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[bongaroo]

No I think it is funny coming from you and very hypocritical considering you turning people in for calling you a "crock-of-****).  You're all for the rules when they suit you, but all for breaking them when it suits you.

I think that applies to most of the posters in the O'Club.  From the looks of it you'd think all the officers in the club are very uncultured.

[john9001]

define "cultured"

[Hangtime]

the stuff growing in a petri dish?

[bongaroo]

define "cultured"

Hmmm...A willingness to engage in debate, even if it is a hot topic, with respect and dignity?  Probably asking too much of some it would seem though.

[lazs2]

crock-it.. I will give you "one" example of socialism and it's evils..   welfare.    I will give you an example of where the democrats have made socialism worse than it even needs to be.... Public schools.

If you are talking about business and tax breaks tho.. you get no sympathy from me..  I say "a big round of tax breaks all around..  tax breaks for everyone"

the more tax breaks the better.

"earned income credit" is not a tax break tho.. it is pure evil socialism.

lazs

[Bodhi]

I think that applies to most of the posters in the O'Club.  From the looks of it you'd think all the officers in the club are very uncultured.

Thats why I rarely post over here anymore.  If I can not say something nice then I had probably best do like my  Grandfather said...  say nothing at all. 

Personally, I feel this board has lost a lot of really good people and that precludes a good discussion from ever happening.  The GScholzs' ruined the great discussions by being nothing more than antagonistic and lacking in a good argument.   

The counter to this is, that this is a cartoon airplane game board, and not a place to be having some of the discussions we do.  Skuzzy certainly has his hands full dealing with most of the imbeciles over here. I actually feel bad for him, as it takes away from things that could definitely further the game along if he did not have to constantly scold imbeciles in here.,

[Yossarian]

crock-it.. I will give you "one" example of socialism and it's evils..   welfare.    I will give you an example of where the democrats have made socialism worse than it even needs to be.... Public schools.

If you are talking about business and tax breaks tho.. you get no sympathy from me..  I say "a big round of tax breaks all around..  tax breaks for everyone"

the more tax breaks the better.

"earned income credit" is not a tax break tho.. it is pure evil socialism.

lazs

Lazs, what is wrong with welfare?

And Bodhi, I agree.  I can't count the number of times I've started a reply to a thread over here and then closed the tab because of what you said in the first line.

[Hangtime]

Hmmm...A willingness to engage in debate, even if it is a hot topic, with respect and dignity?  Probably asking too much of some it would seem though.

Hmmmm.. methinks you might have slid a bit to the hypocritical side of the bus, there, Bongaroo... this IS in your signature block, yes?

"o idk, maybee cause the turd monkey is tryin 2 make all U.S citizens to learn spanish because the illegal immigrants r all comming over and cant take it apon themselves to go learn ENGLISH" -BigBOBCH

Ridicule becomes you.

Carry on.

[bongaroo]

Hmmmm.. methinks you might have slid a bit to the hypocritical side of the bus, there, Bongaroo... this IS in your signature block, yes?

"o idk, maybee cause the turd monkey is tryin 2 make all U.S citizens to learn spanish because the illegal immigrants r all comming over and cant take it apon themselves to go learn ENGLISH" -BigBOBCH

Ridicule becomes you.

Carry on.

I have someone's comment correctly cited in my signature.  I haven't butchered his name to try and anger him have I?  He hasn't requested I remove it, which I would if he asked.  Now the fact that it does make him look the fool is ridicule.  But I'm sure he and many others simply find humour in the irony.

A good sense of humour goes a long way.  Simply berating posters over and over again because of their different political or religious views?  Thats a tad different would you not say?

[lazs2]

yoss.. my little british friend..  what is right about welfare?

Besides the obvious.. that it has increased poverty and dependence.. it is immoral to redistribute wealth by force.

lazs

[Hangtime]

I have someone's comment correctly cited in my signature.  I haven't butchered his name to try and anger him have I?  He hasn't requested I remove it, which I would if he asked.  Now the fact that it does make him look the fool is ridicule.  But I'm sure he and many others simply find humour in the irony.

A good sense of humour goes a long way.  Simply berating posters over and over again because of their different political or religious views?  Thats a tad different would you not say?

Allow me to respectfully disagree... it's presence is ridicule.

Your comments regarding the ridicule directed at crackett.. valid they may be, over that sig line; hypocritical they remain.

IMHO, of course.

As with anything, your perspective may vary. For my part, I try and read this stuff tounge-in-cheek, and try to avoid making statements I wouldn't be comfortable making in the physical presence of those they are directed it. I guess the key is to neither take myself, or the person my remarks are directed against too seriously, and try to keep a sense of humor. Twisted, yes.. but I'm here for entertainment. Not bloodsport.

Politics & religious debates being focal points of great and dangerous angst, sharp diatribes are routinely part iof the discourse. It's nothing new... considering the subject matter and the capabilities of some of those involved, the back-and-forth in here is amazingly tame, humorous and fairly good natured.

For the most part.

[GtoRA2]

Hmmm I bet crockit is walking bow legged after this thread. Escpecialy after Charon got done with him.   

[Xargos]

Welfare was not designed to help people but to make them dependent on the State, it only makes people weaker in the long run.  If your goal is to make people weaker, then welfare is a good vehicle for doing so.  I find it amusing that leftist so support Darwin's Theory of Evolution, yet would support something like welfare.

[Yossarian]

yoss.. my little british friend..  what is right about welfare?

Besides the obvious.. that it has increased poverty and dependence.. it is immoral to redistribute wealth by force.

lazs

lazs, I may be misunderstanding the term here, but I don't think so.

Surely if a person, for whatever reason, cannot support themselves, it's only right that they should be helped out by the government?

EDIT: clarified who I'm asking about this.

[sluggish]

I may be misunderstanding the term here, but I don't think so.

Surely if a person, for whatever reason, cannot support themselves, it's only right that they should be helped out by the government?

Yup.  Those liberals are the nicest people.  They'll give you the shirt off from someone elses back.