Jumbo Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I was going to make some of this part of a thread i meant to start weeks ago on "internet whackos." The "rightwing" whackos are among the most prolific and colorful demographic on the internet. Overall, the "lefties" finish behind them these days, but I expect the left will regain the "more and bigger whackos" lead eventually. But let's leave science behind for a moment and ponder one particular poster of that demographic. For approx. 2 years, a member's account was stuck in an "invisible" mode, where only admin could read his posts. The situation was unattended at first, but he (and another guy this happened to in the stadium--"Greg Peck") never seemed to notice a thing. Though his volume had dropped at times before, during, and since this event, he pretty much kept right on posting with no hint of him wondering if anything was amiss even though he never got a reply or even any acknowledgement to his posts. Even after months and months, apparently. It simply appeared he either didn't notice (or care) that he was in a vacuum. And with his posts now reappearing with the software change and people commenting back to him, there still seems no awareness dawning. Interesting commitment to "discussion", no? Something about rabid partisans and echo-chambers comes to mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 No, but there is a natural trend of people getting more conservative as they get older, for good and ill. As we get older we naturally value the past and fear the future. Go to FreeRepublic and read the craziest posts - nearly all of the posters are retired. besides the progressives keep aborting and family planning themselves to a even smaller minority....and praying for a Hail Mary to the Hispanics to remain in the game. just wait till ya ain't needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Yeah. Lived in and or stationed in those Western Nations. But why Compare the Yankees to the Cleveland Indians? http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/wildcard.jsp?ymd=20130816 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I was going to make some of this part of a thread i meant to start weeks ago on "internet whackos." The "rightwing" whackos are among the most prolific and colorful demographic on the internet. Overall, the "lefties" finish behind them these days, but I expect the left will regain the "more and bigger whackos" lead eventually. But let's leave science behind for a moment and ponder one particular poster of that demographic. For approx. 2 years, a member's account was stuck in an "invisible" mode, where only admin could read his posts. The situation was unattended at first, but he (and another guy this happened to in the stadium--"Greg Peck") never seemed to notice a thing. Though his volume had dropped at times before, during, and since this event, he pretty much kept right on posting with no hint of him wondering if anything was amiss even though he never got a reply or even any acknowledgement to his posts. Even after months and months, apparently. It simply appeared he either didn't notice (or care) that he was in a vacuum. And with his posts now reappearing with the software change and people commenting back to him, there still seems no awareness dawning. Interesting commitment to "discussion", no? Something about rabid partisans and echo-chambers comes to mind... This is the funniest thing I've read in awhile. I think Slateman fell into the invisible category as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I always assumed some accounts here were not-so-secret aliases of certain mods who liked to stir the pot when bored. Isn't that right, Sargent Navy Jumbo of Massachusetts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Deleted post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 We don't allow sock puppets. We only sanction shoe marionettes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbear Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I always assumed some accounts here were not-so-secret aliases of certain mods who liked to stir the pot when bored. Isn't that right, Sargent Navy Jumbo of Massachusetts? **Cough** **Cough** Paging Candy. Paging Candy. Your services are needed in the Tailgate aisle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 ha! I found it odd that certain users suddenly began posting again, almost simultaneously. Glitch in the matrix. =O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 No, but there is a natural trend of people getting more conservative as they get older, for good and ill. As we get older we naturally value the past and fear the future. Go to FreeRepublic and read the craziest posts - nearly all of the posters are retired. Even that tendency won't keep up with the rapid social liberalization of America. The Millennials are the bluest generation ever--until the generation that's even younger is old enough to vote. Everything is liberalizing at once: from rates of gun ownership, to attitudes about homosexuality, to values about ownership and consumption. The youngest generations are so unbelievably comfortable with technology. They've grown up in a world where all they know is everyone having a cell phone, universally available broadband internet connections; where they correspond daily with people from other countries; where American Exceptionalism seems laughably absurd, multiculuralism is the norm, and where America isn't the dominant geo-political power any more; where high rates of unemployment and underemployment for young people is the norm; where home ownership and marriage will be things that get put off until you're in your 30's at the earliest; where anti-gay bigotry seems as absurd as anti-black bigotry from the 60's; where the only president they'll really know is a liberal black president and whichever Democrat wins in 2016, etc. I listened to a story on NPR about "ride-sharing" yesterday. Post recession teens don't own their own cars like teens used to, so they use social media to find rides to where ever they want to go. They view cars merely as a way to get from point A to B. The speaker said getting an iPhone is to them what getting a car used to be for a teenager. They share so much more--information and goods--than any generation before them. They are incredibly different from the boomers. America is headed for a period of unprecedented social liberalism. America's mainstream liberals have always been center right compared to the rest of the world. You're going to have a future where that won't be the case any more and the population will have values closer to other Western European countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesMadisonSkins Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Haha this is some funny ****. I look forward to a day when the Republicans drop social issues on their platform and realize it's a dying cause. The day the Republican party stops pursuing social issues will be the day this country takes a step forward. Our welfare system is ****ed up ... while it certainly helps a number of people get out of poverty, it ultimately traps a majority of those it seeks to help. Our agricultural system, healthcare system and pharmaceutical industries are bought by big corporations and our federal regulatory agencies turn a blind eye. Our country is fat and stupid, and only growing fatter and stupider. Someday we will have two parties that focus on the real issues at hand. And when that happens, we can start correcting our mistakes as a country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Yeah because European Liberalism / Socialism is so much better. No European socialism sucks and is failing...hell, collapsing. But it was the free spending douchebaggery of GWB and Hastert that increased the level of govt spending at record rates that would've made Tip ONeill blush that set us on a path to Eurozone debt to gdp levels. I don't want a socialist state, but that means I don't want farmers, corporations and such getting govt assistance any more than poor folk. As impossible as it is for you to conceive, it is possible for some of us to want a much smaller govt but still not obsess over social issues we believe govt has no place in intervening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Because these are such new and radical liberal ideas. Funny thing is these Progressives joined the GOP 100 years ago. Now they are more advanced than the GOP of today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I was going to make some of this part of a thread i meant to start weeks ago on "internet whackos." The "rightwing" whackos are among the most prolific and colorful demographic on the internet. Overall, the "lefties" finish behind them these days, but I expect the left will regain the "more and bigger whackos" lead eventually. But let's leave science behind for a moment and ponder one particular poster of that demographic. For approx. 2 years, a member's account was stuck in an "invisible" mode, where only admin could read his posts. The situation was unattended at first, but he (and another guy this happened to in the stadium--"Greg Peck") never seemed to notice a thing. Though his volume had dropped at times before, during, and since this event, he pretty much kept right on posting with no hint of him wondering if anything was amiss even though he never got a reply or even any acknowledgement to his posts. Even after months and months, apparently. It simply appeared he either didn't notice (or care) that he was in a vacuum. And with his posts now reappearing with the software change and people commenting back to him, there still seems no awareness dawning. Interesting commitment to "discussion", no? Something about rabid partisans and echo-chambers comes to mind... Holy carp. Are you serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 ha! I found it odd that certain users suddenly began posting again, almost simultaneously. Glitch in the matrix. =O These events will be more "message board" fun I get to bring to another class of grad psych students lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 These events will be more "message board" fun I get to bring to another class of grad psych students lol One day you're going to have to post a video or audio of one of the lectures you give on this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I always wondered where Predicto went. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulane Skins Fan Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 The fact that the president is a democrat right now means that you will hear about more extreme republican views than democrat views. When the president is a republican, the far right won't be so prevalent again, and the left whackies will come out. That being said, the problem is that there is a lot of conservative media these days, and they tend to promote the far right "whacko birds" not as "whacko birds" but as true conservatives. It will swing back at some point. If Rand Paul wins an election, don't think MSNBC won't be doing their best FoxNews impression for four years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Holy carp. Are you serious? I am always deadly serious. You know that. But yes. I do need to get that thread made...have some great new additions...including an awesome brainmelt spazzout from another former reg that's both hilarious and pathetic. I find such folk interesting and try to picture them acting the same in 3D and how that works for them (I pretty much know ). Of course, many such don't act out quite like they do online. But then some do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Predicto, here's another way of thinking about how liberal the world is for today's young people: Ronald Reagan is ancient history to them. The only Rep. president they kind of sort of remember is the universally loathed GWB. He's kind of a bogeyman for everything you don't want in a president. The GOP brand with young people is comically toxic. To them, the Republicans are the party of rednecks, old people, and loony white people like that family of evangelicals that lives out by the airport and home-schools their weird kids. Young won't be caught dead voting Republican. Except the ones who are going through a contrarian phase, but even then, they'll be sincere liberals again by college. My great grandmother was born in the 1800's. The kid born after 2000's great grandparents probably grew up in the 40's and 50's. For them, that post-war, idyllic white America of Eisenhower is just as quaint and remote as the age of the Model T and the Roaring 20s are for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I always wondered where Predicto went. LOL. Well played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 These events will be more "message board" fun I get to bring to another class of grad psych students lol Assume these are Abnormal Psych students? (No doubt they will be, when you're through with them.) Just wondering: The thought occurs to me to wonder if these invisible posts were the reason the old board had all that problem with the board thinking that there were more posts than there were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I think the Republicans (through gerrymandering and other means) have created a situation where it's going to be easier and easier for them to control the House, but grow harder and harder to win the Senate or Presidency. Districting doesn't help in state wide races and they are alienating more groups without providing a good philosophical or practical alternative. You can only get so far being the party of "No!" It's a lesson it took the Democrats more than a decade to learn the last time the pendulum swung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 No, but there is a natural trend of people getting more conservative as they get older, for good and ill. As we get older we naturally value the past and fear the future. Go to FreeRepublic and read the craziest posts - nearly all of the posters are retired. I'm betting that most of the FreeRepublic posters are white males too. Women tend to get more radical left when growing older. And women voted more for their reproductive rights in the last couple of election cycles thanks to male politicians who seem to think they should be the regulatory masters of women's universe. Their hysterical, nonsensical statements about women's anatomy and reproductive processes only go to show that they don't know jack about women. How these men remain married is beyond me. The GOP was counting on Hispanics (because all people who speak Spanish are all the same) to side with them because they are mostly Catholic and adhere to the Catholic Church teachings about homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. The GOP has the older Cubans in Florida. A lot of Cubans my age and below vote Democrat. But the Hispanics are now voting Democrat because of immigration and the GOP's position on it. The GOP platform is so anti-human it boggles the mind that anyone can get behind it. But the Democrats don't get a complete pass from me either, however, I can get behind their party's platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted August 18, 2013 Author Share Posted August 18, 2013 Things like this is what is killing the party http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/17/tennessee-republican-tells-girl-her-father-has-to-be-deported-as-tea-party-crowd-cheers/ Tennessee Republican tells girl her father has to be deported as tea party crowd cheers A Tennessee tea party Republican congressman told a frightened little girl at a town hall meeting on Thursday in Murfreesboro, TN that laws are laws and that her undocumented father is going to have to be deported. According to ProgressivePopulist.org, 11-year-old Josie Molina told Rep. Scott Desjarlais ® that she has papers but her father does not. During a question and answer session at the meeting, Molina stepped up to the microphone and, with a quavering voice, asked, “Mr. DesJarlais, I have papers, but I have a dad who’s undocumented. What can I do to have him stay with me?” Rather than make any attempt to assuage the girl’s fears, Desjarlais said, “Thank you for being here and thank you for coming forward and speaking,” but “the answer still kind of remains the same, that we have laws and we need to follow those laws and that’s where we’re at.” The tea party crowd whooped and applauded wildly as the little girl took her seat, head down. Progressive Populist reported that Josie Molina’s father is currently in the process of being deported and that the girl is seeing a child psychologist in order to cope with the stress and anxiety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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