Dear God,Follow

Why? Are you God?

I always pictured God as having more than 15 posts.

God? No.

God complex? Perhaps. :)

Heh.

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Hahahaha.

Wow. Breaking out the ole "I'm rubber and you're glue!" defense, huh?

If the thought of the majority becoming a handout class voting to take their handouts from my family disturbing me makes me a conservative, I will gladly wear the name.

If a firm belief in the benefits of abject failure and subsequent self-improvement makes me a conservative, so be it.

If the desire to provide for my own family the things it requires through my own hard work rather than spend my money on jerseys, sneakers and a Cadillac while taking in a check every month because I refuse to get a job makes me a conservative, so be it.

I believe that the "provide for the general welfare" line in the constitution has been twisted and co-opted in to something that it was never intended to represent. I believe public assistance would be better provided for through compassionate giving. I believe that the congress should limit itself to the powers prescribed it in the constitution, and the courts and executive branch should follow suit.

If these things make me a conservative, then that I am, and proudly so.

What the problem is?

Who said there was a problem?

Martin Lawrence

More like I believe that thorough examination and discussion leads to the best conclusions. And yeah. I make the mistake of thinking that others might do things the same way.



Um... Not to be obvious or anything here, but I happen to largely agree with the Republican platform. We are *all* partisan. All of us who actually vote and care about politics, that is. That's an absurd attack. It's like "accusing" me of liking to post on an online gaming forum...

The phrase used was "blindly partisan". Which implies that I hold my opinions without having examined them in anyway and/or just follow the party line no matter what on every single issue. That's not the case at all. I tend to blend my own conservative opinions in with Republican platform positions. It's somewhat silly for me to condemn Republicans for something, when the alternative provided by the Democrats is *worse*.


And yes, the few bits I don't agree with, I've clearly stated. I believe only once or twice in the 10 years or so I've been posting here has someone actually quoted a line from the "official Republican Platform" and asked me if I agree or disagree with that. And IIRC, there's only a couple parts of the "Values" section of the Republican platform that I disagree with, and again only by degrees.

I never said I wasn't partisan. We are all partisan. My point (which so many people rolled their eyes about) is that I believe in forming an opinion on an issue after an assessment of the facts, not just because you've picked a side. My agreement with the Republican platform isn't because I'm a Republican. It's because I've come to most of the same conclusions as those written in that platform. And I came to those conclusions long before someone said "This is what Republicans stand for".


That's not being blindly partisan. You are free to question my positions, but don't criticize me or imply that somehow my position is less valid just because it's different than yours.

More like I believe that thorough examination and discussion leads to the best conclusions.

False. Not like that, at all, in fact. You take part in zero examination, and honestly, very little discussion. You paraphrase something you heard, then in attempting to defend it, miss the point entirely, and everyone laughs.

That's not discussion, that's ridicule.


Um... Not to be obvious or anything here, but I happen to largely agree with the Republican platform. We are *all* partisan. All of us who actually vote and care about politics, that is. That's an absurd attack. It's like "accusing" me of liking to post on an online gaming forum...

The phrase used was "blindly partisan". Which implies that I hold my opinions without having examined them in anyway and/or just follow the party line no matter what on every single issue. That's not the case at all.

False. It's is precisely the case. Your opinion on any given issue can be determined with zero input from you, unerringly. You're a sort of political automaton, really. Or indistinguishable from such, certainly.


I tend to blend my own conservative opinions in with Republican platform positions.

You have no opinions, you have a rooting interest. You want to feel part of something, so you've clumsily co opted the agenda of other people, I'd presume, and this is obviously only a guess, out of a desire to be different. Similar, almost exactly, to thirteen year old shopping at Hot Topic to demonstrate their uniqueness, you completely blindly assume positions on issues that you don't understand, don't particularly care about, and that generally would result in circumstances completely against your self interest.

To examine WHY you do this further, I'd have to surmise from what little of your personal history that you've posted here, that you peaked at age 10. That is: you were an early bloomer who was told he was special, but you regressed right back to the mean and turned out to be just average. Without the intellectual ability or work ethic to actually accomplish anything that would reward you with those long lost feelings of superiority and pride, you are forced to attempt to fill that hole in your psyche with something or deal with the reality. You've chosen the veneer of superiority offered by lazy anti-intellectualism.

All of your "beliefs" rely on this tenet, that the people society accepts as exceptional really aren't, that they are lost in an insulated echo chamber of self aggrandizement while the true exceptional people, ie: you, can instinctively divine the truth, predict the future, exercise perfect judgment, fuck supermodels, etc. etc. by the magical application of "common sense" and your near godlike intuition.

Every good thing that has occurred in your life is 100% attributable to the miraculous attributes, every bad thing 100% to the ignorance of others.


It's somewhat silly for me to condemn Republicans for something, when the alternative provided by the Democrats is *worse*.


The rooting interest, as previously explained.


And yes, the few bits I don't agree with, I've clearly stated. I believe only once or twice in the 10 years or so I've been posting here has someone actually quoted a line from the "official Republican Platform" and asked me if I agree or disagree with that. And IIRC, there's only a couple parts of the "Values" section of the Republican platform that I disagree with, and again only by degrees.


Demonstrate this, please.


I never said I wasn't partisan. We are all partisan. My point (which so many people rolled their eyes about) is that I believe in forming an opinion on an issue after an assessment of the facts, not just because you've picked a side.

False. This has not once occurred in your entire posting history here. Feel free to prove me wrong with a cite.


My agreement with the Republican platform isn't because I'm a Republican. It's because I've come to most of the same conclusions as those written in that platform. And I came to those conclusions long before someone said "This is what Republicans stand for".


False.



That's not being blindly partisan. You are free to question my positions, but don't criticize me or imply that somehow my position is less valid just because it's different than yours.


It's less valid because it's devoid of intellectual rigor. Frankly, it's meaningless. You having chosen this particular method of retaining a sense of "specialness" is purely incidental, you could as easily be the 40 year old rec league basketball player who thinks he could have made the NBA, or any of 1000 other pathetic archetypes quietly clinging to their own failed dreams. You just had the misfortune to fail so early in life that you'll likely never gain self awareness of what drives you.

Veritas, motherfucker.



Edited, Mar 12th 2009 9:08pm by Smasharoo

But with frightening regularity Liberals tend to attempt to present their opinions as "fact", usually with some fairly obnoxious mixture of data and logic

Yeah, that must get old.