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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
2012-04-06 19:53:30
edited 2012-04-06 19:58:00 in Media
I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.
Taxes
Sensitivity Training
NASA
Secondhand Smoke
Environmental Hysteria
Recycling
12-Stepping
Holier Than Thou
College
Gun Control
Endangered Species
Reparations
Obesity
Wal-Mart
Handicap Parking
Being Green
Fast Food
Fuck them.
e: In case you don't get it, they're libertarians.
Comments
Yeah...
Yeah, how dare people with a tv show have opinions different than you!
^ Don't know what his physical appearance has to do with anything.
^^ Well, there's the fact that he willfully misrepresents facts and hundreds of Internet-atheist-libertarians take his word as gospel.
In case you hadn't figured, he said that recycling is bad because poor people could use aluminum for stuff; that Wal-Mart is good because it creates jobs; that the Dalai Lama is bad because Tibet used to be an aristocracy; that secondhand smoke isn't dangerous; that global warming is a myth; that political correctness and affirmative action are stupid; that obesity isn't a big deal; and, of course, "fuck taxes."
>Well, there's the fact that he willfully misrepresents facts
This separates him from Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and anyone with a political agenda... how?
Besides, your OP said nothing about lying or using facts to sway opinions. Just listed positions contrary to your own and went 'oooh how dare he.'
He's not even relevant to any political discourse at this point. It's like starting an IJBM about Glenn Beck except at least that would have a point because he did actually influence politics for a time.
So I'm not allowed to make a thread about him? Yes, all those people are as bad as or worse than him (though he is also a major misogynist), but that does not preclude my making a thread about him. You can make a thread about any of the people you just named, if you really want to. I do agree that my OP was a bit vague as to why I dislike him so much; I probably should've posted more than the titles of a few of the episodes of his show. I apologize.
You're allowed to, certainly, and I'm allowed to criticize you for being worked over someone so irrelevant.
And frankly, I doubt his supposed lying would bother you if it were in favor of things you agreed with.
You know CountryPumpkin didn't even mention those newscasters, right, Malk?
Yeah, I know. That was specifically my point.
"(though he is also a major misogynist),"
Well he's a skeptic, of course he is.
^^ What point? It seems like a red herring to me.
My point is that complaining about a person who speak about politics twisting facts to suit them is basically complaining about them existing because pretty much everyone does it and it doesn't make Penn & Teller unique.
Granted, not wanting pundits to exist is a platform I'd get behind.
So if everyone does it, am I not allowed to complain about anybody doing it?
See my earlier post in regards to that.
My only real issue is that the OP reads like a typical Myrmidon/Don Zabu OP where we spend the next page asking them what they mean and what're we supposed to discuss while calling them out on making a thread on something so trivial.
^We've had a lot of them, haven't we?
And frankly, I doubt his supposed lying would bother you if it were in favor of things you agreed with.
That part is true, at least.
It helps a lot that those three are the most prolific threat creators, I think. Don't have any stats to prove it, though.
wonder if what they need is probation~
When I clearly state my problem in a thread, I get no posts.
^Better that than trying to be vague on purpose for attention.
Is it really that worth it to get the usual insults of "Myrm's gonna myrm" and whatever in order to get attention?
I do think that a lot of the time, topics and threads are skipped because of personal issues between posters (And I ain't gonna lie, the whole "myrm's gonna myrm" thing is more annoying that your OPs) but you gotta meet them halfway if you want people to discuss the things you propose to discuss, that's all.
«Well he's a skeptic, of course he is.»
Randall Munroe.
Should we make a new thread to try to hash out proper OP etiquette for stuff besides wonder posts? Just so we can try to curtail this variety of stupid?
^^I like xkcd quite a bit (usually), but I'm not sure he's the best example to use there...
I'm not sure how that's supposed to be misogynist.
Oh, you know those whores, ripping their shirts off for Mardi Gras! What whores!
^^It's about how hot post-breast cancer surgery checkups are. And the alt text is about how the breast prosthesis would be so cool if it had a rechargable battery in it. Misogynist might be the wrong word but it's pretty damn creepy.
That, too. That's actually worse.
Lol but it's nerdy and has le math jokes! I always upboat his comics on le Reddit.
It's about his fiance. Not sure whether that mitigates it or makes it worse.