You're acting like an incredible fool and everyone's going to chime in on that. The Herd cannot be intimidated, especially by unimaginative insults and crappy spelling.
You are correct. My apologies to the MojoMan. He only has 15 posts in this train wreck. I keep getting distracted by events in "real life." (you two are so alike!) My point remains, however. You seem obsessed with this thread. You rant and you rave at various and sundry folks here, without appearing to have a clue as to their posting history, while attempting to know "everything" about them, a paradox, to be sure. It is amusing to watch. What is more amusing is that basso, who started it, has posted 7 times to your, let's see, 88 missiffs. And you aren't tired! You quoted the same post from me twice, and replied the same way, word for word. I'm looking for a fire extinguisher! (you seem obsessed with fire, as well)
I thought you weren't responding to me... Like I said..runt of the litter trying to impress the others in the herd
Posting from a blackberry and I'm traveling Your posting history now contains a huge blunder that ripped open a hole in you and your buddies position that you don't blindly hate Palin. You really shoulda took that like a man instead of making it worse with an idiotic excuse
Says the guy who thought it was appropriate for Sam to use a DS baby as the focal point of an insult.
I'm pretty sure pro-choicers who think that way are in the minority. Personally, having grown up with my mentally r****ded sister and seeing the amount of care she requires and will require for the rest of her life, if I knew my partner was going to give birth to our DS kid, I would encourage her to abort it. When it comes to DS, there are varying levels of mental r****dation. When bringing my sister to activities organized for DS people, I've met DS kids who are actually quite independent. I believe the actual term used to describe them is "higher functioning". My sister is however on the lower end of the scale. My sister is 23, but I've seen normal 4 year old kids who have better speech and motor skills than her. She can be very stubborn, and like a kid she is always testing the boundaries of what she can get away with - only she never grows out of this phase. Looking after her requires a lot of patience and time, and my family is lucky that my mother has both of these and is a housewife. From a young age my mother has been telling me that after she dies, I will have to take over as the main person looking after my sister, and to be honest, is something I'm not looking forward to. As I work, I'm not even sure how I could adequately provide enough time for her. HOWEVER in no way do I hate my mother or Sarah Palin or anyone else for not aborting their handicapped kid. In fact, given the amount of work it requires, I find it very admirable, and from the posts in this thread, it's obvious most people feel the same way. Saying people hate Palin for not aborting is a weak strawman.
^if it isn't clear I do not have a DS kid (but I do have a DS sister), just stating my position through a hypothetical scenario.
1 more thing to add... my Mother did not have a choice (she didn't know before giving birth about my sis' condition), but she has said before that she would not have aborted if she had that choice.
And what's so wrong with being a part of a herd, a community? Our species reaps a plethora of benefits from social cohesion; one of them happens to be the ability to take care of vulnerable members. If you need me to spell it out for you: children/persons with DS and other conditions that entail a certain degree of dependence on others exist and even thrive (comparatively) due to our tendency towards herd mentality. In a thread full of ironies, perhaps the quintessential one, Granville, is your denigration of a member of our community for what you perceive to be a weakness, an intelligence deficit, on his part. If you really think mc mark is a "runt", should you not be more patient with him? If you don't, you are guilty of exploiting a condition of human frailty in order to score a cheap insult, in a similar fashion to those who toss around the word "r****d" as a pejorative. Another irony that goes back a bit further in thread is your attempt to rally your own "herd" to compete with the dominant one. Yes, even the great Granville is all too human himself. The biggest disappointment in this microcosm of the D&D cesspool that is this thread (and pretty much any given basso thread) is that humans are capable of relating to each other on more than just the "us vs. them" level. That well was poisoned long ago here, it seems, and the likes of basso are intent on maintaining the toxicity of the water.
Oh I'm not chiming in. I'm just watching the mighty internet warrior in action. Keep going. It is really amazing the way you deftly handle your internet foes. This is so important, and you are so fearless.
I am happy to check this thread and see the gaping mudholes that the Herd has stomped on our foes this past evening. It reminds me of the wildebeests transiting the Okavango delta. Good show, fellows.
I wish you and I had not gotten off to a bad start because I do think your heart is in the right place. I don't agree about aborting your kid if you knew ahead but I'm not here to judge you on that. Just understand that I comprehend the struggle that these kids and their families go through and it sickened me to see Sam use that word to someone he knew was a primary care giver of a child with a learning disability. That's as low as it gets On top of that 2 other posters had the proper reaction to a horrible statement until they found out it was their friend who said it. That's the core of what's wrong with this forum.
