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- Feb 29, 2012
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commavia said:Such delusion, such fear.
Thankfully, with each passing quarter, these hysterical arguments continue to collapse in on themselves like the logical and rhetorical dying stars that they are. And with the crumbling of each "Delta rules" meme comes more comedic gold as history is rewritten, red herrings thrown up to distract from said history, and blame and projection cast about to try and shift the focus to others. I, for one, find it exceptionally entertaining.
I think the root cause is an inferiority complex of some sort. My theory is that Delta really stands in for Atlanta in the minds of many of these fanboys. If Delta is great so by extension is Atlanta.
On a recent airliners thread that was deleted by the mods, I put my theory to the test. The same people who always proclaim Delta's greatness came out to proclaim Atlanta's greatness as a world class city.
With Atlanta, however, the delusions are so much more indefensible. There was one guy who tried to argue that Georgia Tech was world-class, on par with Yale and Harvard, much more highly-regarded than UC Berkeley. Another tried to claim that Atlanta had a higher number of tourists visit per year than Disneyland (Anaheim) or Los Angeles. In short, it was the same type of arguments the same Delta fanboys make about Delta.