BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

I heard Al Gore created the Internet because he lacked an outlet to bicker.

Wait what? Chill out on rules and regulations, as in chill on waiting at lights? Or are you saying that we should chill out about rude, ignorant shit we get from drivers that think we shouldn't be on the road?

Is OP a real person? Seems like a Bot post.

Things are bound to happen when people are passionate about things. It's good that people are passionate. There's a time to chill and a time to sew.

yeah, choosing "bike pittsburgh" as your moniker is a dick thing to do when even the BPGH people don't use that. I may or may not agree with your post (I don't), but your choice in name really says something unpleasant about you that you may not have realized.

Just in case you ever felt like actually joining in the community you just anonymously chastised.

How to lose friends and alienate people, in three easy steps:

1). Raise up the virtue and purity of your position as a beacon.

2). Condescend to the unscrubbed masses.

3). Do so anonymously.

The original statement is vague enough for you to have any position and argue with somebody else about it

B.I.P., just to clarify, are you saying that fellow bicyclists (perhaps on this message board?) are being too judgmental about other bicyclists?

Just trying to figure out exactly what you're trying to say before reacting to it.

Yeah, it was definitely unclear. There's several different ways I interpreted it, and still haven't decided which was correct.

I think this was just a one-shot troll.

Fascism? Yes. Fascism.

(Courtesy of Wiki, via the google: "Fascism ( /?fæ??z?m/) is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists seek to unify their nation based on commitment to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people through national identity.[3][4] The unity of the nation is to be based upon suprapersonal connections of ancestry and culture through a totalitarian state that seeks the mass mobilization of the national community through discipline, indoctrination, physical training, and eugenics.[3][5] Fascism seeks to eradicate perceived foreign influences that are deemed to be causing degeneration of the nation or of not fitting into the national culture.[6]")

naw, the OP's posted one other time. Not to the intro board (maybe s/he's working on an awesome intro with pictures and music and video to delight and dazzle us), but to another thread (the editor letter one).

They've corrected/changed their board handle, so I'll allow some benefit of the doubt. In adding up the violated standard online norms in my head, I'm beginning to chalk up my initial negative reaction to "interwebs/norms fail" rather than a reasoned reaction to a well explained thought.

Fascism? Really?

(More from Wiki, courtesy the google: "As early as 1944, the term had already become so widely and loosely employed that British essayist and novelist George Orwell was moved to write:

It would seem that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.[1]")

Maybe the OP once heard the phrase "as far right as is practicable" and interpreted it as a political statement.

dude, whoever called Ghandi a facist.... that just ain't right.

I mean, Ghandi. Really. (Churchill's opposition to Ghandi really made me think the first time I came across it. I mean, it's Ghandi. How can one actually oppose Ghandi?)

Gandhi, but I read something about Churchill's opposition to Gandhi in C.'s book about the Second World War. My impression is that one reason was C.'s opposition to losing India as part of the British Empire; also that Gandhi, a Hindu, could not possibly represent all of India, and third, that Gandhi had an utterly impractical approach to opposing the Japanese invasion of India. He advocated non-violent resistance. C. pointed out, correctly as far as I can tell, that this would have resulted in the deaths of an awful lot of people, especially Sikhs. But I'm pretty sure Churchill, who was a British Imperialist, mainly saw Gandhi as a threat to the British Empire, as he was.

schmenjamin +1:

Maybe the OP once heard the phrase "as far right as is practicable" and interpreted it as a political statement.