Something's a bit out of balance here.

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08 Nov 2012, 11:50 pm

Since the Republican Party and conservatives in general are being disparaged here, I think it would be only fair that I make a thread proclaiming how much I loathe liberals and Democrats. What say you?

Hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. That's the way I see it.

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08 Nov 2012, 11:51 pm

anybody up for some fiscal cliff diving?

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08 Nov 2012, 11:57 pm

noxnocturne wrote:

If not for liberals and democrats who would we have to mock and torment?

Besides, openly disparaging them is considered trolling here. Them doing it to us is called freedom of speech.

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09 Nov 2012, 12:21 am

I hate the fact that the term liberal has been hijacked.

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09 Nov 2012, 12:24 am

noxnocturne wrote:

Go for it. But first tell me how many presidential candidates it took to prevent Barack Obama from being re-elected.

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09 Nov 2012, 12:31 am

MXH wrote:

anybody up for some fiscal cliff diving?

Like rats of a clifff (-_-).

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09 Nov 2012, 2:37 am

Raptor wrote:

noxnocturne wrote:

If not for liberals and democrats who would we have to mock and torment?

Besides, openly disparaging them is considered trolling here. Them doing it to us is called freedom of speech.

You have an undeserved sense of importance if you think that anything you do manages to torment me.

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09 Nov 2012, 3:10 am

anyone that actually adheres to a false left/right dichotomy is where the issue is at.

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09 Nov 2012, 3:19 am

I see a lot of conservative posts and a lot of liberal posts. The only thing that you think is out of balance is that there's left leaning posts at all, not that there's not an equal representation of views, because there most certainly is to anyone who's just the least bit perceptive,

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09 Nov 2012, 3:24 am

Oodain wrote:

anyone that actually adheres to a false left/right dichotomy is where the issue is at.

Even the naming seems designed to be divisive. The left-right paradigm may as well be the negative-positive paradigm or the the black-white paradigm. Its weird that people actually tie up their identities and emotions into labels that are direct opposites to one another. I wonder who actually coined the terms, because it plays extremely well the chest beating tribalism part of the brain.

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09 Nov 2012, 3:37 am

The left-right divide exists, it is real, and it is divisive. But it seems to only be believed by the Right, the Left argues its above all of this and that its just a matter of facts versus lies, objectivity residing in their corner. There are fundamental differences between the two groups, they are unbridgeable unless one drops their convictions and picks up the other. Calls for the GOP to change are calls for the GOP to move leftward.

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09 Nov 2012, 3:58 am

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Besides, openly disparaging them is considered trolling here. Them doing it to us is called freedom of speech.

It is trolling because they don't ask if its true or untrue, they ask if you mean well or not. Motivations matter to the left. Because they can't take you seriously enough to believe you actually believe what you believe.

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09 Nov 2012, 8:47 pm

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Motivations matter to the left.

Yeah, it's the thought that counts.
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09 Nov 2012, 8:51 pm

Aspie_Chav wrote:

I hate the fact that the term liberal has been hijacked.

"Liberal" and "Gay" Both terms hijacked. Yet some "liberals" have not got the courage of their label and they call themselves "progressives" Progressing toward what I wonder?

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09 Nov 2012, 8:51 pm

Vulture wrote:

Raptor wrote:

noxnocturne wrote:

If not for liberals and democrats who would we have to mock and torment?

Besides, openly disparaging them is considered trolling here. Them doing it to us is called freedom of speech.

You have an undeserved sense of importance if you think that anything you do manages to torment me.

Maybe not you (yet) but many of your brethren have repeatedly thrown themselves against my sabre.

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