Thanks for making my day if not my year. I am getting ENORMOUS pleasure out of your intervention there. I had no idea you had it in you. You are even more infuriating to them than me. And that is not easy, trust me.
On 1/1/16 7:12 PM, Maxim Linchits wrote: > This might be tangentially relevant. I've just had the pleasure of > "debating" some of the Socialist Unity crowd recently, on topics > ranging from Syria and Ukraine. It was certainly a one of a kind > experience. They really do circle their wagons around Putin and > Assad. Some of the arguments were truly bizarre. Sometimes Assad was > the Churchill or our day, other times he was Abe Lincoln. The > Islamist rebels were naturally the SS, who should be exterminated > mercilessly. The rest was just transparent hypocrisy. Not ONE word > of criticism levelled at Assad or the Russians. The consensus is that > what they say goes. > > Interestingly enough, they all assumed I was Louis Proyect. So when > I replied in Russian to show I was someone else they blocked > precisely those comments and then the IP. Many of the people there > are as shrill and naïve as a five year old, and really can't take a > joke or a jab. Figures. But they are probably right that Star Wars > sucks, although their ideal seems to be a Sergio Leone "Western" > monstrosity. > > Fun crowd. They'll shower any "enemy of NATO" with praise. I wonder > what would happen if they lived in say Russia. Those contrarians > would probably be singing praises to NATO. > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
