Patrick Moore - are you saying H.L. Mencken is a positive force? Surely there are intelligent writers who weren't racist and anti-Semitic.
I whole-heartedly support Grant putting his opinion our there (not just because I agree with it). At the same time, this whole thread has got me bummed out - I hate to say it but it's been a sad kind of wake-up call to realize that there are Trump supporters who appreciate what I appreciate...my little bubble of bicycles has been popped! I guess you take a bunch of (mostly) older (mostly) men, (some) with $20K worth of recreational machines, (all) who spend a lot of time on the internet, and you're bound to get some old-school and far-out opinions. I still prefer to see this forum the other way (which it also is): take a bunch of people enthusiastic about a functionality, aesthetics, and bicycles, and exercise, smart people, some L.O.T.R. fans, put them together and get some really pleasing, overly in-depth reviews of really un-neccesary outdoor fabrics, and lovely long discussions about bikes that Grant won't be designing but which he 'could' :) It makes me happy. Still happy to read all these things every evening. - A On Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 9:52:30 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Joe: I like you, but your rhetoric is bumbling and more passionate than > intelligent, and that is true of much of what has been posted on this > subject. I disassociated myself from one of Richard's comments earlier, > because it was posted as reply to something I had posted, but I will > support his later attempts to bring context and clarification to his > assertions. > > Note this: I do not necessarily agree with his context and clarifications > -- I might indeed disagree with them; I just haven't researched the issue > sufficiently, and therefore I wisely keep my mouth shut on the matter. But > I do support his attempt to bring quality of discourse to a thread that has > been lamentably heavy on passion and weak on intelligence. > > That is how Hitler got elected -- repeat, elected. Demagoguery succeeds by > making use of unintelligent high emotion. > > The stupidity level of this thread is getting dangerously high. I prefer > H. l. Mencken. > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Joe Bernard <joer...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I like the part where Richard acted shocked that I said Trump was >> abducting children, then supported the policy of abducting children. The >> art of doublespeak is strong with this one. Who btw is now talking on a Riv >> forum after renouncing Rivendells. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
