(July 23, 2025 at 4:59 pm)Rizen Wrote:

(July 23, 2025 at 4:49 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Maybe after you brush off the chip on your shoulder a conversation can be had.

What you think this is a game? Everything I said is true. I was a core organizer for Moveon for years. I did everything I could for equality, the environment and progressive values but in the end, you can't fix stupid. The question shouldn't be "why do I have a chip on my shoulder" but rather, "why don't you?"

Snookums, I have seen more, and lived through more, in my life than your snowflake ass will ever encounter.

Your opinion of yourself is perhaps a bit inflated.

That escalated.

It did. We are seeing the real person, not the humble poster when first here.

But they think they are smarter than the rest of us...they are, they told us so.

-eyeroll-

(July 23, 2025 at 5:02 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(July 23, 2025 at 4:59 pm)Rizen Wrote: What you think this is a game? Everything I said is true. I was a core organizer for Moveon for years. I did everything I could for equality, the environment and progressive values but in the end, you can't fix stupid. The question shouldn't be "why do I have a chip on my shoulder" but rather, "why don't you?"

Snookums, I have seen more, and lived through more, in my life than your snowflake ass will ever encounter.

Your opinion of yourself is perhaps a bit inflated.

Baby, I'm a Mensa member and I'm sick of getting jerked around by people 35 IQ points lower like yourself.

Check out the big brain on Brett!

(July 23, 2025 at 3:26 pm)Rizen Wrote:

(July 23, 2025 at 3:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What would you replace it with? Remember what Churchill said about democracy.

Boru

How about a model of democracy where people get voting power equivalent to their IQs? Higher IQs equal more sway to what they choose. I realize this will never happen because stupid people control everything but it's nice to think about. 

PS
Yes, I've seen the Simpsons episode where Mensa takes over Springfield.

But seriously, getting rid of the electoral college is a good start.

The issue isn't that low IQ people or uneducated people were allowed to vote. It's that those that stand to loose the most were actively prevented from voting. Whether by people hanging around outside polling stations or mass queries as to individuals right to vote.
That is a direct attack against the people, undermining their democratic rights and setting up the overthrow of democracy.
Restricting suffrage isn't the answer, expanding and reinforcing it is.
Given the way in which access toi education is allocated via ethnic lines in the US far from fixing the issue the proposal would reinforce the problem.

(July 23, 2025 at 5:07 pm)Rizen Wrote:

(July 23, 2025 at 5:02 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Snookums, I have seen more, and lived through more, in my life than your snowflake ass will ever encounter.

Your opinion of yourself is perhaps a bit inflated.

Baby, I'm a Mensa member and I'm sick of getting jerked around by people 35 IQ points lower like yourself.

Oh, well, now I'm impressed.

(July 23, 2025 at 5:13 pm)Mr Greene Wrote:

(July 23, 2025 at 3:26 pm)Rizen Wrote: How about a model of democracy where people get voting power equivalent to their IQs? Higher IQs equal more sway to what they choose. I realize this will never happen because stupid people control everything but it's nice to think about. 

PS
Yes, I've seen the Simpsons episode where Mensa takes over Springfield.

But seriously, getting rid of the electoral college is a good start.

The issue isn't that low IQ people or uneducated people were allowed to vote. It's that those that stand to loose the most were actively prevented from voting. Whether by people hanging around outside polling stations or mass queries as to individuals right to vote.
That is a direct attack against the people, undermining their democratic rights and setting up the overthrow of democracy.
Restricting suffrage isn't the answer, expanding and reinforcing it is.

I wasn't being serious when I said that about voting power equivalent to IQs, that's why I added "but seriously get rid of the electoral collage" but YES! Trump is literally a fascist who forcefully tried to change the result of an election by overthrowing the government! This is a direct attack on our democracy and one of many! Why don't people get that? Why am I the one getting shit for calling Trumpism the fascist cancer that it is on an atheist site on a thread titled The Official Damned Trump thread?! This is a huge fucking deal! I've never been more scared for our democracy!

I share your opinion of the person in the white house. Turning us into Brave New World is not the answer, and it certainly isn't democracy.

In other news, Pam let slip that she told sloppy Don his name was all over the Epstein files.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-je...s-wsj.html

(July 23, 2025 at 5:07 pm)Rizen Wrote:

(July 23, 2025 at 5:02 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Snookums, I have seen more, and lived through more, in my life than your snowflake ass will ever encounter.

Your opinion of yourself is perhaps a bit inflated.

Baby, I'm a Mensa member and I'm sick of getting jerked around by people 35 IQ points lower like yourself.

Again, an intelligence quotient doesn’t equate to wisdom or maturity.

Boru