Standard.

Nope, stupid people are everywhere.

But they don't have guns outside of Merica

I think angle shot is a little aggressive. I did push posting close to the line, but I don't think I crossed it. If a jury of my peers here thinks I genuinely did cross it, however, I'll pay the bounty.

I'm just giving you ****. I don't care

<3 you though. You seem like a good guy

It comes down to whether bounty enforcement should fall under "spirit of the law" or "letter of the law."

I just want to argue!

It all has to do with the intention of the bounty. If the intention was to simply stop visiting those places Id say you are fine. If the intention was to stop argueing with ******s on politic issues you probably have to pay up (even though you'll probably engage in that activity regularly even without visiting p).

Of course, YOU wouldn't.

Alobar would have sucked off a prison guard by now to log in to his 2p2 account.

Believe it or not, but outside of the US these kind of 'accidents' are viewed as typically American. Might be the guns involved.

Obviously the reason I wouldn't is because my intention was always to simply not hang around in P because its a time consumer. Arguing with ******s is actually what I like most, hence my reply.

You're just trying to drag me down to your level. Well played

Would you have gotten my post without the 'hence my reply' bit? I feel like it took away some of the shortness and power of that post. I'm not sure yet ... please advise.

I think your reply sucked, Yak.

I had my doubts but was willing to put myself out there. You win some you lose some.

OTOH I would (theoretically) gladly pay to see you argue politics fwiw, its pretty refreshing.

I want to argue with you about your posting quality but you won't take the bait.

TY sir. I am a political minority here but that has never bothered me!

Haha, I know people don't enjoy my posting as much as I do and I don't care enough about it to engage in an argument about it.

You still haven't given us a hint wrt the intention of the bet, is it the dodging of the P fora or the dodging of discussions.

Howard,
Being in the minority on one or more beliefs among a group of people who you respect should bother you at least a little, even if it doesn't ultimately sway you.

Who's to say.

Now you'll never know.

In agreement with Howard though, like 95% of your replies have been pretty terrible. Have you thought about lessons?

Who needs lessons when they've got a keyboard. I guess I'm just not naturally well versed in the art of online posting and honestly never have been (I've been doing it for the last 15 years or so). Its like when you're bad at tennis but still enjoy a recreational match. Sure, usually the other guy will have the upper hand on you and it will be less fun for him, but that shouldn't stop me from still having some fun right? Its not like I've been posting a lot in OOT lately so I don't feel like I'm one of those terrorists spreading fear of bad posting throughout the twoplustwoverse.

My third grade English teacher once told me I wrote clear and effective English so there's also the point of not caring about misguided comments too much. Whadaaaap.

Starting to think like an american, wtg.

Also YOLO.

I disagree. Why do you think so? I am honestly curious.

I hear you, and you may be right that it should do so. But it doesn't and never really has as a matter of fact. I have occasionally wondered as to the source of various beliefs. I don't think my generally conservative principles are rooted in privilege, but who knows?

Again, the caveat of the "group of people you respect" part is essential to my opinion on this point, so just repeating that up front.

Crowd-sourced ideas, especially those that have been examined, discussed, and honed ad nauseum (e.g. mainstream political viewpoints) are generally going to be better thought-out than an individual's ideas. Even in the most extreme example where a person is smarter than every other member of said group, it's a tough conclusion to reach that they're smarter than the combined knowledge of everyone involved.

Examples obviously exist where the one lone voice in the wilderness turned out to be right when the masses were wrong, but it's clearly the exception rather than the rule. When everyone says that you're wrong, it is at the very least the best practice to stop longer and take stock of why you're in such a minority and why your viewpoint holds up better than theirs. It's not unreasonable to dismiss one disagreeing viewpoint, but the more that number grows, the harder it should become to hand-wave without at least hesitating.

Obviously the above is a bit oversimplified since not all issues have as clear of a path to an objective correct answer and thus aren't necessarily as heavily-tied to intelligence, as some issues are more rooted in personal morality than others.