Because I like him. We share a lot of common interests, and he's smarter than you can ever hope to be. And he's always been civil to me. He's not a shit like you.
Really? He brought it up? You mean this: Kinda thin for an auto whatabouthillary response, wouldn't you say? Opens the door to just about any comment about almost anything political. So who's the one obsessing, then?
Of that I have no doubt. That's because you eventually shit on anyone who disagrees with you. You can be uber pedantic and obtuse and then lay in when you are called to account. But not with dest. Yeah, I respect him, too. He's a very smart guy. But if he acted like you did, I would respond just as I do towards you. Response equity, and all that. Meanwhile, you channel your inner fluffer when he writes the kinds of things that would otherwise set you off had they been written by anyone else. What does that say about you?
I don't mention this to blow myself, but many of you are dramatically understating the risks we face, or simply woefully and blissfully ignorant. I started undergrad three months after my 16th birthday on a full academic ride in PHYS to a top five school. I'd won a physics award as well (hence the PHYS ride). The winning submission was c-force fission micronuke design using a frustrum target. Years later (a few years ago) I was talking to a top (now retired) DoD physicist who's the father of my wife's BFF. We talked for five hours at the daughter's house about p-physics, TU weapon design, etc. I had taken a picture on my phone of my Westinghouse submission and the DoD guy asked to see it. He sat there for 30 seconds slack-jawed. He was buzzed so I am sure he regrets it, but he told me that he had seen that exact technical drawing back in the late 80s. He intimated that it was in use. I spent six years in higher-ed in the field of nuke-physics and astro (life-science minor). No PhD, but not a layman. It's THE reason that we sourced a second home in 1998 at altitude with a lead-lined basement. Paid the asking price on the third day of the listing. How long will your supply of water last? Your water and food sources will be contaminated with Sr-90 and Cs-137 within hours of detonation. There is NO two man rule on US nuclear-release. We have a POTUS who is borderline-functional (85-90IQ) who believed that the Nuclear Triad was Russia and China. He couldn't recall the third "member"
Yeah, whatever. It was clear to everyone except you that he was making it out like all would have been better under Hillary. Just piss off already. Nothing you offer here is worth anything (as usual).
I've disagreed with lots of folks and have no problem with them. Hell, I've even called out folks on "my side" when I disagree. Have you? Of course not. The notable difference is that they don't always try to use snark and insult folks with it like you do. I've tried having normal conversations with you. It never works because you don't ever concede anything. Ever. So again, piss off.
Sure, bro. As always, you are full of crap and know no middle ground, just like the guy you voted for. Just as with him, it all or nothing; fantastic or terrible. Like him, you want to be an asshole to others yet treated with respect. You deserve each other. Most recently Slartibartfast, but others before him as well, had you pegged even when I erroneously kept trying to give you the benefit of the doubt from time to time. My mistake.
Oh yeah? With whom on the other side of the political divide have you always, and not just at the outset, had civil discourse? Apart from dest, of course.