damn, how did i miss another droid inanity.
i thought you were busy over at dissensus antagonizing your betters.
well, lets slog through this one then.
droid Wrote:one example of the use of the term 'jewish lobby' in a looonng thread is a reason to ignore every post?
what planet do you live on?
it took you three months to come up with this....nothing?
or did you just wait until i was nowhere to be seen?
for the record i haven't ignored anything, but i am neither a proofreader nor a psychiatrist, so i didn't feel like commenting on your posts.
btw, if talk of a 'jewish lobby' is so insignificant why does it take two posts three months apart to state its insignificance?
Quote:actually, a forum thread that contains a range of opinions, links, information from different sources, and debate is imo a much better source that a single article written by a politically neutered ex-clinton advisor.
i think the attraction that forum thread holds for you is that it contains mainly your opinion.
i am no big fan of nyrb, but at least the literacy level among their writers is reasonably high.
also. they probably have proofreaders with some sort of education beyond kindergarden level, which spare the reading public things like this:
Quote:israel has started every war its been involved in other than when the arab states attacked it in 1948, thats 1953/1967/1973/1978/1982 - and now 2006.
Quote:it might take a bit more work to get through than the average nybooks article though.
it does indeed.
Quote:as for your 'bullshit' point, if you knew anything about forum discussions, youd realise that some of the most fruitful come from such innocuous beginnings.
after about twelve years of partaking in internet 'discussions' i know that nothing good ever comes from them.
unfortunately i am a masochist.
Quote:way to avoid the question. you criticise someone for using the term yet dont deign to comment on the substance of the accusation.
have some pity with someone whose native language isn't english.
three months to hone that one, eh?
"deign", "substance of the accusation", very eloquent, very official.
Quote:this is pure fantasy. id link to the scottish university study done in 2003 that found that bbc viewers in the uk had a distorted pro-israel picture of the israel/palestine conflict - but whats the point, youve already stated you dont read 'links in forum posts'.
concrete examples or stfu
then i would link to studies and examples proving the opposite, if i could be arsed.
but let's be honest here, nobody will change your mind; that righteous, risk-free outrage over a conflict that plays out in a safe distance is just too delicious.
Quote:one vague example of a dodgy link to back up your point? pathetic.
you obviously havent learned that this is what political debate (and opinions) are all about. the onus is on you to go and check those facts and those links for yourself. if you do that research once it gets easier each time afterwards.
thanks, i'll keep that in mind, you patronizing little git.
Quote:of course you could just take the sneering cynic position instead of putting any actual effort in.
ohhh, can i?
Quote:wow. youre really good at making assumptions about the motivations of others arent you? anything to justify your own laziness eh?
justification for my 'laziness'?
maybe being tired by the intellectual laziness of people like you, who regurgitate the nonsense of career "israel critics", acting all high and mighty because they 'know' the 'facts',
if i wanted to read a book by hacks like chomsky/avnery/zuckermann/pappe i could do it myself.
i don't need a summary by a halfwit with dyslexia.
Quote:yes. because its far too much effort to actually read and research the stuff youre supposed to be 'critiquing'. instead, just adopt a smug poseur stance to distance yourself from a 'consensus' that youve invented...
that consensus has to be fervently denied because it really ruins your whole conformist rebelliion, doesn't it?
Quote:the fact that you can make this statement in the context of this thread just shows how ill-educated and ignorant you are.
and there i was taking you seriously for a split second.
i'll cry myself to sleep tonight.
by the way, i'll be away next week. so you can take your sweet time to reply (if you actually want to reply).
hope that isn't too short of a notice for you.