talk_politics was started because people revolted against my heavy hand of never banning anyone, instead I just did my best to humiliate them with words. Ok, I banned one person, reality_hammer, cuz he's a paid shill ( Read more... )

For those fellows I have neglected to inform by other means ( Read more... )

I never regretted being the in the military.

But now every time someone wants to "thank" me or call me a "hero", I regret it more and more.

Welp, the transformation is complete. talk_politics has become the dessicated hulk of thought-terminating cliches it has always striven to be. Actual disagreement is interpreted as personal acrimony, and the acrimonious are free to level charges of trolling without fear of recourse. Anything that does not implicitly accept the premises of a post is ( Read more... )

If I may bear upon a philosophical heading for a bit:

What I find very disappointing about discussions involving God is how dreadfully mundane and boring they inevitably are. People sit there and "debate" the existence of God like you might "debate" the existence of a rock. There is nothing interesting about this sort of discussion. Not in the ( Read more... )

There is one undeniable truth of human society ( Read more... )

I've developed my first true recalcitrant prejudice. You tend to collect them as you get older. I wonder what wonders await me in my middle years ( Read more... )

I'm pretty fed up with things. Not personal life things. Just things in general. I'm living in a crumbling country too short-sighted to plan for floods, much less pay to maintain fucking bridges. I'm living in a country where entire metro areas like Detroit, and whole sections of New Orleans just disappear and everyone just acts like it never ( Read more... )

You know someone has issues when they start talking to you, out of nowhere, like you're their dad.That dude has a pathological need to lecture black people. Even when they're not around. He has this neurotic fixation on black people. No matter how hard he strangles his pathological racism, it comes out in tortured hack-job concern-trolling about ( Read more... )

I think sf_drama should stop using the phrase "batshit insane" so regularly and callously.