The California Exodus

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  1. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Keys to UA's personality: He's a ginger (I can say that because someone - probably Tamar-to-whom-the-rules-did-not-apply - posted a photo of him once).

    Gingers have our backs up from the get-go because the minute we step outdoors we're attached by (A) direct sunlight and (B) Cartman types.

    UA, unlike many of us who have had to swim against the tide and appreciate others who have done so, took the "I GOT MINE AND FUCK THE REST OF YOU" libertopian attitude.

    That what he "got" was just a service industry job with no possibility of advancement, as opposed to his libertarian idols (inherited money, nepotism, etc.) only made him angrier. Not at the idols, but at the rest of us who refuse to see the world from his narrow end of the telescope.

    UA = chronically angry. /discussion
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  2. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Indoctrinated and rationalized !="grew up," princess.

    Correct.
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  3. Tuttle

    Tuttle Listen kid, we're all in it together.

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    It's greedy to want to keep more of what you worked for, but not greedy to take what other people worked for. That's considered rational in some corners of the 'verse.

    Don't even try to educate them about household income growth the past few years vs the entire preceding decade (those past few years that just happened to coincide with lower taxes and fewer job competitors).
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  4. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    What's correct is =/=. You'll be using it frequently. Practice.
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  5. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Right there you prove you don't know a goddamn thing about me.

    No, I take the "I earned mine and insist my claim to what is mine takes precedence over those who did not earn what is mine." attitude.

    Do not presume to know my idols, or that I even have idols, bullshitter.

    Another presumption that is not yours to claim.
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  6. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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  7. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I know what you post. Unless your posts are all lies, I know you.
  8. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Harping on a pedantic point while skirting the substance. Quintessentially you. :finger:
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  9. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    You "know" what you filter through your semantical bullshitter beer goggles. You keep trying to attribute your "creative" interpretations to people as though that carries any weight whatsoever.
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  10. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    I would prefer people made better choices, but what I do not view as a valid alternative to that is depriving them of that choice. If we have to resort to that to engineer a prescribed outcome, we don't deserve to exist. :shrug:
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  11. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    :lol: @ the idea of garamet knowing UA.
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  12. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    If I as your neighbour want to burn toxic waste in my backyard after bringing it down the highway on my horse drawn cart it's my damn right.
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  13. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Right. Nobody will ever make the right choice unless it is forced upon them. The best way to cultivate a better human race is to condition each generation to submit reflexively to that force, and of course, that force would never be abused.
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  14. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Yeah, doing those things should be my right even if it's better I don't. :)
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  15. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I know what you post.
  16. Uncle Albert

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    Choice and consequence. Your companions even if your ideology strains to disavow them.
  17. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Then here is where you supply verbatim quotes proving exactly what you claim about me, without relying on any sort of interpretation on your part. :bailey:
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  18. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    https://wordforge.net/index.php?members/uncle-albert.63/

    Now, do the Donnie-boy Dance. "I never said that! Why would you say that? Why do you ask such mean questions?" [​IMG]
  19. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    That's what I thought. You've got nothing, and you articulate it with all the dignity of a 14 year old on twitter.
  20. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So you're claiming you never posted all of that? You're an entirely different person? Suspect, given that despite your "Fuck me running" exodus all those years ago, you post exactly the way the original Uncle Albert did. You'll be just as easy pickings as he was.
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  21. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    I'm claiming nothing. You have made the accusation, and now it is your job to prove it.

    From your imaginary fuck dolls? Dear god I hope so.

    And you will demonstrate that any minute now....
  22. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Afraid to reread your own posts? Not surprising.
  23. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    :lol:

    This is where I do your homework for you. Because I serve at your whims.

    Instead, I will adopt your own tactics. I know me, I know my posts and I know I have supplied nothing in support of your bullshit accusations.
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  24. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    No, this is where you either (A) reread your old posts and think "Gee, I was an asshole then; I'm sooo much more mature now; or you say (B) "Fuck you, I'm the same person, I haven't changed my opinions one iota since I ran away and, did I mention, fuck you?"

    Or refuse to do your own homework because (B).
  25. Uncle Albert

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    No, your highness. You made an accusation, and you get to prove it. I know I'm an asshole, but that doesn't absolve you of the responsibility to support your own assertions. It should be easy on a message board with a search function.
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  26. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So you're unable to read the link I posted? That's beyond sad.
  27. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    The link you posted was to my user profile. You're saying "read your 50k posts and prove what I'm saying is not true". You're adopting the Fox News tactic of "I'm just asking questions. Why won't he respond to my questions?"

    No. You want me to accuse me of something, you will demonstrate your direct knowledge of that thing with unambiguous evidence, or admit you pulled it out of your ass.
  28. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So you feel 50K posts are not insufficient to prove a pattern of behavior? Well, then, just keep posting the way you are right now and in no time at all you can add another 50K more to your profile.
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  29. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    I feel that a half dozen posts would be enough to demonstrate that, if you would bother to supply them. But you won't, because they don't exist, and you goddamn well know it.
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  30. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So because you're either too lazy or too incompetent to use keywords on your own posts, having demanded I do your homework for you, you are now projecting your accusation on me.

    Keep going. I want to see how long you can sustain this before you find something useful to do.

    BTW, have you and @Jenee decided to take shifts? Haven't seen her around since you went into Rabid Dog mode.