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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Oh geez. So now Kiki/Sig have entered matyr-holy-land. Someone somewhere didn't appreciate their contributions enough so now they say to all those who disagree: it's only because our scared little brains can't take the TRUTH and it makes us get all unfamiliar and uncomfortable and perhaps develop hives and possibly a sTRA/ange oD/d tW/Itch.

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
One of (but not the only) reason I still show up in RWED is to make fun of this kind of shit.

It is too easy to resist.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I mock the mindless drivel.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
So, I see that some posters are instantly branded as 'crazy' or 'extreme' because of what they post.

Now, it seems to me that before you brand a person 'crazy' for their ideas, you should first determine whether or not those ideas have any merit. 'Crazy' is something that has no basis in reality. An idea with a basis in reality, by definition, can't be 'crazy'.

But people seem to balk at examining certain ideas because they are too big, too unfamiliar, too uncomfortable.

For example the role the US has in the Ukraine - not as a force for 'freedom' and 'democracy', but as a long-term committed actor to deprive Russia of a partner and buffer (admitted to on tape with dollar signs attached) - no matter what the means (violent coup of a democratically elected Prime Minister) or the effect on the Ukrainian people - or even a potential to disrupt long-term nuclear détente with Russia. Then there are the broken agreements between Russia and the US regarding NATO. But such topics are, apparently, 'crazy'.

Then there's the idea of the petrodollar, an agreement between the US and OPEC that ALL oil sales from OPEC nations to anyone in the world must be paid for in US dollars (you might say that when the US went off the gold standard it went on the oil standard.) Petrodollars floated the US currency globally for a long time after the US dollar stopped being backed by US production and export. (US - Sep 17, 1985 - The United States has become a debtor nation for the first time since World War I). That various nations have been trying to broker deals between each other NOT using US dollars is a well-established fact. That they are now inking major deals between each other NOT in US dollars signals a shift who's significance should be examined. On a related topic, I wonder if the Germans have privately given up on getting their gold back out of Fort Knox. But those discussions - must be 'crazy'.

On to megadroughts. A simple lookup in wiki should tell people that this isn't a fanciful notion spawned by disaster-mongers, but a well-established observation over geologic history. And I'm sure many people have come across the idea that the Anasazi may have been doomed by a megadrought - a comfortable idea as long as it's safely in the past and far away. But that idea suddenly becomes 'crazy' when it's posited in the here and now.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"... Someone somewhere didn't appreciate their contributions enough so now they say to all those who disagree ..."

Well, when the first, last and only comments go - It's PN. It's extreme. It's crazy - and no one examines the content to see if it might possibly be true - then yeah, I mock the mindless drivel.

AHEM!

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never question that what the Kik-Sig proclaims
So now Kiki/Sig have entered matyr-holy-land.
I think you confused her with PN
You've been solidly on the NUTZ side lately

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm beginning to think that some liberals are just like rappy, and that you're one of them.

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Oh, BTW... Why does American need more moderate Republicans? We have quite a few of them. They're called Democrats.-Signy

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Capitalism starved as many people as Mao and Stalin combined. NOT PN

Discussed this before, in partial detail, as I posted massacre after genocide after atrocity, all committed in the name of "freedom"... but actually for the benefit of capitalism.

At the time, I touched on capitalism's complicity in causing starvation: the policies of the World Bank and IMF in deciding that some countries - like Haiti- would be "better off" serving as reservoirs of cheap labor, the devastating effects on local agriculture of "free trade", the interest that all corporations have in supporting corrupt leaders (that includes in the USA) which create massive poverty and desperation. Turns out, there's more. Geezer, Wulf, and all you "free market" believers, read more if you dare be discomfited in your absolute belief that corporations are manna from heaven.

"How Goldman Sachs Caused a 'Silent Mass Murder,' Gambling on Starvation in the Developing World"

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"... Someone somewhere didn't appreciate their contributions enough so now they say to all those who disagree ..."

Well, when the first, last and only comments go - It's PN. It's extreme. It's crazy - and no one examines the content to see if it might possibly be true - then yeah, I mock the mindless drivel.

AHEM!

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AHEM to what exactly?

You've been solidly on the NUTZ side lately. You and your same-location-as-far-as-IP-address-can-tell nutty pal sig.

I think you confused her with PN. Easy to do with her posts of late.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ummm... why should I squirm? And who is "me and mine"? I have no "mine" here; it's just me.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Hmmmmm Sigs and kiki had the same ip address back then?

And Sigs admits she has no hubby or dear daughter.

I wonder what DT would think about this.

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