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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSorry But Texas Legislator Trolling Hawking In Death Deserves A Punch In The Nose. How Sick.
It is not that one should do such a thing. But how do you stop it.
When will these bastards pay an instant price. They mouth out and put out the worst hateful trash. They are allowed to put some of the worst hate speech on the planet and some assholes even cheer them for it. They do a lot of damage in the process. The reason they get away with this garbage is no one goes after them on the spot and routs them..
There is a point at anger cannot be contained. Sorry to be so over the top, but Hawking was one of the most brilliant minds in the last 100 years. And he prevailed over such super odds. Too bad that little prick does not get ALS or MS.
I do not how I would treat one of these pricks in their presence. I do not know about anyone else but we need vicious rhetorical attack dogs to go after these types in the public domain and trash them. We cannot just stand by an let their rhetoric fly like it does.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,461 posts)And who said it?
GWC58
(2,678 posts)What exactly did this Texas legislator say? Now Im curious.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)He commented how Hawking now knows how the universe is created. He is a radical RW Christian Nazi.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)fuck that Texas asshole. No offense to the decent in Texas.
CurtEastPoint
(18,553 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)Caliman73
(11,694 posts)Hawking had a pretty damn good idea how the universe came to be when he was alive.
I know the idiot was insinuating that Hawking was somehow facing god and somehow was getting a "comeuppance" but that is stupid. Hawking did a great deal to advance the human race and IF there is a god, then I am sure that being would be welcoming of Hawking.
Tripper11
(4,338 posts)A far-right legislator in Texas is under firing for trolling renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at the age of 76 on Tuesday.
Stephen Hawking now knows the truth about how the universe was actually made, Rep. Briscoe Cain tweeted.
My condolences to his family, his tweet concluded.
Jonathan Tilove of the American-Statesman questioned Rep. Cain about the etiquette of trolling the recently deceased.
While many see him as one of the greatest public intellectuals of the last century, and no one disputes that he was brilliant, the fact remains that God exists, Rep. Cain claimed. My tweet was to show the gravity of the Gospel and what happens when we die, namely, that we all will one day meet the Creator of the universe face to face.
The American-Statesman noted Cain had the most conservative voting record in the Texas House, according to Rice University Prof. Mark Jones index of votes.
Stephen Hawking was a vocal atheist, who advocated against and openly mocked God, he argued.
Democratic state Rep. Poncho Nevárez blasted Rep. Cain.
*more at link
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)The existence of God is anything but a fact.
CTyankee
(63,773 posts)Just another day we have to put up with these assholes...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a sick, heartless bastard.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But since you're on a Bible kick, what are you going to say to the creator of the universe when he asks if you fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and tended to the sick and imprisoned? Jesus said there were going to be some pretty harsh consequences for the folks who proffered excuses for not doing that. What will you say when you're reminded of your duty to defend the widow, the orphan, and the alien? I'm sure the almighty will be very impressed with the campaign contributions you raked in.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)No matter how much you wish your imaginary friend to be real, the fact is the only evidence you have is your own belief.
sinkingfeeling
(51,281 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)What's this "we" stuff? Go punch him out if you want.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I would not touch him but the fusillade of verbal fire would be enough. There is no common decency left any more.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)No one is off limits with these assholes.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)Mariana
(14,849 posts)captain queeg
(10,036 posts)I followed a link today of an interview. With his first ex wife and mother of their 3 kids. If someone had been commenting on his personality and family/fatherhood skills I might have not agreed with your assessment. But that god crap really makes me sick. Nothing wrong with God, I think most of the great thinkers believed in god, just not the version these sickos use to justify anything and everything aberrant that they want.
Let me go on a bit. I have a brother with advanced ALS, he got it late in life so its progresing faster than Hawking did. Hes a scientist/inventor, but not a world clas mind like Hawking was, though he thinks he is. Hawking has been his great hero since he got diagnosed. And while I dont know much about hawkings personal and family life one thing his ex talked about was how he liked to surround himself with those who worshipped the ground he walked on I believe was the way she said it. That sure sounds like my brother. On s personal level he thinks with his dick more than anyone Ive ever met, has been married 5 times, esdentiallly abandoned his daughter as a toddler.
Anyway, if someone attacked Hawkings character Id be willing to listen. Having some simpleton dismiss his thinking that was beyond what the dipstick politician could even conceive pisses me off too.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)and I really do believe that God will be more impressed with an atheist like Stephen Hawking than a fundamentalist who just repeats what he is told from birth.
This is just that low-level pathological defense mechanism distorted so-called 'thinking'.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)with statements like that.
Why are they so annoyed with great intelligence? Because it is great intelligence. They have no match for the reasoning power of such, they have no honesty that can match such brilliance. True brilliance with facts can only be honest. There's no place for petty ideology in a fact based intelligence. Liars can be smart but can never be brilliant. He'll never be able to be honest, just a troll.