>>>I don’t know if this strategy works in some parallel universe or what, but here it’s the sign of a lazy mind.<<<
Either that, or you are plagued with writer’s laziness. Hard to tell, but there is no doubt that all my friends who read the original post I questioned (all are college grads from good schools, and at least one has a masters) believed you are an elitist, arrogant, Founding Father basher.
I also showed them your first post, which read:
>>>”Well if we work it hard, we could probably interpret America as a the 8th “empire.” When you consider that the Founders were all nerds trying to create some new and better version of pagan antiquity in America, the analogy becomes at lest as plausible as any other.”<<<
They all considered that to be as bizarre as your second post.
In the future, I recommend you refrain from writer’s laziness. For example, if you are making a “tongue-in-cheek” remark, kindly identify it as such. Freepers typically add [/sarcism], the smile :), or other comment to identify “tongue in cheek” remarks. I assume the reason they do this is because we cannot see their body language and facial expressions, nor can we read their minds.
I also recommend that you write in more General-American prose, rather than Northeast-Liberal-Elitist prose. Wait, I think I recommended that in a previous reply.
I also recommend that in the future you refrain from labeling the Founding Fathers as “nerds” working toward “pagan’ goals. That is reasonably convincing evidence that you are a mole — a seminar poster paid by the left to disrupt this web site — and you certainly don’t want that, do you?
Frankly I have a hard time believing anyone could be so obsessed with an off-hand comment that was virtually OT to begin with. But then again, here were are, what is it now, the 4th exchange, and you're still trying to attack what you think is an elitist liberal snob.
I also recommend that you write in more General-American prose, rather than Northeast-Liberal-Elitist prose.
I don't even know what you mean by that? It sounds vaguely elitist though, in a plebeian sort of way. Frankly I've always been told my writing style was byzantine, with bizarre grammar and spelling errors -- which were, for the record, due to my dyslexia -- certainly not "Northeast-Liberal-Elitist." That actually sounds like a complement in comparison.
As for the BS bit, a fellow Freeper told me what it meant awhile ago, but since I'd never actually seen it used in any of the threads I usually post on I didn't know for sure. As a matter of fact I've been reading FR since 2000 (I used to post under a friends name back then), but I haven't been to FR much in the past 3 years, so there are probably lots of FR conventions and courtesy I'm unfamiliar with. Thank you for explaining it to me, and I apologize for any errors I have committed due to my ignorance.
Also, just a side point, I can understand your disgruntlement about the "pagan" bit, but "nerd?" I thought that was what made it obviously silly?
Waiting patiently for the next barrage of denunciations
Your ever weaselly aloof "liberal-straw man"