So the solution is to hand the internet over to the government, because they're oh-so-neutral and objective? You want corrupt politicians deciding on internet traffic instead of sysadmins?
Oh well. I'd rather by an "asshole" than a person who is anti-liberty, as you appear to be. You would have the government censor its citizens, as if we lived in damned China.
Nothing that the grandparent poster said implied any such thing, and you know it. As he rightly pointed out, you are lying about what he said and what positions he holds. The sole reason you are doing this is because you know yourself to be mentally incompetent to argue with any of the things that he actually said. No other reason is possible.
I thought Slashdot was opposed to copyright law and that you couldn't "steal" intellectual property because it wasn't physically taken from someone else? Why is copyright bad in pro-piracy articles and good in free software articles?
"Slashdot" does not hold these positions, and you know it. Straw man arguments are lies.
"I have near zero sympathy for kids who are such losers that they can't face life's challenges [abuse?]. Not quite zero, but near it. This girl who committed suicide because some boy she had never met apparently turned on her isn't very far up the food chain from [murderers] the idiots who choose to "go out in a blaze of glory" while shooting up their school. She was weak and unstable, and she chose to suicide. Her lack of a support group contributed, yes, but the fact remains, she failed."
Nothing in the quoted statment "justifies" abuse, either implicitly or explicitly. And you know it. Therefore, claiming that it does makes you a liar.
Your rhetoric is an exemplar for how to de-humanise someone as a precursor to justification for maltreatment. They're only retards, they're only Catholics, they're only gypsies, they're only Jews, they're only weak.
Again, not expressed or implied by anything you quoted. You made up that position and assigned it to him. It is a straw man argument. All straw man arguments are lies.
. . . by all the Young Libertarians who gasp at any criticism of greed, and believe there is no greater freedom than being spread face down and legs apart by the Benevolent Corporations.
The only people who will object are those who think that the only bright idea in the world is the spending power of the powerful.
Emphasis mine. You presented a false dichotomy (another kind of lie) in which everyone either favors this ban or believes that, in your words, "the only bright idea in the world is the spending power of the powerful". In reality, opposing a ban on black cars in no way implies this "only bright idea" thing you present. Your example with CRT monitors is equally invalid, as these concepts are not mutually exclusive or even opposed.
So yes, it is a straw man argument (and therefore a lie) because in both cases, you are making up a position not implied and assigning it to someone. The reason you do this is because you are unable to refute the actual position, and you tell yourself that if you instead substitute the straw man, you will automatically "win" by virtue of avoiding the real argument. This, of course is itself yet another lie that you tell yourself.
You invented a motivation out of thin air and asserted that anyone who doesn't agree with you must hold it. This is lying, and you know it. It wasn't "conjecture", it was dishonesty.
Nowhere in that comment was it said or implied that "no black man should be elected ever again". You deliberately put that "should" in there yourself, in order to make it look as though that poster had said something he didn't. You did the same thing with the phrase "claiming that copyright statues [sic] are constitutional", in an attempt to take the poster's specific objection and spin it into an opposition to ALL copyright. You did this solely because you were unable to find any posts that resemble the strawman you created in your original post.
I can't remember how often I had been told that Obama was going to change things for the better, how somehow Obama was going to not be in the corporation's or the party's pocketbook because he got most of his campaign funds from independent donates... and what does he do when he gets elected? He carries on policies that have always failed, meanwhile undermining capitalism and sending our country deeper into recession by both his words and by the laws he wants to pass.
Was that really so hard to find?
Does not "ignore" torture. Does not say or imply that copyright is "the biggest issue". Therefore, your claim that it does is a lie.
From a comment currently at +4 insightful: "The libertarians have long known Obama is for as much change as Bush and Clinton, none."
Does not "ignore" torture. Does not say or imply that copyright is "the biggest issue".
From another comment currently at +4 insightful: "Have we not seen time and time again how neither Republicans nor Democrats are any different in the grand scheme of things?"
Does not "ignore" torture. Does not say or imply that copyright is "the biggest issue".
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You haven't removed anything. You're coming back here more than ever.
Straw man arguments are lies.
Nothing that the grandparent poster said implied any such thing, and you know it. As he rightly pointed out, you are lying about what he said and what positions he holds. The sole reason you are doing this is because you know yourself to be mentally incompetent to argue with any of the things that he actually said. No other reason is possible.
Parent said nothing to imply bolded portion. You made that up and attributed it to him. It is therefore a lie.
"Slashdot" does not hold these positions, and you know it. Straw man arguments are lies.
Nothing in the quoted statment "justifies" abuse, either implicitly or explicitly. And you know it. Therefore, claiming that it does makes you a liar.
Again, not expressed or implied by anything you quoted. You made up that position and assigned it to him. It is a straw man argument. All straw man arguments are lies.
Straw man arguments are lies.
Straw man arguments are lies.
This is what you said:
Emphasis mine. You presented a false dichotomy (another kind of lie) in which everyone either favors this ban or believes that, in your words, "the only bright idea in the world is the spending power of the powerful". In reality, opposing a ban on black cars in no way implies this "only bright idea" thing you present. Your example with CRT monitors is equally invalid, as these concepts are not mutually exclusive or even opposed. So yes, it is a straw man argument (and therefore a lie) because in both cases, you are making up a position not implied and assigning it to someone. The reason you do this is because you are unable to refute the actual position, and you tell yourself that if you instead substitute the straw man, you will automatically "win" by virtue of avoiding the real argument. This, of course is itself yet another lie that you tell yourself.
You invented a motivation out of thin air and asserted that anyone who doesn't agree with you must hold it. This is lying, and you know it. It wasn't "conjecture", it was dishonesty.
Straw man arguments are lies.
It's a troll because it deliberately lies about what people are saying. The same applies to your post.
Nowhere in that comment was it said or implied that "no black man should be elected ever again". You deliberately put that "should" in there yourself, in order to make it look as though that poster had said something he didn't. You did the same thing with the phrase "claiming that copyright statues [sic] are constitutional", in an attempt to take the poster's specific objection and spin it into an opposition to ALL copyright. You did this solely because you were unable to find any posts that resemble the strawman you created in your original post.
Does not "ignore" torture. Does not say or imply that copyright is "the biggest issue". Therefore, your claim that it does is a lie.
Does not "ignore" torture. Does not say or imply that copyright is "the biggest issue".
Does not "ignore" torture. Does not say or imply that copyright is "the biggest issue".