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There are times when I say to myself, “self, don't you dare sell Gosh short.” This is one of those times.
About a week ago I wrote a post on a system of government I came up with. Since it was an idea I came up with, and hasn't been praised by liberal blogs, it goes without saying that Gosh (who puts the “jerk” in “knee-jerk”) thinks it's an awful idea. Gosh blathered about this and that, used other people's words to try to sound smart, the usual stuff... Then he/she rewarded me with some really top shelf Goshing.
An excerpt:
You prefer a "benevelent dictatorship." No?
Oh, I know, cause I've said SO many things to indicate that.
Remember when I said this? "Leftist jackasses who read my blog tend to think that just because I hate Democrats, I must be the sort of blue blood Republican strawman that their limited politcal awareness is designed to attack."
That's right, it was in this very post.
Thanks for proving me right.
A blue-blooded Republican? Nah -- your recommended form of government has little or nothing to do with big "R" republicanism (pro-business, conservative social policy) nor status-quo republican democracy (elected representatives).
It's more of a dictatorship of the elite, where elite = "people who score highly on the tests that they write for themselves."
Says a lot.
Gosh, you are a gem.
Let me first start out by telling you that you're a stupid person. I mean that. Don't start thinking that this is just me responding to your valid points by being angry and hateful. I'm not angry right now. I'm just trying to make it clear what the dynamic is. You're stupid. Seriously. You want to disagree with me, you're not really smart enough to know what I'm saying, but you know that elitism is bad, and I'm bad, so you just sorta blurt things that relate to that.
Now, I know you don't believe me. I know you think that I'm just being mean because I can't answer your clever argumentation. I know. But I promise, if you really want to know what's going on, the problem is that you're stupid. Remeber when we talked about divorce rates, and you were simply too stupid to understand basic math? I'm not sure how you rationalized that away, but seriously, you need to remind yourself of that more often.
Now, to be fair, I don't know you. Maybe you're a brilliant person offline, maybe you're sharp as a tack, and just have a little problem with math. Maybe you're very politcally savvy, but you get a bit confused by the online medium. Anything, even something as unlikely as that, is possible. But all I have to go on, all I've ever seen, tells me that you're simply a stupid person.
I don't mean “stupid“ as in “holds views contrary to my own, so I'm calling it stupid.“ I mean you just don't fucking get simple things. Constantly. We never actually get to opinions, because you're too busy not knowing how fractions work, or what words mean.
Seriously. You're stupid. You need to be much more conscious of the fact, and remember that if something seems wrong to you, it's probably really something wrong with you.
Anyway, on to your gem of a response.
"It's more of a dictatorship of the elite, where elite = "people who score highly on the tests that they write for themselves.""
Yeah, it's more of that, kinda like you're more of a pinko Commie traitor, where pink = person, Commie = with, and traitor = a computer. What the fuck are you even talking about? Do you even understand how language works?
What I described is not a dictatorship of the elite. It's called a "meritocracy." We have a word for what it is, and that's it.
It's kinda like we have a word for a "dictatorship of the popular" and that word is "democracy."
You could use that label for democracy and be just as (in) accurate. Only you didn't feel like trying to demonize democracy, so you just call it a democracy, and then provide quotes (which I've already seen a hundred times) because you still think parroting other people's words makes you look smart.
But, even if you call a meritocracy a “dictatorship of the elite“ and a democracy a “dictatorship of the popular“ it's still incredibly idiotic. None of this is actually "kinda like" a dictatorship, as a dictatorship is characterized by a concentration of power in the hands of single person. My system proposes that hundreds of people run the government to prevent a single maniac from taking over. It proposes that the government be selected at random, so that even if they skewed the tests, cheated, etc. they'd still need luck to win as well. None of this interests you, becaues you live in a haze of stupidity and agenda. You want to tell me I'm wrong, because you think I'm always wrong. Since all your intellectual models survive on attaching negative words to things they don't like, you chose “dictatorship“ and “elites.“
Remember how I said you were stupid?
Really what I'm describing is more like a parliamentary meritocracy. But then, that would actually have some degree of accuracy, and wouldn't have the key words "dictatorship" and "elite" in it, and that was the whole point, right?
It's really amazing how much stupid you can pack into so few words. And, as always, you put a cherry on top.
“Says a lot.”
I just love this move. Internet idiots to put a smirky, arrogant little close on their posts. This helps me picture you really knowing what makes me tick. Knowing it better than I do, because I'm confused by my own rage and resentment of your wisdom. You may not understand fractions, or know the meaning of fundamental political terms, but you've got me bracketed in and figured out.
Don't do this to yourself, Gosh. Don't cap off a thoroughly embarassing performance with a smug implication that you've got shit sorted.
Think about it, Gosh. You're a person who, when confronted with the idea of a government run by the most intelligent of society, immediately associates it with tyrrany. What does that say about your own intellect? What does that say about what sort of leadership role you'd see yourself having in that system?
Says a lot.
You fucking moron.