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PC as in politically correct? Right wingers tend not to be PC.
Yes I know that.
Being pro-Israel due to admiration of their courage and resilience is a much more PC message than being pro-Israel due to hating Arabs.
And in being a hate mongering conservative and not caring about being PC, why would I bother to put up a false front?
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Are you saying that equality and diversity are bad things? Or that anyone who talks about equality and diversity is a hypocrite?
You can guess why? So you know why my sibling is a very private person? What else do you know about her or him?
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With premillennials, that is often true, yes.
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Oh, no? What about discussing evolution (but not creation) for many conservative evangelicals? Or what about discussing LGBTQ rights in a public school? Many individuals from various points on the right get absolutely livid over that topic. Or what about medical doctors discussing abortion with a patient (without also bringing up adoption or encouraging the mother to keep the child)? That certainly seems like PC to me.
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I haven't heard the Conservatives whining about Obamacare in quite some time. Seriously, not even the Faux News crowd. That must mean that its rollout is going splendidly.
I may not be a conservative per say, but I watch fox news and they complain about Obamacare every day. And Obamacare is stumbling over its own weight. Max Baucus, one of the guys who wrote the Obamacare law has said that they screwed up on making this law and that its a train wreck waiting to happen. Three Major left wing unions have switched sides and are now against the law, because, by their own statements, Obamacare has devastated business, is ruining the forty hour work week, and by consequence hurting the power of the unions. When Republican members in congress tried to pass a law requiring that the congress and their staff would have to go on the Obamacare exchanges, the democrats voted against it. The head of the IRS, the organization that's going to enforce Obamacare, says that he and his colleagues don't want to be on the exchanges either. So what can you saw of a healthcare plan when the people who created it and the people who enforce it don't want it to apply to them. As well as that congressional republicans plan on using the battle over the continuing resolution to try to defund Obamacare. Obamacare will likely crash and burn over the next few years.
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I haven't heard the Conservatives whining about Obamacare in quite some time. Seriously, not even the Faux News crowd. That must mean that its rollout is going splendidly.
I may not be a conservative per say, but I watch fox news and they complain about Obamacare every day. And Obamacare is stumbling over its own weight. Max Baucus, one of the guys who wrote the Obamacare law has said that they screwed up on making this law and that its a train wreck waiting to happen. Three Major left wing unions have switched sides and are now against the law, because, by their own statements, Obamacare has devastated business, is ruining the forty hour work week, and by consequence hurting the power of the unions. When Republican members in congress tried to pass a law requiring that the congress and their staff would have to go on the Obamacare exchanges, the democrats voted against it. The head of the IRS, the organization that's going to enforce Obamacare, says that he and his colleagues don't want to be on the exchanges either. So what can you saw of a healthcare plan when the people who created it and the people who enforce it don't want it to apply to them. As well as that congressional republicans plan on using the battle over the continuing resolution to try to defund Obamacare. Obamacare will likely crash and burn over the next few years.
Max Baucus had been trying to weaken Obamacare from day one by preventing the establishment of single payer, so he's hardly the most unbiased commentator on this subject - neither is Fox.
And while I disagree with the stance of those Union leaders who had switched sides on this matter, I have to ask, why do you suppose they are motivated only by keeping their power?
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"Obamacare" is a Keynesian capitalist nonsolution for a problem which can only be fixed through spiritual transformation and socialist collectivization.
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Are you saying that equality and diversity are bad things? Or that anyone who talks about equality and diversity is a hypocrite?
I think we’ve reached a plateau, for lack of a better term, in equality and diversity and the liberals have run out of a purpose in life. Now all they are doing is re-doubling their efforts to no affect but to stir unnecessary and unwarranted resentment.
You can guess why? So you know why my sibling is a very private person? What else do you know about her or him?
I’m guessing that your sibling of undisclosed gender is doing is what most liberals do when they express their hatred of Israel; looking at the situation between the Israelis and Palestinians with blinders on.
Oh, no? What about discussing evolution (but not creation) for many conservative evangelicals? Or what about discussing LGBTQ rights in a public school? Many individuals from various points on the right get absolutely livid over that topic. Or what about medical doctors discussing abortion with a patient (without also bringing up adoption or encouraging the mother to keep the child)? That certainly seems like PC to me.
Liberals are PC
Conservatives are not PC
Your definition of political correctness must be different but whatever….
That's it for me clarifying things for you up to this point. If that’s not good enough just ask another right wing fanatic what I mean and I’m sure it’ll be close enough…..
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I usually just watch a few minutes of local news and that's it. I will admit that I do watch Fox news more than before I started on this forum, thanks to all the butthurt Fox has caused this forum's left wing. I figure anything that burns their asses that much has to be good. I knew "Obamacare" was a piece of s**t when it was passed a few years ago. Anything any news agency says about it pretty much goes in one ear and out the other since my mind has already been made up about it. You cannot polish a turd or say anything to make it worse than it is.
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Sounds like a nice way of saying we’re collectively going to be screwed.
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Normal being liberal, I take it…..
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Ooh! Ooh! I want to try! Here goes....
You know you're a member of a political group I don't like if:
- you are a terrible person
- I am much smarter than you
- you are a ridiculous hypocrite
- you are a worthless insect
- your ideas are really bad and terrible and hypocritical
- oh my god I cannot believe how stupid you are
- seriously you are a terrible person
- please change your political opinions as a result of me insulting you
- idiot
....well, that was productive.
You know you're a member of a political group I don't like if:
- you are a terrible person
- I am much smarter than you
- you are a ridiculous hypocrite
- you are a worthless insect
- your ideas are really bad and terrible and hypocritical
- oh my god I cannot believe how stupid you are
- seriously you are a terrible person
- please change your political opinions as a result of me insulting you
- idiot
....well, that was productive.
You forgot to include this one on your list:
-you are a troll
No internet insult should be without the accusation of trollery.
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