This man is an asshole:
I judge that he is an asshole because he is a liar, a hypocrite, a terrorist, a mass-murderer, and a power-mad sociopath who puts his personal wealth and power ahead of the well being of his fellow humans. He is not an asshole because his skin is black. I am 100% sure of that last sentence’s veracity because this man is not an asshole:
I judge that he is not an asshole because the caption of this photo is as follows: “A black policeman protects a KKK member, as protesters were closing in on them at a rally in Austin, Texas, 1983.” If you need me to explain why that makes him not an asshole, then you do not have the mental capacity for this conversation and I suggest that you tune in Fox News immediately and have no further truck with my fancy “critical thinking.”
Here’s the thing about generalizations (yes, I am about to generalize about generalizations); as soon as you find a single counter-example for your generalization, it immediately becomes invalid. Period. To me, that assertion seems self-evident, but if you need the entire forcefully reasoned argument, read The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
I judge that our Admin (whose writing and whose generosity I admire, and who I consider a friend), and those of you around here that appear to believe that asshole-ness is somehow causally tied to a person’s race, ethnicity, or religion, are severely fucked up in the head about this issue.
The tendency to identify with a “team,” to believe your “team” is superior, and to disparage other perceived “teams” (whether ethnic, national, religious, or whatever) and demonize the individuals you place in those “teams” is something that I have never been able to understand. How do you tie your fucking shoes in the morning if you cannot see that this world is full of nuance and every individual is an individual who must be judged on their individual character?
Wake the fuck up.
Dividing the world into “teams” is the basis of every form of collectivism. It’s the fundamental premise of statists of all stripes and one of the prime causes of everything that is severely wrong with America today. It is the root ideological pathology that the sick sociopolitical left (fucktard liberals) has in common with the sick sociopolitical right (fucktard neocons). It is one of the things that Hilary Clinton has in common with Mitch McConnel, and apparently with a lot of you all around here.
One of America’s major problems is what Admin calls the “Free Shit Army” — those who believe and live their lives on the belief that it is somehow right or even “ok” to be supported by the work of others. The political root of this problem, inevitable in any representative democracy where the cultural center of gravity is below a certain threshold of human maturity (certainly the case in America today), is outside the scope of what I am writing about here. Let’s just take it as given.
By my definition, the people in the Free Shit Army are assholes. They are assholes because they believe that life, or other people, somehow owe(s) them something for their mere existence. Or even worse, they don’t believe anyone owes them anything, but they see a stupid welfare system that they can game and they are knowingly taking advantage of it. Some of those people are men. Some are women. Some are black. Some are white. Some are jews. Some are christians. Some are hispanic. Etc. If you have access to even the dimmest glow of logic and rationality, it is patently obvious that none of them are assholes because of the color of their skin, their gender, or their religious beliefs. All of them are assholes because they believe that the work of others should support them. That’s what the Free Shit Army has in common and it is a fucked up character trait that crosses gender, race, and religious belief.
On the other end of the class spectrum from the Free Shit Army you also see assholedom crossing all lines of ethnicity, gender, and religion.
Black assholes.
White assholes.
Women assholes.
Christian assholes.
Jewish (or as some of you like to say, “joooish”) assholes.
If you’d like to make some kind of statistical argument about asshole-ness being tied to race, gender, and religion, then I think you can take a quick tally of US Congressional representatives and determine that christian white men must all be assholes.
Wake. The fuck. Up.
Every asshole is an asshole because they individually are an asshole. Period. I may well be an asshole — I’ll leave that for others to judge. But I — one of two “jooos” who are directly responsible for the fact that The Burning Platform exists today — am not an asshole because Lloyd Blankfein is an asshole.
I despair for the future of the human world. Until more of us are able to man up and willing to do the hard work of discriminating and responding to the world in all its shades of grey rather than hiding in the mental laziness of “black and white” and snuggling in the immature emotional comfort of bovine herding, we’re well and truly fucked.
RE
You posted my “I should have been dead” article on Doomstead DIner. Two things …
1) Interesting to me that pretty much the ONLY comments made were about the very last picture I posted … about homo’s not being in the Boy Scouts. A nice little pile-on about what a bunch of racist homophobes inhabit TBP. Nice little collection of Politically Correct bleeding hearts! Especially considering that when taken in context … that the REST of the post was laced with humor … well, my “homophobia” was clearly done as tongue-in-cheek. I guess such nuances escaped your readership. Not to mention I wrote a thread about a homosexual wedding I attended in NYC with zero anti-gay commentary.
2) You made this comment; —- “TBP is Home Base for Racist and Homophobic commentary.”. With all due respect — and I do respect and appreciate your work — with such a belief, I wonder why you come here in the first place?
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Stucky,
My first comment was also along the lines of heres to the good ol days. JRM as a gay had a legitimate beef with the boys scouts staying in the closet. I gave him my opinion on the comments he recieved here after raising that. If your homophobia being ‘tongue in cheek’ (butt-cheek) is a freudian slip, then theres nothing wrong with that either.
What I have a problem with is calling it all a PC pile on. Take a look at all my recent comments to do with a war on men under the guise of fighting a so called war on women, and the crazy laws in force and current goals of feminists. I like to see any group get equal treatment but advancing the interests of one group by removing the rights of another is another thing.
The other comments in that thread had nothing to do with your post which they probably enjoyed but just didnt bother saying, but were about the 30 blocks of stupid distraction for stupid people. If you were born there would you be any different, maybe, but those who make it out or make something of themself dont stand out. Do people want ALL the assholes there to get advanced qualifications in your own fields and drop their resumes at your own companies, no. TMWNN has it spot on, Ive lived among 30 odd streets of mulitmillion dollar mansions and my neighbors were mostly assholes too, been in departments full of beauracrats and about all of them assholes too. They all just dont show you their asshole until they want to shit on you.
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I love this place even if I don’t particularly like to fuss and fight. I hugely enjoy those of you who are willing to go to the mats with each other. There’s enough intelligence and wit around here to liven up any number of blogs’ comment threads.
Mr. Quinn, you set the tone. How long did TBP exist before you said your first Blow Me? You don ‘t say that so much anymore. Probably you’re too tired. I wish we could buy you a driver to get you back and forth to work every day.
Anyway, I appreciate the plumber’s willingness to share his views, and even more pleased that you and he reached a good understanding. Despite what he said, I hope he’ll feel like participating again sometime. I know he would be welcomed.
speaking of assholes, those republican voters are stupid lot.
What we need is a mick for POTUS..Draft admin in 2016!
Which reminds me….
A Mormon was seated next to an Irishman on a flight from London. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken.
The Irishman asked for a whiskey, which was promptly brought and placed before him.
The flight attendant then asked the Mormon if he would like a drink.
He replied in disgust, “I’d rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips.”
The Irishman then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, “Me, too, I didn’t know we had a choice!”
Gayle- This ” I wish we could buy you a driver” is the funniest shit I seen in a while, thank you. Who?
I know, Morgan Freeman, from Driving Miss Daisy. The Mental image of Morgan Freeman driving Admin through the 30 Blocks of Squalor is priceless.
No offense intended but that statement on this post was a thing of beauty.
Biology Question of the Day
LaShamanda has a heterozygous big bootie, the dominant trait. Her man Fontavius has a small bootie which is recessive. They get married and have a baby named LaPrincess.
What is the probability that LaPrincess will inherit her mama’s big bootie?
If LaShamanda and Fontavius have another child, what is the probability that it will have a big bootie?
http://www.wbtv.com/story/27378965/bootie-problem-at-cms-mom-says-offensive-question-went-too-far?autostart=true
nothing stereotypical here. ..move on.
I-S, if you want to hold Billy’s dick while he takes a whiz, go for it. Who’s the asshole, EC for countering Billy’s position or you for mindlessly repeating his best defense, that everybody who disagrees with him is a doppel? Stop jerking him off, it’s funny how obsessive you’ve become about defending Massa Billy.
Please note I have left him alone, I do not provoke firefights with him, my comments are directed at his verbiage. I have not touched your idol. Go suck a dick
If there was ever a more worthless debate – re Billy’s racism, or lack thereof, or his tone, or his use of words, or his attitude, or his proclivity to violence, or not, or his sexual orientation, choice of truck, choice of breakfast cereal, whether or not one is enthralled with Billy, or not, et al – on TBP, I for one cannot remember it.
This shit is boring the hell out of me.
Billy is what he is. Sometimes he is a total fuck, sometimes he is reasonable, sometimes he takes things too literally, etc. etc. etc. If he is reasonable, I read what he says. If he is a fuck, I tell him so, or ignore it.
Anyone that has a problem with him can kick is ass head on. THAT I can understand. This is TBP, and anything fucking goes.
But the constant sniping and harping is petty kindergarten bullshit. Man up, y’all, for fuck sake.
And I am talking to you especially, EC. You have some good things to say, and I am a fan. But the running bullshit re Billy is not worthy of you, and takes away from what you have to offer, which is plenty. For fuck sake, how many Hispanic points of view do we get on this site, anyway? Yours is needed.
Don’t make me come off the porch. You won’t like it, and I will end up eating all your burritos and drinking your mescal. You will be left with a few corn husks and the frigging worm. Well, maybe not even the worm.
Fuck you EC. Pull up one post where I defend Billy in the way you mean. I’ve never defended the shit he says. As a matter of fact I’ve called him out on it and if memory serves I may have been the first one to do so with you playing the role of dingleberry or cling on. As a result Billy doesn’t give two shits for me but that’s ok. My happiness doesn’t hinge on his opinions and we don’t have to be friends to learn from each other. Billy does not need my defense as he has aptly shown numerous times.
On the 30 blocks thread Billy found the time and words to come across as a human being in my comments with him. Truth be told, Billy and I have far more similarities that differences. It’s scary actually.
You don’t provoke him but you do seem to follow him around nipping at his heels aplenty and then claim you are not obsessed. I was not even the first one who called you out on that today so apparently I’m not the only one who noticed. Funny that.
Gayle said:
“Anyway, I appreciate the plumber’s willingness to share his views, and even more pleased that you and he reached a good understanding. Despite what he said, I hope he’ll feel like participating again sometime. I know he would be welcomed.”
You have to remember that getting welcomed around here can be a rather traumatic affair. Many do not survive or choose not too.
no stereotyping here
I- S
Yes how well I remember the ass-whuppin’ I got -can’t remember if SSS or Muck About or both delivered it- when I announced I was a teacher. Teachers rank right up there with the Fed and the FSA around here. Life is more rewarding once you grasp that a certain amount of crap flung in your direction doesn’t have to be taken as a personal insult.
Plumber experienced a fine hazing, TBP style. He should be proud he was worthy of the effort.
Gayle’s a teacher? Damn, there goes the neighborhood.
I-S, just leave me alone, if you have problems with bb, it’s none of my doing.
It’s October, getting chilly over here and I’m in a bad mood. There’s this, let’s call her the beautiful blonde, who cranks up the heater to 800 degrees because she was outside smoking a cigarette and she felt cold. So the heater runs all day at 800. Then the damn CNN. I can’t get in a fight with her.
So I appreciate when Billy gives me a reason, anything. I’m not obsessed with him, he is my favorite dog to kick, because he doesn’t have feelings anyway. Did you notice I gave him a thumbs up for his post on Stucky’s 70’s retro? Or that I said he has a brain and good writing skills and said he’d make a good politician? Those are the reasons I say you are too sensitive about him, you never notice when I’m nice to him and pat him on the head like the good doggie he is, all you focus on is when I’m kicking him. If I weren’t for him, I’d be kicking you in the pussy.
Just for you LLPOH, I will leave him alone once more, as long as he doesn’t get stupid and blame me for BW, Olga, Iron Balls et al.
EC – I do not care whether you leave him alone – just deal with him direct. Seems only fair. You can take him – entice him into the Rio and drown him on your terms!
Ha! I’d have to put up with a dozen pictures of south of the border dudes. Billy’s fun sometimes but I-S gets burned up, last time I characterized him as Cheswick.
BTW, characterizing me as representing the burrito lobby here is racist but coming from you, I’ll let it slide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NI7K_ojMUoo