 Originally Posted by EvilNed
Sorry man, dont know what to say. But maybe you should learn something from this and just not... argue pointless shit on the internet?
So, the story here is that EvilNed, out of a sense of ...cyber altruism?... has endlessly argued pointless shit on the internet in an effort to encourage others to not waste their 'energy' arguing pointless shit on the internet? This makes me rethink many things in real life. Perhaps Ted Bundy should be praised and not condemned, as he may have engaged in 30 murders (30 confirmed, perhaps more) in a serial killing spree over four years in an effort to encourage people to NOT become serial killers, as they should learn from his example that doing so would result in death by electrocution, ruining dozens of lives, and having one's name in infamy as an EvilNed...errr....evil person. Perhaps the existence and actions of Ted Bundy was a net positive to the human condition.
Originally Posted by EvilNed
Yepp, that's true. The difference is; I own up to it and can shake it off.
This is an important point here, one that deserves praise. While the initial motivations might be highly and incredibly suspect, admitting that one was purposefully full of shit and disingenuous, purposefully not even bothering the hear (or read) another person's well-intentioned thoughts and arguments, in an effort to achieve... well, for whatever reason, at long lasts shows that person's true colors, and could perhaps be a valuable lesson to others that sometimes you should not do as your parents raised you and always give someone the benefit of the doubt about their intentions. Sometimes a persons true intentions have no value at all, and the quicker that one learns and accepts that, the better they will be.
There is a larger lesson to be learned here, but I can not figure out exactly what it is. In an effort to not be as 'pointless' as normal internet debate, here is a current situation and then questions to follow. Rick Scott is the current Governor of Florida. He is, by his own admissions and by everyone else, on the far right of the political scale. He thinks that government is ineffectual and inefficient, and that private business is the best solution to any of society's problems. You can agree with that or not, but that is what he claims he believes. He has a personal net worth of around $200 million dollars, most of which came from his involvement in the health care industry prior to becoming governor. His company committed massive fraud by bilking medicare for services not rendered, as well as giving payola to doctors. All told, they agreed to fraud settlements totaling over $2 billion dollars. He himself escaped any penalties for these actions. After this, he decided to run for governor, spending over $75 million of his own money in order to do so, and he was elected in 2010. He gave up his multi million dollar a year health care business in order to take a job that pays $130,000 a year, which he made a big point to not accept. So he is working for free. He did not expand medicaid under Obamacare, therefore millions of low income/no income Floridians had no health insurance. So for him it is OK for big business to commit fraud, in the health care industry, so much so they can afford to pay over $2 billion in settlements, but not OK for tax money to be spent on health care for the poor.
So, Rick Scott is being 'termed out' as governor, meaning in the State of Florida, someone can not run for re-election if they have already been governor for two terms. This is something that republicans in general, and Rick Scott in particular, like and agree with, and they feel 'career politicians' are somehow by definition bad. He is now running for the US senate. His ad campaigns against his opponent rail against him for being in the Senate for too long, and feature a tagline of "they need to understand we dont work for them, they work for us". The 'they' he is referring to is the political class, and the 'us' he is referring to is the average ordinary people of Florida. He is including himself in the 'us' category.
Unlike EvilNed, Rick Scott is not openly admitting that he is full of shit. Apparently he thinks it makes sense, as do a large swath of voters, that government is bad, business is good, while as a businessman he committed massive fraud, and then left the 'good' business world to join the 'bad' government world in order to ....what, encourage people to not engage in pointless debate on the internet? Not sure. He now runs a campaign against career politicians, while attempting to remain a politician after being termed out of office? He claims to be part of 'us' and not 'them'...most of 'us' are not multi hundred millionaires who have admitted to massive fraud and can afford to work for free for almost a decade. And working for free...how does that make any sense when you proclaim how great the 'wealth creators' are? Is it pure altruism, or something else? For each to decide for themselves I suppose. But like EvilNed, he has dubious motivations, hammers the same talking points and refuses to change his mind regardless of quality information to the contrary, all in an effort to....create a new green energy start up to harness all the wasted energy of those who foolishly think he has the best interests of voters in mind? I guess I would like to have someone explain to me how rank hypocrisy and willful ignorance can get people ahead so far in this world? I mean, internet chat boards are pointless, so in the long run, who cares, but in real life, how do these qualities allow someone such as Rick Scott to succeed? I am sure that he has long term plans to run for President of the US, so I ponder these questions.
Sorry if this post seems pointless, but kudos to EvilNed for fessing up.
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