Hey Burt

[Dev]

Burying the hatchet sounds great. I'm in! Let's do that.

And that is how a real business man gets real business deals done! Watch and learn fucking LOSER trump fans! I am unmuzzled and I am ENRAGED!!!

I’m sure this will last.

I am cautiously optimistic. But I meant what I said. I had hoped me and Durden would have a fresh start when I came back to RM this time. Either way, we're on the same team so...

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

[BurtReynolds]

Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

Looked dead-eyed.

[Ello Sailor]

You lads have been busy today.

Not a lot of lib-owning though. Weak.

[BurtReynolds]

Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

Looked dead-eyed.

Package delivery will do that I guess.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Burt I saw your brother working at UPS

What a strange post.

It is not

How is he?

Looked dead-eyed.

Package delivery will do that I guess.

At least they let him wear shorts.

[Dev]

Perhaps he's just not into obeying bullies.

You’ve got half the sentence. He hates bullying when he feels like he or a group that he identifies with is the target of it. Otherwise he doesn’t really care. He makes a point of expressing scorn.

So something like this?

Iowa Governor Signs Bill Ending Transgender Civil Rights Protections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/i ... roid-share

BREAKING: Cis, straight, white man "willfully" ignores oppression.

That is an example, yes. And we all do that shit. You’ve done a ton of it. I have too.

But you also, concurrent to that, have many posts that express empathy for groups of people you do not necessarily support or agree with….including trans people.

You disagree with durd almost completely on this issue, but your concerns about trans people are often based in worry and shared humanity. Concern that young people might make a choice they regret later in life. Fear on behalf of women, when you feel that trans people are being elevated in a way that might be harmful to them.

The key phrase there is “on behalf of.“ The occasional snark or scorn that you deliver always arrives in the context of routinely expressed, empathetic advocacy on behalf of someone who is nothing to do with you at all. Who might even be on the opposite side of the issue as you.

Again, I’m not saying that Burt said a mean thing, and only Burt says mean things, so just ignore him. I am saying durd is wasting his time when he engages him on this topic, because durd gets emotional and passionate about it, and Burt just doesn’t care.

You and I regularly heap scorn on groups we disagree with. But it’s not the only way we speak about them. You might be in favor of deportations, and you might come in here to share articles about immigrants who committed crimes, but if this summer there are news stories about elevationally horrific conditions in deportation camps…there’s a good chance you’ll be the one sharing some of those stories. Expressing horror for the way that it is being done, because you think and talk about human beings as if they are human beings and not NPCs.

All of Burt’s posts look like

my nephew is trans and this election I'd like to do what little I can to protect his rights.

Yeah that's how they keep you in line.

I’m not talking about the ideology behind his response to Juan (or durd). I’m not talking about the worldview or the political viewpoint he expressed. I’m not saying anything at all about ideology.

I’m saying that BurtReynolds would only ever respond to Juan’s statement in exactly the way that he actually did. Exactly that level of dismissiveness.

This back-and-forth is getting repetitive, but I will continue it if you’d like. I will keep reasserting what I believe, because I do genuinely believe it.

But I also promise to keep my eye out. There’s a good chance that the news will be bringing us quite a lot of civil liberties discussions in the coming year or years. Lots of chances for me to be wrong….opportunities for Burt to maintain his passionate “personal freedoms“ attitude, by rejecting situations where someone he approves of is using a position of power to hurt or suppress someone he doesn’t approve of…even when he thinks it is funny or serves them right.

[BurtReynolds]

Tldr

[Dev]

maybe you should start reading since you like to give your opinion so much

[BurtReynolds]

Maybe you should realize the inherent contradiction of being a materialist who thinks forms are real!

[Dev]

Forms?

[BurtReynolds]

did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

[Ello Sailor]

Mom, Burt is trying to sound smart again.

[Dev]

did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

Good conversation

[BurtReynolds]

did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

Good conversation

true freedom is realizing that one doesn't have to let libtards dictate the borders of the convo.

[Dev]

did you like the song I posted in Now Playing today?

Good conversation

true freedom is realizing that one doesn't have to let libtards dictate the borders of the convo.

you started that conversation and I asked you to explain one of your terms...

[BurtReynolds]

do you support this?!

[Dev]

haha ur scary, honestly

[spike]

this is how putin created you