The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[traininthedistance]

Hopefully, state rights will have been eliminated in 10 years.

Considering that the idea of so-called "states rights" has almost always been used as an excuse to curtail the rights of actual people... I'd call it a Freedom Post myself.

Along those same lines...

Luckily the white majority in America is rapidly decreasing. Europe will soon be the only place in the world with large white majorities, and that's a socialist hell to white supremacist Republicans so they can't even flee there! Finally they'll feel the misery they've inflicted on others for generations.

Yes sorry for pretty much all the advancements in science, technology, and medicine. Damn those white people. We should've been putting bones through our noses and coloring our hair with cow urine the whole time

[traininthedistance]

The words "Southern" and "Republican" should never be used together, at least nowadays.

[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.

[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??!?

[traininthedistance]

With Shakespeare I just found his stuff boring. Hideously so. It was also incredibly predictable and never had any interesting plot twists or anything like that, and the dialogue was stilted and unwitty. I also hated the long drawn out monologues some characters would do, now granted this is also a tactic good writers use, like Tarantino does all the time (such as Leo's large rant with his bleeding hand in Django Unchained, or Brad Pitt's opening speech in Inglourious Basterds or the Christopher Walken scene in Pulp Fiction, etc.) but he keeps the monologues interesting and easy to follow. Plus the actors get to go crazy with them, not really present in Shakespeare's plays. Truthfully we have posters on this forum with a more interesting, witty and funny writing styles, opebo and Tweed are both far superior. So yeah just wasn't fond of his stuff.

Yeah!  Who needs that fusty old William Shakespeare when we have opebo for all our literary needs!

[traininthedistance]

You know, because Rastafarians are definitely Republican, right?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bob-marley-rises-from-grave-to-free-frat-boys-from,1808/

[traininthedistance]

I support this; the Flaming Lips are awful music.

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I read a book once that mentioned how Ronald McDonald has been portrayed as a "basketball-playing hipster" in some McDonald's advertising, and ever since I have associated the term "hipster" with Ronald McDonald, who has creeped me out ever since I was a young child.

To be fair, it's totally understandable to find Ronald McDonald creepy.

[traininthedistance]

Ah, posting directly into the Deluge.  Good show, good show.