blind people are routinely bullied and preyed upon, for their disability

Well, the issue is two-fold- the specific word and the association with a denigrating sentiment to their community. Read that letter the Special Olympian wrote to A. Coulter that was posted in the thread earlier this week, he lays it out from a first hand perspective.

I guess by that logic so are you.

and didn't we learn from the fly debacle that, if you really think someone is disabled and you're picking on them for it, you're a pretty ****ty person?

I am a pretty ****ty person.

I don't know what level we are even on.

Everyone gets exactly one allowance for intentions per life.

Speaking out is one of the key political activities a person can engage in, so a political forum is pretty much designed for people to speak out. Perhaps focusing on performance is more important than results in this spot?

Yeah, he makes some good points. And he writes better than most posters on these forums, so I guess that sort of puts that insult to rest, eh?

Certainly writes better than you.

hey, at least you can admit it

Anyone who believes I seem to be accidentally a lot of words lately is using fightin' words.

There are at least a couple things that matter. One is intentions. Another is the effect of the words, even if those most likely to be affected aren't present.

****** is clearly hurtful to people. Clutzy? No, I don't think so. Blind? Could be. I don't think it's nearly as hurtful to blind people when you shout that at a driver, but it could be for some.

This ^ is amazingly lazy ... though we've come to expect that, haven't we?

his? I never did post very much... so I hope you're not being dramatic again. ... I can't help it if my relatively few visits resonate with the sheep to the point of them continuing to conjure my name, unsolicited, over and over again.

You should care less about being taken "seriously" by a very un-serious group of people who troll in your wake. Focus more about correcting the fraudulent record and countering their (at least) tacit support of fascism.

In the end, it's the issues that matter. Not the limitless stream of individuals here who can never admit the rapacious evils of capitalism, and exist (safe and anonymous) only for petty conflict.

I would not say I'm enthusiastic about it as much as I'm in awe of the levels of depravity and denial that make up the pushback against it.

When I see a thread that actually tries to pass of "Bush was right afterall about WMD" or "Oceans of oil found near Brazil" or "algae can lead us to energy independence" ... well, I chime in. It's not about the ******s who trumpet the message as much as it is the message desperately needing to be exposed (or reminded) as simply being fraudulent.

Is it like Beetlejuice? Say Jiggs three times and you'll appear?

Just glad we had Jiggs here to be the first one to tell us about oil's continuous upward march to $150, the earlier in the decade breakup of the Euro, and the effects of peak oil , ranging from last year's imaginary war between China and Vietnam to random fires in Manhattan.

lol Jiggs is a martyr for truth. How cute.

Ah, the king troll, still re-writing forum history...

Pretty sure I always said predicting oil price was impossible... What I said was that oil production volume will soon peak, regardless of whether inflation or deflation results, and that your supply/demand axiom doesn't work the same in an era of diminishing returns.

The Euro? holy ****, dude. ... Keep backing that horse.

As for bringing up news events and creating threads (something you clearly don't have the capacity to do, unless mocked into doing so), I'll continue to create them when I feel they're newsworthy ... whereby you can continue to pretend increasing global flare-ups all mean nothing, and have disparate causes and effects.

Still waiting for you, or anyone in your fascist flock, to provide an alternate narrative for why most industrial nations' growth has halved, and when it will return to "normal."

Dear mods:

Please exile avocado to unhained, kthnx.

As Deuces has said, just imagine what it was like for somebody like Chomsky when he started getting involved in the movement against the Vietnam war.

"Guys (not that Chomsky talks like this), this is pretty ****ed - I mean, we're just invading South Vietnam and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people left and right, and for what?..."

"What are you, a goddamn Communist?"

"What kind of response is that to..."

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT GO TO RUSSIA YOU ****ING RED"

and so on.

Oh, there's endless quantities of that kind of reactionary pushback here on this forum.

It's part of what hooked me the first days I posted here.

I'm sorry it sometimes outrageous and horrifies me so that people build these lines of debate and argumentation to cheer for police-state tyranny and the destruction of everything Americans ostensibly hold dear on pretenses that can be demonstrably and thoroughly shown to be murderous lies.

I'm sorry my command of the facts is so much more comprehensive and coherent than 90+% of P/PU posters.

Oh wait; I'm not sorry in the least.

I guess to me it's indicative of the main demographic here - fairly comfortable, well-to-do American WASPy types who are used to thinking of the system as working for them, define themselves in opposition to 'the other side of the aisle' and just cannot, will not even begin to allow for the facts to percolate into their settled worldviews and alter them in any way.

That's true all across the perceived 'spectrum' - equally so for an ikes or a Fly. And I like Fly, though I doubt his opinion of my posting is riding particularly high these days.

So edgy!