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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm, uh, second guessing myself for ironic effect.* But you knew that. Or maybe you didn't. (Look, I just did it again.)
Trump is alleged to have stolen a lot. In that basket is your sense of humor. Since this guy's been elected, you've become tediously self-righteous. It reminds me of that line from the James' tune:
The therapist said not to see you no more
She said you're like a disease without any cure
She said I'm so obsessed that I'm becoming a bore, oh no
Trump, a first rate buffoon, has turned you into an earnest dullard. You have to be better than that.
There's also this line in the tune:
Ah you think you're so pretty ______
* This gimmick is perhaps overused regarding Trump, and it might not even really be entirely ironic. I'm not sure Trump or his administration are sure why they do anything. |
Listen, man, I get it. Humor is objective. I doubt Eazy-E chuckled much when No Vaseline first came booming out. But what you don't seem to get is that I have been trying enforce minimum levels of mental discipline on this board since before Trump was a reality TV star. It is literally a thankless job. And I know that cats like you like to play a little fast and loose, throw some wack-job shit out there, and think that you're provoking some totally disruptive outside-the-box convos. Which is all fine. But when all you do is spew poorly-written, internally-contradictory nonsense, parrot cliched catch-phrases ad nauseam, and bandy about aphorisms that are jarringly out-of-context, it's obvious to everyone that you're just phoning it in. You have to be better than that. I'm not saying you need to Bryan Garner every post, but your weak-kneed half-assed wannabe-provocateurism is a slap in the face for those of us that care about maintaining certain standards of intellectual rigor on this page. And then you act surprised when nobody treats you like the deranged-but-brilliant love child of Hunter Thompson and Matt Taibbi that you so desperately want to be. Understand that I do what I do because I care. Here is a little snippet from an interview with Ice Cube that I think will help you get it.
Q: You said that when [No Vaseline] came out, it knocked down the remain members of N.W.A. like bowling pins.
Cube: True, but what folks don't get is that I wrote that song with love in my heart.
Q: With love in your heart?
Cube: Yes . . .
Q: So when, well, o.k., so when you wrote that Eazy-E's dick smelled like MC Ren's shit, that was written out of love?
Cube [laughing]: Yeah, well, you know, love and anger. Eazy-E was messed up, he was on a bad path, and it was not gonna help him if I wasn't straight up with him.
Q: Sometimes sugarcoating the message is not the right thing to do?
Cube: Exactly.
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