

How did you read it?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

How did you read it?

As if 'US and friends' had actually combated against Communists in France and Italy during the war, or something like that.

A boy can dream, can't he!?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I'm not sure what sort of serious answer you'd expect to a post like that. It is plainly true that many religions do grow through evangelization, so the premise that religions do not expect or intend to win converts is incorrect. The rest is the sort of anti-religious ranting that is standard for Dule, and I am grateful that he saved us the trouble by posting it directly into the thread.

I appear to have struck a nerve. Perhaps you'll think about this post the next time you ring somebody's doorbell to give them some "literature."

I am not a member of a church that does much, if any, evangelical work — this is part of the reason my denomination and ones like it are fading, while other traditions that place a greater emphasis on evangelism are growing. You don't have to like it, but it's hard to deny its effectiveness.

Whoa wait you're saying that evangelisation isn't just a method of reinforcing in-group solidarity!?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

On a related note, I’m really just getting sick of f—king idiots trying and failing to challenge me intellectually. You have a subzero chance of ever besting me in a battle of wits, you’re doomed before you even try, so... why even try? It’s literally just an embarrassing self-own for you, every time. Many a man has tried to outsmart me on this site and elsewhere; every single one just ended up with massive amounts of egg on their face. I cringe for them all. At a certain point you’d think people would just accept that they have absolutely no chance of successfully challenging me over anything, yet they smugly keep trying and failing anyway. I can’t say I understand why people insist on repeatedly making themselves look like total fools in front of the entire world, but by all means keep it up and I’ll just keep swatting down you down like the flies you are. I’m being benevolent, I think, by trying to warn you against your own stupidity. But you know, stupid is as stupid does I guess.

LOL, go ahead. I can certainly understand how that would sound dramatic and ridiculous to most people. But you know? As someone with a Southern accent from Kentucky, I’ve frequently throughout my life been sneeringly judged, underestimated, and ridiculed by the likes of John Dule. People who I know for a fact I am much more intelligent than, yet they act like I’m some stupid hick who’s not worth their precious time talking to. And it gets to me, frankly. Gets real deep under my skin. So insults to my intelligence, especially ignorant and blatantly absurd insults like that one which prove the person saying it is too dumb to even understand the very basics of what I am saying, are taken VERY personally. And when you cross that line, I take it as a cue to take the gloves off and f—k you up. Because I don’t abide smug, ignorant fools pretending they are smarter than me. That just ain’t something I’m gonna stand for, anywhere, ever.

the first one is copypasta, right?

It is now.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

We need to switch the title to Jaichind’s Jail or Lurker’s Forum stat

I proposed the Tender's Tent after he posted some absurd overpopulation-themed drivel where he argued in favour of reducing humanity to 1 million.

It keeps itching me that he says that then turns around and makes a thread commemorating a Christian holiday.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The fact you guys thought you could pass your entire agenda with only 50 votes is hilarious. A 222-213 house majority and 50-50 senate majority by definition means you have to water down much of your agenda to get it passed

It's pretty heartbreaking that even you are so far gone that you write off protecting the integrity of elections as merely "our agenda" rather than the last chance to save American democracy.

Like I said oppose it for these reasons :

- I oppose same day registration(Even Oregon doesn’t have this )

- I don’t think vote by mail should be expanded anymore than it already has as one of the biggest problem with vote by mail is it violates secret ballot principle

- I don’t think donations should be matched at a 6:1 ratio

-  candidates shouldn’t be required to release 10 years of tax returns . Mitt Romney only released  two and that is good enough

- I don’t trust independent commissions at all . Any commission should rather have equal amount of democrats and republicans only with no independents(other parties can get on the commission if they averaged 5% of the vote in presidential vote in the past decade ) . If they cannot come to an agreement then you would have an algorithm draw the lines




This bill isn’t anywhere near as good as you guys make it out to be

Girlfriend, just save us the time and say you don't want people that don't look like you to vote. We all know that's what you're trying to say. 

Truth hurts, huh?

This is the first I've heard of OSR pushing for only Indian-Americans to be able to vote.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

[DeSantis is] also an incredibly high IQ individual, which is obvious after talking to him for around five seconds.

I've actually met the guy, and I (and everyone else I know who has met him) can confirm that he is a fairly high IQ person. You don't graduate from Yale or Harvard while being a dumbass.

Half the problem is the use the term "high IQ".

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Wait, priests were making young boys perform push-ups in front of them? That's, uh, a little sketchy

This doesn't belong here. That is weird. JFC.

Yes it is a weird post but it's also absurdly ignorant.

Still defending a public school driving a bunch of kids to have the boys do push-ups in front of priests and preaching to girls how rewarding it is to forgive one's rapists I see. Completely on ridiculous point for you.

There are many victims of sexual trauma that would achieve inner peace if they could, indeed, forgive those that victimized them.  That does not mean restoring that person to a previous relationship (if the person was known to the victim) and it doesn't mean not seeking criminal penalties or civil damages from them.  But it DOES mean making the decision to allow the system to take its course and allow the Courts to judge a person (for this life) and God to judge him (for eternity).  

There is a difference between "forgiveness" and "restoration".

If God punishes bad people, then he's got a pretty poor track record so far this century.

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”