Are you a special snowflake?

Snowflakes should stay out of the kitchen if they know what’s good for them.

But please do educate us on “ mini Mao “. surely such experts have actually BEEN to China ? Worked there ? Built things there ? Exported from there ? Hired there?...and importantly for America, exported to China.

I am expecting crickets from Charlie and Oregon.....

"What is it you feel gives you the right to tell others Shut Up!? "
When that person either posts or answers with an arrogance that the person knows everything and the other person does not.  Or, when every other answer to a post refers him or her to the persons system.  It gives me the feeling like that person is saying that theirs is right VS all the rest of us.  Another thing is when the poster has to post their conspiracy theories or reminds us that they love our President which brings politics into it.  .  

As for myself, I am guilty of getting involved in the Political atmosphere which gets me hyped up and then someone reports my post to a moderator.  Then I get more annoyed and have to keep it all in until the next time at which time I unload on someone.  Not healthy for me or any of us.  I will be the first to admit that I am extra jumpy right now due to the Covid-19 problem, but that is no excuse when I screw up and I should try harder.  I will try harder, how about the rest of us?

Mini mao?
not sure about that but I do see a few mini me’s scurrying about here now and again.

So millercarbon I am curious to know which specific thread got you going? Sounds like it would be an entertaining read so what one was it?

Right. Like it was one. We don't call them Mini-Mao's when its just one. They're all over the place.

There is one though, pages and pages of posts, one NPC after another. Not that they realize it. That's the thing about being NPC: no self-awareness. Literally zero. All they do is snark back and forth. Because, NPC, what they do. 

Years ago the great Peggy Noonan wrote a beautiful article. I'll never be able to do her justice. What she said was, Movies, television, news shows, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books. Today she would add YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google. These are the waters we swim in. The water may once have been clean and clear. Today it is a cesspool. But its the whole ocean, and having been born into it and swimming in it our whole lives it seems fine. We don't notice. Aren't even aware we're swimming. Not really.

One day you go a little close to shore, stick your head up, and man the lights bright. Waves thrash you around but you drag yourself ashore somehow. 

Exhausted, you look around. Man, the colors! The air! Its so clear! You can see forever! You go back, try and tell someone. What're you crazy? Swimming? We're not swimming? You're nuts. You go back up, now there's a few more on the beach. You start to make some new friends.