Friday, May 17, 2013

What's wrong with this?

Loud segment of Republican Party makes them all look like fools. ... When the Republican party lets loudmouths lead their group and blames the world on "others" it makes all Republicans look foolish.
1. There is little or no substance to the argument[s].
2. It's just a broad brush ad hominem attack.
3. The person seems to assume that he, and only he, is able to perceive the failings of a group of people and that no one else can think for themselves.

This is the kind of junk I see all the time on the internet.  Sometimes these posts are in appropriate forum topics but lately they are extending to random posts in technical boards, science boards, ART boards... everywhere.  People just like to deal poo for the sake of spreading the malice they feel in their own hearts.  It's frustrating.  It's tiring.

If I am on a site to talk about the latest CPU architecture from a given company, that's what I want to discuss, not politics, not religion, not baseless, unsupported arguments for "this CPU is crappy!  This other one is BEST!"  I want to hear discussions about how the instructions are fed from the cache into the processor, how the scheduling of instructions takes place, how many instructions are handled per time unit.

But even in a thread designed to discuss politics... what is the point of a post like this ^^^ ?  What does it serve?  Does the person even understand that what they are trying to apply to the "loud mouths" is precisely what they are doing in this quote?!

And I am the worst... I often get worked up by trolls and posts of this nature and allow them to raise my own blood pressure and respond unfavorably.  Instead of pointing out their own issues, I should just keep quiet and pretend I didn't see the post at all.

Ah well.  Such is life.

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