I think you really hit on the anti-social part. This is a guy who goes to bars and writes about how none of the slutty women there deserve him, and how he doesn't like that they wear "bar clothing." I wonder what else he expects when he goes to a bar.
Read more of him, and he's basically as far to the right as it gets and his mind is shut off to any other points of view. Disagree with him and you're probably an "idiot leftard" whose opinion is "officially" invalid in his eyes. I'd say it's a bad parody of ultra conservatives, but I think this guy's for real. He insults people in the community he runs conservatism, yet when they fire back he just bans them.
It's so sad it's funny to laugh at, except this guy complains about how people who don't side with him are taking over "his" America. now, I believe I have viewpoints that fall on both sides of the coin - some make me more liberal, some make me more conservative. As such, I also have friends on both "sides," which makes things difficult sometimes when any of them begin to recite the rhetoric. Usually, I just try to avoid getting involved. I hate the fighting that comes from both sides, because it detracts from getting things done.
I've seen Eric talk about how he wanted to serve but couldn't because of whatever the condition he said he has is, but what's the deal with claiming he wanted to be in combat? I don't know many people who really want to be in combat. They go into it knowing that it's a possibility, but by saying that it makes me think of him eager to get his hands on a bigger, better rifle just so he can go kill people. That doesn't sound very stable.
It's really a shame that anyone, liberal or conservative, can be so willingly blind that they make such ignorant and intolerant caricatures of themselves for all to see, but this guy's done it. The resulting trainwreck is at least interesting to follow sometimes in the sense that it reminds me of how I don't want to be.
I was also thinking about something else mentioned to me after he brought out that stat about how 95% of defensive gun uses end without a shot being fired. Mentioning that the gun doesn't even have to be loaded..that would mean that if it was drawn, he'd be bluffing. Isn't one of the first things you're told when you train in how to use a gun basically "Never bluff?"
Isn't one of the first things you're told when you train in how to use a gun basically "Never bluff?"
Heck, I'm a non-combatant, and even I know that much of the philosophy. "Never draw a weapon you're not prepared to use. For that matter, don't carry a weapon you're not prepared to use." I'm not, so I don't. (And, thanks to many brave men and women to whom I'm genuinely grateful, I don't have to.)
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Read more of him, and he's basically as far to the right as it gets and his mind is shut off to any other points of view. Disagree with him and you're probably an "idiot leftard" whose opinion is "officially" invalid in his eyes. I'd say it's a bad parody of ultra conservatives, but I think this guy's for real. He insults people in the community he runs
It's so sad it's funny to laugh at, except this guy complains about how people who don't side with him are taking over "his" America. now, I believe I have viewpoints that fall on both sides of the coin - some make me more liberal, some make me more conservative. As such, I also have friends on both "sides," which makes things difficult sometimes when any of them begin to recite the rhetoric. Usually, I just try to avoid getting involved. I hate the fighting that comes from both sides, because it detracts from getting things done.
I've seen Eric talk about how he wanted to serve but couldn't because of whatever the condition he said he has is, but what's the deal with claiming he wanted to be in combat? I don't know many people who really want to be in combat. They go into it knowing that it's a possibility, but by saying that it makes me think of him eager to get his hands on a bigger, better rifle just so he can go kill people. That doesn't sound very stable.
It's really a shame that anyone, liberal or conservative, can be so willingly blind that they make such ignorant and intolerant caricatures of themselves for all to see, but this guy's done it. The resulting trainwreck is at least interesting to follow sometimes in the sense that it reminds me of how I don't want to be.
I was also thinking about something else mentioned to me after he brought out that stat about how 95% of defensive gun uses end without a shot being fired. Mentioning that the gun doesn't even have to be loaded..that would mean that if it was drawn, he'd be bluffing. Isn't one of the first things you're told when you train in how to use a gun basically "Never bluff?"
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Heck, I'm a non-combatant, and even I know that much of the philosophy. "Never draw a weapon you're not prepared to use. For that matter, don't carry a weapon you're not prepared to use." I'm not, so I don't. (And, thanks to many brave men and women to whom I'm genuinely grateful, I don't have to.)
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He doesn't want to serve, he wants glory. He wants to be a crusader.
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You think he's trying to compensate for something?