Meet the next President of the United States

[F*** My Aunt Rita]

He's actually a pretty accomplished dude.

I inherently don't trust a dude who looks like this

Pedo-radar is off the charts. Also,

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4104

Kinda reads like Herschel.

[Herschel Yamamoto]

He's actually a pretty accomplished dude.

So a history of engineering and he writes one political rant. Irrelevant accomplishments if you're going to try to appeal to authority here...

I'm trying to mock mockery. There's a difference.

Ah, it's Eric. He's a great programmer, but his politics are what I like to think of as far-libertarian. Guberment out of my business to an irrational level. You should read some of his essays on gun ownership.

Yeah, he's on the far end of what I'm willing to tolerate. I read him more for the nerd culture than the politics.

[untilted]

But the uncomfortable questions won’t go away. If you’re so bright, why the constant sucking up to dictators? [...] If you’re so bright, why do so many of your grand social-engineering schemes end in corruption and tears?

hayek & pinochet

[Herschel Yamamoto]

But the uncomfortable questions won’t go away. If you’re so bright, why the constant sucking up to dictators? [...] If you’re so bright, why do so many of your grand social-engineering schemes end in corruption and tears?

hayek & pinochet

Seems like basically the same as Friedman - "He sucks, but I'd rather see him suck less than suck more". I'm getting that from four paragraphs on Wikipedia though, so I'm no expert.

[Hast]

the intelligentsia’s determined persecution of refugees from Islamic oppression and anyone else who dares speak truthfully about it are as disgraceful today as Walter Duranty’s paeans to Stalinism were in the 1930s.

translates to: I don't like brown people

[FatFreddy]

the intelligentsia’s determined persecution of refugees from Islamic oppression

proof that herschel is crazystupid.

further proof piling on top of the mountain I mean

[Sacul]

The "anti-science" line bothers me, and it was the best prepackaged response I knew of. I don't agree on all the particulars(in particular, I think his Gramscian damage hypothesis is wildly overstated), but the general point is reasonable and well presented.

I read so much herpderp in that article so i just googled some phrases and low and behold its all a big self confirming circle jerk. He refers to Koch books who refer to him who refers to the flag who points at koch ad infinitum.

I cant believe i wasted 10 minutes of my saturday morning on this.

[GeromeDoutrande]

Does that blog post contain an explicit definition of what an "intellectual" or "intelligentsian" is supposed to be (in case I overread it)?

[Hast]

Does that blog post contain an explicit definition of what an "intellectual" or "intelligentsian" is supposed to be (in case I overread it)?

Someone who disagrees with him.

[Malcanis]

the intelligentsia’s determined persecution of refugees from Islamic oppression and anyone else who dares speak truthfully about it are as disgraceful today as Walter Duranty’s paeans to Stalinism were in the 1930s.

translates to: I don't like brown people

Apparently Daily Mail readers are the "intelligentsia" in his world.

Fascinating.

[Hast]

comment section is amazing too.

“Intellectuals can’t stand the free market because the free market works without the supervision of intellectuals.”
– George F. Will

[FatFreddy]

That has to be the only quote I ever googled which only delivers two hits, one of them obviously being the article itself and the other one being some other comment to some other irrelevant blog.

So for now, apart from being amused, I shall also conclude that it has been made up.

[Bartholomeus Crane]

Looks like we found Herschel's Mark, Matthew, Luck and John of the Republican Bible all rolled into one. Although ofcourse he has been backpedalling on it all for several posts now ...

[Don Rumata]

In an effort to not lose Michigan, Romney has decided to make a "big speech" in front of "thousands of supporters". Apparently, the response was so overwhelming, they needed "a bigger venue". Only a football stadium will do.

Here are the results:

  Spoiler:

[TheManFromDelmonte]

Who the hell does he have running his campaign? Obama would never make a mistake like that.

[GeromeDoutrande]

That was organised by the "Detroit Economic Forum" and the venue was "upgraded" because more tickets than anticipated were sold according to this:

http://us.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/...y-michigan.cnn

So no delusional megalomania, but a campaign team "oversight" to let something like that proceed.

[Don Rumata]

Who the hell does he have running his campaign?

First photo, bottom left corner. Black silhouette. Note that he does not cast shadow.

  Spoiler:

[Frug]

I was pretty skeptical at first because I was so very very wrong when bush got elected a second time, but I'm actually getting convinced obama's being handed the next election...

[Pattern]

Beyond all the shit outside of Obamas control and the fact that he's more than capible of fucking up, people like Herchel remind me every day that there are plenty of people who will wantonly vote for the modern clusterfuck that is the republican party.

[F*** My Aunt Rita]

Beyond all the shit outside of Obamas control and the fact that he's more than capible of fucking up, people like Herchel remind me every day that there are plenty of people who will wantonly vote for the modern clusterfuck that is the republican party.

Herschel is Canadian, so he's busy turning Canada into America mk.II. Visit Alberta, it's full of stupid redneck "Americans" who say eh a lot.