Wall Street protesters: We're in for the long haul

[garbon]

Ouch.  Well, I was going to add that he seemed a little rainbow brite for my tastes, personally, but

Lesbian.

[garbon]

I know that personally I would still be looking for work even if I got $10,000 from the government just for existing, even if I could only expect to earn another $15,000 working a menial job; it would at least get me out of the house and interacting with people, and buy little luxuries that I enjoy.  I think most people are like that.  And those that aren't don't exactly contribute a lot anyway.

I suspect you are wrong.

Yeah isn't that what credit cards are for?

[Josephus]

Lesbian.

Where?

[garbon]

Lesbian.

Where?

The douche.

[The Minsky Moment]

Not really.  The upward march of the normal unemployment rate is basically unstoppable and will almost certainly accelerate. 

It just went down according to the most recent statistical releases . . .

[grumbler]

That is just a rather bizarre interpretation of what he said.

Look at the poster.  Of course he will not only assume the most bizarre possible interpretation is what I meant, but he will insist, despite the facts, that only the most bizarre interpretation is even feasible.  It's part of his vendetta for getting his ass handed to him any number of times by me, I think.

Surely you can see that what he said was that carrying around a gun does not make you tolerant, but recognizing that some people DO wish to carry around a gun is tolerant.

Tolerance is all about letting other people do things even when you think there isn't a good reason for it.

Tolerance is also assuming that people are reasonable until evidence demonstrates otherwise. 

[garbon]

Tolerance is also assuming that people are reasonable until evidence demonstrates otherwise. 

I'd call that foolishness.

[crazy canuck]

That is just a rather bizarre interpretation of what he said.

Look at the poster.  Of course he will not only assume the most bizarre possible interpretation is what I meant, but he will insist, despite the facts, that only the most bizarre interpretation is even feasible.  It's part of his vendetta for getting his ass handed to him any number of times by me, I think.

Surely you can see that what he said was that carrying around a gun does not make you tolerant, but recognizing that some people DO wish to carry around a gun is tolerant.

Tolerance is all about letting other people do things even when you think there isn't a good reason for it.

Tolerance is also assuming that people are reasonable until evidence demonstrates otherwise. 

It does not surprise me at all that both of you are intrepreting what I said in a rather bizarre way.  I also understand why you would want to distance yourself from the comment that the mark of a tolerant society is allowing people to carry guns.

Also, Grumbler, more and more you fall back on the "look at the poster" argument.  Surely the champion of complaining about ad hom arguments can do better than that.

[Razgovory]

Well he did call you "ContraryCunt" last week...

[crazy canuck]

Well he did call you "ContraryCunt" last week...

He is the poster child for tolerance.

[Jacob]

Well he did call you "ContraryCunt" last week...

He is the poster child for tolerance.

grumbler carries a gun? 

[Razgovory]

With that attitude?  He damned well better be packing, or he's going to have people punching him everywhere he goes.

[DGuller]

With that attitude?  He damned well better be packing, or he's going to have people punching him everywhere he goes.

[Admiral Yi]

Just read an article in Time about Van Jones, the black Marxist who used to work for Obama, Moveon and some other lefty organizations joining up with Occupy.

[Razgovory]

Just read an article in Time about Van Jones, the black Marxist who used to work for Obama, Moveon and some other lefty organizations joining up with Occupy.

The guy that Conservatives harped on for a year, and nobody else ever heard of or cared?  Was he actually a Marxist?