You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct!

I should have been more precise.

Absolutely! Thankfully. Just tipping their hand with regards to the ridiculous bullshit they’ll try use to prevent a Trump vs Obama situation.

Unfortunately, the legislative policy that’s being floated in the House is that a president can seek a third term only if their first two terms were non-consecutive. (Source)

So let me follow your logic, then.

I’m saying I’m dumb just to “sound like an intellectual”. But saying I’m dumb actually doesn’t make me sound like an intellectual, like you think I think. I just am dumb, like I’ve been saying all this time, genuinely, with no audience other than you on a dead thread.

Whew. That’s a pretzel if I ever saw one.

Have you ever considered that there might be people out there who don’t think they’re as smart as you seem believe that you are?

I’m not an intellectual. I’m a 40-something man who has seen some shit and learned a lot, but never had the luxury of a college education. Of course I’d like to improve myself, who wouldn’t? For me that means acknowledging that I’m not as smart as I wish I were.

That said, if you wanna exchange addresses we could be real life pen-pals. I’m enjoying talking with you. You’re not as dumb as you think I am.

Can’t even answer a direct question.

How does self-deprecation make one sound like an intellectual, exactly?

So you’re a mind-reader and smarter than me?

I’m not in the habit of saying things I don’t mean. How does self-deprecation make one sound like an intellectual, exactly?

I am not a smart man. I do my best to get smarter every day, but I’m not inherently intelligent.

Not my intent to question the efficacy of medication, for sure. Just engaging with the reality that many people are medicating against factors that aren’t caused by brain chemistry.

You don’t do your due diligence on your conversational partners? Ones you waste this much time on?

Clearly you are smarter than me! But then, I already told you that I’m a moron.

It becomes wrong immediately, but wrong is not a binary state.

“Once a cop is responsible for 1 murder he may as well continue to kill because 1 murder is the same as 30,000 murders.”

The whole thing is worth watching, but here’s some timestamped links to a couple of parts of the presser where he discusses this:

https://youtu.be/ZRtXTXJgm3E?t=1130

https://youtu.be/ZRtXTXJgm3E?t=1364

Are you telling me that you honestly believe that you’re intelligent? With a comment history like that!?

When did I ever say that I thought I wasn’t a moron? I’m at least smart enough to know that I don’t know much.

Plenty of the east coast is high CoL. Not as much as in the west, but plenty.

In your own words:

why are you talking about stuff you know nothing about?

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

My mother is dead.

You win!!! Congratulations!!! You’re a big boy with big opinions that are right!

For what it’s worth, I hadn’t said anything in this thread so far, so I’m not sure what you mean with your last sentence. Just pasted a link that I thought was interesting, related to the topic at hand… supporting the middle-ground position that you were asserting with your copy/pasted AI slop. Seems like you have a bias you’re working hard to reinforce. Or convince yourself of.

Then you got standoffish about it for some reason. Maybe a lack of reading comprehension? Maybe not paying attention to who you’re replying to? Who knows!?

You keep looking for things to be mad about, though, champ. Someday everyone will recognize you as the most smartestest and correctestest boy on earth.

https://www.startrek.com/news/smith-marx-and-picard-star-trek-and-our-economic-future