Meet Your Next. U.S. President

[DaShi]

No wonder you support Obama, who, given his lack of published grades is probably a robot himself. (The "honors" he received, were for being teh first black robot. He's the Jackie Robinson of robots.) The begs the question, did we buy GM to "restructure" it financially... or was the "restructuring" actually more about the design and fabrication process. Is Obama now building an army of robots (who will be ugly and have poor gas mileage)? How will this affect the coming election?

He already has my vote. You don't need to pander to me anymore.

[Dinner]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/19/huntsman-decries-debt-debate-lunacy/?hpt=hp_bn4

John Huntsman does seem to be the reasonable one so of course he won't win the Republican primary which is filled with raving loons like Ben.

[Dinner]

How is "truck drivers aren't qualified to practice medicine" a statement of hate?

Only in the Ben-iverse!

[Dinner]

I can only know that I exist. I know I am because I think. All the rest of you could just be figments of my imagination for all I know.

Many of us here have met each other in real life. I believe even Ben has met posters here in real life. It's quite cheap and easy to travel, you know.

[Al B. Sure!]

Many of us here have met each other in real life. I believe even Ben has met posters here in real life. It's quite cheap and easy to travel, you know.

Oerdin, you really are not as bright as you think you are. You think like Ben.

All the rest of you includes every human on the planet. How am I to know that any of them exist and that this is not all in my head? You can't disprove solipsism.

I mentioned this in response to Kidicious' equivalizing of statements of scientific fact with mere opinions. It's taking the absurdity of 'one is not better than the other' to its logical conclusion. If he denies the validity of empiricism on some basis, what's the point?

[Ben Kenobi]

How am I to know that any of them exist and that this is not all in my head? You can't disprove solipsism.

Grow a plant, next.

[Dinner]

Anywho, truckers are no less qualified to vote. The intelligence has nothing to do with it.

Again, we're talking about who should advise the government on policy and that the positions of of the parties should at least conform to agreed upon scientific facts instead of deliberately trying to be anti-intellectual, lying about the facts (or often just making complete fiction up a la Ben), and claiming that experts in their fields must be wrong simply because they are educated and so cannot be trusted. The GOP does this ALL THE TIME. That is the majority of their base.

The GOP base which funds everything in the party and which defacto controls the party is the ~10% very rich population of the country but 10% doesn't win elections on their own so they look around for the really stupid and uneducated people who they try to win to their side via wedge issues (guns, gays, god, and race) which they use to distract these two digit IQ mouth breathers and to convince them to vote against their own self interest. That's who all the anti-intellectual nonsense is aimed at; they want to make the high school drop outs feel good and appreciated by telling them their completely uninformed and provably false opinions are just as good as experts because those people know they're not very bright but are tired of people telling them that just as they're tired of their minimum wage job, their 30 year old pick up, and their home in the mobile home park. They want to believe that they're just as knowledgeable and have more "common sense" (even if he lacked the common sense to become properly educated or do well in school) then the "elitists", which means anyone who reads a book or who has enough intelligence to notice folks like Rush Limbaugh are full of ****, so the GOP pats them on the head and makes them feel better with a steady dose of pandering nonsense which also happens to serve the interests of the very rich who really run the party.

[giblets]

Oerdin, you really are not as bright as you think you are. You think like Ben.

All the rest of you includes every human on the planet. How am I to know that any of them exist and that this is not all in my head? You can't disprove solipsism.

I mentioned this in response to Kidicious' equivalizing of statements of scientific fact with mere opinions. It's taking the absurdity of 'one is not better than the other' to its logical conclusion. If he denies the validity of empiricism on some basis, what's the point?

Well you're obviously not smart enough to come up with a disproof of solipsism, and since we're figments of your imagination we can't come up with something unless you come up with it.

[Dinner]

But if we said it then wouldn't that be him coming up with it himself since we're part of his subconscious mind? It would be an idea he knows subconsciously trying to fight it's way out but which his conscious mind was having difficulty accepting for what ever reason.

[Dinner]

Oh, and since everyone's opinion is equally valid even if it runs against facts & reality there is no reason to seek a shrink or philosopher for advice. We can just bull**** it on our own and get equally valid results.

[HalfLotus]

Psychology and philosophy are both bull**** endeavors, so yes.

[Ben Kenobi]

The GOP base which funds everything in the party and which defacto controls the party is the ~10% very rich population of the country

Eh, you're wrong about that.

Those with net worth greater then 10 million are overwhelmingly democrat.

so they look around for the really stupid and uneducated people who they try to win to their side via wedge issues

Not true at all. If your net worth is less than 150k and you have a college education you are a democrat. If your net worth is under 50k, you don't vote, or are an independent.

Call me when you actually do some research to verify your claim.

[Dinner]

[Ben Kenobi]

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/10/13/the-rich-support-mccain-the-super-rich-support-obama/

[giblets]

Eh, you're wrong about that.

Those with net worth greater then 10 million are overwhelmingly democrat.

Wow, Ben doesn't know what top 10% richest means