Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 784
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"Who... R... U?" said the caterpillar
[Read the article: Tucker, Jonah, Elizabeth and Jillian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why would we have to rally around a parent, anyway? That's the authoritarian gig we are complaining about. I don't give a crap who your daddy is or your mommy is. Who are you?
Who's shooter242?
He's a nobody.
What was the last actual opinion he expressed, the last tangible policy he publically supported, the last time he criticized his own party for deviating from their principles?
He has no opinion of his own, at least as far as his posts here evidence. All he does is make snotty, unwitty, ungrammatical snarks. He doesn't understand the difference between a substantial point and a verbal dig.
His discourse is entirely negative, in the sense that no new relevant subjects are introduced, no novel points are made, never has he been brave enough to actually take a stand on any issue. All he has is empty, weak sarcasm.
He loves this neocon nut-flexing, faux-manly thing, probably watched the neocon debates in rapture. Advertisers love these guys, just like a lot of others in his fat, lazy, out-of-touch FOX-watching demographic. So easy to press their buttons, they're so full of false bravado and mental chest-beating, they don't even realize they have buttons!
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@Retired Military Patriot
[Read the article: Tucker, Jonah, Elizabeth and Jillian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too much posting energy is consumed with I’m right, you’re wrong. Posters who admit when they are wrong and praise posters who have educated them, have the kind of character that means they are usually well worth reading. Rather than try to prove how intelligent or erudite we are, we should be striving to help each other be better world citizens.
Oh, hear, hear! When I see someone ungrudgingly thank someone else for correcting them on a heated point, I know I am looking at someone worth paying attention to.
In my mind, this is a sure sign of class.
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shooter242,
[Read the article: Tucker, Jonah, Elizabeth and Jillian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right, I'm making fun of you folks.
"Making fun" usually involves wit or some sort of joke. You are just insulting people and laughing. Like this: "shooter242 is a cretinous, boorish twat." There's no joke there.
Absolutely. In my day, being a "mommas boy" was not a good thing. It lead to loss of lunch money and black eyes.
Oh, and being a "daddy's boy" was somehow more admirable? Call your daddy, loser. Tell your daddy how glad you are to have such a manly man in the whitehouse, to solve your problems, to soothe your fears.
I mean, feel however you like, but don't pretend your mewling sycophancy, your ecstatic enthusiasm for becoming a slave is anything like manliness. This is obvious to everyone but you.
A leader is by definition, authoritarian.
Wrong. [Long list of counter-examples elided for boringness and triviality.]
Do you think offering them cookies is the way to go? Perhaps you like being taken advantage of? P
Is that really all you know of negotiation, of living in the adult world? You're pathetic. The choices you offer (cookies or a beating) are ones only three-year olds respond to. Why do you find them so compelling and why do you find it so hard to imagine anything else?
the "malaise" speech
The fact that you care about this 30-year old bullshit, and not the ongoing current-day rape of America by neocon crooks is all anyone needs to know about you: you're an idiot who thinks in 30-year old stereotypes.
Sounds like you folks want to become the world's bitch. That's not for me, and yes I'll make fun of that all day long.
No, you'd rather be Cheney's "bitch", I guess. That's YOUR word, not mine.
Oh, again, "making fun" does not apply to what you do. Your comments are the plainest example of building oneself up by tearing others down. Every comment you make is an embarassing window into a hollow, fragile man, a walking joke, a coward and willful retard. A man who would gladly walk all the way to the concentration camp telling himself how brave he was.
Screw you.
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shooter's Clinton-boner
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Clinton actually declared war on Iraq in 1998 and he fits your description of hypocrite to a "T". It would seem you need to reformulate your criteria. Heh.
I personally believe that this was an extremely cynical and amoral action to take. The Clinton evil was only the warm-up.
However, even if it wasn't, aren't you supposed to HATE Clinton? Why do you incessantly justify Bush's actions by comparing them to Clinton's?
Or rather, the less rhetorical questions are: why do you pretend anyone buys this logic, or why would you think you personally wouldn't be thought a complete moron by everyone who reads your stupid argument?
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@Jordan Orlando
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you going to continue to pretend you can't see the logic of the argument?
He doesn't even see that he whole-heartedly endorses and supports the most anti-conservative, radical, power-hungry administration in American history. He doesn't understand how saying you believe in American values is any different than actually taking them to heart and acting from them.
(for specific examples, see every single post shooter has been in.)
He doesn't even understand his own values, don't expect a reasoned critique of anyone else's from him.
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@anony-puss
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not the clearest thinker walking the Earth, are you?
By your tone, you seem to feel you have demonstrated some flaw in the argument, but you've clearly just failed to grasp it.
So many people confuse the style of rhetoric for rhetoric. Just talking all high-falutin' and disdainfully doesn't constitute logical argument.