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> how shall I put this ... straw chewing hick-town councillors (sorry, State Senators) who think cows made America great. Considering America wouldn’t exist wi

by pbu43 5y ago

> how shall I put this ... straw chewing hick-town councillors (sorry, State Senators) who think cows made America great. Considering America wouldn’t exist without food and the hick towns that supply it, and speaking as a straw-chewing hick from one of those towns who I guess manages to smash enough keys together to occasionally write software in your eyes, please do not so condescendingly dismiss the half of the country you clearly don’t understand. We can just as easily dismiss you and your arrogantly narrow view of your fellow citizens. It’s those exact globalist policies you’re trumpeting, and their ideological underpinnings, that forced the very people who feed you into a position where you can comfortably shit on them as you are here. You didn’t need this classist, obnoxious swipe to make your point, and you absolutely knew that given how you hedged it linguistically (twice alone in my quoted portion). It says far more about you and your beliefs than you think it does that you said it and apologized for it in the same breath.

lifeisstillgood 5y ago
Fair enough. Changed. On the other hand, as a European, the very few State Senators I have met / known have been decent honest people - but very focused on local (to the State) issues - or on what I would call global always on politics like decent labour laws etc. But then again, their very job is to focus on the local. Hmm, re-reading this bit: >>> It’s those exact globalist policies you’re trumpeting, and their ideological underpinnings, that forced the very people who feed you into a position where you can comfortably shit on them as you are here. I am not sure I get this part ?
- pbu44 5y ago
  Are you saying that the elected position of state legislator comes with the assumption of indecency and deception and that it strengthens your perspective that you’ve known a few who aren’t? As a European (what a surprise), you are aware that Colorado is more akin to Switzerland than one of its cantons, right? The U.S. is more comparable to the EU than one of its constituent nations. Knowing that, why does “State Senator” vex you so? The line you drew between decent, honest, and representing the people who elected them is even more bizarre than what brought us together in the first place. If it isn’t apparent why an elected official from rural Iowa doesn’t have global tax policy on their radar, you are not qualified to be speaking about American politics, economics, or legislative structure in the slightest.
  - smokelegend 5y ago
    "Honest politician[s]"...... ummm here in the US, there is no such thing. Every single politician is stinking dirty in some way, it may not be seen, but the smell can not be denied. Politics is a dirty game. [FULL STOP]
    - pbu45 5y ago
      Your incredibly nuanced and substantive opinion is right up there with other world-shattering perspectives like “cancer is bad”. Not sure why you’re sharing it with me, though, since the person who referred to politicians as honest is one above me. For future reference, the period is also known as a full stop from the days of the telegraph. So by typing a period at the end of your remarks, you’ve introduced a full stop and need not spell out another. When one says “full stop” aloud, they’re enunciating a period verbally to reinforce a point, which is why it’s a spoken idiom and not a written one (since full stops are a function of intonation in speech and not a written mark).
tenebrisalietum 5y ago
America has an obesity epidemic. We can exist with less food.
- pbu46 5y ago
  And do you have a plan to connect that (otherwise correct) sentiment to the point I’m making? Or are you implying that because America has an obesity epidemic the point is invalid?

by pbu43 5y ago

lifeisstillgood 5y ago

Fair enough. Changed. On the other hand, as a European, the very few State Senators I have met / known have been decent honest people - but very focused on local (to the State) issues - or on what I would call global always on politics like decent labour laws etc. But then again, their very job is to focus on the local. Hmm, re-reading this bit: >>> It’s those exact globalist policies you’re trumpeting, and their ideological underpinnings, that forced the very people who feed you into a position where you can comfortably shit on them as you are here. I am not sure I get this part ?

pbu44 5y ago
Are you saying that the elected position of state legislator comes with the assumption of indecency and deception and that it strengthens your perspective that you’ve known a few who aren’t? As a European (what a surprise), you are aware that Colorado is more akin to Switzerland than one of its cantons, right? The U.S. is more comparable to the EU than one of its constituent nations. Knowing that, why does “State Senator” vex you so? The line you drew between decent, honest, and representing the people who elected them is even more bizarre than what brought us together in the first place. If it isn’t apparent why an elected official from rural Iowa doesn’t have global tax policy on their radar, you are not qualified to be speaking about American politics, economics, or legislative structure in the slightest.
- smokelegend 5y ago
  "Honest politician[s]"...... ummm here in the US, there is no such thing. Every single politician is stinking dirty in some way, it may not be seen, but the smell can not be denied. Politics is a dirty game. [FULL STOP]
  - pbu45 5y ago
    Your incredibly nuanced and substantive opinion is right up there with other world-shattering perspectives like “cancer is bad”. Not sure why you’re sharing it with me, though, since the person who referred to politicians as honest is one above me. For future reference, the period is also known as a full stop from the days of the telegraph. So by typing a period at the end of your remarks, you’ve introduced a full stop and need not spell out another. When one says “full stop” aloud, they’re enunciating a period verbally to reinforce a point, which is why it’s a spoken idiom and not a written one (since full stops are a function of intonation in speech and not a written mark).

tenebrisalietum 5y ago

America has an obesity epidemic. We can exist with less food.

pbu46 5y ago
And do you have a plan to connect that (otherwise correct) sentiment to the point I’m making? Or are you implying that because America has an obesity epidemic the point is invalid?