Thanks a lot, I just sprayed coffee on my keyboard.
BigBoxaCoffeeSpitKeyboardParts! ETA: I forgot to ad "Tard" on the end.
See? I still suck at name jacking.
Thanks a lot, I just sprayed coffee on my keyboard.
Personally I think that "libtards" is an awful term. For one thing, it is extremely offensive to the mentally disabled. I have several family members who have diminished mental capacity, and I would take major umbrage if I heard someone using that term in front of me. For another, it makes us more conservative folk appear to be immature, hotheaded and downright stupid. It brings crappy New York Times political cartoons of fat camo wearing rednecks with half a brain to life. If we can't articulate ourselves properly, then our arguments and positions lose validity. Just like I stop listening when a liberal calls me a violent gun-crazed maniac and compares me to a mass murderer, I wouldn't blame one of them for not listening if I insult them like a 14 year old boy. By all means, when someone says something stupid, call them out on it and take them to task, but do it like a grown up. To me, that term seems very base and childish.
I'm not speaking directly to any one person, I have always found that term to be in very poor taste. I simply think that we, as a generally conservative bunch, do ourselves a disservice with such rhetoric. This is just one man's opinion, for the very little that it is worth.
All sides have people that will degrade honest debate and discussion into name calling and hatred. One side calling the other out for it is folly and in and of itself takes attention off the important points and counterpoints, facts, and opinions. In fact, name calling, or pointing out name calling are a sure sign someone feels they are losing the debate.
Conversely, all sides have people who debate and discuss in a respectful and thoughtful way. I think most of us try and avoid the pitfalls that pride and passion can bring, but the media likes to shine the spotlight on those that don't. Drama sells, unfortunately.
Yes, I can deny it. My mother was one of the most wonderful people in the world, IMO, and she was a liberal. She was not stupid. Far from it. I could take your quote here and substitute conservative or teabagger, or whatever, and it would work for rabid liberals just as well. My father was a staunch conservative, and was as compassionate and caring as any man I've ever met. He was quite intelligent, too. He would attest to the intelligence of my Mom. (I'm certainly not saying I'd be the poster boy for intelligent conservatives, either.)
Our capacity for hypocrisy in political discussion is amazing, and like it or not, we are ALL quite capable of it and guilty of it from time to time.
No. The fall out of attempting to implement "ineffective measureIt hasn't impeded one "ineffective measure of progressive political reform".
No. The fall out of attempting to implement "ineffective measureof progressive political reform" does that. Some people are just so stupid, you have to let them burn themselves to learn the fire is hot, or shock themselves to learn that electricity hurts, or jump off the roof with a bath towel tied around their necks to learn that gravity doesn't play favourites. So too it is with the American electorate.
The other one that I always laugh at is the word or attempted word: fuqtard, or fooktard, or fukterd, or however the user wants to spell it. It's hillarious and the mere use of it immediately identifies the user as one of those "socially special" people.
I think the term over-generalizes them. Not every liberal is an idiot. Some of the most brilliant people were liberals or left-leaning.
all this labelling talk has caused me to do a little thinking... Im not sure "democrat" fits me anymore... perhaps a left-leaning independent?
all this labelling talk has caused me to do a little thinking... Im not sure "democrat" fits me anymore... perhaps a left-leaning independent?