Way to go with the name-calling. That will really get people on your side.
Incidentally, aside from accepting donations from PACs, the policies of each party are markedly different--and that's why the Republicans lost the last election. Anti-immigrant, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, anti-women's rights, refusing to tax the rich and laying the entire tax burden on the middle and lower classes--all stances in direct opposition to what every public opinion poll reflects. That's why more than a few Republicans abandoned their party in the last election.
So to continue to claim that both parties are the same is ridiculous. That's a fallacy, because they most definitely are not. The public obviously recognized this and managed to defeat the Republicans despite all their machinations to manipulate and limit the vote to people of color and the poor--two factions they know they will never win.
Oh, and that's another significant difference between the parties--and one that clearly lays waste to the argument that both parties are equally corrupt. The Democrats haven't done anything in the last four presidential elections to hinder a person's right to vote--they've come a long way since the Dixiecrats of the fifties and sixties. Indeed, it's worthwhile to point out that those very Dixiecrats all defected to the Republican party beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan. Surprise, surprise.
you ARE being fucked by both parties. that you believe you are not indicates ignorance.
No, I'm being ably assisted by both parties, one more so than the other. I'm not fucked at all and I have the balance sheets to prove it. I just, like many other people, know how to work within and through the system and benefit by it.
unless you are a 1%er. in which case, fuck off, cuntbag. i dont think you are a 1%er though.
Definitely not and I don't have to be to benefit. Trufax: Not all of us 98% are all oppressed by the evil corporate overlords and their banks. More trufax: A lot of us happily work for them and enjoy the paycheck and gold-plated bennies.
Might want to stop assuming that, just because I'm not a 1%er, that your goals/interests match with mine in any way.
Hint: I'm not here to fight for truth, justice, and the American way, pal. But I'll fight your fight if you want me to - just cut me a large enough paycheck.
shit like clean water and air still matter,
Yup, I've got that. Me and mine have all the clean water and air we need. Sorry to hear that you don't; I'd recommend moving.
as does not having billions around the globe want to kill us.
I don't worry about that. We (the USA) have better and bigger weapons than they do. When they invade? Then I'll worry about that. And if they do invade? I'll help do what winners have done throughout history - kill them and take their shit.
you either lack empathy and are a sociopathic mercenary, or you need to wake up and see that your little bubble of reality isnt all of reality.
if you sleep easy knowing that your tax dollars go to give corporations welfare, but not to hungry children, or unemployed sick preventative care, thats on you.
but those of us who care about our fellow humans, even those we cant see cause we dont let their poor, mentally unstable, drug addicted asses near our quite country clubs, we are getting fucked by both parties.
and as for your "well, just up and move"mentality, its the epitomy of the 'fuck you jack, i got mine' mentality that destroys the giant family we ought all be.
you either lack empathy and are a sociopathic mercenary, or you need to wake up and see that your little bubble of reality isnt all of reality.
Wrong on both. To co-opt a phrase/theory, I simply don't have enough spoons and so I need to prioritize what I give a shit about. And that prioritization is myself, then my personal circle, then my family, then my acquaintances, and then everybody else. I'm glad you have a cornucopia of time, energy, and money to assist the world with its problems. I, unfortunately, do not.
if you sleep easy knowing that your tax dollars go to give corporations welfare, but not to hungry children, or unemployed sick preventative care, thats on you.
I don't give a shit where my tax dollars go, because that's not my job. I vote for politicians I want in office - and it's THEIR problem where my tax dollars go. If you want me to worry about where my tax dollars go, make it my job - and make sure I'm the one that has sole control over it. I have enough personal things to worry about without making myself responsible for everything in the world that's not under my control.
we are getting fucked by both parties.
Sorry to hear it. Good luck with that.
and as for your "well, just up and move"mentality, its the epitomy of the 'fuck you jack, i got mine' mentality that destroys the giant family we ought all be.
Dude, that statement is so hilarious to me you don't even know. If you and I were all part of the "giant family we ought all be" I would be one of about 10-20 siblings that gives you a Gibbs smack upside the head, telling you to stop whining and stop being a stupid-ass.
i cant help it if your immoral
I've got plenty of morals. They're just not yours.
No, I just neither like you or him. You're the constant I-am-the-ubermensch-to-you-subhumans rape apologist and he's the I-am-the-philosophical-superior-to-you-unelightened-subhumans pot hippy. The both of you range well along the bottom of my prioritization pyramid.
I am not and have never been a rape apologist. Only illiterates and philosophical dimwits believe I am.
And I do not think I am innately superior to anyone, as the words "ubermensch" and "subhuman" suggest. I am intellectually superior to around 99.5% of the human population mainly because of educational privileges I was afforded before the age of three — privileges that cost nothing and should be available to everyone. If everyone enjoyed those privileges, I would likely only be average. Most people alive today have no hope of ever being my equal, but it is my ardent wish that many of their descendants should be my superiors.
I am not and have never been a rape apologist. Only illiterates and philosophical dimwits believe I am.
It's a pity it isn't about what you think, but how others perceive you.
And I do not think I am innately superior to anyone
I find it amusing that you say that and then proceed to say "I am intellectually superior to around 99.5% of the human population" and "Most people alive today have no hope of ever being my equal".
If everyone enjoyed those privileges, I would likely only be average.
Yeah, I've heard that before too. From more people than I can count, both on the internet and in real life. Fact: You sound like this LJ-famous guy. (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Lovecrafty)
You think others' perception makes a person what they are?
No, I think you are the one constant in all of the variables that make up your problems. Pretty much everyone here on LJ reads what you write and claims rape apologist. (And anti-semite.) Your sole defense is that of the typical crank and MRA, the Galileo fallacy (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_fallacy). We poor plebes just can't understand your exalted pronouncements.
Sorry, you ain't no Galileo. You're no different than most of the MRAs that post in the Manosphere. You'd probably like it better on Reddit or The Spearhead or Men Going Their Own Way. Your 'genius' would be more appreciated there.
What does that make you?
Exactly what I am: an asshole. See the Denis Leary song for more details.
I guess you overlooked the word "innately". Typical.
No. I didn't. I still find it amusing. Innate or not, you still expect us proletarians to worship your immense genius. Except no.
I don't have any problems. I am, however, the constant in my consistent success.
"Pretty much everyone here on LJ . . ."
...has the IQ of a turnip.
To quote that article, the Galileo fallacy is the notion that if you are vilified for your ideas, you must be right. That's not what I think. What I think is the converse: if you are right, you will be vilified for your ideas. Being vilified does not prove that you are right, but neither is it a reason to suspect you're not.
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unless you are a 1%er. in which case, fuck off, cuntbag.
i dont think you are a 1%er though.
even then, shit like clean water and air still matter, as does not having billions around the globe want to kill us.
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That's funny.
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Incidentally, aside from accepting donations from PACs, the policies of each party are markedly different--and that's why the Republicans lost the last election. Anti-immigrant, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, anti-women's rights, refusing to tax the rich and laying the entire tax burden on the middle and lower classes--all stances in direct opposition to what every public opinion poll reflects. That's why more than a few Republicans abandoned their party in the last election.
So to continue to claim that both parties are the same is ridiculous. That's a fallacy, because they most definitely are not. The public obviously recognized this and managed to defeat the Republicans despite all their machinations to manipulate and limit the vote to people of color and the poor--two factions they know they will never win.
Oh, and that's another significant difference between the parties--and one that clearly lays waste to the argument that both parties are equally corrupt. The Democrats haven't done anything in the last four presidential elections to hinder a person's right to vote--they've come a long way since the Dixiecrats of the fifties and sixties. Indeed, it's worthwhile to point out that those very Dixiecrats all defected to the Republican party beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan. Surprise, surprise.
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No, I'm being ably assisted by both parties, one more so than the other. I'm not fucked at all and I have the balance sheets to prove it. I just, like many other people, know how to work within and through the system and benefit by it.
unless you are a 1%er. in which case, fuck off, cuntbag.
i dont think you are a 1%er though.
Definitely not and I don't have to be to benefit. Trufax: Not all of us 98% are all oppressed by the evil corporate overlords and their banks. More trufax: A lot of us happily work for them and enjoy the paycheck and gold-plated bennies.
Might want to stop assuming that, just because I'm not a 1%er, that your goals/interests match with mine in any way.
Hint: I'm not here to fight for truth, justice, and the American way, pal. But I'll fight your fight if you want me to - just cut me a large enough paycheck.
shit like clean water and air still matter,
Yup, I've got that. Me and mine have all the clean water and air we need. Sorry to hear that you don't; I'd recommend moving.
as does not having billions around the globe want to kill us.
I don't worry about that. We (the USA) have better and bigger weapons than they do. When they invade? Then I'll worry about that. And if they do invade? I'll help do what winners have done throughout history - kill them and take their shit.
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if you sleep easy knowing that your tax dollars go to give corporations welfare, but not to hungry children, or unemployed sick preventative care, thats on you.
but those of us who care about our fellow humans, even those we cant see cause we dont let their poor, mentally unstable, drug addicted asses near our quite country clubs, we are getting fucked by both parties.
and as for your "well, just up and move"mentality, its the epitomy of the 'fuck you jack, i got mine' mentality that destroys the giant family we ought all be.
i cant help it if your immoral.
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Wrong on both. To co-opt a phrase/theory, I simply don't have enough spoons and so I need to prioritize what I give a shit about. And that prioritization is myself, then my personal circle, then my family, then my acquaintances, and then everybody else. I'm glad you have a cornucopia of time, energy, and money to assist the world with its problems. I, unfortunately, do not.
if you sleep easy knowing that your tax dollars go to give corporations welfare, but not to hungry children, or unemployed sick preventative care, thats on you.
I don't give a shit where my tax dollars go, because that's not my job. I vote for politicians I want in office - and it's THEIR problem where my tax dollars go. If you want me to worry about where my tax dollars go, make it my job - and make sure I'm the one that has sole control over it. I have enough personal things to worry about without making myself responsible for everything in the world that's not under my control.
we are getting fucked by both parties.
Sorry to hear it. Good luck with that.
and as for your "well, just up and move"mentality, its the epitomy of the 'fuck you jack, i got mine' mentality that destroys the giant family we ought all be.
Dude, that statement is so hilarious to me you don't even know. If you and I were all part of the "giant family we ought all be" I would be one of about 10-20 siblings that gives you a Gibbs smack upside the head, telling you to stop whining and stop being a stupid-ass.
i cant help it if your immoral
I've got plenty of morals.
They're just not yours.
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Wow. I always knew you were a horrible excuse for a human being, but I never expected you to come right out and admit it.
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And I do not think I am innately superior to anyone, as the words "ubermensch" and "subhuman" suggest. I am intellectually superior to around 99.5% of the human population mainly because of educational privileges I was afforded before the age of three — privileges that cost nothing and should be available to everyone. If everyone enjoyed those privileges, I would likely only be average. Most people alive today have no hope of ever being my equal, but it is my ardent wish that many of their descendants should be my superiors.
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It's a pity it isn't about what you think, but how others perceive you.
And I do not think I am innately superior to anyone
I find it amusing that you say that and then proceed to say "I am intellectually superior to around 99.5% of the human population" and "Most people alive today have no hope of ever being my equal".
If everyone enjoyed those privileges, I would likely only be average.
Yeah, I've heard that before too. From more people than I can count, both on the internet and in real life.
Fact: You sound like this LJ-famous guy. (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Lovecrafty)
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You think others' perception makes a person what they are? What does that make you?
I find it amusing . . .
I guess you overlooked the word "innately". Typical.
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No, I think you are the one constant in all of the variables that make up your problems. Pretty much everyone here on LJ reads what you write and claims rape apologist. (And anti-semite.) Your sole defense is that of the typical crank and MRA, the Galileo fallacy (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_fallacy). We poor plebes just can't understand your exalted pronouncements.
Sorry, you ain't no Galileo. You're no different than most of the MRAs that post in the Manosphere. You'd probably like it better on Reddit or The Spearhead or Men Going Their Own Way. Your 'genius' would be more appreciated there.
What does that make you?
Exactly what I am: an asshole. See the Denis Leary song for more details.
I guess you overlooked the word "innately". Typical.
No. I didn't. I still find it amusing. Innate or not, you still expect us proletarians to worship your immense genius. Except no.
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"Pretty much everyone here on LJ . . ."
...has the IQ of a turnip.
To quote that article, the Galileo fallacy is the notion that if you are vilified for your ideas, you must be right. That's not what I think. What I think is the converse: if you are right, you will be vilified for your ideas. Being vilified does not prove that you are right, but neither is it a reason to suspect you're not.