The Kalwejt Foundation for the Promotion of Atlas Hilarity

[GeorgiaModerate]

Kal, is your username a reference to the Stephen King short story The Juant?

No. It's a reference to "The Stars My Destination".

I remember that being a good book, but haven't read it in many years.  Can you remind me who/what Kalwejt was?

[Sestak]

Cc Irony Oremine

Some I particularly dislike:


Hofoid

Fhtagn

ReaganFan

Bronz

PittsburghSteel


SirWoodbury

Frenchrepublican

BRTD

Chairman Sanchez

Suburban New Jersey Conservative

First Degree Burns

Admiral President

Bagel23

ExtremeConservative

Solid4096

Thomas From NJ

2nd on the list! Great honer!

1). you misspelled honor
2). I don't think I've been around here long enough to become some widely hated villan or something
3). That doesn't mean I think you're the second worst poster here, the list isn't in any particular order and it's also not complete.

1). You misspelled villain.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

This one

It should be noted that I've respectfully argued with every person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.

That said.

In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.

An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things. I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. President Donald Trump is a vile, piece of sh**t human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.

The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Atlas "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).

I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Atlas community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday I acquired approximately 17 recommends for a post that many people found to be helpful.

And, uh, I'm a pretty good poster.

All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

[PragmaticPopulist]

Damn, got my hopes up for a second.

That’s just messed up man

I thought "we shall miss you" referred to him leaving atlas.

[Politician]

AL: Byrne 57-42 Jones R GAIN
AK: Sullivan 54-41 Hibler
AZ: McSally 51-48 Kelly
CO: Romanoff 50-47 Gardner D GAIN
DE: Coons 55-45 Kovach
GA: Perdue 52-45 Tomlinson
ID: Risch 65-30 Jordan
IL: Durbin 58-39 Keyes
IA: Ernst 54-44 Scholten
KS: Marshall 57-43 Grissom
KY: McConnell 54-45 McGrath
LA: Cassidy 55-43 Landrieu
ME: Collins 55-45 Pingree
MA: Markey 50-48 Baker
MI: James 49.7-48.9 R GAIN
MN: Smith 51-48 Lewis
MS: Hyde-Smith 56-44 Espy
MT: Daines 55-44 McColluch
NE: Sasse 62-34 Crawford
NH: Sununu 50-49 Shaheen R GAIN
NJ: Booker 55-41 Hugin
NM: Lujan 52-46 Sanchez
NC: Tillis 52-47 Jackson
OK: Inhofe 59-41 Horn
OR: Merkley 55-42 Pierce
RI: Reed 55-41 Donovan
SC: Graham 56-41 Harrison
SD: Rounds 70-30 Heidepriem
TN: Green 61-37 Clemmens
TX: Cornyn 55-43 Hernandez
VA: Warner 49-48 Freitas
WV: Capito 54-44 Ojeda
WY: Cheney 66-31 Throne

Senate:
Republicans: 55 seats
Democrats: 45 seats

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

While a Republican gain in the Senate is extremely unlikely right now, if there were one that looks like a reasonable map for that circumstance.

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

We already elected President Berlusconi in 2016.

Umm Trump, did not have weird parties with weird people

That's just because Trump doesn't have friends.

Well, then he's not Silvio Berlusconi

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I think you really overestimate the number of racists in the South. Most of us are hicks though, so you're right there.

Also, perchance, have you ever been to the South? It's a beautiful place, and we'd love to have more visitors.

Yes I have, I've been to DE, MD, VA, WV (driven through and Arby's), VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, TN, and TX

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Edna for a girl and Archibald for a boy.

Close enough, well done.

I've always suspected that Hillgoose had some kind of "in" with the royal family.

Ya I'm how Lyndon LaRouche connected neocons to the British royal family don't ya know?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Edna for a girl and Archibald for a boy.

Close enough, well done.

I've always suspected that Hillgoose had some kind of "in" with the royal family.

Ya I'm how Lyndon LaRouche connected neocons to the British royal family don't ya know?

I miss LaRouche. This one time we put jumper cables on an FBI informants nipples protested for a super lake in Canada while we listened to Handel. Great times!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

This thread is an abortion, and Fuzzy Bear is now administering the procedure.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

I am very disappointed that the great deal of Atlas conservatives don’t recognize the truth. Life begins at arousal.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Anne Richards and Barbara Bush 1994 TX Gubernatorial matchup with Bush Jr vs Anne Richards.
Anne Romney and Shannon O'Brien 2002 Gubernatorial matchup with Mitt Romney

What

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Some enlightening facts about Elliott County, KY ... 😂:

Obama was a horrible fit for the county and still won. Clinton will take it back to the 60% range.

I don't think Trump is going to do any better than Romney here KY.

I'd be shocked if Clinton didn't win it.

New York billionaires like Trump are a poor fit for rural Kentucky.

Hillary Clinton is a white, you see.

[Badger]

The only reason they vote for democrats with the amount they do is because the democratic party thinks they own the black vote and will do or say anything to win over African Americans and other minorities at the expense of white people, which may give them a PV advantage, but gives them a big EV disadvantage.

I would say that republicans should try to go after the AA vote more, but they already do and Trump was an example. He ran the most pro-AA campaign of any republican in the 21st century. But that didn't matter, because the media ignored what he was saying and resorted to calling him a racist and xenophobe in order to satisfy their democrat supporting corporate interests. The AA community and many others believed the media over what he was actually saying. Thus, he did badly with the AA vote and lost the PV.

If the media were unbiased, maybe Trump could have won at least in the 20% range of African American voters. Sadly, the media, and the democratic party in general, are bought and sold by big corps looking to take advantage of ordinary people such as the AA community.

"I don't agree with this so it's automatically wrong".

Not like socialists like you should be taken seriously at all, but still.

You, child, are absolutely precious.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Option 1 only. Anyone who chooses Option 6 is a closeted authoritarian.

I am very much out of that particular closet.

[RINO Tom]

Context lmao

^ I am truly sorry if anyone online has literally sent you death threats; that is inexcusable.  However, I simply disagree with your defense of this writing.  I think it has gotten so bad that it can't conceivably be defended with a straight face.

You have implied previously that my IQ is lower simply because I like this season.

Brought to you by non-sequitur

[Dr. MB]

thought it might get deleted

[Boobs]

No, because nobody is white.

This is correct, and nobody is black either.

Everyone is something in between that.

No human is as dark as this text is; the only such thing as black is things the exact same color as this text

No human is as bright as this text is; the only such thing as white is things the exact same color as this text

[Coastal Elitist]

They were probably having a conference call with Putin and Bolsanaro to force all women who had abortions to cut down the rainforest in order to have land for gay conversion therapy centers.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Re: if you were a Presidential spouse, what would your cutesy project be?

Popularize horse meat in America and fight for widespread incorporation of said animal into American slaughterhouses.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

False, every and all policy planks in the Warren campaign are backed by scientific studies and back-and-forth critiques. Warren just doesn’t have a deal ready, she’s already got loads of evidence and a game plan nicely wrapped up for its implementation.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Amash should join the Democrats!

[Politician]

Yeah if Cornyn's name rec is that low he won't overperform Trump.

But clearly Cornyn is a skilled campaigner because he never lost an election. Even if he was it has been atleast 12 years and he isn't ready for the suburban hate of Trump.

Corbyn will over perform Trump along with most of the Republican Candidates in the Sunbelt (with the Lone exception of Alabama)

[Boobs]

You can't put Pandora back in the box, friend.