(06-29-2020 11:27 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 10:29 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 10:14 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 10:01 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 09:14 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Why don't the liberals on here post more often?

(proceeds to mock a liberal poster they're talking about and then paint a personal picture of liberals as being ignorant and short sighted, which they expect the liberal posters to defend/address)

Why do you guys always misunderstand my posts? I guess I will just have to go hide until you learn some manners.

I don't know... I kind of view this forum like I view Rice sports. I attend games when I find them worth carving out time for. When I get zero enjoyment out of them (the end of the WW era in BB for example) I don't go.

I don't think it's "hiding" per se... I think it's deciding where your priorities lie (and we all have different priorities). When I find myself feeling irritated from time spent here, I back off. I have plenty of irritation in my daily life and I find little reason add more unnecessarily. Sorry if that's not considered "brave".

We hear all sorts of excuses for disappearing, and I guess yours is as good or better than any.

I think all of us have plenty of irritation in our lives. If anybody here is posting from Nirvana, speak up.

I am irritated by my sister, and the local tax office, and the noise from the nearby construction, and people whose dogs run loose, and, and, and....


I am irritated by the negative impact of Democratic policies on my life and on the life of my family. Before Covid, I was enjoying the positive impacts on my life and the life of my family through Trump's economic policies. I would not want to give those up because he was rude to a journalist. It does irritate me greatly that the supporters of the left seem to either ignore or worse, support, those bad policies advocated for by the socialists. Now, THAT is truly irritating.

I don't think any of the leftists here support those socialistic policies, which would explain why they would rather ignore the questions. But it is frustrating to me that they support them indirectly, with their votes.

I feel the same way. It is frustrating to me that you guys support probable irreversible environmental catastrophes, indirectly, with your votes. That may hyperbole and I recognize that you guys aren't on the same page as me when it comes to climate change.

But climate change is one of my "show stoppers" (to use #'s term). I care much more about a candidate's approach to climate change than I do their tax platform.

To each their own.

"support probable irreversible environmental catastrophes"

I would be happy to change my vote for such a sum certain occurrence of such an irreversible catastrophe, or even when that chance is weighed against the economic consideration cost.

And yes, I changed your 'probable' to 'sum certain' to denote the rhetoric embodied therein.

But then again I would have to 'read up on it' in order to do that --- wait..... I have done that.

Again, do you have any concept of the 'sum certain truisms' that you toss off here?