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06-15-2013 , 02:56 PM

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Low Key

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I have always wanted chops...

06-15-2013 , 03:05 PM

#27

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When an arrogant, smug, douchebag prick goes on monkey tilt it is just awesome.

06-15-2013 , 05:12 PM

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Mr.mmmKay

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This thread!

06-15-2013 , 09:59 PM

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Gizmo

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This is a very douchey echo chamber. I guess someone was politics banned and now has been UNCHAINED!

06-16-2013 , 06:01 AM

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06-16-2013 , 04:00 PM

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Mr.mmmKay

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The op used the word Puritan Universalism in his op. This word is very hard for me to process. Also, the op choose to capitalize both words in the word, which isn't helping me

06-16-2013 , 05:22 PM

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Spladle

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Quote:

Originally Posted by All-In Flynn

It's more grammatical than anything else, but the issue isn't why so few women are libertarians, but why so few libertarians are women.

Isn't it?

Yes, that's correct, but I wanted to mirror the title of the thread in the other forum wherein the posts that I replied to here originated.

06-16-2013 , 05:24 PM

#33

Spladle

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Low Key

What is happening here? Why does this thread exist?

I don't think MsWookie appreciates my contributions very much, so I thought it would be polite to avoid her territory and instead post my thoughts here, where I need not worry about being banned or receiving infraction points for expressing my disgust with her.

06-16-2013 , 05:24 PM

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Spladle

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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon

UNCHAINED! may not have been the best move here, Spladle. Keep this up and it's hippo fart time.

I don't understand what this means.

06-16-2013 , 05:31 PM

#35

Spladle

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.mmmKay

The op used the word Puritan Universalism in his op. This word is very hard for me to process. Also, the op choose to capitalize both words in the word, which isn't helping me

Universalism: postwar progressivism as a Christian sect

Hope this helps. =)

06-16-2013 , 07:08 PM

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06-16-2013 , 09:53 PM

#37

Spladle

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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon

I don't understand why you would post this.

06-16-2013 , 10:04 PM

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Don't chain him, bro.

06-17-2013 , 12:26 PM

#39

Gizmo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Spladle

I don't understand why you would post this.

I think the point was well elucidated.

06-17-2013 , 12:43 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by All-In Flynn

It's more grammatical than anything else, but the issue isn't why so few women are libertarians, but why so few libertarians are women.

Isn't it?

Yes.....though I would strongly disagree that this is just a grammatical issue. Any purported explanation for why so few women are libertarians must also explain why so few men are libertarians. Thats why the whole "men are super logical" thing is so funny......the vast majority of men (and male libertarians) suck at logical thinking and even if you ignore that you still haven't explained why libertarians are likely to be male.

06-17-2013 , 03:28 PM

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So few women are libertarians because, just like men, they don't know wtf a libertarian is.

06-17-2013 , 04:09 PM

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Man, this thread is just incredible. It's not every day that someone will admit for all to see that they can't play nice, and that their whole argument is based on nothing

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spladle

Nope, no sexism here, not a sexist bone in his body.

06-17-2013 , 04:34 PM

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Low Key

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I like how the thread title can be read in a broken English accent

06-18-2013 , 03:06 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dessin d'enfant

Well, that's just it. About 2% of men and 1% of women think logically, and those are all the libertarians.

06-18-2013 , 03:07 PM

#45

AlexM

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Nope, no sexism here, not a sexist bone in his body.

Touchy about being called a woman?

06-18-2013 , 06:07 PM

#46

Low Key

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Dude thinks calling someone a woman is an insult. I know you're playing dumb, but you can't be that dumb.

06-18-2013 , 10:32 PM

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dessin d'enfant

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexM

Well, that's just it. About 2% of men and 1% of women think logically, and those are all the libertarians.

Lol....If only 1.5% of people can think logically it's going to be heavily weighted towards mathematicians and scientists with some really smart doctors/lawyers and engineers thrown in prob without heavy political bias.

But that was the point I was making in another thread....unless you've really gone through formal logic and have an idea of what it means to prove something you arent going to see why libertarianism (or any political philosophy) as being largely about thinking logically is false.

06-25-2013 , 04:02 AM

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lol @ this thread existing. suddenly i understand why spladle disappeared from that thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spladle

You are putting quotation marks around words that are not a quote. Do you see why that's problematic?

He did not say "women aren't smart enough to be libertarians." The word "basically" is a bad substitute for "did not."

but "basically" is a substitute for "i'm paraphrasing here," so your point is moot. if you want a more clear reason why, try this quote: "This all misses the most obvious explanation: libertarianism is hard. It is hard for a couple of reasons, and it’s difficulty is not generally attractive to women." this is basically the same as saying:

"LOL WIMMENZ, AMIRITE???"

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spladle

The Dark Triad: Facilitating a Short-Term Mating Strategy in Men

google macdonald triad and you might not only learn something, but also get the joke.