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Ancalagon
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29 Sep 2010, 9:23 am

marshall wrote:

I think there are certain conservatives who actually have a rotten spiteful streak buried deep within their lizard brains and this is why they so fervently latch onto the meme. This can be seen through their thinly veiled hatred for people less fortunate than them.

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You people just have no clue.

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You get just as whiny and emotional

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You're ideas are neither sound nor rational. Everything you believe comes from a naive black-and-white perspective. You're incapable of seeing nuances.

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Where the f**k do you live?

If there was a rational argument in there somewhere, I missed it. I saw plenty of nasty insinuations, insults, conclusory statements, and plain belligerence.

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I'm pleasent around others who are pleasent.

Right. Just as long as we understand that 'pleasent' means 'totally agrees with me'.

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29 Sep 2010, 9:23 am

John_Browning wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

Ancalagon wrote:

marshall wrote:

I can't see a valid reason why right-wingers HATE this president so much.

I think it has to do with the whole flaming-liberal thing.

Obama is much more of a moderate than a "flaming liberal." Try actually venturing out of the US for once and spending some time in a real socialist country, like England or Sweden. Then you'll know what real liberals are like. Little hint: the large majority of liberals oppose war and support gay marriage. Obama has proven that he is pro-war and anti-gay marriage. So why, then, do you think he's a "flaming liberal"?

That's one of my biggest reasons to avoid foreign travel- I don't want to deal with that crap.

As for Obama, he's extremely liberal. He made tons of super liberal campaign promises, and old writings and public statements of his are extremely liberal. The only reason why he isn't pushing more liberal policies is because he is too weak of a leader to get them passed even with a democratic supermajority in congress. Yeah he got his stimulus package and Obamacare passed, but not only did he use up too much public support to get anything else done, but he ended up costing a lot of democratic senators and congressmen their jobs. He won't be able to do anything "progressive" now.

If Obama is so "liberal," then why does he buy into religion at all? Most far-left individuals are atheists and agnostics and think that religion is just a bunch of fairy tales.

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29 Sep 2010, 9:30 am

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If Obama is so "liberal," then why does he buy into religion at all? Most far-left individuals are atheists and agnostics and think that religion is just a bunch of fairy tales.

My impression wasn't that he bought into religion particularly, but even if I were wrong about that, saying that he's part of a minority of far-left types doesn't prove a lack of far-leftness.

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29 Sep 2010, 9:34 am

Ancalagon wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

If Obama is so "liberal," then why does he buy into religion at all? Most far-left individuals are atheists and agnostics and think that religion is just a bunch of fairy tales.

My impression wasn't that he bought into religion particularly, but even if I were wrong about that, saying that he's part of a minority of far-left types doesn't prove a lack of far-leftness.

Dennis Kucinich is a far-leftist. Compared to Kucinich, Obama's views are obviously centrist.

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29 Sep 2010, 9:56 am

quiet_dove wrote:

Ancalagon wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

If Obama is so "liberal," then why does he buy into religion at all? Most far-left individuals are atheists and agnostics and think that religion is just a bunch of fairy tales.

My impression wasn't that he bought into religion particularly, but even if I were wrong about that, saying that he's part of a minority of far-left types doesn't prove a lack of far-leftness.

Dennis Kucinich is a far-leftist. Compared to Kucinich, Obama's views are obviously centrist.

I have to keep correcting the dialogue: Kucinich is a leftist. Not a far-leftist. Obama is center-right. The problem is that the political gauge is so messed up here thanks to the media's relentless pursuit of hyper sensationalism and a strict abhorring of the actual left.

It's a 1984 semantics game: Center is "left, Left is "far-left", Far-Right is "right", and Fascists are "tea partiers".

The rest of the world thinks of the country as a far right country that occasionally makes a move toward centrism before swinging even harder to the right.

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29 Sep 2010, 1:05 pm

Ancalagon wrote:

marshall wrote:

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You people just have no clue.

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You get just as whiny and emotional

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You're ideas are neither sound nor rational. Everything you believe comes from a naive black-and-white perspective. You're incapable of seeing nuances.

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Where the f**k do you live?

If there was a rational argument in there somewhere, I missed it. I saw plenty of nasty insinuations, insults, conclusory statements, and plain belligerence.

I dont think it's worth my time to try and and refute arguments point-by-point and do hours worth of internet research to debunk factual inaccuracies. I also don't feel it's worthwhile to try and rationally argue with racists and people who harbor hate for people less fortunate than they are. I never claimed that you belong to the later group but there are other members participating in this forum who clearly do. I just don't see the point in rationally debating people who seem to lack a conscience. There's no convincing or enlightenment on either side when there's no common moral ground to even begin with.

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I'm pleasent around others who are pleasent.

Right. Just as long as we understand that 'pleasent' means 'totally agrees with me'.

There are certain other members who I'm not going to mention by name who are my main target. More decent people such as yourself are merely collateral damage. I wouldn't mind having a more civil discussion with people like you but I just don't have the energy or motivation at this point.

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29 Sep 2010, 1:16 pm

skafather84 wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

Ancalagon wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

If Obama is so "liberal," then why does he buy into religion at all? Most far-left individuals are atheists and agnostics and think that religion is just a bunch of fairy tales.

My impression wasn't that he bought into religion particularly, but even if I were wrong about that, saying that he's part of a minority of far-left types doesn't prove a lack of far-leftness.

Dennis Kucinich is a far-leftist. Compared to Kucinich, Obama's views are obviously centrist.

Exactly.

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29 Sep 2010, 1:25 pm

skafather84 wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

Ancalagon wrote:

quiet_dove wrote:

If Obama is so "liberal," then why does he buy into religion at all? Most far-left individuals are atheists and agnostics and think that religion is just a bunch of fairy tales.

My impression wasn't that he bought into religion particularly, but even if I were wrong about that, saying that he's part of a minority of far-left types doesn't prove a lack of far-leftness.

Dennis Kucinich is a far-leftist. Compared to Kucinich, Obama's views are obviously centrist.

I meant in terms of American politics, he's a far leftist. In terms of world politics, you're right, he is a centrist.

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29 Sep 2010, 1:30 pm

quiet_dove wrote:

in terms of American politics

I understand that but the only way to fix this semantic problem is to stop subscribing to it and using their wording.

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29 Sep 2010, 1:30 pm

Marshall

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Be my guest. Where the f**k do you live?

Missouri

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29 Sep 2010, 1:42 pm

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marshall wrote:
I think there are certain conservatives who actually have a rotten spiteful streak buried deep within their lizard brains and this is why they so fervently latch onto the meme. This can be seen through their thinly veiled hatred for people less fortunate than them.

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You people just have no clue.

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You get just as whiny and emotional

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You're ideas are neither sound nor rational. Everything you believe comes from a naive black-and-white perspective. You're incapable of seeing nuances.

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Where the f**k do you live?

If there was a rational argument in there somewhere, I missed it. I saw plenty of nasty insinuations, insults, conclusory statements, and plain belligerence.

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I'm pleasent around others who are pleasent.

Right. Just as long as we understand that 'pleasent' means 'totally agrees with me'.

LOL ! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

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29 Sep 2010, 1:58 pm

marshall wrote:

I dont think it's worth my time to try and and refute arguments point-by-point and do hours worth of internet research to debunk factual inaccuracies.

Which is why, conventionally, you simply respond "Sources?"

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29 Sep 2010, 2:03 pm

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Which is why, conventionally, you simply respond "Sources?"

Why? I pretty much never see liberals offer up their own sources for their arguements.......... Besides the occasional biased 'sociology' study........ apart from that though, nothing really to corroborate their endless ranting.

Why is the burden of proof always on the conservative around these parts?

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29 Sep 2010, 2:07 pm

skafather84 wrote:

marshall wrote:

I dont think it's worth my time to try and and refute arguments point-by-point and do hours worth of internet research to debunk factual inaccuracies.

Which is why, conventionally, you simply respond "Sources?"

And there is no point as no-one ever provides any. There is no knowledge gained by anyone.

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29 Sep 2010, 2:18 pm

Hanotaux wrote:

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Which is why, conventionally, you simply respond "Sources?"

Because liberals aren't the ones spreading around factually innacurate memes these days.

Also, when the issues are on basic principles there's nothing to "debate". I simply find your values and attitude abhorrent. You give logical arguments I'll debate them. Otherwise there's nothing to do.

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