Armchair Politics

[Burlyman]

What do you people expect to accomplish bickering day in and day out about some stupid political nonsense? Should Congress read the DescentBB?

[Spidey]

We just like to annoy people like you and Meat.

[woodchip]

Poasting here gives me wood.

[callmeslick]

What do you people expect to accomplish bickering day in and day out about some stupid political nonsense? Should Congress read the DescentBB?

it's called an informed and engaged electorate......see my thread elsewhere. Sure, it's mainly an exercise in jawboninng,but there may be good from that.

[Sergeant Thorne]

What do you people expect to accomplish bickering day in and day out about some stupid political nonsense? Should Congress read the DescentBB?

To me it's a thought exercise. It's also educational. You learn about debate--what people's various goals may be in debating, and what tactics people use and why. It's a little wearying sometimes when it seems like you're doing your best to clarify water in a bucket which someone has placed beneath the media or party ★■◆● spigot because it was the easiest access or perhaps they believed it had special properties, but you take a break when you feel you need to and engage when you want to. Anyone who sees this as an attempt to change the world around us has missed the point. It is entirely for our individual benefit, and what we get out of it depends on what we put in.

[Spidey]

Except for slick, who believes his awesome intellect will change people's minds.

[Tunnelcat]

Isn't bickering the same as socializing?

[Sergeant Thorne]

Bickering is how stupid people socialize. And they watch popular sitcoms to learn new techniques...

[CUDA]

Isn't bickering the same as socializing?

Only if you're family

[CUDA]

We just like to annoy people like you and Meat.

+1
If he doest like it. Dont participate

[Will Robinson]

If nobody made noise about the bastards they would have already destroyed the place!

[Tunnelcat]

Isn't bickering the same as socializing?

Only if you're family

Hell, aren't we just one big happy family here?

[CUDA]

Don't know how happy some of them are

[Tunnelcat]

Hmm, just like a normal, dysfunctional family.

[Burlyman]

uninformed and mentally disengaged. I think I'm going to go watch FOX news and then flip flop to CNN and think I'm getting good information.

[callmeslick]

uninformed and mentally disengaged. I think I'm going to go watch FOX news and then flip flop to CNN and think I'm getting good information.

and, then, if you do nothing BUT armchair politics, you still aren't accomplishing much. This might be an interesting exercise, but the bottom line is that politics isn't a spectator sport. Sad that so few get that.......

[Burlyman]

Exactly.