smittyoneeach's Journal: As long as we're quoting McArdle

We should note how wildly unimpressed she is with the new Census Bureau policy, which will add a little more sewage to the river of effluent that we know and love as ObamaCare.
Disgrace is the new pride, I suppose.
Ram_Digitstars isn't going to be happy until we get Single Prey-er, so hopefully this latest crap infusion helps him.

Thank you for supporting my point

[damn_registrars]

You supported my point that the author is not fond of the Lawnchair Administration. And as we can all see, even she is reasonable enough to realize that the Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010 is not able to lead to a single payer system. You and a few other loons are the only ones adequately entrenched in conspiracy theories to be willing to pretend that such a thing could happen.

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[smittyoneeach]

willing to pretend that such a thing could happen

I mean, if you had predicted in 2005 that the U.S. would elect a no-talent rodeo clown in '08, and DOUBLE DOWN in '12, I should have thought you off your meds.
The limitlessness of human idiocy cannot preclude an attempt at Single Prey-er. Furthermore, given the non-command of literacy evidenced by our legislators, they could easily have a vote on Nationally Buffoonery Day in the affirmative and 'accidentally' give us Single Prey-er.

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[damn_registrars]

that the U.S. would elect a no-talent rodeo clown in '08, and DOUBLE DOWN in '12, I should have thought you off your meds. The limitlessness of human idiocy cannot preclude an attempt at Single Prey-er.

There you go, contradicting yourself yet again. You are trying to assign power to someone who you are asserting to be powerless. Didn't you say that only conservatives are held responsible? If so then why are you trying to pin responsibility on someone whose role you keep asserting is to distract us from those who actually hold power? Your argument makes no sense.

'accidentally' give us Single Prey-er.

Your cute little punnery work is noted. That said, we've already seen that the only elected officials who would dare even mention single pa

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[smittyoneeach]

You are trying to assign power to someone who you are asserting to be powerless.

When did I say that the American people are powerless at election time, again?

far too cowardly to actually try to propose it as a solution to anything

As solutions go for our society, it would be final.

vastly greater probability of our country splitting into two (or more) separate independent nations instead

I'd place the probability of a split today as lower than the 19th century. Socialism is about imploding into a lump of fecklessness, not exploding.

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[damn_registrars]

You are trying to assign power to someone who you are asserting to be powerless.

When did I say that the American people are powerless at election time, again?

I did not say you said that. Rather I said that you are again simultaneously claiming President Lawnchair to be powerless ("rodeo clown") and wielding power. Those are mutually exclusive traits.

far too cowardly to actually try to propose it as a solution to anything

As solutions go for our society, it would be final.

I was calling the politicians cowardly. I have no idea how your response is supposed to be a reply to that.

vastly greater probability of our country splitting into two (or more) separate independent nations instead

I'd place the probability of a split today as lower than the 19th century. Socialism is about imploding into a lump of fecklessness, not exploding.

You really should stick to terms that you are familiar with the meaning of. There is no socialism at play here.

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[smittyoneeach]

Socialism, socialism, socialism.

Socialism is a social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy [wikipedia.org]

Yeah, I hate to piss on your golden calf, but the empirical results of Socialism are that - 0.1% own the social ownership,
- the government "borrows it forward" to bribe the people with entitlements, and
- the result has been to turn our country into a stagnant debt plantation.
Socialism is an inferior existential model. In a medicinal context, it tries to declare every limb broken and put it in a regulatory cast. Theologically, it is an ersatz Sermon on the Mount that fails

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[damn_registrars]

Well that was a textbook example of trolling, there, smitty. Maybe if you go back to school you could teach classes on how to troll people online.

You started by using an actual definition. Then you completely discarded it like yesterday's junk mail and inserted your own beliefs in its place. Pretending that using one fact at the start of a comment gives you carte blanche to make up facts for the rest of the comment - that's epic. I would give you one hand clapping but you would probably try to insinua

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[smittyoneeach]

Strangely, I agree with your outburst of honesty here: Socialism is the highest form of trolling. "The Kingdom of God, hold the God" is the über-troll of all time. I knew that, if we stuck with it long enough, we could reach consensus. God bless you, and have a great weekend.

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[damn_registrars]

I know you are, but what am I?

Smitty, that tactic may be cute when grade school kids use it on each other, but it smacks of desperation (at the very least) when adults play that card. You need a new strategy here; I suggest you try going back to discussing topics that you are knowledgeable - or at least interested in becoming knowledgeable - on.

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[Bill Dog]

Niggle: Beavis was the Cornholio guy; it was Butt-head who would try to vocally mesmorize women and other things to come to him.

But I too would like there to be an up-or-down vote on going all-in with all this Progressive crap or shit-canning it and anything resembling it completely. All losing likemindeds lose citizenship and get deported; America becomes a united people, one way or the other.

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[smittyoneeach]

I always say come-to-Beavis in lieu of CTJ, for religious reasons.