Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

How come the media is always talking about Democrats may lose votes by standing up to Trump's racism, but not how Trump may lose votes by being a racist?

Because the former provides clickbait the latter does not. Telling the left they’re shooting themselves in the foot on that issue winds them up. Telling the right Trump is losing votes for racist comments just elicits, “Fake news! Wait until 2020.”

I fully appreciate this assumes your post was not ironic. Of course it was. But the explanation offered here is worth airing nevertheless.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Must be tough for you to move into parts of the world where you can't just delete everything that bothers you?

For the last time, I did not delete Bilmore. He just stopped posting of his own accord.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Because the former provides clickbait the latter does not. Telling the left they’re shooting themselves in the foot on that issue winds them up. Telling the right Trump is losing votes for racist comments just elicits, “Fake news! Wait until 2020.”

I fully appreciate this assumes your post was not ironic. Of course it was. But the explanation offered here is worth airing nevertheless.

Your response doesn't make sense, because it implies that the media is biased towards stories that drive traffic and sell ads, and that's not a form of media bias you are inclined to perceive.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Your response doesn't make sense, because it implies that the media is biased towards stories that drive traffic and sell ads, and that's not a form of media bias you are inclined to perceive.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. I’d add, so too is the tendency to find mutual exclusivity among concepts or positions. You achieve a twofer, doing so with amazing consistency.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

For the last time, I did not delete Bilmore. He just stopped posting of his own accord.

Actually, I deleted Bilmore.

I am not sorry.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Translation: I can't keep my lies straight.

Like Sebastian, most people omit the most important word of that quote.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Translation: I can't keep my lies straight.

Like Sebastian, most people omit the most important word of that quote.

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

There. Fixed.

Stick with irony. Nobody wants to hear from the earnest, particularly when it veers into righteousness. That cadence of expression could put a speed freak to sleep.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

There. Fixed.

Stick with irony. Nobody wants to hear from the earnest, particularly when it veers into righteousness. That cadence of expression could put a speed freak to sleep.

And love is a curse shoved in a hearse. Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry. And this is coming from me.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

And love is a curse shoved in a hearse. Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry. And this is coming from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkENS4saAY

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

And love is a curse shoved in a hearse. Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry. And this is coming from me.

Now I wanna sniff some glue, now I want sumptin to do.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

And love is a curse shoved in a hearse. Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry. And this is coming from me.

Industrial output
Financial imbalance

Thrusting it between his shoulder blades

The Watusi
The twist

Eldorado

Take this brother, may it serve you well

Maybe it's nothing
Aaah
Maybe it's nothing
What? What? Oh

Maybe even then
Impervious in London
Could be difficult thing
It's quick like rush for peace is
Because it's so much
It was like being naked

If you became naked

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Now I wanna sniff some glue, now I want sumptin to do.

I see your Ramones and raise you with a NOFX cover of the Minor Threat song ``Straight Edge`:

I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Or hang out with the living dead

Snort white shit up my nose
Passin' out at all the shows
'Cause I've got Straight Edge

I laugh at the thought of dropping ludes
I laugh at the throught of sniffing glue

'Cause I've got Straight Edge

I've got Straight Edge

LessinCuritaba, Brazil

[ThurgreedMarshall]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-of-al-franken

TM

[Adder]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-of-al-franken

TM

Yeah, that's pretty bad, in that it goes into great lengths about exactly one of the accusations and dismisses the rest with generalities about Al coupled with the admission that he can be physically awkward. As if it's okay to grope someone if you're just a bit strange as long as other people think you're not getting off on it.

Even the premise examination of the of the one accusation actually looked at is pretty flawed. Apparently none of it matters if she had questionable motivations, presented her complaint in a not entirely forthright manner and consented to similar contact during the performance.

Meanwhile, the fact that Al was replaced by a competent and well-liked Dem who easily won reelection and that he would have been a giant distraction on all kinds of fronts had he not resigned are not mentioned.

But sure. The Gov and Lt in Virginia have demonstrated that you can ride these things out and Al maybe could have kept being a Senator. That's not a thing that anyone who isn't Al should value.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-of-al-franken

TM

I'm glad it was Jane Mayer that wrote this.