The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

[Sol]

However certain people will keep repeating lies that I'm posting "sexually explicit" content all over the forum, like Snowstalker claiming that I've engaged in "obnoxiously slutty behavior" in the PAPOY thread, here is my "obnoxiously slutty" contribution to the PAPOY thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=205070.msg4445097#msg4445097

Snowstalker would prefer that all gay men posting in that thread adorn full burka before taking photos of themselves.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Free speech by no means is absolute.

[Lief 🗽]

Rockefeller was not a dumb idiot like Romney.

[Morning in Atlas]

Context:

Have you seen the "Post a Picture of Yourself" thread recently?

[politicus]

Thinking yourself to be the pinnacle of anything is more likely to make you a pompous ass than cause self-improvement.

[politicus]

Sometimes the Atlas Forum is like Mitt Romney minus the money.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I won't even include Christian contemporary music, because no one here would vote for that crap.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I too chose to not read the linked story, but am commenting on it anyway.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Bad country music is dire; good country music is sublime.

[Lief 🗽]

Awkwardly rubbing people the wrong way is banworthy, while actually being abusive towards other posters continues to be par for the course and merits a congratulatory sulfurmine for its most talented performers.  What a croc.

[politicus]

Also it's insane that it takes a week to re-ban Libertas because the ban brigade tells Nym to, but we have nasty trolls who do nothing but derail threads and spit out personal attacks (like Krazen) lingering on this forum for years on end now.

[memphis]

I fear for the day this incredible stupid discussion about privilege spread from the internet to real life, it's not young middle class twits with an pseudo education wasn't obnoxious enough before they tried to make themselves into victims.

Of course they're going to get a rude wake up call when they leave their tumblr echo chambers and have to discuss this in real life.

[politicallefty]

Horrible Banning. Apparently all it takes to get banned anymore is people constantly quoting posts with three-letter 'S' words in them until enough mods and/or Nym notices.  If Atlas leadership were in charge of a real-life state, then it'd charge abuse victims $300 for their kits. 

[politicus]

Atlas Forum: The only place where same-sex marriage polls better than sex.

[politicus]

Context:

I thought he meant too liberal to get his party's nomination.

[Simfan34]

local African languages like Luo and Swahili.

Ironic because Swahili is a second language for many of its speakers due to its status as a lingua franca among smaller local language groups in East Africa.

Knowing that would require them learning something about Africa. They are only there to teach Africa something.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The real travesty is that people think banning a poster needs constitutional justification or something. Who cares?

[SWE]

Yeah, people who think running on Garner is a good idea forget how vile and awful the average Staten Islander is.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

People who post on political message boards are the most irrationally paranoid people I've ever met. Or, perhaps, the most irrationally power hungry.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This thread in a nutshell is why this forum's administration is so f[inks]ed up. Sexually bullying posters is applauded, while defending yourself from attacks results in a ban.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Smash, my life is not in shambles, but that doesn't mean I am content to leave it where it's at.  God loves me just I am, but loves me too much to leave me where I am.  He wants to see me reach my full potential and that's something I want, as well.  My faith has everything to do with it.  I can't do anything on my own.  I need His strength and guidance to carry me on, because without Him, my life would definitely be in shambles.  You ask me how I can say my life is not in shambles?  My answer is because God is in my life.  He makes everything new.  Don't judge me yet, He's still working on me.  Again, things could be much better than where they are now and I want to get there, but at the same time I cannot be ashamed with where my life is at right now at 8:45 pm CST Wednesday, January 14, 2015.  With God's help, I'll get there.  Without His help, I won't.  Simple as that.

God's Kingdom is about serving others.  And since your deeds reflect your faith...whom are you serving?

Are you serving your parents when you're continually a financial burden to them?

Are you serving your employers when you regularly miss work and get fired for poor performance?

Whom are you serving, other than yourself?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Context:

He seems to be declining. He used to be a pretty normal poster, but he is increasingly bitter, repetitive, preoccupied by forum-internal personality conflicts, and wild in his mischaracterizations of his opponents.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Sanchez reminds me of that wonderful old line about Rand's works: There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[memphis]

Context:

He seems to be declining. He used to be a pretty normal poster, but he is increasingly bitter, repetitive, preoccupied by forum-internal personality conflicts, and wild in his mischaracterizations of his opponents.

I constantly am told that I "hate women" and am "pro-rape" but I'm the one who mischaracterizes others? You people are insane.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Context:

He seems to be declining. He used to be a pretty normal poster, but he is increasingly bitter, repetitive, preoccupied by forum-internal personality conflicts, and wild in his mischaracterizations of his opponents.

I constantly am told that I "hate women" and am "pro-rape" but I'm the one who mischaracterizes others? You people are insane.

Whether you mischaracterize others and whether others mischaracterize you are separate questions, and not mutually exclusive in any way.