A curiosity about the South, for people who live here

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Holy shit.

Fuck this noise, ech, Nigel, eot, and vex.

By the way,


clean me.

Anyway, Those fucks were for various reasons.  Yours was because while you were right, you went more than a little too far, and I didn't feel like dealing with this thread anymore.  Mostly it was the middle class white collar comment that got to me.

I'd appreciate some critical analysis to back up the "went too far" accusation, and I'd like it to be substantive. Can you do that, or is it just that I said things that made you uncomfortable?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just for some reason re-read the whole thread, and I have to say that it's actually a pretty damn productive thread, IMO. It kind of fell apart around page 17 for about ten pages, but nonetheless, I think that ultimately some good discussion was had here. Thanks guys.

[Doktor Howl]

Remember when PD decided to defend the confederacy?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.   

[Doktor Howl]

This is true.  Tyrants don't show up all bloody-handed one day, just because.

They show up when people grow weary of the burden of self-determination and demand them.

PROPHECY   

[Doktor Howl]

It sounds like you're presenting a larger version of Nigel's concept, "attack the idea, not the person."

[Cain]

All I remember about this thread was being told I was bad for insisting the South's overall strategic position was bad, and thus going to war was stupid, by people with no experience in strategic analysis.

[Doktor Howl]

All I remember about this thread was being told I was bad for insisting the South's overall strategic position was bad, and thus going to war was stupid, by people with no experience in strategic analysis.

Dunning Krueger?  Never heard of him.

Also, we were "othering" confederates.    Well, yeah.  Bad Hamish, no benzos.

[TheAudience]

All I remember about this thread was being told I was bad for insisting the South's overall strategic position was bad, and thus going to war was stupid, by people with no experience in strategic analysis.

Been reading from the beginning since Doktor dug it up. Just passed the point where you concluded your interactions Cain. That was a pretty succinct summary of your part.

Reading this thread has been an alright way of passing the time being stuck at work with not enough work.

I definitely waffle back and forth between my competing instincts of either attempting a Nigel (Some attempt to step away from the emotional kneejerk to really unpick and understand aspects of an emotionally charged topic to consider arguments from both sides) or saying fk it, it isn't worth the time and effort, bad people are bad people and that is all the analysis needed.

[Suu]

This is true.  Tyrants don't show up all bloody-handed one day, just because.

They show up when people grow weary of the burden of self-determination and demand them.

PROPHECY   

It's like you fucking read Aristotle or some shit.

[Suu]

Remember when PD decided to defend the confederacy?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.   

Me reading this thread:

At first I was like: 

Then I was like: 

Then I was seriously like: 

But really then it was like: 

So here I am now: 


WHAT IS THE FUCKING FUCKS OF FUCKERY HAPPENED HERE WHEN I FLOUNCED DURING THE GREAT SERIOUSNESS^TM?

I outwardly admit to falling into the "state's rights" trap when I was young and stupid, and then I, you know, when to school for history. But like, even growing up in the only Confederate state to not have their capital taken by the Union (mostly because who the FUCK wants to fight in Florida?) we didn't learn this whole War of Northern Aggression dumbfuckery, and slavery was always at the forefront of the secession argument. We have primary source evidence that supports this, and yet, now I need a drink at 11am. If I still worked in Boston I'd have LMNO take me out for a lunch pitcher immediately.

Cain had it right the whole time, btw.

[Doktor Howl]

Suu, it's just that THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.

[Suu]

Suu, it's just that THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.

[Doktor Howl]

Suu, it's just that THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.

You're damn right.