Kudos for admitting a mistake.

(Unsolicited advice)

Why are you always so concerned with what other people think? Maybe there is no veneer. Maybe people are just opinionated and confrontational on the internet. I find people to be more true to their nature while under the influence of internet anonymity, rather than less. Netizens are also, by and large, fairly liberal. Sorry for that, but those are the breaks.

You have some great points about food culture, but you bury them so deep with anger, insults and vanity, that no one takes them seriously. Not telling you to change your nature, only that you might be more influential if your ideas were not overshadowed by all your talk of sheep and monkeys. Too much stick, not enough carrot and not enough meat on the bone.





In reply to this comment by choggie:
'Appreciate this post from the wayback-I was in banlandia when you posted this, and remember it well. I was between sock-puppet accounts perhaps.

Thanks man...the tags for the bluebeam viddy were pretty fucking lame, huh??(sifting shitfaced...i am a wholly nonviolent drunk, btw, i giggle and cut up mostly) I can't help it, I get a rise out of reactions to stimuli....guilty guilty guilty....but not of racism. Of people's collective denial and their, "my shit stinks less than yours" kinnna attitude while hiding behind a veneer of social pantomime and incivility parading around unchecked and misrepresented as progressive thinking. I can't tell you how many times I have had discussions in real-time, which lead to mutual understanding given others misconception of me with regard to the spoken or written word.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Sound works fine for me. The program cycles through the 2 second grid, so you might not hear sound immediately.

'Appreciate this post from the wayback-I was in banlandia when you posted this, and remember it well. I was between sock-puppet accounts perhaps.

Thanks man...the tags for the bluebeam viddy were pretty fucking lame, huh??(sifting shitfaced...i am a wholly nonviolent drunk, btw, i giggle and cut up mostly) I can't help it, I get a rise out of reactions to stimuli....guilty guilty guilty....but not of racism. Of people's collective denial and their, "my shit stinks less than yours" kinnna attitude while hiding behind a veneer of social pantomime and incivility parading around unchecked and misrepresented as progressive thinking. I can't tell you how many times I have had discussions in real-time, which lead to mutual understanding given others misconception of me with regard to the spoken or written word.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Sound works fine for me. The program cycles through the 2 second grid, so you might not hear sound immediately.

I tolerate much more than you know-civility is returned when *exhibited-my values and tastes are never going to be the same as others, and that is ok-Not trying to change anybody, just keep them thinking....or in some folks cases, get them to thinking that what they think, May be deleterious to their souls....

Only one thing I trouble myself to overcome.....-non-confrontation and timely engagement-to ignore is incivility at it's petty worst.

In reply to this comment by dag:

Diversion Summary

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.

Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.

Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level.

Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.

^MMM^^^
California: Issue a statement from a Nazi-Legacy Governor expressing quote, “intolerable acts of racism and incivility”-Let the issue become a National News event which sparks endless editorializing and attention-
(Use the event to reinforce revisionist tactics on campus, discuss legal ramifications of new laws such as"Hate Crimes")

Keep those sixth-grade-level university students satisfied with any outcome from the affair, use it to re-ignite any racial tensions available to further destabilize the social fabric, maintaining diversion-always create the problem, and provide a predictable and legal/lawful solution.

Remind these apes of every creed and color of their place-busy, busy, busy.....the puppet governments will work ceaselessly to provide laws against all forms of protest in future.....

Spiker,

I'm not surprised. You don't get into office without moral compromise. I don't think the original intent of congressional representation was meant as a career. I've always felt there should be term limits in Congress also. Both sides are dirty and guilty.

I think what Mr Wilson did was rude and unecessary. But congress has a history of unsavory and criminal acts. There should be better issues (as you have pointed out) for not re-electing someone than just basic incivility.

Push the plunger and flush 'em all; a fresh start might be just what we need.

That's actually what the left's organizations are putting out, that it's absolutely critical that we not match shouting with shouting, and fight the incivility with civility.

Like I said elsewhere, I think the right move is to just observe and report, and drive the narrative to be about the deceptiveness and crude anti-democratic nature of what's being done.

However, I do think it's worth noting that the right inciting angry mobs to intimidate our politicians and supporters in the hope of shutting down rational conversation crosses an important line between peaceful, rowdy political activism and thuggery and intimidation.

I can't imagine anyone who said anything like this or this would retain any kind of position of authority or respect in the progressive movement.

Fox News is already talking up this incident as if it's an example of Union "thugs" trying to beat down righteous protesters.

Why the hell can't we just have a public debate on the merits of the issue? I hunger for a real, reasonable debate, but it doesn't seem like the other side wants to engage on the merits, just with lies, fear, and now outright intimidation.

Saying "whenever Putin rears his head" is ridiculous incivility unbecoming of even the lowest public office.

The 80s called... they want their Cold War-era mindset back.