*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[BananaStand]

You're like a meme at this point.

Your first post on this subject clearly, and most obviously, used the word "remarkable" as a synonym for "impressive", "exceptional", "wonderful", "marvelous". These are all synomyms that appear in an actual thesaurus and are consistent with the colloquial definition of "remarkable".

Now...suddenly......when you're opinion has been debunked as erroneous, now you want to PRETEND like you were using the word remarkable to mean "that upon which remarks can be made", which could apply to anything...and not give any connotation whatsoever. In other words, not only did you fail to contribute to the conversation, you actually took it backwards.

And yet you still bitch and moan about the tone around here....you whine about the lack of productive discourse???

Explain yourself please?

What exactly is your point? And if you don't have a point...why are you talking?

[MadMojoMonkey]

I misunderstood your first point, because I expose myself to so much hyperbole and rhetoric on a regular basis that when someone speaks to me using words' literal meanings, I don't expect candor. It throws me off.

That said, rather than accept personal responsibility for my misunderstanding, I blame you for using words by their literal meanings. Despite my overreaction to something you didn't say, I hold you responsible.

Thank you for sharing your feelings with us.

And yet you still bitch and moan about the tone around here....you whine about the lack of productive discourse???

I appreciate the productive nature this question has on the topic of the Amish, but I'm not interested in your aggressive then passive-aggressive nonsense.

Explain yourself please?

I find the Amish people do a lot of remarkable things. That is all.
The Mennonites are pretty similar in my understanding.
I don't know of too many cults that don't simply indoctrinate the children and effectively imprison them as they become adults.
If nothing else, the Amish take on it is a different approach.

I don't care one bit whether or not it's moral or ethical. Other people can worry about that stuff. If it's a human rights tragedy or whatever you claimed, then it's kinda interesting that no one is being assaulted. It sounds like your argument to that effect is like a Stockholm Syndrome kind of thing. Which again, I'm not taking any moral stance on.

People are willing to go to extremes to live a familiar lifestyle. Look at all the hubbub over people feeling they're entitled to die in a culture similar to the one they were raised in. People care about stuff like that which I can't even understand why. I just accept that people feel entitled to all sorts of things which nature doesn't agree on. Sometimes that leads to good things. Sometimes bad.

What exactly is your point? And [some nonsense to buoy my ego]

People do all kinds of weird things, and plenty of them make no sense, but could be a lot better or worse.

[BananaStand]

I don't care one bit whether or not it's moral or ethical.

So then you admit, you only joined the conversation on that particular subject to start a pissing contest with me!!!!

if you don't care one way or the other.....then why say anything????

Did you find any factual inaccuracies that you wanted to correct?
Did you find some forum rules violation you wanted to call out?

can you explain WHY exactly you decided to comment on the Amish subject at all?

You say you don't care.

you're retro-actively re-defining your comments as being nothing more than "Amish people exist"

WHY???