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He wasn't going after a Christian. He was going after a racist who happened to be a Christian. The fact that he's a Christian is irrelevant. Why do you think everyone is out to get you?
Why do you think everyone is a racist? You will probably have to be capable of constructing more water tight arguments if you hope to spring any of your murderer/rapist clients from prison. You need to up your game a bit.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Elizabeth Warren is not a native American according to the Cherokee Nation. She is lying like all Democratic politicians.
Uh...what?? :)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Democrats lie. Global warming alarmists lie. Social justice warriors like Lying Ben Daswani lie. They believe that the end justifies the means when it almost never does (at least in the case of their desired ends).
Great article Peter. I almost missed it amid all the insults.
I particularly enjoyed this quote from George Will.
“So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict.”
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Tuesday, 9th May, 2017, 01:45 AM.
Great article Peter. I almost missed it amid all the insults.
I particularly enjoyed this quote from George Will.
“So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict.”
"Credulity" -- what an excellent choice of term! Defined as "a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true." But it could equally be defined as "a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is fake news."
Credulity seems to be the opposite of wisdom.
Remember back some time ago, I mentioned that Vlad Drkulec and Trump seem so alike? Well, credulity was the characteristic I put at the top of the list back at that time. Drkulec only needs to see something in a Taylor Swift song's lyrics and voila! it's true! And of course, Drkulec is absolutely MARRIED to anything that is conservative or right-wing.
Drkulec also likes to find obscure quotes from obscure people, as if just by knowing that quote, Drkulec is somehow wiser than everyone else. That was a favorite tactic of Jean Hebert on this forum also. I would also mention Bill O'Reilly, formerly of Fox News, as a practitioner of this tactic. On his half-hour show, he regularly put up a "Word of the Day" as if to say that he is the wise man who is teaching you his vast store of knowledge. So glad to see that guy go down!
Readers should realize when they see these tactics that the person behind them is a phony... the central message of The Wizard of Oz.
I don't know your situation, Bob.... but I have to say, for you to be working in any capacity with Vlad Drkulec is akin to working with Trump. You are really selling out your good and decent values as you express them here. Drkulec just called every Democrat a liar.... every leftist a liar.... he's literally calling YOU a liar.
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
Ok, resorting to personal attack, hallmark of a loser.
My point is that I don't know you. Why would I place my child in the custody of someone I don't know? Of the people who post on ChessTalk I can think of two that I think I know well enough in person that if I had a child I would leave that child in their custody.
I had no intention of questioning your integrity or trustworthiness. I know nothing about you. I apologize if that is how you took it.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
I don't know your situation, Bob.... but I have to say, for you to be working in any capacity with Vlad Drkulec is akin to working with Trump. You are really selling out your good and decent values as you express them here. Drkulec just called every Democrat a liar.... every leftist a liar.... he's literally calling YOU a liar.
Help me Paul, they have me in chains in the basement of Drkulec Towers somewhere in Windsor!
Just kidding of course, but while I may be the crazy left wing socialist snowflake climate change alarmist and Vlad the extreme right wing capitalist zealot climate change skeptic, we leave our politics at the door. We’ll never see eye to eye on many issues, but it doesn’t mean we can’t work together for Canadian Chess.
My point is that I don't know you. Why would I place my child in the custody of someone I don't know? Of the people who post on ChessTalk I can think of two that I think I know well enough in person that if I had a child I would leave that child in their custody.
I had no intention of questioning your integrity or trustworthiness. I know nothing about you. I apologize if that is how you took it.
If you left a child in his custody he would probably try to teach them a chess variant.
Help me Paul, they have me in chains in the basement of Drkulec Towers somewhere in Windsor!
Just kidding of course, but while I may be the crazy left wing socialist snowflake climate change alarmist and Vlad the extreme right wing capitalist zealot climate change skeptic, we leave our politics at the door. We’ll never see eye to eye on many issues, but it doesn’t mean we can’t work together for Canadian Chess.
Sorry Bob, but "leaving your politics at the door" is not acceptable any more. The reason can be illustrated thusly: if Vlad Drkulec were to be made ruler of the world, he would stop all efforts to mitigate man-made global warming. In other words, he would bet the future of all mankind on his preconceived belief that all the scientists are lying, that they are all perpetuating a hoax and fudging data. You really need to let that thought sink in. Vlad would potentially WIPE OUT HUMANITY because he won't accept any percentage chance, no matter how small, that climate change is real and is human-caused and can wipe out humankind. And you personally believe very strongly that this is the case, that human-caused climate change can wipe out humankind.
You might as well say you can "leave legalities at the door" and work for Charles Manson if Manson happened to believe in something good for chess.
As I said, I don't know your situation. Is your income from the CFC your only income? If so, then you figuratively ARE being held in chains in the basement of Drkulec Towers. But at some point, Bob, you have to decide just how strongly do you believe in the values you espouse, and you have to cut off any connection to people who have no conscience. And not just cut off connection to them, but publicly proclaim them for what they are.
Until you do that, you are literally nobody. That is the reality in today's world. There is nothing more serious we can talk about than the survival of humanity if you are a believer in the value of humanity. Canadian chess is, by comparison, nothing.
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
While Vlad's opinions on climate change and the honesty of the media and US democrats are ones that I would charitably describe as poor choices, your analogy is also a very poor one. Aside from Vlad using his right to free speech and to vote for who he wants to, he has not influenced society regarding climate change, and nothing that the CFC has done has impacted climate change.
If as you stated Canadian chess is by comparison, nothing, then stop wasting your time discussing climate change on a bulletin board dedicated to chess, and spend your efforts trying to stop those whose actions have a real effect on the matters you care about (hint: see thread title). The benefits would be clearly more tangible.
Democrats lie. Global warming alarmists lie. Social justice warriors like Lying Ben Daswani lie. They believe that the end justifies the means when it almost never does (at least in the case of their desired ends).
Wow. Just wow. Do you apply this to everyone in these categories, or just certain specific persons (aside from the ones named)?
Mind if I write "Conservatives lie. Climate change deniers lie. Right wing extremists like lying Vlad Drkulek lie."? Didn't think so.
I can't imagine why I asked that we have a moderator for this board.
Case in point of the looney left just having lost it due to the Trump victory.
While Vlad's opinions on climate change
A scheme to enrich liberals.
and the honesty of the media
At least in the U.S. an arm of the Democratic Party as shown by the Podesta leaked emails.
and US democrats
Nancy, you can read the legislation after you vote for it, Pelosi.
Elizabeth Warren AKA Pocahontas. 'Nuff said.
Barrack, If you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan, If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, Obama
Chuck, Crocodile Tears, Schumer
Al Gore the Environmental semi-billionaire who flys around in a private jet. Trump has already cost him hundreds of millions of dollars.
Susan Benghazi was a spontaneous uprising due to an internet video Rice.
are ones that I would charitably describe as poor choices,
And I would disagree.
your analogy is also a very poor one. Aside from Vlad using his right to free speech and to vote for who he wants to, he has not influenced society regarding climate change, and nothing that the CFC has done has impacted climate change.
Liberals (not the Trudeau ones except in some small instances which they seem to have stepped away from) in the U.S.A. don't like free speech when it comes to their political opponents.
If as you stated Canadian chess is by comparison, nothing, then stop wasting your time discussing climate change on a bulletin board dedicated to chess, and spend your efforts trying to stop those whose actions have a real effect on the matters you care about (hint: see thread title). The benefits would be clearly more tangible.
Online meetings probably trump anything Al Gore has done while zooming around the planet in his private jet.
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While Vlad's opinions on climate change and the honesty of the media and US democrats are ones that I would charitably describe as poor choices, your analogy is also a very poor one. Aside from Vlad using his right to free speech and to vote for who he wants to, he has not influenced society regarding climate change, and nothing that the CFC has done has impacted climate change.
If as you stated Canadian chess is by comparison, nothing, then stop wasting your time discussing climate change on a bulletin board dedicated to chess, and spend your efforts trying to stop those whose actions have a real effect on the matters you care about (hint: see thread title). The benefits would be clearly more tangible.
I'm not denying Vlad Drkulec his right to his opinions. He has argued his opinions quite extensively here on ChessTalk in the past, so it is possible that he has had some minor impact, maybe influenced a few feeble minds. But that isn't important either. What matters is that he would prefer to see there be a CHANCE, no matter how small, that humankind could be eradicated by climate change than to give up on his opinions that scientists are lying and fudging data, with there being no overwhelming factual proof of such claims. Vlad is putting his own personal and selfish desires to have no climate change legislation or restrictions ahead of the interests of the human race.
This means Vlad (and anyone who would do the same) is without conscience. And that means he is equivalent to any remorseless murderer you could name, including Manson. You can jump in and say, Garland, that my analogy is poor all you like, but since I know you have kids, you might be better off jumping in somewhere else to defend scientists against these baseless accusations. Your kids, and their kids should we survive as a species that long, are someday going to judge you -- and I mean SEVERELY judge you -- based on what you did or did not do during these critical times on behalf of climate change restrictions that absolutely must happen.
My message to Bob is that in the face of all that, "leaving politics at the door" on this particular issue is no longer acceptable. This isn't trickle-down theory versus direct government spending. This is the future of the human race.
Bob can ignore that message if he wants to (or needs to in order to pay his bills, if that be the case), but he should then realize that his own warnings about climate change have no conviction behind them. You point out, Garland, that nothing the CFC has done has impacted climate change. Well..... EXACTLY! And with Drkulec in charge, that isn't going to change. Bob has to decide if he really thinks the climate change issue is as important as he has talked about in the past. And that means putting his money where his mouth is, walking away from the CFC, and making it very publicly known why.
The only reason I bring up Canadian chess at all is because Bob uses some benefit to Canadian chess as an excuse to work with a man of no conscience. Since Bob is very vocal in support of the climate change issue, and assuredly recognizes the importance of the issue, that is imo an inexcusable rationalization.
That goes for everyone. History will judge us all, assuming we don't nuke ourselves first thanks to Trump.
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
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