Is there a word for when someone pretends to be stupid to try and hide the fact that they really ARE stupid?

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“Seriously: ignore the right-wing bullies and they’ll go away.”

We tried that back when Clinton was President.

Didn’t work out so good.

You realize all the big-name conservatives know this and are cynically exploiting their own constituents?

“I can call a her a ‘little lady’ in a condensing way in my hostile reply gadnammit! It ain’t sexist, it’s just folksy charm.”

Yet let’s for fun just pretend that the comic was a deliberate swing at the tea party, and so then labelled by Todd as ‘left leaning propaganda’. So this nut protests and whines and even gets an apology from Marvel being so how do you say -’incorrect’?

Of course Marvel aren’t being ‘politically incorrect’ (even though it’s a political comment that, in their opinion, is incorrect) Of course not, it’s left leaning propaganda! That means right wingers can whine about it.

If they ever realised that they are being just as big ‘PC police’ as their left leaning counterparts their heads would probably explode

supposed to have a new album this year!

As instructed, I clicked on the link in order to read Todd’s _Watchmen_ analysis and was confronted immediately on Part 1, Pg1 with a lengthy section on everything that Todd hasn’t been involved in. In fact, everything from Part 1, Pg 1 to Part 3, Pg 2 appears to be a memoir of some kind for the author.

In future, please warn people before clicking links that they aren’t reading an interpretation of _Watchmen_; instead, they are reading the biography of someone who has read _Watchmen_. These are not the same things. Especially when the person in the biography really hasn’t done anything interesting.

Regards,

– UnSub

If a child asks their parent for something once, and gets it, then the next time they’ll ask for something five times before giving up. If they get it then, the next time they’ll ask twenty times before giving up. If they get it then, they’ll escalate to one hundred requests the next time.

Bullies are essentially asking for attention, whether children or grown-up blowhards, and growing up has taught them that a combination of persistence and escalation will eventually get them what they want. Ignoring a bully like Warner Todd doesn’t make him go away, it makes him up his game.

The best way to deal with bullies is not to ignore them, but to shut them down.

Apologies for posting twice in a row like this.

You see, Rushdie wrote the damn book in english, and so it later had to be translated into arabic. the trouble is that the phrase “satanic verses” is an english term created by oriental studies professors in oxford for a bunch of heretical “addendums” to the quran that were written/discovered a few centuries after muhammed had died. In arabic though those texts are known by their original arabic name obviously, so the translator and arabic publishers decided to find an equivalent term that more readily fit the english title of the book.

What they came up was a term that, when translated back in to english, roughly means “the quran was written by satan”. And there’s a bit in the book where Rushdie also kind of calls all the mothers of all muslims… whores. Which turned out to be a Yo Mama too far.

None of which explains why the hell Cat Stevens fucking cared one way or the other – why are you listening to a fatwah from the Iranian supreme leader mr. Stevens? This is not your cow! It goes; “this random writer is an enemy of islam! Please kill him if you happen to meet him in the street kthxbai” It’s the Ayatollah Khomeini!