Monday, March 1, 2004 |
17:42 - The power of bumper stickers
http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/006101.php#comments
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Tim Blair does seem to attract a commenter clientele who regularly construct these beautifully sculpted masterpieces of encapsulated, self-contained argument threads, doesn't he?
Here's his whole readership assembling themselves into a neat spiral around a loon by the name of "vaara" and taking regimented turns kicking him/her/it in the groin with sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. They're vicious. But oh, so fun to read. Particularly the poster by the name of Dean, and another (or maybe the same person) posting as "araav".
"vaara" pops back up like a punch-clown a couple of times, reels off some stupid pseudo-riposte, and immediately gets pulled down below the surface. He/she/it hasn't reappeared in some time, not since saying (in effect) "Y'all're a bunch of redneck racists!" quite without context or corroboration; but the thread remains as a true gem, the likes of which I haven't seen since the "how I became a conservative" thread from Valentine's Day weekend.
It's the one that starts out:
Lileks subsequently went through what he describes as a “mid-30s polar realignment”. Mine began earlier and was largely complete by my mid-20s, after I’d endured and observed a gulag-load of left-wing hypocrisy, illogic, and outright wrongness. There’s only so many times you can be told that 2 + 2 = Walrus before this thought strikes: “You know, maybe these people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
...And gets better from there.
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