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IN THE STFU DEPT. THIS WEEK: Jimmy Carter (again)
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ubermenzch



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

visitorq wrote:
bucheon bum wrote:
visitorq wrote:
ubermenzch wrote:
visitorq wrote:
RufusW wrote:
The book vistiorq sourced has Obama on the cover next to Mussolini in the same pose.... ah... now I understand you visitorq.

No you don't. I doubt you even read books.

About a month ago, you dismissed a post of mine, claiming that I was blindly appealing to authority by quoting Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Niall Ferguson. I would now turn that objection on you, except that Webster Tarpley has NO AUTHORITY for you to appeal to. He is not a serious source. Anyone who doubts this, go play on google for a bit.
And anyway, Webster Tarpley's "description of how Jimmy Carter was selected by a group of bankers to become the president of the United States with their decisive financial support" is just not convincing. I get that the trilateral commission exists and that it has influence. I get that the Rockefellers and Brzezinskis of the world use it to draw together politicians and academics on the make to serve their interests in government and out. What I don't get is how such a group selects people to become president and then renders them mere puppets.

Yeah, you've got nothing. That's all.


you make me nostalgic for IGTG.

Never heard of it.

Anyway, some people on here are so daft on here that you can cite a source, containing a DIRECT QUOTE from the actual people being discussed (in this case, Zbigniew Brzezinski, founding member of the Trilateral Commission, discussing his support for Carter) and they'll still go and call the SECONDARY SOURCE (in this case, Tarpley) "unreliable".

There's really nothing for such people, except to write them off as hopeless.

But Brzezinski says absolutely nothing which would lead us to the conclusion that Tarpley wants us to make: that Carter was a puppet. Absolutely nothing!


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visitorq



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ubermenzch wrote:
visitorq wrote:
ubermenzch wrote:
visitorq wrote:
RufusW wrote:
The book vistiorq sourced has Obama on the cover next to Mussolini in the same pose.... ah... now I understand you visitorq.

No you don't. I doubt you even read books.

About a month ago, you dismissed a post of mine, claiming that I was blindly appealing to authority by quoting Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Niall Ferguson. I would now turn that objection on you, except that Webster Tarpley has NO AUTHORITY for you to appeal to. He is not a serious source. Anyone who doubts this, go play on google for a bit.
And anyway, Webster Tarpley's "description of how Jimmy Carter was selected by a group of bankers to become the president of the United States with their decisive financial support" is just not convincing. I get that the trilateral commission exists and that it has influence. I get that the Rockefellers and Brzezinskis of the world use it to draw together politicians and academics on the make to serve their interests in government and out. What I don't get is how such a group selects people to become president and then renders them mere puppets.

Yeah, you've got nothing. That's all.

You claimed he was a puppet. As evidence you supply us with the work of Webster Tarpley. I have nothing?

As evidence I supplied you with a source containing a very accurate argument based on the facts, and including direct quotes from Brzezinski himself.

That's right, you've got nothing. Nothing at all. Hopefully this will change if you actually try reading sometime...
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visitorq



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ubermenzch wrote:
But Brzezinski says absolutely nothing which would lead us to the conclusion that Tarpley wants us to make: that Carter was a puppet. Absolutely nothing!

Just forget it... I can't reduce these things down to comic book form in order for you to get it. Sorry.
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ubermenzch



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

visitorq wrote:
ubermenzch wrote:
But Brzezinski says absolutely nothing which would lead us to the conclusion that Tarpley wants us to make: that Carter was a puppet. Absolutely nothing!

Just forget it... I can't reduce these things down to comic book form in order for you to get it. Sorry.

Oh that's fine. I found Tarpley's crayola scribblings simple enough to grasp, just transparently silly.
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visitorq



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Summary:

Ubermenzch, erroneously thinking he was being pretty clever, spouted off:

"YAY!! More silliness from the dean of silly! I'd like to hear how Carter was a puppet. I bet it involves that charming Rockefeller and this New World Order thingy, or maybe that dastardly United Nations! Do tell us visitorq!"

I then went on to cite a source, including a DIRECT QUOTE from Zbigniew Brzezinski (long-time and close friend with David Rockefeller, and co-founder with him of the Trilateral Commission) discussing his role in advising and supporting Carter, even before he was elected, supporting him in the media, and ultimately acting as his chief foreign policy adviser from 1975 on.

Ubermenzch : 0
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bacasper



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ubermenzch began the descent of this thread into ad hominems when he wrote:
YAY!! More silliness from the dean of silly! I'd like to hear how Carter was a puppet. I bet it involves that charming Rockefeller and this New World Order thingy, or maybe that dastardly United Nations! Do tell us visitorq!

As any high school debater knows, if you can get your opponent to attack you instead of your argument, you've won the debate.

Ubermenzch, in the past you have not exactly been the greatest judge of credibility. So why don't you tell us, just how do you decide if something is credible?

Edited for error in quote. Sorry!


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ubermenzch



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bacasper wrote:
Ubermenzch began the descent of this thread into ad hominems when he wrote:
But Brzezinski says absolutely nothing which would lead us to the conclusion that Tarpley wants us to make: that Carter was a puppet. Absolutely nothing!

As any high school debater knows, if you can get your opponent to attack you instead of your argument, you've won the debate.

Ubermenzch, in the past you have not exactly been the greatest judge of credibility. So why don't you tell us, just how do you decide if something is credible?

This coming from Bacasper. Hilarious!
I read over the link visitorq kindly supplied, and found nothing that Brzezinski said supported visitorq's representation of Carter as a puppet. Visitorq would now all like us to forget that he ever used this word, but it was what caused our disagreement in the first place. Visitorq now wants to make it appear that I deny that Brzezinski had a "role in advising and supporting Carter, even before he was elected, supporting him in the media, and ultimately acting as his chief foreign policy adviser from 1975 on." I don't deny this at all. It's all perfectly true. But how does this prove Carter to have been a puppet?
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bacasper



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ubermenzch wrote:

This coming from Bacasper. Hilarious!

Damn, that has got to be the fastest I ever won a debate!
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