[quote]Gkhan wrote:
I think TGunner nailed this in a post of his a while back.[/quote]
I haven’t read through this thread, but here is the post you are referencing, just as a matter of context:
[i]TGunslinger wrote:
It’s his lack of consistency. It’s his failure to argue in good faith. It’s his refusal to understand any line of reasoning that does not place the U.S. squarely in the wrong. It’s his habit of turning every single thread, regardless of initial subject, into yet another U.S. foreign policy thread.
Every single problem in the world today is mostly America’s fault, because we’re the lone Superpower in the world. As if everybody on the planet gets along swimmingly until the U.S. blunders in and screws it all up.
His reasoning is so distorted, it’s like a logical Rube Goldberg Machine. The idea of proximate cause flows over him like water off a duck. Because no matter what the issue, in the end it’s the U.S.'s fault. Always.
He will change his entire operating philosophy from thread to thread, and even sometimes mid-thread, to ensure that the U.S. always remains at fault.
Remember, he’s a “libertarian socialist”, whatever the fuck that means. Too much U.S. action, and the libertarian in him is offended. Too little, and it’s the socialist that’s offended. Thus, he’s offended no matter what the U.S. does.
He does not hold any other country to the same standard that he does the U.S… Not Europe, not Russia, not China. Nobody else. It is understandable when any other nation makes mistakes, but not the U.S…
The U.S. must be perfect, absolutely flawless in its legislation, decision making, judicial review, and execution. It must perfectly anticipate every consequence that might occur, even decades down the line, to ensure that nobody is upset.
Naturally, it’s no problem at all when other nations misjudge even contemporary consequences of their actions, but the U.S. is held responsible for deaths in 2008 resulting from U.S. policy from 1972.
When people or nations react to the U.S. and cause harm, it’s the U.S.'s fault. But the U.S. cannot ever react to other nations or people, or that too is the U.S.'s fault.
When we can twist his arm into admitting that Russia or China or even the E.U. has done something evil, it’s okay. No really, because citizens in those countries were dragged along at gun-point by totalitarian regimes. U.S. citizens are voting tax-payers, thus we shoulder the blame of U.S. mistakes while citizens of every other nation on the face of the Earth are absolved when their governments screw up.
But not me. I killed an Iraqi in cold-blood this afternoon because I vote and pay taxes, while a Chinese citizen’s hands are washed clean of the blood of a Sudanese.
Varq, you say lixy is not an “ignorant motherfucker”. I would agree, to a very specific point.
Lixy is highly educated in the arguments of how the U.S. is always and forever responsible for every lamentation the world over since WWII.
However, it is as if he then closed his mind forever, because he makes zero effort to understand the other side of the coin. He has very little understanding of concepts that put U.S. actions into context and explain why we just might not be the devil-incarnate.
Why bother? His world is very simple and neat when there’s a big, bad wolf on which he can conveniently push all blame.
Lixy is very knowledgeable about one side of the argument, yet willfully ignorant of the other. His critical thinking skills are about as sharp as a butter knife, to boot. Have you seen him when someone nails him in an argument? It’s like a computer freezing up.
So Varq, when lixy comes on this site and unceasingly throws up half-truths, exaggerations, and the occasional outright lie in order to slander my nation, then blames its citizens – me – for its actions, and then either shifts his entire philosophy in order to spin, twist, and writhe his way past any and all logical arguments opposed to his or plugs his ears and screams like a toddler, you don’t get the least bit annoyed?
In fact, you get annoyed at us when we get annoyed at him?
Further, you think our annoyance with lixy is due simply to him criticizing America, or his religion, or his residence?
Wow, thanks for giving us the benefit of the doubt, Varq. I’d hate to tell that I’m not voting for Obama or Hillary, because I think you might conclude that I hate blacks and feminists.
My disliking lixy can’t possibly be because he spends hours making literally thousands of posts unfairly bashing the hell out of my nation – and by proxy, myself – in bad faith?
Sheesh… [/i]