"Don't think we aren't keeping score, brother"...Obama
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
Her letter would get an F from a high school English teacher, or it was intended to be a threat.
Paragraph 1: Point: the government has zero tolerance for misinformation.
Paragraph 2: Point: Huge list of mandated new coverages.
Paragraph 3: Point: Government experts say paragraph 2 won't raise costs.
Paragraph 4: Point: Recipe for cooked books. Obesity will end in October of 2010.
Paragraph 5: Point: Don't disagree with the government's assessment.
Paragraph 6: Point: The federal government has given 46 states money. Having accepted our money, "later this fall" we will make "regulations" (not law) that they do what the fed wants.....be our jackbooted thugs against the insurance industry.
In 2014, we'll put you out of business unless you shut up and don't raise your rates.
Paragraph 7: Point: Conclusion. American's want more coverage for less money. We promised it to them and we have an election coming up. The Democrat party can't have the healthcare bill backfire by having increased coverage actually increase costs.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Good, eff em, they gonna lie they should get slapped around.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Why did you delete you first thread on this subject?
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
Rakeesh pointed out a discrepancy in my links (missing). I went back and saw I put the same link in twice and was missing one. Instead of editing it, I accidentally quoted my initial post. I went back to remove that post and removed the entire topic....series of mistakes.
Posted by Mucous (Member # 12331) on :
I'm lost. Can someone run a Mal=>English translator on the OP and second post?
Posted by CT (Member # 8342) on :
I'm lost. What's the reference for the claim that this guy is "banned from America forever," other than the seventeen-year-old himself, the one who was so drunk he admits he doesn't even remember what he wrote?
From the police officer's statement, the youth's characterization of his own email was markedly off kilter. What's the check on this not being true for his extreme claim, either?
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Edited to add: Ah just cannot see taking information from this fella without a verrah large chunk o' salt.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:Ah just cannot see taking information from this fella without a verrah large chunk o' salt.
It's a claim made against the Obama administration, and Malanthrop is the one making it. Chances of this being much substantiated are minimal. Chances of malanthrop manning up and admitting, "Hey, I was wrong about this," when that happens are even less. Chances of malanthrop posting as though this bit of posting never, ever happened are extremely high.
Posted by CT (Member # 8342) on :
No! Surely you jest, sir.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Mal, if you're going to progress to making threads on a political subject of your interest, please make them have a coherent concept.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
The UK kid link was a sarcastic joke related to the real intent of the post.
This administration "keeps score"...even for teenagers that say nasty things about the president.
Anyone actually read Sebelius' letter to AHIS?
This administration has threatened them with regulation and black ball from insurance markets if they don't stop blaming increasing insurance costs on the healthcare bill.
Can the government regulate information,...even misinformation? Of course the companies have free speech rights. They aren't being threatened with criminal prosecution. They aren't violating law but Vinnie with the baseball bat is reminding them, "later this fall" we will make "regulations" and we've already paid off the states. If you know what's best for you, you'll shut up or in 2014, you'll find yourself out of business.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:This administration "keeps score"...even for teenagers that say nasty things about the president.
Time to gauge just how nutty your particular wing is, malanthrop: do you really think, if this story bears any resemblance to reality, that all this British teenager did was call President Obama a 'prick'? Really?
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
As I said,,,the Brit kid was a joke...just the atmosphere of administration. I wouldn't be surprised if our insecure, micromanager and chief did get involved in the Brit kid. To get blackballed for life, I would suspect he used the "N" word.
Obama made international comments about and sent the FBI to a backwoods, redneck led, 25 member hick church and had a beer summit over Gates. Is there anything beneath him?
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
I guess I'm the only one who is disturbed that the Executive branch has announced "zero tolerance for misinformation" as defined by their own experts analysis and will punish a business that disagrees with them.
Lord knows, government cost projections are historically more accurate than private industry.
It won't be long and they'll have zero tolerance for misinformation from the media or be threatened with their FCC licenses. Think it's too far off?
Judging by the thread title, I was hoping mal was explaining why he was about to be banned. Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
No need to be banned, I'm fairly close to moving on..on my own.
"First, they came for the Jews. But I was not a Jew, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the communists. But I was not a communist, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the trade unionists. But I was not a trade unionist, so I did not speak up. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: As I said,,,the Brit kid was a joke...just the atmosphere of administration. I wouldn't be surprised if our insecure, micromanager and chief did get involved in the Brit kid. To get blackballed for life, I would suspect he used the "N" word.
So here you dismiss it as a joke, and then promptly go on describing it in terms of not being a joke but rather being representative of the president in your estimation. Which is it.
actually wait nevermind.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: No need to be banned, I'm fairly close to moving on..on my own.
"First, they came for the Jews. But I was not a Jew, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the communists. But I was not a communist, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the trade unionists. But I was not a trade unionist, so I did not speak up. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
First they came for my Jamaican neighbors, but I was just a repressed white male who gets passed up on jobs constantly in favor of unfairly privileged minorities, so I did not speak up.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
(Post removed by Janitor Blade. It's not OK to disparage posters in that manner Rakeesh, you play by that line when it comes to mal a lot.)
[ September 14, 2010, 10:33 AM: Message edited by: JanitorBlade ]
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: No need to be banned, I'm fairly close to moving on..on my own.
That's unfortunate. The biggest problem I've seen is your posts read a lot like you are standing on soap box, rather than trying to have fun conversing with people.
That's a fixable problem, one that most likely won't go away by you simply moving to another forum. Maybe you should stray from topics about Obama or the liberal left, and talk about other topics so that people can see more facets of your personality.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I'm not sure he wants to talk about anything else.
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: I'm not sure he wants to talk about anything else.
Maybe not, but it helps change the perspective that somebody is singing a one note tune.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop:
"First, they came for the Jews. But I was not a Jew, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the communists. But I was not a communist, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the trade unionists. But I was not a trade unionist, so I did not speak up. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Interestingly, I see this paralleled very much in the anti-muslim sentiment so prevalent on the right these days.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
JanitorBlade, I decided awhile ago that I would treat malanthrop with exactly as much respect as he treats those who aren't in his particular choir around here. That is to say, little to none at all. It's technically true that I 'play by that line' with mal, but I frankly don't see much difference at all in playing by that line technically as I do with him, or wily-nily all over the place in spirit with everyone all the time, as malanthrop does. Or rather, I see a world of difference, and in the other direction.
But you've got a job to do, and a more clear violation of rules on one end, and a much murkier one of the spirit of the rules on the other, so I've got no hard feelings.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by Strider:
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop:
"First, they came for the Jews. But I was not a Jew, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the communists. But I was not a communist, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the trade unionists. But I was not a trade unionist, so I did not speak up. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Interestingly, I see this paralleled very much in the anti-muslim sentiment so prevalent on the right these days.
The anti-muslim sentiment in the US isn't purely on the right. Our government stands up for muslims, which is a surprising to me. Normally the government doesn't look too kindly on organizations that profess the overthrow of the government and subjugation of other people.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
I thought your government was all for regime change Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
If it can be said that Muslims 'profess the overthrow of the government and the subjugation of other people', malanthrop, then it can also be said of Christians in America. In fact, historically, we have more of a problem in the United States with wack-job Christian and far-right conservative nut-jobs than we ever have with Islamic terrorists, though of course their competence has far exceeded that of their Christian comrades.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
quote:Normally the government doesn't look too kindly on organizations that profess the overthrow of the government and subjugation of other people.
Wasn't that specifically the intent of many of our Founding Fathers? I not sure you're doing your case any good by spewing out anti-American rhetoric here mal.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by JanitorBlade:
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: I'm not sure he wants to talk about anything else.
Maybe not, but it helps change the perspective that somebody is singing a one note tune.
Yes, I'm getting bored too. I don't like singing to the choir, that's why I come here and have never once posted on a right wing site.
Maybe I should visit right wing sites. Not to discuss politics, but fishing, hunting, God, and other right wing things.
I'm envious of most of you. Apathy, ignorance, denial or acceptance of what is happening to this nation, might be a better way to live.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky:
quote:Normally the government doesn't look too kindly on organizations that profess the overthrow of the government and subjugation of other people.
Wasn't that specifically the intent of many of our Founding Fathers? I not sure you're doing your case any good by spewing out anti-American rhetoric here mal.
Yes and there's a constant struggle between religious freedom and defense of this nation. We must tolerate religions that push for theocracies, enslave their women and barbarically butcher homosexuals and people who follow other faiths.
This religion does teach to overthrow and subjugate and our government goes beyond tolerance, they place them on par with the rest. Probably above Mormons and Jews. If you're giving Christian sermons about overthrowing the government mixed with supremist talk, the government has a different reaction.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
They make your follower President?
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote: This religion does teach to overthrow and subjugate and our government goes beyond tolerance, they place them on par with the rest. Probably above Mormons and Jews. If you're giving Christian sermons about overthrowing the government mixed with supremist talk, the government has a different reaction.
There are Christians who, right now in this nation, make much the same sort of talk. Much more damning, pun intended, from people born and raised in a secular nation that has been free and a representative society for many generations than those that have known only generations of authoritarian repressive tyranny throughout their history. Foreign-supported tyranny, no less, in many cases.
What was it Jesus said about beams and motes, malanthrop? Not that I'd expect you to practice what you preach, of course.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: I'm envious of most of you. Apathy, ignorance, denial or acceptance of what is happening to this nation, might be a better way to live.
Oh, god. You've received conscious, passionate, well-reasoned, and greatly well-written responses to your positions, musings, or assertions of fact here. I've looked at them, and learned some things from some of them. Plenty of effort has gone into respectfully and informatively correcting you — or attempting to enlighten you — at many turns along your illustrious posting history here. To handwave it all away as apathy, ignorance and denial is yet another example of why most people have ended up mocking you for your repetitive, incoherent, incurious, and derisive argumentative folly, and why those who look past this time and time again and still provide you with those aforementioned comprehensive and respectful corrections are saints.
And yet, if they needed any evidence to expect informative gestures to be futile if enacted for your behalf, you helpfully provide it at every turn.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh:
quote: This religion does teach to overthrow and subjugate and our government goes beyond tolerance, they place them on par with the rest. Probably above Mormons and Jews. If you're giving Christian sermons about overthrowing the government mixed with supremist talk, the government has a different reaction.
There are Christians who, right now in this nation, make much the same sort of talk. Much more damning, pun intended, from people born and raised in a secular nation that has been free and a representative society for many generations than those that have known only generations of authoritarian repressive tyranny throughout their history. Foreign-supported tyranny, no less, in many cases.
What was it Jesus said about beams and motes, malanthrop? Not that I'd expect you to practice what you preach, of course.
Well said. Many American Muslims came here to escape theocracies. I'm a supporter of the right for there to be a ground 0 Mosque. While I find it somewhat insensitive, I agree with their right to purchase property and build it there. I'm intillectually honest. I don't like political correctness. The right is using the PC tactics of the left by attacking the mosque due to "sensitivity" to others.
On the other hand,...how many flags and bibles get burned? The president makes an international address when a hick preacher from a swamp, with a couple dozen members wants to burn Korans.
Anyone remember Piss Christ? I was offended. Remember The Satanic Verses? Who put out death warrants? Bibles and US flags burn every day at the hands of Muslims. How do we react?
If a hick from a swamp burns a Koran?
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary:
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: I'm envious of most of you. Apathy, ignorance, denial or acceptance of what is happening to this nation, might be a better way to live.
Oh, god. You've received conscious, passionate, well-reasoned, and greatly well-written responses to your positions, musings, or assertions of fact here. I've looked at them, and learned some things from some of them. Plenty of effort has gone into respectfully and informatively correcting you — or attempting to enlighten you — at many turns along your illustrious posting history here. To handwave it all away as apathy, ignorance and denial is yet another example of why most people have ended up mocking you for your repetitive, incoherent, incurious, and derisive argumentative folly, and why those who look past this time and time again and still provide you with those aforementioned comprehensive and respectful corrections are saints.
And yet, if they needed any evidence to expect informative gestures to be futile if enacted for your behalf, you helpfully provide it at every turn.
I take it you fall into the "acceptance" category.
Posted by scholarette (Member # 11540) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop:
quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh:
quote: This religion does teach to overthrow and subjugate and our government goes beyond tolerance, they place them on par with the rest. Probably above Mormons and Jews. If you're giving Christian sermons about overthrowing the government mixed with supremist talk, the government has a different reaction.
There are Christians who, right now in this nation, make much the same sort of talk. Much more damning, pun intended, from people born and raised in a secular nation that has been free and a representative society for many generations than those that have known only generations of authoritarian repressive tyranny throughout their history. Foreign-supported tyranny, no less, in many cases.
What was it Jesus said about beams and motes, malanthrop? Not that I'd expect you to practice what you preach, of course.
Well said. Many American Muslims came here to escape theocracies. I'm a supporter of the right for there to be a ground 0 Mosque. While I find it somewhat insensitive, I agree with their right to purchase property and build it there. I'm intillectually honest. I don't like political correctness. The right is using the PC tactics of the left by attacking the mosque due to "sensitivity" to others.
On the other hand,...how many flags and bibles get burned? The president makes an international address when a hick preacher from a swamp, with a couple dozen members wants to burn Korans.
Anyone remember Piss Christ? I was offended. Remember The Satanic Verses? Who put out death warrants? Bibles and US flags burn every day at the hands of Muslims. How do we react?
If a hick from a swamp burns a Koran?
A biased response on my part but: We are Americans, we should be better than that. We as a people are supposed to be enlightened enough to not burn Korans and free enough to stand up and say, that is wrong. When it is someone else doing it, well, that is their choice. But this is my land, these are my fellow citizens and my government. I feel very much in my rights to demand that they act as civilized tolerant people. It is a bit like how I might roll my eyes or even laugh when my friend's daughter does something wrong, but when it is my daughter, there is a response. This is my civilization and I see no reason to allow certain behaviors to be an acceptable part of it.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
Agreed. If only this tolerance were universal, within our country from our own government.
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”....Obama
Yeah, small town religious folk who believe in the Bible, gun rights and enforcing the border can't help themselves...if they had better jobs, their minds would be right. Not a surprising argument from a community organizer that blames crime in the inner city, on the very same thing.
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
quote:I take it you fall into the "acceptance" category.
How does telling you that you've got the facts wrong translate to "acceptance?"
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop:
quote:Originally posted by JanitorBlade:
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: I'm not sure he wants to talk about anything else.
Maybe not, but it helps change the perspective that somebody is singing a one note tune.
Yes, I'm getting bored too. I don't like singing to the choir, that's why I come here and have never once posted on a right wing site.
Maybe I should visit right wing sites. Not to discuss politics, but fishing, hunting, God, and other right wing things.
I'm envious of most of you. Apathy, ignorance, denial or acceptance of what is happening to this nation, might be a better way to live.
You know left wingers also fish, hunt, talk about God, etc? Who are you besides somebody who dislikes progressiveness, and feels white people are being mistreated because they are in the majority?
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by MattP:
quote:I take it you fall into the "acceptance" category.
How does telling you that you've got the facts wrong translate to "acceptance?"
Maybe I'm too dim-whited to read through your prolific use of impressive, multi-syllable adjectives to understant the point you concisely stated above.
Your post was impressive...if not intended to impress. Forgive me for not catching the meaning you could easily summarize in one sentence.
It's difficult for me to respond to "your facts are wrong". You failed to state where my facts were wrong. Having done so, I'm left without a response. You can claim victory.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
Sorry, Samprimary's tirade that MattP so concisely summarized?
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
quote:You failed to state where my facts were wrong.
That's not really relevant to the current discussion, which is a summary of previous interactions. Do you disagree that the general response to your posts has been that your facts, or your interpretation thereof, are incorrect? And if that is the case, isn't it unreasonable to conclude that "acceptance" is the response since acceptance would require an agreement about what, exactly, one was accepting?
Contrast: "The healthcare bill will bankrupt us." "You're right, but I'm OK with that." = Acceptance
vs.
"The healthcare bill will bankrupt us." "No, it won't." = Not acceptance; disagreement.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:You know left wingers also fish, hunt, talk about God, etc? Who are you besides somebody who dislikes progressiveness, and feels white people are being mistreated because they are in the majority?
JanitorBlade, aside from being frustrated and baffled, I am genuinely curious here: why ought we make some sort of effort to court malanthrop?
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: I'm intillectually honest.
It strikes me as ironic that you misspelled that exact word. No other one in the entire post was misspelled, just that one.
Does "inTILLectually" refer to farming?
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh:
quote:You know left wingers also fish, hunt, talk about God, etc? Who are you besides somebody who dislikes progressiveness, and feels white people are being mistreated because they are in the majority?
JanitorBlade, aside from being frustrated and baffled, I am genuinely curious here: why ought we make some sort of effort to court malanthrop?
You don't have to court malanthrop, you can continue to be rude and dismissive if that is what you think is best, so long as you stay within the TOS. I have my way of speaking to people, and it suits me just fine.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: No need to be banned, I'm fairly close to moving on..on my own.
"First, they came for the Jews. But I was not a Jew, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the communists. But I was not a communist, so I did not speak up. Then they came for the trade unionists. But I was not a trade unionist, so I did not speak up. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Judging by the list of persecutees here, the "they" in question here are Republicans/Right-wingers.
Incidentally, Rushdie was targeted by Ayatollah Khomeini, and I believe Hezbollah. Protests against him by some larger populations in the Middle East were colorful, but not violent. In other words, I wouldn't call Khomeini a poster child for an average Muslim, but rather a poster child for extremists.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:You don't have to court malanthrop, you can continue to be rude and dismissive if that is what you think is best, so long as you stay within the TOS. I have my way of speaking to people, and it suits me just fine.
I don't think it's 'best', honestly. But I still don't understand behaving towards malanthrop as though he were any other poster, either.
On a related topic, I suppose it would be too much to hope for the ToS to be modified such that constant, spirit-of-the-terms violations such as malanthrops style would be considered out of bounds as well.
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
Rakeesh: My behavior towards posters isn't uniform, but I am polite towards every poster. Do you understand the difference? You can rail, criticize, censure, and still remain polite.
If you can conceptualize the idea that you would like added to the ToS I would be happy to see that the necessary parties see it.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
You already did so very effectively when you addressed behaving as though no one else had spoken or rebutted or even addressed ideas when talking to malanthrop a few days ago. That's the sort of thing I'm talking about, more than anything. I don't have much faith that it would be implemented, though, because truthfully the necessary parties seem (and I can imagine many understandable reasons for this) to have adopted a very hands-off approach to moderation.
As for the difference, well, I do understand it. A personal, philosophical difference to me, I guess. I've never placed much value in the difference between expressing scorn and contempt 'politely' and doing so more directly, though I respect that others do so.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: I take it you fall into the "acceptance" category.
... Here's the second kicker. Your responses, tragically, constantly reinforce people's presumed need to speak down to you to the extent that it can not possibly be construed as non-patronizing. Whenever you get a response that is markedly above your comprehension level, your response is mystifying, and people don't get far outside of simple questions.
Right now, for instance, I actually do regret that I did not respond to you using much simpler language and avoiding complex or compound ideas, because I should have known you would not have been able to parse or respond to it coherently. No joke.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop:
quote:Originally posted by JanitorBlade:
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: I'm not sure he wants to talk about anything else.
Maybe not, but it helps change the perspective that somebody is singing a one note tune.
Yes, I'm getting bored too. I don't like singing to the choir, that's why I come here and have never once posted on a right wing site.
Maybe I should visit right wing sites. Not to discuss politics, but fishing, hunting, God, and other right wing things.
I'm envious of most of you. Apathy, ignorance, denial or acceptance of what is happening to this nation, might be a better way to live.
Not really.
First off, I don't hunt, but I fish, as well as hike, bike, ride horses and dirtbikes. On the very, very rare occasions where you actually tried to participate in this community rather than lecture to it with asinine rhetoric, no one has jumped on you at all.
One of the problems most of us have with you isn't your beliefs, but the disparaging way you talk to others. It's a consistent hallmark of your posting style, mal, and it seems to be one that you are proud of for some god-awful reason. You actually brag about how often you do it, which means either you think it makes you sound smarter (it doesn't) or you don't realize that you come off more ignorant than you probably are IRL (it does).
Second, you can keep you version of God. I prefer the one I know, from actually reading the Bible rather than skimming the cliff notes version of it looking for sound bites. You can't clam God, mal....I'm pretty sure he doesn't like to claim people who refuse to live by his rules.
I disagree with people all of the time, here and IRL, but we respect the fact that we have our own beliefs. Some of my best friends have political views similar to some of the things that you claim to believe, and we get along fine 99% of the time.
We do this by realizing that everyone has their own personal beliefs, and their own experiences, so it is possible for each of us to be intelligent people who have carefully considered each others viewpoint and come to a different conclusion. Neither of us are stupid, or blind, or arrogant. We aren't commies, or fascists, and we don't hate American.
We just disagree.
I am an American veteran of the US Army who loves shooting guns, fishing, dirt bikes, and the outdoors, and I can't stand you or your posting style, mal. I am well educated, reasonably well informed about some of the major political issues of our time, and I give a lot of thought to my own beliefs and views.
And IMO you should have been banned a year ago for being a hateful, spiteful person who spends his time trolling on what used to be a civil, intelligent place on the web. Not because you disagree with me....some of the people I like best here don't agree with me....but because your idea of civil discourse lowered the IQ of this board by 40 points, and chased off some of my favorite people.
All you know how to do is piss in peoples coffee, so don't let the door hit you on the way out. I reject your definition of God, or American, and ignore your version of the world we live in.
Thank God I don't have to live there.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
This thread is only two pages long. Please, go back and start from the beginning. Did anyone actually respond to or address the content of the letter? Did anyone actually make an argument about the content of the post? My mistake is getting sidetracked by attacks that have nothing to do with the topic. My mistake is responding to them. When I do, I'm accused of rambling, trolling and being spiteful. Please....read this very post from the beginning.
Will this be "tolerated" or will the administration force them out of business? Can all these insurance companies be wrong?
[ September 16, 2010, 05:49 AM: Message edited by: malanthrop ]
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
quote:My mistake is getting sidetracked by attacks that have nothing to do with the topic.
No, your mistake is getting sidetracked every time your rhetoric and style are criticized. I don't really care about the OP. I do care about seeing if you'll finally speak of your posting style. If not, I'll just continue to ignore you and your posts.
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kwea: Not really.
First off, I don't hunt, but I fish, as well as hike, bike, ride horses and dirtbikes. On the very, very rare occasions where you actually tried to participate in this community rather than lecture to it with asinine rhetoric, no one has jumped on you at all.
One of the problems most of us have with you isn't your beliefs, but the disparaging way you talk to others. It's a consistent hallmark of your posting style, mal, and it seems to be one that you are proud of for some god-awful reason. You actually brag about how often you do it, which means either you think it makes you sound smarter (it doesn't) or you don't realize that you come off more ignorant than you probably are IRL (it does).
Second, you can keep you version of God. I prefer the one I know, from actually reading the Bible rather than skimming the cliff notes version of it looking for sound bites. You can't clam God, mal....I'm pretty sure he doesn't like to claim people who refuse to live by his rules.
I disagree with people all of the time, here and IRL, but we respect the fact that we have our own beliefs. Some of my best friends have political views similar to some of the things that you claim to believe, and we get along fine 99% of the time.
We do this by realizing that everyone has their own personal beliefs, and their own experiences, so it is possible for each of us to be intelligent people who have carefully considered each others viewpoint and come to a different conclusion. Neither of us are stupid, or blind, or arrogant. We aren't commies, or fascists, and we don't hate American.
We just disagree.
I am an American veteran of the US Army who loves shooting guns, fishing, dirt bikes, and the outdoors, and I can't stand you or your posting style, mal. I am well educated, reasonably well informed about some of the major political issues of our time, and I give a lot of thought to my own beliefs and views.
And IMO you should have been banned a year ago for being a hateful, spiteful person who spends his time trolling on what used to be a civil, intelligent place on the web. Not because you disagree with me....some of the people I like best here don't agree with me....but because your idea of civil discourse lowered the IQ of this board by 40 points, and chased off some of my favorite people.
All you know how to do is piss in peoples coffee, so don't let the door hit you on the way out. I reject your definition of God, or American, and ignore your version of the world we live in.
Thank God I don't have to live there.
Quoted for awesome. I'd like to copy this post into every thread and make it the response to every post mal makes. I want to put it in a gilded frame on the top of Hatrack with a Blingee styled marquee reading "To malanthrop with love". Heck, I love this post so much I'd marry it if I could.
I miss quidscribis, Equiae Legit, mackillian, Claudia Therese, KarlEd and so many others whose names I've forgotten. I miss the word jatraquero and what it used to mean. This used to be one of the best places on the web where people disagreed but kept things civil and intelligent and malathrop has done more by himself to drag that down by sheer quantity of terrible posts than all the other controversial posters here combined (Clive Candy is probably worse but he doesn't post as much). I'd gladly trade malanthrop for two each of Lisa and KOM, at least they appear to be real people and not political regurgitation machines attached to keyboards.
[ September 16, 2010, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Misha McBride ]
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:Did anyone actually respond to or address the content of the letter?
The irony burns like the daystar!
quote: Can all these insurance companies be wrong?
No, not the insurance companies!
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by The White Whale:
quote:My mistake is getting sidetracked by attacks that have nothing to do with the topic.
No, your mistake is getting sidetracked every time your rhetoric and style are criticized. I don't really care about the OP. I do care about seeing if you'll finally speak of your posting style. If not, I'll just continue to ignore you and your posts.
You make obvious what is most important to you and others in this forum,....rhetoric and style. You attack my rhetoric and style while ignoring the content. You vote for a president that has nothing to offer but rhetoric and style.
Have you purchased a Slap-Chop lately...I know...bad style comment.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
quote:Originally posted by Misha McBride:
quote:Originally posted by Kwea: Not really.
First off, I don't hunt, but I fish, as well as hike, bike, ride horses and dirtbikes. On the very, very rare occasions where you actually tried to participate in this community rather than lecture to it with asinine rhetoric, no one has jumped on you at all.
One of the problems most of us have with you isn't your beliefs, but the disparaging way you talk to others. It's a consistent hallmark of your posting style, mal, and it seems to be one that you are proud of for some god-awful reason. You actually brag about how often you do it, which means either you think it makes you sound smarter (it doesn't) or you don't realize that you come off more ignorant than you probably are IRL (it does).
Second, you can keep you version of God. I prefer the one I know, from actually reading the Bible rather than skimming the cliff notes version of it looking for sound bites. You can't clam God, mal....I'm pretty sure he doesn't like to claim people who refuse to live by his rules.
I disagree with people all of the time, here and IRL, but we respect the fact that we have our own beliefs. Some of my best friends have political views similar to some of the things that you claim to believe, and we get along fine 99% of the time.
We do this by realizing that everyone has their own personal beliefs, and their own experiences, so it is possible for each of us to be intelligent people who have carefully considered each others viewpoint and come to a different conclusion. Neither of us are stupid, or blind, or arrogant. We aren't commies, or fascists, and we don't hate American.
We just disagree.
I am an American veteran of the US Army who loves shooting guns, fishing, dirt bikes, and the outdoors, and I can't stand you or your posting style, mal. I am well educated, reasonably well informed about some of the major political issues of our time, and I give a lot of thought to my own beliefs and views.
And IMO you should have been banned a year ago for being a hateful, spiteful person who spends his time trolling on what used to be a civil, intelligent place on the web. Not because you disagree with me....some of the people I like best here don't agree with me....but because your idea of civil discourse lowered the IQ of this board by 40 points, and chased off some of my favorite people.
All you know how to do is piss in peoples coffee, so don't let the door hit you on the way out. I reject your definition of God, or American, and ignore your version of the world we live in.
Thank God I don't have to live there.
Quoted for awesome. I'd like to copy this post into every thread and make it the response to every post mal makes. I want to put it in a gilded frame on the top of Hatrack with a Blingee styled marquee reading "To malanthrop with love". Heck, I love this post so much I'd marry it if I could.
I miss quidscribis, Equiae Legit, mackillian, Claudia Therese, KarlEd and so many others whose names I've forgotten. I miss the word jatraquero and what it used to mean. This used to be one of the best places on the web where people disagreed but kept things civil and intelligent and malathrop has done more by himself to drag that down by sheer quantity of terrible posts than all the other controversial posters here combined (Clive Candy is probably worse but he doesn't post as much). I'd gladly trade malanthrop for two each of Lisa and KOM, at least they appear to be real people and not political regurgitation machines attached to keyboards.
Wow, very nice. If I were as you said, I would've been banned long ago. What's truly ironic is, you're commenting on MY post. I don't disrupt Hatrack's posts. I don't get in the middle of your circle jerks and I don't insert off topic comments into other posts here. Usually, I start a topic and get attacked by people who ignore the meaning of the thread.
Is it my fault the conversation breaks down when my comments are simply dismissed because they came from me. You're "above" logical arguments with the likes of me?
It sorta parallels Nancy Pelosi calling the Tea Party "Astroturf". You and her, will find out...
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Is there a more fitting quote for the Tea Party? I think this country is in the "fighting" stage right now. Fortunately, we have elections, so the fight won't be bloody.
Posted by malanthrop (Member # 11992) on :
You want me to go away....stop responding. I thought about giving up but I realized, I don't have a mission here. I'm not trying to convert anyone here and Hatrack enriches my life. This forum allows me to self evaluate....even if I disagree with most of you. Most people don't spend time logically defending their beliefs against the odds I'm facing here. I highly recommend to the liberals here, go to a conservative leaning forum and try to defend your positions. It'll be good for you.
Of course, you could "ignore me"....
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: I highly recommend to the liberals here, go to a conservative leaning forum and try to defend your positions. It'll be good for you.
As a Canadian Liberal atheist, I thought that was what I was doing here. Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:I don't disrupt Hatrack's posts
We both wish this was true!
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by malanthrop: You want me to go away....stop responding. I thought about giving up but I realized, I don't have a mission here. I'm not trying to convert anyone here and Hatrack enriches my life. This forum allows me to self evaluate....even if I disagree with most of you. Most people don't spend time logically defending their beliefs against the odds I'm facing here. I highly recommend to the liberals here, go to a conservative leaning forum and try to defend your positions. It'll be good for you.
Of course, you could "ignore me"....
mal, once again....YOU don't get to decide what is best for ME, or what I do.
Ignoring you is what I usually do. I have posted in probably fewer than half the threads you even comment in, and most specifically in the threads you start. You haven't ruined this site......there has always been and ebb and flow to this forum, and we have been in an ebb for a while now.
But you, and your clones, DO affect the tone and tenor of a lot of conversations. People are less likely to have a picnic if you are likely to show up, they are less likely to reveal personal details about their lives or their viewpoints because people like you comment here. I don't blame them, myself....who WANTS a troll to know where you live, or where you work?
But letting you go all of the time without calling you on it at least once in a while leads other, new people, to believe that this is how discussions should be held here. That THIS is what Hatrack is all about.
And that isn't a mistake I am willing to make. I don't claim to be anyone who can make a decision about what Hatrack is or isn't, over all, but I know what it is and has been to me and my friends I met here.
It's pretty much the opposite of you, as you have posted here so far. I don't care if you leave, because as far as I am concerned you were never really here in any substantial way at all. It's got nothing to do with your politics, or your religion, or anything you SEEM to think it does. It has to do with the type of person you portray yourself as being.
Most of your assumptions about me are wrong, mal, I just never bothered to tell you because I found them really, really funny. So did most of the people I know here.
By your own standards, I should agree with you most of the time. God knows you seem to constantly be trying to speak for half the groups I belong to....I am a veteran, with a long family history of service in the armed forces. I grew up in MI, and am familiar with the outdoors, and love being in them. I shoot guns as often as I can. I am in the medical field. My father grew up with nothing, financially, and is a self made man. I clawed my way up the ladder in the same company he did, only to get screwed....and then I used that as motivation to start a new, better paying career helping others.
I have never been on welfare, Medicare, food stamps, or accepted any charity (other than from my family when I was younger).
I usually vote moderate, and have voted for Republicans as often as I have for Democrats.
But don't let actual FACTS get in your way this time. I'd hate to break a tradition of yours.
I remember one of the few times you talked about something rather than lecture about it. I believe it was about you taking less pay but doing something you like better, or something like that. I posted in that thread, and we had a decent conversation about it, IIRC. I don't know what it turned into after than, but it was nice hearing about what you believe without you standing on a soapbox, yelling at everyone who passes by.
I just get tired of you labeling people without actually getting to know them, and of straw-man arguments. Maybe you can do better, but if so how would I know? It's pretty much all you have shown here since you arrived. __________________________________________________
Wow, who would have guessed....insurance companies trying to use public panic to raise rates. They can't even agree on what the actual cost will be, the "estimates" range from 0-20% increases in costs.
Talk about a load of crap.
[ September 17, 2010, 05:47 AM: Message edited by: Kwea ]
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kwea: Wow, who would have guessed....insurance companies trying to use public panic to raise rates. They can't even agree on what the actual cost will be, the "estimates" range from 0-20% increases in costs.
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