View original postEveryone makes errors, particularly when typing fast or not bothering to read messages after the fact (or not having the time). However, when writing is so consistently incoherent and spelling errors are so numerous, it is a reflection of the intellectual capabilities (or lack thereof) of the individual generally.
No, it isn't. Having dyslexia or a similar condition doesn't make one less intelligent.
View original postAs for my assessment of his writing ability as being at the fourth grade level, I concede that actually it's probably at a second grade level or worse - my 8-year-old already writes better. And yes, form is important. If form isn't important then I understand much better how people get to college and are capable of nothing but poorly reasoned political action to mask their stupidity and ignorance.
If your goal was to show how flawless spelling and grammar don't prevent a text from being idiotic, any more than flawed spelling and grammar prevent it from being intelligent: congratulations, you succeeded.
View original postGrammar and spelling are tools of oppression, right?
They can be, if used as an excuse to dismiss arguments or opinions which contain language errors but aren't lacking in substance, as you are doing. Rather a lot of things can be tools of oppression, if you're in the mood to use them that way.
Terrible thing in Manchester last night.
- 23/05/2017 03:34:11 PM
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You can't stop psychos from doing psychopathic things.
- 23/05/2017 05:40:15 PM
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That's a quite obtuse answer
- 23/05/2017 08:34:20 PM
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Hiding?
- 23/05/2017 08:58:11 PM
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What do you mean, exactly, by "stop making ourselves targets" then?
- 23/05/2017 09:47:43 PM
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First off, we agree completely on one thing
- 23/05/2017 10:51:22 PM
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What hasn't been consistent about our foreign policy in that region?
- 23/05/2017 11:13:57 PM
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I thought it was obvious that I didn't mean consistently shit.
- 23/05/2017 11:36:58 PM
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Don't forget getting an education if you are female *NM*
- 23/05/2017 09:38:26 PM
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They might have a point with that one. I haven't seen much value from it.
- 23/05/2017 09:53:19 PM
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You are going to get rocks thrown at you *NM*
- 23/05/2017 10:29:45 PM
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There aren't very many ways to stop making ourselves a target for the Islamic State.
- 23/05/2017 09:04:56 PM
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I am not willing to give up the kill them all options until we give it a better try *NM*
- 23/05/2017 09:39:38 PM
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All DAESH acts of provocation have the same goal
- 23/05/2017 06:57:00 PM
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That reasoning only works if you view Daesh as a monolithic entity, though.
- 23/05/2017 10:02:01 PM
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The so-called lone wolf attacks are often performed by those unable to go to Syria
- 23/05/2017 10:06:08 PM
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Once again with the monolithic view.
- 23/05/2017 10:21:20 PM
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Is it possible that rather than me overestimating the depth of devotion...
- 23/05/2017 10:33:18 PM
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I don't say you overestimate it, no doubt for some that's true. But they're not all the same. *NM*
- 23/05/2017 11:12:26 PM
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Also, didn't they disavow the whole Dabiq thing when they lost control of the village? *NM*
- 23/05/2017 10:29:23 PM
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I must have missed that, but that sounds about like what I'd expect. 
*NM*
- 23/05/2017 10:31:03 PM
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*NM*
- 23/05/2017 10:31:03 PM
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I mean if that would end it once and for all then we should absolutely do that but...
- 24/05/2017 05:22:29 PM
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There are lots of things we can do. There are few we will do.
- 23/05/2017 08:46:50 PM
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Aren't there significant differences between the Salafis and the Islamic State?
- 23/05/2017 08:58:35 PM
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All extremists are Salafis, not every Salafi is an extremist
- 23/05/2017 09:54:26 PM
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Yeah, I get that.
- 23/05/2017 10:12:45 PM
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Advocating non-terrorist Salafism is like advocating sexual abstinence in college
- 23/05/2017 10:27:22 PM
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I was going to ask when I saw your post above...
- 23/05/2017 11:26:33 PM
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The Saudi royals like us, the people hate us. The Iranian people like us, the Ayatollah hates us.
- 24/05/2017 02:56:57 AM
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See this seems like some common sense stuff to me. How do we get politicians to make good on it? *NM*
- 24/05/2017 05:20:15 PM
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Trump is trying to do some. The 9th Circuit seems to think it can upend all precedent to stop him.
- 24/05/2017 09:46:30 PM
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Picking a concert that would be mostly teenage girls makes it extra disgusting *NM*
- 23/05/2017 09:37:25 PM
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Not really. It's a logical extension of the whole rationale.
- 23/05/2017 09:50:30 PM
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Yes. Also they believe the more outrageous the attack, the sooner the final war will occur. *NM*
- 23/05/2017 10:08:09 PM
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It makes me wonder about the attacker
- 23/05/2017 11:00:40 PM
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I wonder about what these people sea in a good who wants this kind of thing
- 24/05/2017 05:58:25 PM
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Isis Shmisis. Daesh is just the end result of the radicalization of many Muslims.
- 23/05/2017 11:58:42 PM
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Blaming the Ottomans, while largely correct, is less satisfying to them.
- 24/05/2017 03:21:14 AM
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Not to mention, the Ottomans are relative latecomers to the Muslims of the region
- 24/05/2017 11:31:06 AM
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There's lots of nationalist feeling, surely.
- 24/05/2017 06:48:59 PM
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Your errors are legion here.
- 24/05/2017 10:03:53 PM
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Really? I see precisely one point which, according to you, is a factual error.
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You're not looking very hard, then
- 27/05/2017 03:23:36 PM
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At this point we're just arguing about perspective, seems to me.
- 28/05/2017 07:11:55 PM
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Oh, and now, according to the headlines, the son of Libyan immigrants is a "homegrown" terrorist
- 24/05/2017 11:33:42 AM
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You can't do anything
- 24/05/2017 05:00:31 PM
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Be honest. We both know I am a major hardass and you like it. *NM*
- 24/05/2017 05:19:21 PM
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My opinion? We (USA) should either bomb ISIS into oblivion or back off and let them kill each other *NM*
- 24/05/2017 05:38:37 PM
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When I see those girl's faces and think about how easily it could be my 11 year old daughter
- 24/05/2017 05:53:01 PM
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I would prefer to annihilate them, if possible, without boots on the ground.
- 24/05/2017 06:03:49 PM
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I admit my reaction is as much emotional as rational but boots may be needed
- 24/05/2017 06:37:51 PM
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Are you serious?
- 28/05/2017 09:56:07 PM
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There is no tool for not allowing citizens back in the country
- 29/05/2017 10:11:42 PM
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Re: There is no tool for not allowing citizens back in the country *NM*
- 29/05/2017 10:11:52 PM
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Wow, talk about mission creep hitting after just one (incoherent) message
- 30/05/2017 03:07:46 PM
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Speak for yourself.
- 30/05/2017 06:57:16 PM
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You have thus argued for the death of education.
- 31/05/2017 02:51:11 PM
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No, I've argued for substance over form.
- 31/05/2017 07:07:28 PM
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Well, fuck you too then
- 02/06/2017 01:43:47 AM
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*NM*