Flatus Fowler wrote:Ah, I told you I'm done with politics online. I really don't care anyway - when Bush invaded Iraq in '02 under transparently phony pretenses I basically threw in the towel. Since then my attitude is basically my political opinion is nobody's damned business. Then I joined that forum and all my anti-war feelings came to the surface. I have, after all studied the history Iraq for forty tears and even toured the region twice, it was hard to stay out of the fray for me. But after friends started to leave the forum, notably superCalo - who was the only reason I had joined in the first place - and later you guys, it occured to me that maybe the net was so different than real life and maybe it, like life itself would be better enjoyed with a light-hearted attitude.
That' it from me.
excellent post Uncle, I can tell that post was from the heart and that this is a subject that you feel very strong about.
This is actually a topic that should actually be discussed and explored but not with a bunch of people who have proven to be nothing more that close minded shills pushing a narrative. The irony for EY or for him to use his alt kungfool and call daglord a shill or accuse a number of people of derailing a thread for going against his narrative is irony that Shakespeare would be impressed with.
I think that it was just a coincidence that they happened to lean in your direction in a few of the opinions or they would have frustrated you to the point of walking away not because of their viewpoints but how they supposedly reached them. With many of them suffering from what seemingly was a mental illness, lack of common sense and having an agenda with the obvious refusal to call a spade a spade so to say when it came to the East especially Russia.
Just take a look at dog who smoked marijuana thread which is the typical retard logic and confirmation bias that EY applies to everything before his team (even if they don't agree) back him or stay silent. If you want to see EY "off the cuff" so to say that is your thread. For some reason he feels like he has to give his opinion on everything no matter how uninformed he is. Then if you don't listen he will just keep repeating it and spamming the thread until the attention is on him. Of course this his modus operandi on the OG but he started to use it oh his own forum as well blurring the lines between "truth evangelist" and full blown Asperger's ridden troll and attention whore.
I actually agree with your assessment about the Iraq build up and invasion back in 2002 when we already involved in legit conflict but why the hell would I want to admit that and discuss it with a group of people who have proven they are liars and frauds.
If this EY.com we would hear something that sounded like a Youtube comment right now like "Why would u attak Afghanistan wen the hijakers were Saudi!" GMB13 was the fucking worse with arrogant posts like he was the only one who knew what was going on and was educating us. His posts reeked of him copying a line verbatim out of a book right next to him that he just read.
I guess without getting into a huge discussions about this I think Oliver Stone's movie W puts it best by debating just what Bush's motivations were and if they were fed faulty intelligence by people wanting to topple Saddam's regime. Not to shift the blame away from him because the damage was not only done but is still felt today with what is transpiring.
Im not totally convinced that EY and co. believe all the shit they say and really think they are doing some kind of service over there. At the same time I wouldn't put it past people like that who lack so much self awareness to actually start believing their own bullshit after a couple strangers online who started to followed them. must have been the first time in their lives that people actually looked up to them and wanted to hear what they had to say.
Going back to what I was saying I guess it all depends on why you go online. I like to go online to have fun and use it as a form of escapism and to have a laugh. I can discuss serious things like this with people like Ben, Diet Butcher, Daglord and yourself because even if I don't agree with you I respect you enough to know you are educated on the topic and are not pushing a narrative or arguing against me because of who I am which can not be said the same for aspergersanonymous.com
I guess the bottom line is politics, religion and Asperger's do not mix.
