To heypartner (and anyone else), RE: Politics on cc.net

A Soap Opera kicks @ss!

 

I just lost all respect for you Batman.

 

I talk politics with just about everybody. I love to debate. I most often talk politics with my mother who believe it or not...makes me look like a leftist.

 

Batman Jones, (and anyone else) I really wouldn't worry about losing anyone's respect for discussing politics on a sports BBS. Clutch doesn't seem to mind now, does he?

It's better than obsessing over over-rated, bony-ass, marginally attractive women, which is a tradition here at CC.net.

You want to talk politics, go right on with ya bad self!

 

Politics is a dirty biznass better left to the lying, cheating, plundering, and manipulating posters

 

Thank you, sir. It's about time somebody said that.

The political threads rule.

 

Batman,
I couldn't have said it better myself. Even though we disagree, the hangout is an outlet for thoughts and ideas.

 

Batman Jones,

I was half joking, thinking others would admit that talking politics here is just part of their cc.net addiction to get to know other Rockets fans, and that surely is a big part of it.

The part that is half not joking regards debating for the intellectual stimulation of debating. Are you serious? Here? The topic of politics has a lot more intellectually stimulating venues for debate than a bball board like this...no??

Personnally, I'm just one of those guys who doesn't like "current issues" round tables at all. It never seems to be really about debate, but more about expressing your personality, and, well, I'm better at expressing my personality through other things...aren't we all??

For instance, whenever people fill out a profile of interests...how many ever say "talking about politics." There is a reason for that, no? Then again, Typical Rice Guys like Trader_Jorge often have to rely on politics to carry a conversation on first dates with Typical Rice Girls.

that's a fact jack!!

Rice Awareness class dismissed

Last person close the door.

 

I believe heypartner's reaction to political threads is all too similar to his reaction to Rockets trade scenarios. IMHO, (and I admit I've only observed this for a total of four months), heypartner would like to boil cc.net down to a BBS of people diagraming plays game by game, quarter by quarter -- a community of uber-bball-analysts. If only we had a java-based tele-strater!

Anyway, I really admire his vision, but ultimately, as someone without ready access to watching the Rockets ( ), I'm more inclined to, oh, I dunno, impersonate Dr. Laura, or type a bunch of left-leaning semi-coherent positions, or post in the science-related threads.

 

Aha...see, my Intellectually Stimulating discussion is as dorky as yours, but at least I'm at the right bulletin board, plus I can make more friends in a bar talking about the Rockets than you can talking about diagramming the 10th dimension.

hmmm...well, on second thought, my favorite bar (Valhalla) as more science talk than all sports combined, so maybe I don't know where to hangout at afterall.

 

I see it like this. The one thing that brings us here (at least most of us) is the Rockets. Each of us is bigger than that one area of our lives, I'm hoping. Clutch has provided an area of the BBS to discuss those other areas of our lives. Many of us make use of it.

 

I'll take that as a compliment...so thanks!

Actually I term myself as a fiscal conservative and a social moderate. Example: I believe it is an individual's right to be gay if that is what they are. I also believe that gay pride groups have no more right to hold a rally in a public park than I do to put a nativity scene there during the holidays. JMPO.

I had thought that if I were to become rich I would start the Constructionist Party. The premise being that so much of the state of our nation has gone wrong by reading things into the Constitution that aren't really there. We didn't like the treatment of former slaves as not being citizens...so we amended the Constitution. Today...most things are read into it by the Court using tortured logic and results driven outcomes. Again...JMHO.

 

I enjoy reading anything clever that shows insight and hints at more than it reveals, inviting further exploration. Sometimes politcal threads do that...sending me off the find a quote or more information or think through a string of consequences. Sometimes, it's just "Senator Smith is a poo poo head." "No, Senator Jones is!" "Sez you!" "Well, you're a poo poo head." You get the idea...

There's an old rule of thumb that whenever anyone invokes the name of Hitler, descending to the level of reductio ad absurdum, the thread is over. I'd vote for an auto-lock with the Hitler rule. Spirited discourse and new perspectives are entertaining. Name- calling, finger-pointing and shouting matches only entertain as displays of stupidity or self-immolation. Yumm...marshmellows! However, a whole string of burning monks is tiresome in its rigid symmetry. A little variety, please!

 

heypartner,
When your date who is sitting across the table answers your "so what's happening this weekend" question with a "I'm going to an anti-war demonstration" then all bets are off and we are talking politics. You don't tell Trader_Jorge that you are going to an anti-war demonstration and then have the last word. CASE CLOSED

I enjoy posting on this board because it gives me an outlet to express my political views without negative repurcussions in my circle of friends or my job (although at work I fit right in). My psychological warfare tactics would not be well received in a normal dialogue. Here I can use them repeatedly and only get a reprimand from MadMax, Refman, Haven, etc. I also like testing new approaches to dialogue and debate here and gauging reaction.

 

Ah, Valhalla. I doubt beer is still $0.50, but tell me they still serve Shiner Bock.

 

I don't believe in politics. I think they are a conspiracy dreamt up by some the evil spawn of a leftist wacko and a right-wing nutjob.