Re: Investigations Find ‘Unprecedented’ Political Review of FOIA Requests by Homeland
And where exactly are you from?
Just thought we could give your system of government a look see.
Your dodge has been noted.
Just sitting on the sidelines slinging mud I see.
Reminds me of the guy giving you crap because your football team lost when he doesn't have a team.
Nice dodge Jet.
All noble and just nations.
I don't pay close attention to the inner workings of other free and peaceful nations.
I have enough trouble keeping track of my own nation and reading about US history.
Did you hear that resounding THWACK echo across the landscape? That was the sound of my palm smacking into my forehead. It was a reflex response to the echoing depths of the fatuousness that you apparently felt the uncontrollable urge to bleed all over this thread.
Jet is a smart cookie who learns things and reads stuff and is perfectly capable of making intelligent observations about American politics without actually being an American. There are, in fact, a lot of people who are neither residents of the US nor US citizens who are familiar with the structure of our government, its laws, and its foibles. This is partly because we Americans tend to walk around acting as if our government is the only one worthy of discussion, and partly because America has its finger in a lot of pies. The fact that they are not Americans does not disqualify them in any way from contributing intelligently to a discussion of American politics, nor does it make their opinion any less valuable than yours.
I see that Jet opted to answer your question about where he's from, but the question itself was totally irrelevant. Asking it to begin with was a clear demonstration of the intelligence deficit disorder that I mentioned earlier. If Jet had been saying something like "my government rawks and your government suks har har har," then it would've been relevant. If Jet had demonstrated a clear ignorance of American politics, then it
might've been relevant. He didn't do either, and simply said what I would've said if I'd gotten there first.
If that wasn't bad enough, as it turns out you
didn't even care where Jet hails from. You were asking so that if he pointed out the irrelevance of your question you could jab him for "dodging." That was it. That was the only reason you asked. You might've been considering using his country of origin or residence as an excuse to tell him he doesn't know what he's talking about, but since
he obviously does you were at least intelligent enough to avoid jamming your foot so far down your throat that you could stand on your ass.
It should humiliate you that you even vaguely considered playing the "foreigner" card in the same thread where you admit to not only total ignorance but also a total lack of interest in the political workings of other countries. I suppose it would, if you possessed the capacity for embarrassment. This most arrogant brand of cognitive dissonance is one of a list of things that makes me ashamed of my homeland.
Finally, for the record: I have no illusions that Jet needed or even wanted me to defend him. Like I said, he's a smart cookie. I just couldn't control myself. It seems to me that if I don't address this sort of stupidity where I find it, I'm tacitly supporting it -- which is why I haven't been around here as much, why a lot of other posters around here haven't been around as much, and why your brand of mental diarrhea is becoming the rule rather than the exception around here.
