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Re: For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Zebco Fuckface 05/12/2003, 5:16pm PDT
Lizard_King wrote:

Chairman Mao wrote:

Lizard_King wrote:

Care to clarify on that? Or do your political opinions consist entirely of vague ad hominem attacks?


Well, the idea anyway, is that opinions expressed around here are both reasonably well thought-out and then embellished with "vague ad hominem attacks". You wanna stick around, you ought to at least get used to it enough that you stop with the aghast monocle-popping routine. Even if many of the posts are only "vague ad hominem attacks".


Right, I was just wondering if there was a "reasonably well thought-out" part or if it was just the fluff. Sometimes it's hard to tell. What with all the monocle popping.


Ok. Allow me to paraphase:

"I think a government that does anything more than enforce contracts is bad.

We've been moving back to this 19th century ideal since Reagan got elected. I think the center of US politics favors an anarchic libertarian state, even though there's no evidence for this.

I really don't like people who think society is more than the sum of its individual transactions. Why, here's a completely unrelated data point that falsifies the communitarian thesis that the Reagan rollback is destroying the social fabric! How dare they tell us such lies, when my unrelated data point doesn't agree!

Now I'll engage in some fancy literary footwork that makes no sense at all, to support my newspeak argument that paid military service isn't slavery: conscription is! Naaah naah!

A volunteer military is a great government jobs program for the poor, too! Mind you, I'm ideologically opposed to that sort of thing, which should be a big flashing klaxon that I'm eating a fresh bowl of shit here, but you gullible people will believe anything.

Oh, by the way, a volunteer military might be less effective than a professional one. At least I got one valid point in this thing. Where's my check?"
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For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Lizard_King 05/10/2003, 2:41pm PDT NEW
    Re: For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Zebco Fuckface 05/10/2003, 4:58pm PDT NEW
        Re: For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Lizard_King 05/11/2003, 11:39pm PDT NEW
            Re: For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Chairman Mao 05/12/2003, 1:55am PDT NEW
                Re: For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Lizard_King 05/12/2003, 5:04am PDT NEW
                    Re: For those of you that believe there are no more American intellectuals... by Zebco Fuckface 05/12/2003, 5:16pm PDT NEW
                        Now that's some happy horseshit. by Lizard_King 05/13/2003, 12:56am PDT NEW
                            Re: Now that's some happy horseshit. by Zebco Fuckface 05/13/2003, 7:36pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Now that's some happy horseshit. by Zebco Fuckface 05/13/2003, 7:39pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Now that's some happy horseshit. by Lizard_King 05/14/2003, 1:32am PDT NEW
                                    Re: Now that's some happy horseshit. by Zebco Fuckface 05/14/2003, 2:16am PDT NEW
                            Re: Now that's some happy horseshit. by Lufteufel 05/14/2003, 12:20am PDT NEW
                                Re: Now that's some happy horseshit. by Lizard_King 05/14/2003, 1:53am PDT NEW
    Sorry to tell you this by Senor Barborito 05/10/2003, 5:53pm PDT NEW
        Is this the dumbest thing I've ever read? by Jhoh Creexul 05/10/2003, 6:19pm PDT NEW
            We're still resolving that, remember? And no, not that's not the problem by Senor Barborito 05/10/2003, 7:10pm PDT NEW
                Re: We're still resolving that, remember? And no, not that's not the problem by Jhoh Creexul 05/10/2003, 7:20pm PDT NEW
                    Heh by Senor Barborito 05/10/2003, 7:54pm PDT NEW
                        Well, what the fuck by Lizard_King 05/11/2003, 2:11am PDT NEW
                            Heh by Senor Barborito 05/11/2003, 2:54am PDT NEW
                Delusion by Grandeur 05/10/2003, 8:46pm PDT NEW
                Re: We're still resolving that, remember? And no, not that's not the problem by ydrt 05/11/2003, 2:15am PDT NEW
                    *shrug* by Senor Barborito 05/11/2003, 3:02am PDT NEW
                        I lost people in Nam too. by disappointed and delusional 05/11/2003, 3:40am PDT NEW
                        *wink, lick lips* by oranges 05/11/2003, 5:24am PDT NEW
                            we apologize by ydrt 05/11/2003, 4:11pm PDT NEW
                        Re: *shrug* by ydrt 05/11/2003, 3:58pm PDT NEW
                            Good morning, ydrt, welcome to Caltrops by I need clarification 05/11/2003, 4:22pm PDT NEW
                            Re: *shrug* by Senor Barborito 05/11/2003, 5:50pm PDT NEW
                                Re: *shrug* by ydrt 05/11/2003, 7:49pm PDT NEW
                    Hosting a website is the most dangerous of Xtreme sports. by Fussbett 05/11/2003, 2:51pm PDT NEW
                        This should be added to the About page, or at least the Webmaster Bio page. NT by ydrt 05/11/2003, 4:08pm PDT NEW
                Re: We're still resolving that, remember? And no, not that's not the problem by Rightbug 05/11/2003, 3:10pm PDT NEW
                    Exactly by Senor Barborito 05/11/2003, 4:10pm PDT NEW
                        like I said... by Lizard_King 05/11/2003, 11:48pm PDT NEW
                            In which Lizard_King discovers something about Caltrops... by I need clarification 05/12/2003, 12:10am PDT NEW
                                Perhaps "surprise" was an inaccurate word choice. NT by Lizard_King 05/12/2003, 12:19am PDT NEW
 
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