If she hadn't naively trusted Obamacare maybe she would have bothered to stay conscious enough to shop around for the best free-market deal. She probably could have found a chiropractor willing to tackle the job for a cool 80 bucks; you'd be amazed at what a healthy spine will do for you.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:The key legal question in Herx's case is whether she was fired for religious reasons or her firing was an illegal act of sex discriminations.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bans employers from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. An exemption in that law allows religious institutions to favor members of their own faith during the hiring process. But there's no religious exemption for sex discrimination—which is how Herx is framing her dismissal.
The devil is in the details...
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by tertiaryadjunct: If she hadn't naively trusted Obamacare maybe she would have bothered to stay conscious enough to shop around for the best free-market deal. She probably could have found a chiropractor willing to tackle the job for a cool 80 bucks; you'd be amazed at what a healthy spine will do for you.
If this isn't sarcasm you are a moron....
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
The ACA only saved her half. We should repeal the ACA. It isn't working.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It's sarcasm. I should note, by the way, that I live in Madison and this particular issue -- the fact that there are four competing hospital systems within ten blocks of each other, each of which has its own contract with a specific insurance provider -- is a major concern. I make sure to carry my insurance card with me at all times. Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti:
quote:The key legal question in Herx's case is whether she was fired for religious reasons or her firing was an illegal act of sex discriminations.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bans employers from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. An exemption in that law allows religious institutions to favor members of their own faith during the hiring process. But there's no religious exemption for sex discrimination—which is how Herx is framing her dismissal.
The devil is in the details...
Since most religions *are* in fact misogynistic at worst to patriarchal at best almost by definition how would it not be discrimination according to gender?
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
reminder not to travel to dirty third world countries like the united states if you are pregnant, you never know what might happen with their medieval health systems
quote:And the diocese's health insurance plan, which the diocese directly administers without the help of a third party, paid for Herx's visits to the fertility doctor and the anesthesia she required.
This is the crux of it for me. If it is something the diocese believes so strongly against to deprive someone of their livelihood then why in the world are they paying for the treatment? You can't have it both ways. If it is against their religious beliefs they shouldn't pay for it.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
This is why letting the Republicans get a majority *will never* result in a net positive result even if you argue that somehow the "moderates" will be back in charge.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
Has this thread become a catch-all for blatantly biased opinion pieces and unrelated "news" stories?
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
So are the Republicans trying to, or not trying to, gut the EPA? Yes or no? Is there something about the article that is incorrect or otherwise mischaracterizes the Republican position or the facts as they happened?
Maybe you should just stop being terrible.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
You know, it occurs to me that people like you gleefully quote these idiots because it makes you feel good about yourself and your superiority. If you don't pay this trash any credence, it won't get any traction. They're trying to get your attention in the most cynical way possible, and they're succeeding.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
You're not making any sense. I'm reading what you're writing and I'm not sure what sort of reality its supposed to reflect, such as first I don't quote them because it makes me feel good about myself, most of these articles actually fill me with outrage at just how horrible the world is and how much of it is because of the individuals in the United States congress, their lobbyists, and the useful idiots who vote for them.
Secondly how are they "idiots", that's a very strong term, I could describe say, Michelle Bachmann as an idiot and feel confident in being accurate because they actively spread false misinformation that harms real people.
Its a very specific term with specific meaning and your applying it in a very general sense; so lets look at the most recent article:
(1) Is the author wrong in asserting that much of the partisan political issues exist because of racially-charged politics?
(2) Is the author wrong that conservatives object to immigration reform because it changes the demographics to be more favourable for liberals?
(3) Is the author wrong in also explaining how the objections to the Affordable Care Act can also be seen in racial terms? They can be seen as "helping the poor and minorities disproportionately" and that can be seen as a source of opposition?
(4) Did Mr. Kobach not in fact say:
"What protects us in America from any kind of ethnic cleansing is the rule of law, of course," Kobach said. "And the rule of law used to be unassailable, used to be taken for granted in America. And now, of course, we have a President who disregards the law when it suits his interests. And, so, you know, while I normally would answer that by saying, 'Steve, of course we have the rule of law, that could never happen in America,' I wonder what could happen. I still don't think it’s going to happen in America, but I have to admit, that things are, things are strange and they're happening."
Why would I not want to pay any attention to it? Reading articles (vetted by the RationalWiki community) is a way to expand the information available to me to come to a more informed opinion on current events (those poor reefs...), even if you argue I'm just going it for my "outrage fix" I'm at work and bored, what else am I going to do and I can't be reading Fate Stay/Night all day.
So yeah assuming you are referring to me, they "succeeded" in getting my attention, and?
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
That's a bold move, considering how pissing off movie stars could make it more difficult to work with them in the future. Good on HBO.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar: You're not making any sense. I'm reading what you're writing and I'm not sure what sort of reality its supposed to reflect, such as first I don't quote them because it makes me feel good about myself, most of these articles actually fill me with outrage at just how horrible the world is and how much of it is because of the individuals in the United States congress, their lobbyists, and the useful idiots who vote for them.
Little I have ever seen you do did not have the appearance of you trying to feel good about yourself.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Umm... they contract with a law firm (or 3) that has 160 lawyers in it, probably. They certainly didn't hire 160 lawyers individually. That would just be weird.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro:
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar: You're not making any sense. I'm reading what you're writing and I'm not sure what sort of reality its supposed to reflect, such as first I don't quote them because it makes me feel good about myself, most of these articles actually fill me with outrage at just how horrible the world is and how much of it is because of the individuals in the United States congress, their lobbyists, and the useful idiots who vote for them.
Little I have ever seen you do did not have the appearance of you trying to feel good about yourself.
You could have presented a slightly more unified front by critique'ing the actual articles or my arguments in some constructive fashion as to not present the resident libertarian/GOP apologists the mistaken impression that their world view has some vindication ("See even the other lieberal disagrees!"). So don't do that.
Posted by Heisenberg (Member # 13004) on :
Would it be possible for Comrade Salazar to set up an email list, or blog, so that we might all know what the official party line is? That way we'll all be able to stay "united." I would not want to be disloyal to the party. I have a wife and children, after all.
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: Umm... they contract with a law firm (or 3) that has 160 lawyers in it, probably. They certainly didn't hire 160 lawyers individually. That would just be weird.
And expensive.
quote:Would it be possible for Comrade Salazar to set up an email list, or blog, so that we might all know what the official party line is? That way we'll all be able to stay "united." I would not want to be disloyal to the party. I have a wife and children, after all.
I too was not only unaware of the official party line, but also that there was a party at all. I must not have gotten the invitation. Does the party have cookies, comrade Heisenberg? How about silly hats? I like silly hats.
Posted by Heisenberg (Member # 13004) on :
There are ration coupons given out for the silly hats, so that all may partake of said hats equally. But they are very NICE silly hats.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar:
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro:
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar: You're not making any sense. I'm reading what you're writing and I'm not sure what sort of reality its supposed to reflect, such as first I don't quote them because it makes me feel good about myself, most of these articles actually fill me with outrage at just how horrible the world is and how much of it is because of the individuals in the United States congress, their lobbyists, and the useful idiots who vote for them.
Little I have ever seen you do did not have the appearance of you trying to feel good about yourself.
You could have presented a slightly more unified front by critique'ing the actual articles or my arguments in some constructive fashion as to not present the resident libertarian/GOP apologists the mistaken impression that their world view has some vindication ("See even the other lieberal disagrees!"). So don't do that.
Clearly, I have failed in my mission then. And such an important mission it is...
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by Heisenberg: Would it be possible for Comrade Salazar to set up an email list, or blog, so that we might all know what the official party line is? That way we'll all be able to stay "united." I would not want to be disloyal to the party. I have a wife and children, after all.
Unity is for Republicans.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by Heisenberg: Would it be possible for Comrade Salazar to set up an email list, or blog, so that we might all know what the official party line is? That way we'll all be able to stay "united." I would not want to be disloyal to the party. I have a wife and children, after all.
Me for Emperor.
But yeah I don't care for the attempts to make the thread about me or whatever, I challenged Orincoro to actually substantiate his "gleefully quote these idiots" assertion and he declined so that's a concession as far as I care to address it so that's the end of that until the next interesting article I spot on Reddit or RationalWiki.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
You can regard it as a concession all you like, Elison. Those posts of yours were textbook examples of choir preaching, and they met (exceeded) the very furthest examples of naked partisanship for which folks like capax are criticized. To say nothing of the ridiculously over the top sneering.
So you're doing double duty here in this thread. Not only are you driving off any chance of an open discussion (a rarity now that Hatrack is slower and more homogenous, politically), but for those who are left who might otherwise agree with your political statements...well. You're embarrassing your fellow liberals.
Seriously, 'maybe you should stop being terrible'? Are you kidding me, dude? That trifling shit is the opposite of the way to bring respect to yourself and your position.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
I would normally be fascinated by the idea that I am supposed to "substantiate," my opinion of Blayne's behavior. What does it mean? By what standard is substantiation made?
But it's been a long time since I cared. Sadly.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote:The cold-blooded cop-hater who gunned down two police officers in Brooklyn on Saturday is suspected of being a member of a notorious prison gang that has declared open season on the NYPD.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: I wanna play too, Blayne!
quote:The cold-blooded cop-hater who gunned down two police officers in Brooklyn on Saturday is suspected of being a member of a notorious prison gang that has declared open season on the NYPD.
hahahahahaha you didn't even click on his link
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
capax someday you have to at least try to not be such a stereotypical rube. but not yet. don't stop yet. this is gold Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Also, it looks like the black man is actually beating the cop pretty badly.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
That poor man, doing his best to serve that community. Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
quote:Originally posted by Xavier: Also, it looks like the black man is actually beating the cop pretty badly.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets indicted.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I can't make out white's situation for sure but he sure does look like he's getting owned
Posted by tertiaryadjunct (Member # 12989) on :
Which is exactly what Fox has been trying to tell you for years. Maybe next time you'll listen.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar: Gonna experiment with a thing I saw at another fora a few yonks back.
Also for God's sake can we just marvel at the people who think our health care system is good
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
And sadly Vermont might be scrapping plans for single payer because it doesn't have enough corruption.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: capax someday you have to at least try to not be such a stereotypical rube. but not yet. don't stop yet. this is gold
Haha. Are you for real, bro? Your over-the-top theatrics are becoming less frequent but no less entertaining. I read his link. You've clearly missed the point of the game.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Um. capax, you realize that no one here actually thinks you read the link before posting, right? I mean, we all know you posted a knee-jerk defense of the police without actually checking out what the "beating" was. Because, heck, the alternative would be even more pathetic.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
Um, Tommy, you realize you really have no idea if I actually read the link or not, right? Like, just claiming something doesn't make it so. You understand this, yes? I sure hope a grown man such as yourself understands this...
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
No, see, I am absolutely certain you did not read the link.
Because you are not a complete idiot, and posting what you posted after reading the link would be the action of a complete idiot.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
Nobody can claim absolute knowledge about whether you read the link or not (omg he can't even prove you exists!) which is a different thing than not extending you the benefit of the doubt with your attempt to save face by claiming you read the link. Which people will do. People just pretty much don't believe you because you've acted like you have for years on this forum.
That and like Tommy Davidsonny said the alternative explanation makes you look even worse so ok keep trying to roll with it.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
why am I even doing this
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:Originally posted by Parkour: why am I even doing this
Well, why are you? Samprimary made a poor assumption then multiple people took stupid to the next level by jumping to his defense. I'm betting you, Sam, and "TomDavidson" keep trying to make something of nothing. Two posts from each of you by tomorrow night. That's all but guaranteed. Haha.
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
quote:Originally posted by Parkour: why am I even doing this
Well, every time I see your username I want to yell "parkour!" and do a flip off the back of my couch or something, so there's that.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti:
quote:Originally posted by Parkour: why am I even doing this
Well, why are you? Samprimary made a poor assumption then multiple people took stupid to the next level by jumping to his defense. I'm betting you, Sam, and "TomDavidson" keep trying to make something of nothing. Two posts from each of you by tomorrow night. That's all but guaranteed. Haha.
I was asking myself that question because it was pretty obvious that you were going to continue to be stupid and try to 'roll with the punches' and continue down your road of unforced errors Pretty much exactly what we got really.
Your response to Blayne was dumb. I'm sorry you can't not make it dumber or just own up to it or anything.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
Here's post number two for you though homebro.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:Originally posted by Parkour: Here's post number two for you though homebro.
Way to be a predictable little pawn.
Despite it being rather simple you're having real trouble understanding so let me put it in plain words for you: My original post wasn't a response to any one thing that was posted. In keeping with most of the bull**** on this thread, it was a provocative link presented sans comment. The fact that is was basically a nonsequitur and only tangentially related makes it all the more fitting. Again, just a game that obviously you (and sam and tom) didn't understand. It's a failure on your part, not mine.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
quote:Originally posted by Parkour: Nobody can claim absolute knowledge about whether you read the link or not (omg he can't even prove you exists!) which is a different thing than not extending you the benefit of the doubt with your attempt to save face by claiming you read the link. Which people will do. People just pretty much don't believe you because you've acted like you have for years on this forum.
That and like Tommy Davidsonny said the alternative explanation makes you look even worse so ok keep trying to roll with it.
You must be an alt for Samprimary.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
There are two hatrackers (who aren't us) who have definitely seen both of us in the same room. The moderator has also played in the same game as both of us which would be kind of uncomfortable for one mortal to do. So yeah sorry Gaal but only one of the two of us can be Batman.
(it's me)
quote:Despite it being rather simple you're having real trouble understanding so let me put it in plain words for you: My original post wasn't a response to any one thing that was posted. In keeping with most of the bull**** on this thread, it was a provocative link presented sans comment. The fact that is was basically a nonsequitur and only tangentially related makes it all the more fitting. Again, just a game that obviously you (and sam and tom) didn't understand. It's a failure on your part, not mine.
You are not understanding and I want to know if it is on purpose. Listen -- even if this is really how it went down it really looks like you didn't click Blayne Bradley's link and nobody gives you the benefit of the doubt and they think you are just trying to save face. It's a game you made for yourself where even if you are telling the truth and could prove that to us it just makes you look dumber because that's pretty dumb. But I don't think most forumites think you're telling the truth. And that;s kind of to your benefit.
For sure though if you don't get it feel free to lay out some more of your obvious frustrations and scorn and I can again explain the shortcomings of the strategy of "you failed at playing my game"!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
No, Parkour and Sam are friends. They've been verified in MeatSpace and everything. Although they didn't help matters when Parkour would occasionally post from Sam's login and confuse the heck out of people. *grin*
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quote:Way to be a predictable little pawn.
You are indeed a cunningly devious master of manipulation. What other schemes of yours are we playing right into, I wonder?
But seriously, man, I don't think you realize that you make yourself look more pathetic when you do this. But you do. If you don't believe me, ask anyone. I mean, literally anyone. Walk down the hall, grab your mom and drag her to the computer, and ask, "Mom, do I look more competent and manly when I pretend to be a mastermind to avoid owning up to a small error?" See what she says.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: You are indeed a cunningly devious master of manipulation. What other schemes of yours are we playing right into, I wonder?
But seriously, man, I don't think you realize that you make yourself look more pathetic when you do this. But you do. If you don't believe me, ask anyone. I mean, literally anyone. Walk down the hall, grab your mom and drag her to the computer, and ask, "Mom, do I look more competent and manly when I pretend to be a mastermind to avoid owning up to a small error?" See what she says.
1 of 2. Don't stop now. There's much I said which you've conveniently ignored. I didn't claim to be a mastermind, but I have predicted (accurately, so far) that you would be unable to drop your farcical assumptions.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
*rolls eyes* I don't think you understand, capax, that predicting that I'm going to reply to something stupid you say is really not much of a prediction. It doesn't shame me into not posting; it doesn't make me worry that I look like your puppet. The game you're trying to play requires some actual sort of perceived consequence, but I guarantee you that I don't lose any face by posting in response to your posts.
I mean, really, "I guarantee that you're going to respond to this!" is only effective if the person you're trying to use that on is somehow focused on denying you even the smallest satisfaction -- but if that's the case, then somehow denying them the satisfaction of replying actually winds up demonstrating your power over them, thus satisfying the same desire.
Look, you aren't equipped for this kind of thing. Sam and Parkour are both Goons, and I'm much smarter than you are. Let it go.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
Capaxinfiniti, I predict that you won't be able to let it go, and you will respond in words made from letters in the english alphabet. Get on my level. Who's the mastermind now bro??
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
The two of you have almost identical writing styles. Smart posts but with optional correct punctuation and grammar. Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
Just the two of us? No I say we are legion. there's a place called GBS you can go to experience hundreds of us at once until you want to kill yourself.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
I'm a goon too! I'm in Goonswarm and everything!
But yeah, I mean, the weird thing is the long ass delay between my and Sam's response and yours. It just seems more like you got embarrassed and ignored the thread for a while before coming back to it.
Also your posts are generally much more composed.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
We had a meeting of the Hatrack goons... you weren't there. So you're not one of us. We have a secret signal. Don't worry about it.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
Its not a problem, the last time I interacted with goons in a non-forum way ended up with me being somewhat creeped out so I stick to the forums and EVE.
Posted by stilesbn (Member # 11809) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dogbreath:
quote:Originally posted by Parkour: why am I even doing this
Well, every time I see your username I want to yell "parkour!" and do a flip off the back of my couch or something, so there's that.
I think of Harry Dresden yelling Parkour!
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti:
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: capax someday you have to at least try to not be such a stereotypical rube. but not yet. don't stop yet. this is gold
Haha. Are you for real, bro? Your over-the-top theatrics are becoming less frequent but no less entertaining. I read his link. You've clearly missed the point of the game.
Is this game the one where your credibility on the forum is by now not sufficient for practically anyone here to extend you the benefit of the doubt when you make this claim and then you call everyone masterminded pawns for ... uh, literally just not taking an intellectually dishonest poster at his word? and then you trumpet your own goading success so self resolutely to the point where it really just kind of makes you look sort of completely genuinely honestly nuts
Is this also the game where you basically embarrass yourself for me, samprimary, thy hated Forum Nemesis, with little effort on my part required, driving yourself just a little bit more nuts about me than before and I hardly had to do anything
Because if so you are really owning hard. Good .... job?
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Oh hell I almost forgot my second post.
I think this story is true or I might be screwed in the head. I think, THINK that it was BlackBlade who was dropping with me, parks, and tetriseyes
and Boris dropped on the other side
completely at random
and we fought each other for the rights to nuke him
it was the most conspicuously random occurrence of hatracker on hatracker violence we have yet seen
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
The Three Stooges go three for three. Haha.
Look at you, Samprimary. You keep going and going with this egotistical blather. Now you've proclaimed yourself my "forum nemesis"? How does one become such and what does it entail? If I don't have credibility with you three I consider that an honor. You aren't known for fair-shakes on this forum or others. And please continue talking as if you're the mouthpiece of Hatrack. This all started because of a brainless assumption on your part and it's turned into some cheap laughs for me.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
the forum nemesis is a halfway tongue in cheek thing relating to the peculiar observation of a peculiar pattern of behavior from you, that after a certain point you most often appear or devote energy to posting in an obvious reaction to and degree of obsession with me
this is not even my original observation, other people had to point it out to me and yeah it had started to become a trend
also one does not 'speak as a mouthpiece' in observing a standpoint or condition of a community at large. if that were so then i am 'talking as if i am the mouthpiece of hatrack' if i make the observation that the forum users speak english.
oh, ok. i guess i just did. i crown myself mouthpiece of hatrack
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
I have an obsession with you? Wow. Hahaha. I was mistaken, egotistical doesn't begin to describe you. You're delusional. And since you brought up peculiar patterns of behavior, you should admit your frequent immature trolling and embarrassingly grandiose sense of self-importance. Some mouthpiece you are. You don't know that the community shares you "standpoint" but you're going to try to maintain that illusion until the bitter end.
Really, I hope you aren't getting worked up over this. I admit it's a little shameful how much I enjoy pushing your buttons but I felt you were getting too upset I'd let it go.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Get a room you two Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:I have an obsession with you?
yes. i said that you have had a degree of obsession with me and it is profoundly obvious. you can very easily be goaded into a fracas with me where you kind of make yourself look nuts. I have been able to do this to you since i believe that time that i pointed out that you were literally afraid of gay people and homosexuality, like you had pretty much announced it in a crystal clear fashion
just a reminder capax this thing right here!
quote:you trumpet your own goading success so self resolutely to the point where it really just kind of makes you look sort of completely genuinely honestly nuts
at the very least at least stop conspicuously walking into beartraps when i am pointing the beartraps out and saying 'you seem to walk into these beartraps a lot — yes these beartraps right here — and it is why people don't take you very seriously'
don't then subsequently gloatingly walk into the beartrap. or maybe just eventually learn why this is not actually you winning or 'masterminding' a little fun fracas with me. the fact that you are still kind of ignoring that the thing where you Masterfully Predicted with your Giant Brain that we would post in response to your kind of being a total idiot is really a pitch-perfect example of what I (well, we) are talking about. This makes you look dumb but you are going 'haha! i owned you! haha!' and it's amazing that you still count this as some sort of a point in your credit or favor
beartraps, man. beartraps
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by GaalDornick: Get a room you two
k
come, capax - let me sweep you away to a romantic gondola. let me caress your bulging forehead veins
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
Samprimary, The Great Hunter. Skillfully setting beartraps for his unwary prey!
You're delusional, man. Delusional...
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
no dude that's just the thing is that i don't have to set them. you are doing the work for me. that's what i'm saying.
like just level with me on ONE thing, because i'm legit curious: you have had it explained to you by multiple people how the whole gloating "haha i predicted you would post in response to me haha you pawns you stooges haha you posted"
ok, you are like, super proud of yourself for that! hooray!
my question is is that have you determined, would you accept in any remote form, that you gloating about this as if it is any sort of clever thing or anything?
it makes you look dumb. it really does! it makes you look dumb with no additional required effort from me. my serious question is that do you have any inkling of an understanding why? will you really keep blitzing forward on that tangent like this is something that doesn't make you look dumb? no, really! i am honestly wondering if you actually think that this is some sort of credit to you still. can we still leverage this propensity of yours against you, that you don't figure this out? etc.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
I can post X amount of words and they don't even have to address what you said and you still reply. This makes you look profoundly pathetic.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
right, but that's just the thing. you are, ah, pointedly avoiding the question. and you are still replying too? if it's a mutual thing how come it's only pathetic on my end? this endgame makes less and less sense when you think about it. do you still think that the prediction that made us 'pawns' and 'stooges' or whatever is actually a point in your favor or that an impartial observer would think that this is something that you could continue to gloat about and didn't make you look dumb? do you think this is working out for you?
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
I'm not gloating about it. You repeatedly bring it up and I repeatedly ignore you. An impartial observer would see that you're taking this much more seriously than I am. There is no endgame. The goal is to see how long I can keep you responding while maximizing my entertainment.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote: You repeatedly bring it up and I repeatedly ignore you.
Ok. So, we're now at the point where you're basically admitting that you are dodging questions. Ok cool! I am glad that an impartial observer would find me the more serious engager, however you imagine that is supposed to work in your favor. I am also glad that you admit you can quite simply be entertained by ignoring questions and that I am more serious than you. I am happy to provide you with this simple amusement!
I eagerly anticipate your continued happiness at that you have mastermindfully kept me responding (coincidentally, as long as i have kept you responding. odd, that)
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
I SAID GOOD DAY
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:An impartial observer would see that you're taking this much more seriously than I am.
I think we need to find an impartial observer and offer him/her ten bucks to answer this question. Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
*clears throat*
My services are available for those with a paypal account.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You're not impartial enough.
Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
Okay Children behave yourself. you don't want me to turn this Thread around. Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: The goal is to see how long I can keep you responding while maximizing my entertainment.
You know this is textbook psychopathy right?
Then again I wouldn't be surprised as there's usually a high correlation between a lack of empathy and conservative views.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Internet Armchair Pseudopsychology published a textbook??
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
Who gives a shit?
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
So that just happened, right?
Capax farted out purposefully ignoring questions about his tame masterminding and was badlulzing, I'm not imagining it? Yay a tap out.
quote:Who gives a shit?
People who don't want to look like morons because they are throwing out psych diagnosis on vague pretenses. An idiot being petulant and going down on the "I was just provoking you to post, you PAWNS" ship isn't engaging in textbook psychopathy and if they are your textbook sucks.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar: Who gives a shit?
Obviously not you.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I don't post on gbs anymore actually outside of a blue moon. 2.0 was filed under "ironic" anti everything humor
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
Ironic transphobia, ironic "racial realism", ironic gamergatia.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Do I want to know what racial realism is?
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
I'm reminded of that great line by my girl T-Swizzle, "It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters." Which of course presents us with one of the great moral quandaries of our age: if one dresses/acts like a hipster ironically, does that not in fact make one a hipster?
Take Sarah Silverman, who makes all sorts of horrible (in both ways) racist jokes, but it's okay because she doesn't *really* believe it! She's just being ironic! So she is completely free to joke about how stupid black people are, and how bad Mexicans smell, and everyone in the audience is free to laugh, because they don't really believe it! They're laughing because they're amused by how ironic and smart and cultured they're being. So it's all ok.
It's actually a concept I've discussed at length in another thread here (an an attempt to refute the idea that there's such a thing as "positive" racial realism), but it's basically the idea that certain racial groups have certain innate attributes they are imbued with just by being part of that racial group. I.e, black men have big penises and are more virile, Asians are good at math, Jews are good with money, etc.
Posted by stilesbn (Member # 11809) on :
I'm reminded of that great line by my girl T-Swizzle, "It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters." Which of course presents us with one of the great moral quandaries of our age: if one dresses/acts like a hipster ironically, does that not in fact make one a hipster?
This should solve your questions.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Racial realist is what some white guys call themselves when they are "not afraid to tackle the real race issues and science that PC liberals are unwilling to confront for fear of being culturally insensitive" and then after they establish that fact they get to work constantly posting the Bell Curve and saying that the civil rights act was bad for blacks after all and blacks are pretty much always the problem always in any class and race conflict, because they are dumb ignorant savages. but it's not racism, it's race realism because something something cherrypicked science from teh 1970s
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
Racial Realism is actually about ethics in colored communities
Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
Race Realism is actually about the intense debates surrounding the various races and whether or not they are, in fact, real. See "Halflings: our furry footed little cousins" or "on the asexuality of dwarves" for further information.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
Twice now I've returned from vacation to find this thread more bizarre than it was when I left. The fun never stops on Hatrack. Haha.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Milord I am an Asian (half)
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: Twice now I've returned from vacation to find this thread more bizarre than it was when I left. The fun never stops on Hatrack. Haha.
We're really, we're just extra so super proud of you champ. We're rooting for you.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:Originally posted by Parkour:
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: Twice now I've returned from vacation to find this thread more bizarre than it was when I left. The fun never stops on Hatrack. Haha.
We're really, we're just extra so super proud of you champ. We're rooting for you.
Parkour, what happened to your usual cherry disposition? Don't let negativity sour your online interactions. Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti:
quote:Originally posted by Parkour:
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: Twice now I've returned from vacation to find this thread more bizarre than it was when I left. The fun never stops on Hatrack. Haha.
We're really, we're just extra so super proud of you champ. We're rooting for you.
Parkour, what happened to your usual cherry disposition? Don't let negativity sour your online interactions.
We're behind you 100%, kiddo. You won't let this keep you down. We believe in you.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
quote:Originally posted by Parkour:
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti:
quote:Originally posted by Parkour:
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: Twice now I've returned from vacation to find this thread more bizarre than it was when I left. The fun never stops on Hatrack. Haha.
We're really, we're just extra so super proud of you champ. We're rooting for you.
Parkour, what happened to your usual cherry disposition? Don't let negativity sour your online interactions.
We're behind you 100%, kiddo. You won't let this keep you down. We believe in you.
Ahh, I see your comprehension skills are still woefully substandard. Better work on that, champ! And thanks, but "your" support is hardly needed.
[ January 06, 2015, 09:10 PM: Message edited by: capaxinfiniti ]
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
quote:Originally posted by capaxinfiniti: Twice now I've returned from vacation to find this thread more bizarre than it was when I left. The fun never stops on Hatrack. Haha.
We're really, we're just extra so super proud of you champ. We're rooting for you.
Parkour, what happened to your usual cherry disposition? Don't let negativity sour your online interactions.
We're behind you 100%, kiddo. You won't let this keep you down. We believe in you.
Ahh, I see your comprehension skills are still woefully substandard. Better work on that, champ! And thanks, but "your" support is hardly needed.
Don't worry man. We got your back on this one. In time, you'll lick this thing. We're all really proud of you.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
We won!
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
When the signatures are on the relevant paperwork I'll celebrate. And then watch to see how ISPs get around it.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
Luckily for us, there's a lot of corrupt money on our side for a change.
And in other equally gleeful news McCain might kill the F-35. Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Thank goodness for the US military, which stood to be destroyed if it continued! Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh: Thank goodness for the US military, which stood to be destroyed if it continued!
... what?
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
They're referring to my only slightly hyperbolic remark that the F-35 could very well have led to the 'downfall of the US military' but was mainly a reference to George Orwell's commentary on war for war's sake; where the development of weapon systems isn't to achieve a practical purpose but to waste resources that could otherwise be used for the advancement of human welfare.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Holy cow you know there were other people there you know!
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
I cannot know it to be truth that there exists other individuals aside from myself, but I can only know it to be truth that I exist, therefore, because I think that I exist, I must exist.
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elison R. Salazar: They're referring to my only slightly hyperbolic remark that the F-35 could very well have led to the 'downfall of the US military' but was mainly a reference to George Orwell's commentary on war for war's sake; where the development of weapon systems isn't to achieve a practical purpose but to waste resources that could otherwise be used for the advancement of human welfare.
I bet you're just making all of this "it was mainly a reference to George Orwell" up as an excuse after you said it and caught some flak for it.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
It certainly wasn't mentioned at the time. Elison doesn't pivot to Orwell, really.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote: Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded. As we have seen, researches that could be called scientific are still carried out for the purposes of war, but they are essentially a kind of daydreaming, and their failure to show results is not important. Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
You know, I had forgotten about that, though it did happen a week later than the initial remark. But you did qualify it, sort of.
Anyway, I forgot that you had referenced Orwell so directly, so I'm sorry about that. The truth is, that was a shot about your support for authoritatian governments more than my memory of the thread, so doubly egg on my face!
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
He referenced Orwell but his initial point was attempted to be substantiated on lines indicating a motor literal meaning. Since he's always printing out assertions of western fallibility, or failure to the future growth and development of his slavishly loved Russians and Chinese, the shoe fits
Posted by Parkour (Member # 12078) on :
That seems like every Blayne conversation about military hardware, bored now.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh: You know, I had forgotten about that, though it did happen a week later than the initial remark. But you did qualify it, sort of.
Anyway, I forgot that you had referenced Orwell so directly, so I'm sorry about that. The truth is, that was a shot about your support for authoritatian governments more than my memory of the thread, so doubly egg on my face!
Thank you, I apologize for the accusation. I got angry because of Parkour's and Samprimary's aggressive idiocy and in the latter's case, is outright lying.
quote: He referenced Orwell but his initial point was attempted to be substantiated on lines indicating a motor literal meaning. Since he's always printing out assertions of western fallibility, or failure to the future growth and development of his slavishly loved Russians and Chinese, the shoe fits
I love how you just apparently take whatever I said probably around 2008 or even earlier and take it 100% at face value and force feed it into the context of whatever we discussed recently, regardless of any context or evidence I provide.
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