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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2013, 11:07:37 PM »
Let's see. Tyrant or exhibitionist? I think an exhibitionist is more benign.

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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2013, 11:08:08 PM »
He'd be a fitting sequel. They're just trading one, um, member for another.

Member of the east coast elite, of course, is what I mean.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2013, 11:19:37 PM »
I wonder how much bloomberg is paying him to run?
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2013, 05:38:43 AM »
Let's see. Tyrant or exhibitionist? I think an exhibitionist is more benign.
But what if you end up with a Tyrannical exhibitionist Weiner?
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2013, 08:01:18 AM »
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2013, 08:46:30 AM »
Apparently Bloomberg will be focusing on destroying the taxi industry once he retires.
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Re: Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2013, 08:51:52 AM »
he needs be careful. money does not make you bullet proof.

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Re: Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2013, 12:34:22 PM »
he needs be careful. money does not make you bullet proof.

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Be ironic if he got run over by a taxi.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2013, 04:21:15 PM »
Weiner is standing up for his right to run.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2013, 04:28:41 PM »
Weiner is standing up for his right to run.


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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2013, 04:30:09 PM »
Hey!  If a snaggle-toothed, mouth-breathing, illiterate southron hick can get political redemption why shouldn't a a Noo Yark perv take a swing at it.  I hope he makes a good show of it so southern commentators can get their licks in.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2013, 04:32:17 PM »
If Weiner wants to win, Weiner needs to be hard to beat.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2013, 05:10:40 PM »
Weiner can't be soft on crime...

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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2013, 05:12:43 PM »
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take His place. It will be megalomania or erotomania. The drive for power or the drive for pleasure. The clenched fist or the phallus. Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”

Remember: this is a sensible comparison, an not a self-caricature.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2013, 05:20:46 PM »
Weiner... just perfect.  They need another narcisstic hot dog in office.  He's buddies with Schumer.  Schumer has presidential aspirations. Weiner and his wife are members of the club.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2013, 07:04:14 PM »
Remember: this is a sensible comparison, an not a self-caricature.

OK, I'll bite. What are you getting at?
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2013, 08:18:00 PM »
OK, I'll bite. What are you getting at?

If you are unable to comprehend without my help how that quote looks completely cartoonish to anybody who does not already accept your worldview, I recommend you continue quoting it as often as possible in the company of such individuals.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2013, 09:00:57 PM »
Sure, ok.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2013, 09:47:18 PM »
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The clenched fist or the phallus.

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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2013, 11:01:04 PM »
Though I never saw that newspaper myself, I've been told that when former mob lawyer Goodman won the mayoral election one of the local papers ran with the headline "Oscar Mayor Winner".
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2013, 01:23:28 AM »
If you are unable to comprehend without my help how that quote looks completely cartoonish to anybody who does not already accept your worldview, I recommend you continue quoting it as often as possible in the company of such individuals.

On second thought; the quotation I posted is so apt, and your reaction to it is so off-base, that I figured I'd point out a few things.

Firstly, your first response was not at all clear. Thanks for being so snarky when I asked you to explain.

Moving on, the quotation is actually meant to be a paraphrase, or maybe a summary, of something said by Nietzsche (by way of Ravi Zacharias). And Nietzsche does not accept my weltanschauung.

As cartoonish as you may think the Nietzsche/Zacharias theory to be, it cannot be more cartoonish than the outlandish characters we're talking about here. Bloomberg, a man so possessed by the authoritarian spirit that he tried to regulate the size of New Yorkers' soft drinks; and Weiner, a guy so enslaved by adolescent sexual impulses that he threw away a Congressional seat and humiliated himself publicly, just so he could feel like a stud on the internet. These guys are caricatures, and fit just so in the two categories.

Do I expect that quotation to convert Jesus-stomping atheists into born-again, Spirit-filled snake-handlers? No. That wasn't the point.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #22 on: May 24, 2013, 07:27:17 AM »
The problem is that the quote author thinks that the extremes he brings up are even remotely comparable. Yes, I understand that the quote is not meant to be taken literally, and even as a metaphor it looks ridiculous.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2013, 08:10:23 AM »
The problem is that the quote author thinks that the extremes he brings up are even remotely comparable.



Comparable to what? To each other? 

Or do you mean that Hitler and Hefner are not comparable to Bloomberg and Weiner? If so, you should know that the quotation was not made in response to New York mayoral politics.
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Re: Would this be an improvement over Mayor Bloomberg?
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2013, 02:40:23 PM »
Comparable to what? To each other? 

It's that. Our sex-positive friend is saying he believes that the evils of power-seeking are in no way comparable to the evils of pleasure seeking, and therefore finds the metaphor ridiculous.