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[Marcus]

Yea, that advocating is some serious work. meanwhile, in my town, I serve on a couple boards where we make stuff happen, including fair waged and benefits. Culty should stop by for an internship or something. He could learn a thing or two.

Did you see a word to parse and and jump on? That is so clever of you. And did you make huge conclusions based on that, even some that are wrong? Wow. You are such a big person. We should just turn the board over to this version of you.

Isn't panny such a huge contribution to the dialogue? It is great, right? I bet he will share some pictures soon.

I think you missed my point. If you want to grow past advocating, there are things you can do. I suggested a couple, but your focus seems to be on trashing other posters, so you may have missed several IR_L opportunities. My suggestion is to complain less, and live more.

[Cultellus]

Did you see a word to parse and and jump on? That is so clever of you. And did you make huge conclusions based on that, even some that are wrong? Wow. You are such a big person. We should just turn the board over to this version of you.

Isn't panny such a huge contribution to the dialogue? It is great, right? I bet he will share some pictures soon.

I think you missed my point. If you want to grow past advocating, there are things you can do. I suggested a couple, but your focus seems to be on trashing other posters, so you may have missed several IR_L opportunities. My suggestion is to complain less, and live more.

My use of the word advocate did not include a qualifier that this was all that I do. Your long history on this board should give you enough information about me to know that I do a lot. Could I do more? Yes. Do I take advice from entertainers on this board? About entertainment, yes. About how to work with the union contracts and journeymen and apprentices and programmers and technicians and project managers and others in my businesses? Oh, hell, no.

Y'all crack me the hell right up.

Now, let's get back to your denial of the holocaust. And honor's too.

[Cultellus]

Liar.

Never said that.

Hey man. Just go on hating populism. Learn nothing, know everything, hate everyone, and have a testimony of your one true ideology. That is the most important thing for you so stay true. I do not want to dissuade you from believing that you have it all right and that I have it all wrong. I do not want you to ever think that people who are not aligned with the elite are anything but would-be rioters. I want you to continue to be as rabid about this as you are in this thread - because I think THAT is the most important part of this conversation.

If people can see just what that sort of rabid blind ideology can get us - a choice between Hillary and Trump, for example - perhaps we will make better choices and have better outcomes going forward. If you think that telling people who dislike the system, or who want to fight for the majority and for equal pay for equal work, that they are would-be rioters and socialists, I want you to do that as absolutely loudly as you can.

What the hell is your point? You got this all twisted up.

You oppose populism. You see it as binary and an extreme opposition to democracy. I do not. I told you to keep doing you, and do it loud and do it often. Just keep telling the world where you stand re populism and how you see people who have an issue with the elitists. Keep telling the world that you see it so goddamn binary that populism is ONLY extreme. If you believe that, I want you to advertise it. I do not believe it. YOU DO.

[Marcus]

I think you missed my point. If you want to grow past advocating, there are things you can do. I suggested a couple, but your focus seems to be on trashing other posters, so you may have missed several IR_L opportunities. My suggestion is to complain less, and live more.

My use of the word advocate did not include a qualifier that this was all that I do. Your long history on this board should give you enough information about me to know that I do a lot. Could I do more? Yes. Do I take advice from entertainers on this board? About entertainment, yes. About how to work with the union contracts and journeymen and apprentices and programmers and technicians and project managers and others in my businesses? Oh, hell, no.

Y'all crack me the hell right up.

Now, let's get back to your denial of the holocaust. And honor's too.

Wow I must be new, because I really don't understand the meaning of your insistence that people are holocaust deniers when there has been zero discussion of that.

Unless, of course, my first instinct was correct, which is that you are irrational and overly emotional, and fall back on those positions when you can't make an argument.

As for working with "union contracts and journeymen and apprentices and programmers and technicians and project managers and others in my businesses"? lol. You have randomly accused multiple posters of being holocaust deniers, so.... nope. You literally working with all of those types of workers is simply not a credible statement. Your instability here rules that out. But kudos to you for having dreams and goals! You'll be a real boy one day, i'm sure!

[Cultellus]

My use of the word advocate did not include a qualifier that this was all that I do. Your long history on this board should give you enough information about me to know that I do a lot. Could I do more? Yes. Do I take advice from entertainers on this board? About entertainment, yes. About how to work with the union contracts and journeymen and apprentices and programmers and technicians and project managers and others in my businesses? Oh, hell, no.

Y'all crack me the hell right up.

Now, let's get back to your denial of the holocaust. And honor's too.

Wow I must be new, because I really don't understand the meaning of your insistence that people are holocaust deniers when there has been zero discussion of that.

Unless, of course, my first instinct was correct, which is that you are irrational and overly emotional, and fall back on those positions when you can't make an argument.

As for working with "union contracts and journeymen and apprentices and programmers and technicians and project managers and others in my businesses"? lol. You have randomly accused multiple posters of being holocaust deniers, so.... nope. You literally working with all of those types of workers is simply not a credible statement. Your instability here rules that out. But kudos to you for having dreams and goals! You'll be a real boy one day, i'm sure!

Oh my gosh. I wonder if I could post my resume on here to fix this. While I am doing that, perhaps you could explain why you do not think there was a holocaust. My resume says that I am not a revisionist like you.

[Marcus]

Wow I must be new, because I really don't understand the meaning of your insistence that people are holocaust deniers when there has been zero discussion of that.

Unless, of course, my first instinct was correct, which is that you are irrational and overly emotional, and fall back on those positions when you can't make an argument.

As for working with "union contracts and journeymen and apprentices and programmers and technicians and project managers and others in my businesses"? lol. You have randomly accused multiple posters of being holocaust deniers, so.... nope. You literally working with all of those types of workers is simply not a credible statement. Your instability here rules that out. But kudos to you for having dreams and goals! You'll be a real boy one day, i'm sure!

Oh my gosh. I wonder if I could post my resume on here to fix this. While I am doing that, perhaps you could explain why you do not think there was a holocaust. My resume says that I am not a revisionist like you.

By all means, post your resume. or a resume. Or some pretend resume. Or whatever type of resume your little imaginary mind would like to make up. please include a paragraph justifying your obsession with randomly accusing people of being holocaust deniers. That will be entertaining enough to justify the whole thing.

And then let's get back to the topic, ok? Your obsession with talking about yourself is getting a little boring.

[Cultellus]

Oh my gosh. I wonder if I could post my resume on here to fix this. While I am doing that, perhaps you could explain why you do not think there was a holocaust. My resume says that I am not a revisionist like you.

By all means, post your resume. or a resume. Or some pretend resume. Or whatever type of resume your little imaginary mind would like to make up. please include a paragraph justifying your obsession with randomly accusing people of being holocaust deniers. That will be entertaining enough to justify the whole thing.

And then let's get back to the topic, ok? Your obsession with talking about yourself is getting a little boring.

Great. Go ahead and introduce yourself, and tell us why you decided to use Marcus as your sock puppet.

[honorentheos]

You oppose populism. You see it as binary and an extreme opposition to democracy. I do not. I told you to keep doing you, and do it loud and do it often. Just keep telling the world where you stand re populism and how you see people who have an issue with the elitists. Keep telling the world that you see it so goddamn binary that populism is ONLY extreme. If you believe that, I want you to advertise it. I do not believe it. YOU DO.

It's better said that it is, by definition, a binary view that divides the good common people from corrupt elites. I didn't make that up, it's the best definition available for understanding it as a thin centered ideology.

Given I've been quite consistent with my support of pluralism over the years I don't think it should be a surprise I view this as a viable internal threat to liberal western democracies including our own.

It exists, as populism, as an oppositional identity rather than a positive one. It has to attach itself to host ideologies that are more fully formed and coherent to have direction. I suspect many people think of populism, not as it is alone, but as the parasite-host combination when they envision it as benign given it is nice to see sweater wearing Bernie as a Democratic Socialist first and Trump as a Fascist when weighing the matter. But those are populism. When one sees the radicalized Bernie Bros or what happened on January 6th, one is seeing how populism primes the individual in similar ways even when they may hold quite different host ideological views.

[Marcus]

By all means, post your resume. or a resume. Or some pretend resume. Or whatever type of resume your little imaginary mind would like to make up. please include a paragraph justifying your obsession with randomly accusing people of being holocaust deniers. That will be entertaining enough to justify the whole thing.

And then let's get back to the topic, ok? Your obsession with talking about yourself is getting a little boring.

Great. Go ahead and introduce yourself, and tell us why you decided to use Marcus as your sock puppet.

Lol. You talk so much about yourself that you can't remember the topic?

[Cultellus]

You oppose populism. You see it as binary and an extreme opposition to democracy. I do not. I told you to keep doing you, and do it loud and do it often. Just keep telling the world where you stand re populism and how you see people who have an issue with the elitists. Keep telling the world that you see it so goddamn binary that populism is ONLY extreme. If you believe that, I want you to advertise it. I do not believe it. YOU DO.

It's better said that it is, by definition, a binary view that divides the good common people from corrupt elites. I didn't make that up, it's the best definition available for understanding it as a thin centered ideology.

Given I've been quite consistent with my support of pluralism over the years I don't think it should be a surprise I view this as a viable internal threat to liberal western democracies including our own.

It exists, as populism, as an oppositional identity rather than a positive one. It has to attach itself to host ideologies that are more fully formed and coherent to have direction. I suspect many people think of populism, not as it is alone, but as the parasite-host combination when they envision it as benign given it is nice to see sweater wearing Bernie as a Democratic Socialist first and Trump as a Fascist when weighing the matter. But those are populism. When one sees the radicalized Bernie Bros or what happened on January 6th, one is seeing how populism primes the individual in similar ways even when they may hold quite different host ideological views.

I understand your point. I am not trying to dissuade you. I get it. You think that the Bernie followers were radicalized and that the events of Jan 6th represent quotidian populism. I get it. I do not see it that binary, you do. No big deal. Wave your flag and scream it from the rafters if you are so convinced. I just do not see it that way.