Auggie, he doesn't answer questions.  He just asks them.  Which is why I never answer his, until he answers mine.   

I once conceded that it is theoretically possible for me to be wrong. Gandalf took this as an admission that I was lying about something. Forget what. He went on about it for quite some time though.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 30^th, 2020 at 9:46pm:


In his mind...... & it appears maybe in yours?

Somebody has to be right all the time.
Might as well be the boss.

I on the other hand, seek to be wrong and apologise often.
It's when I'm right, that I seem to annoy everyone. 

No.
FD's Forum. FD is Boss.
I don't like it. I go form my own Forum.

Don't like your Employer?
Go start your own Business.

While you're joining a Union.
I'm starting my own Business.

They've been thinking FD is a Jehovah's Witness since 2007.

Mix_Master wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 7:51am:




well he was a greenie in the early days.....and they are very much in the left boat... dont you agree.?


btw he is also a stirrer...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26yzgd

Jasin wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 7:19am:



Ummmmmmm................................ yes!

Monk, Aussie, Smith and Peccary want to take over the Forum from FD. Usurpers! 

Apparently I'm a sycophant for not trying to tear the Boss down.  John Smith the Union Rep wants money from Members to make FD spend more of his money on this Forum - the way John Smith likes it to be, being a Union Rep.

Mix_Master wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 9:48am:

funny

cods wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 7:55am:


Only because the idiocy of identity politics deems it so.

The need for action on climate change is a simple matter of scientific fact. Its about our very survival as a species. Grandstanding against it just to 'stick it to the lefties/greenies' is the height of stupidity.

Credit to FD as one of the few remaining free market 'true believers' who actually recognises the need to act on climate change.

there really isnt much point in admitting error on the internet.

in face to face communications , the nuance is possible but online , people dont get any ackowledgment for admitting error and especially not for apologising.

in fact, the haters will just use an admission of error as an excuse to "pile on".

its why the internet is a force of polarisation.

what would help would be if , the more people posted, the more they were sent commentary that disagreed with them

but facebook twtter google and youtube do the exact opposite, they want you in an echo chamber where everyone agrees with you because that feels nice and who doesnt want to feel nice.

its why , when trump won the 2016 election, many of the intellectuals on twitter were dumbfounded.
they would say things like "i have 10,000 followers and not one of them voted for trump"

and if 10,000 people agree with you , then you are probably unlikely to admit you were "wrong'.
so your brain makes up some story about russiand collusion to keep it from frying.

the same thing is happening to trump supporters this time round.
they only know and interact with 10,000 other trump supporters online.
so their brain has to make up a story about election rigging.

at least freedivers forum does not divide everyone off into little cults.


imagine gweg and smith and the marsupial and karnal just talking to each other for weeks on end.  they are deranged already but such a scenario would make them much worse. we of the noble right , have a duty to try to educate them out of their "ideological possession"

Mix_Master wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 7:51am:


Cods is right. I am a lefty. All of those positions are well founded in traditional left wing principles.

freediver wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 7:40pm:



I will take a bow......like fd I am always right!

Jasin wrote on Dec 1^st, 2020 at 7:34am:


In your dreams

you're only qualified to be sycophant/toady

FD you are basically claiming the left as your own, while simultaneously opposing most, if not all, positions that are near-universally held by actual leftists.

You then proceed to promote some the most sanctified of conservative/right wing principles like economic rationalism and anti government micromanagement, somehow thinking these are naturally left wing principles.

Or in other words, you are redifining the left beyond all meaning.

By the way, this bullshit "I'm the real pro-working class because I oppose big meany unions etc" rhetoric is just the same BS spouted by conservative/right wing politicians and commentators. The only difference is they don't pretend they are leftys.

Mix_Master wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2020 at 11:59am:


Apart from his support for a carbon tax and action on climate in general, FD's repertoire of political posturings are taken pretty much entirely from the right. Both economic and social. And even with the carbon tax/climate action he argues from an economic conservative perspective.

polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2020 at 10:18am:


Does that actually mean you're calling him a liar? 

Gnads wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2020 at 6:46am:


No. I don't give FD that much credit for understanding his own confused ramblings.

FD seems to me quite sincere - sincerely confused.

...this being a Writing Forum. I guess FD is the Master at the Top. Despite the likes of Smith and others to bring him down (tall poppy) and make him 'weak' of position like a PM.

polite_gandalf wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2020 at 7:54am:


Is criticising a movement for increasing inequality a right wing article of faith?

Aussie wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2020 at 10:32am:

Cane Toad.

freediver wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 7:02pm:

Setanta wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 8:28pm:


People often resist innovations they don't understand.

Auggie wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 9:10pm:


Yeah, that must be it...

Auggie wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 9:48pm:


I remember many others and myself poking holes in your drafts. Don't be bummed, one day we may say "By George he's got it!" It's just today is not that day.

Auggie wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 9:59pm:


Selective memory?

Auggie wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 10:03pm:


Maybe I am...

Maybe we could have limited this (now four page) thread to the original question and a response, had the subject of the original question simply replied..."No".

I know, I know...

"The world doesn't - and these 'boards especially don't - work like that!"

Mix_Master wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 10:12pm:


Accepting reality is not such a bad thing unless it's a voice in your head telling you to cut off random people's heads for some future personal gains...

freediver wrote on Dec 4^th, 2020 at 7:02pm:


By that, of course, you mean you cited a baseless brain fart from Milton Friedman, declared it as gospel truth, and flatly refused to either explain it more fully, or substantiate it in any way - and spent the rest of the "discussion" screaming "liar" to anyone who disagreed with you and tapdancing away from any attempts to get you to address the actual topic.

Much the same as what most fanatics of right wing dogma do.

FD is never wrong. You on the other hand are always wrong, like your posse from Monkey Mania.

Someone has to be always right and FD looks likely the choice.
Ultimate and absolute Power. 

I've been banned by FD. Do you see me cry a keg over it. I find it funny to be honest.