WebsterMark wrote on 10/15/19 at 15:25:14:


Well mark, I've got news for you.

I don't care.

Your input here is inconsequential to me.  To put it bluntly, you mean nothing to me.

I care as much for your input as any other stranger I'll never meet.

Try not to place yourself too high up.

After all, it's you and mn that constantly call me out on posts where I've never commented.  You can say what you want about me not having an affect on you, but anyone can see it's a lie.

Proving once again, that you practice classic projection.  Much like most of the conservatives I personally know.


So you see, there's no reason for you to explain why you're going.

Just go.

WebsterMark wrote on 10/15/19 at 14:29:50:


It strikes me that such a bold and obvious lie as “most blacks are committing violent crimes” would be so quickly followed with a self affirmation that the lie is a “fact”.   It came as no surprise, then, for this to follow-

WebsterMark wrote on 10/15/19 at 14:30:53:


While that may be true, you do yourself no favors by talking like one.   Frankly, it's best to leave such assessments up to other people.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/16/19 at 07:24:31:


Trends may be distorted or ill apprehended when outsized granularity is applied to consideration.  A trend line looks like a Richter scale on close examination- pundits love to zoom in to illustrate a lie, only to shrink back when the lie is made plain by a broader view.

Justin suggests using declining life expectancy as example of a not great thing is an example of such a lie.   That conclusion presumes my standard is highly granular.   Well, it ain’t.   Yes, there have been transient dips over the last 50 years.   A passing staccato is not worthy of citation.  Transient is not where we are at today, and our sampling is not restricted to our view in late 2016- rather, a sustained divergence is evident.

It was not suggested by me that the regression in life expectancy trends was instigated by the 2016 election- but, since you mention it, the results may have been symptomatic of discontent with trends at the time, generally.  The statistics only affirmed the sense of growing sickness.   As to the continuation of that trend, efforts to dismantle mechanisms of the Affordable Care Act surely contribute.

The proposition was, to paraphrase, “everything is awesome”.    Well, it ain’t- and sustained life expectancy regression is most definitely one example of “not awesome”.