The Glade 4.0

Hey King, you have a new avatar!

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The Dude abides.

Hhahahahaa! Thats awesome!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

You are completely wrong. One of the biggest issues the various liberal organizations have is in trying to present a unified message because everyone has their own ideas and doesn't easily meld into the group think mentality that the conservative parties are usually able to benefit from.

Okay, that's hilarious.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

This is so patently ridiculous and you missed my point. Every side believes there's disorganization and a lack of a unified message if they don't agree with the message. But it doesn't have to be one united group either. It can be many groups, as long as people are lumped together somehow. Libertarians and conservatives see people in terms of their individuality. In other words, a bottom-up philosophy. Liberals and socialists tend to see people according to common characteristics, thereby placing them in groups. So, a top-down philosophy.

trickle down politics!

Says the guy who's both conservative and putting people into groups.

Tend is the key word. It doesn't mean they do it consistently. I'm also greatly simplifying it. Since I'd argue there are thousands, if not millions of different philosophies. Furthermore, people do fall into groups at some level. It's just if you see them as individuals part of a greater society or a greater society with a bunch of individuals in it. Again, bottom-up or top-down.

Obama and his "My personal salvation depends on the collective salvation" fits perfectly into the outline you've presented Ienan.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

What's this now?

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The Dude abides.

Obama has repeated that line in speeches both pre and post-election. It is so reminiscent of Moony-ism, that it stuck in my head.

This is the first video I found in a quick look, it's filled with other crap, but here it is:

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

No Glenn Beck for 1 week for you. You're on time out.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Heheh, I was pretty surprised that so many Beck bits popped up when I looked for an example for Screeling. It looks like he did a whole show on it. Did Beck mention Sun Myung Moon?

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I don't know about Sun Myung Moon. I just know for like 2 weeks on Sirius he won't **** shut up about "collective salvation." I turn Boortz on FM instead, and when he's boring I just run the MP3 player.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Oh man, too much. Now I'm embarrassed.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Don't settle for the shrunk version!



There. Now you can actually read how ridiculous this system is.

(Spoilered for preposterous size required)

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

No, you're completely wrong. Conservatives don't have a group think mentality because they are not trying to make everyone thinkt he same thing. Rather, they try to reach consensus among different types of conservatives on issues that they all can agree on and share an interest in.

Liberals, on the other hand, don't do that. They try to make groups with conflicting interest all the same by focusing them on opposition to the Big Bad Evil White Male and pretending all those groups agree with each other about everything and disagree with Big Bad on everything. That's whythey try so hard to avoid mentioning things like enormous Hispanic and Black support for gay marriage bans, and why the L.A. President of N.O.W. was told not to speak out about domestic violence during the first O.J. case because they "needed" blacks, who wanted to see the case in racial terms.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Cartoon was spot on and absolutely hilarious.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I guess if shallow stereotypes are "spot on and absolutely hilarious", this should be right up your alley:

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I feel your hatred growing, Vindi. I'll be responding to other threads soon.

I seem to recall a thread just before I got suspended that involved a large number of shallow stereotypes about liberals...

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

You're hilarious. The cartoon about libertarians is spot-on, but Vindi's is about hatred?

You really ought to just change your custome title to "hypocrite". The fact that you think a cartoon could ever be "spot-on" indicates just how arrogant you are, simply rejecting out of hand any idea you dislike, but this just takes the cake.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That's neat, is your feeling of hatred the new racism, I ask because I want to be in on the ground floor of the new accusation. Much like you have for Arafys, I'm sure you have a classification for me. Please let me know which box I fit in, so you can follow the Alinsky protocol. I'm looking forward to what all reasoning beings think will be, as it has always been in the past, your highly anticipated, eloquent rebuttal.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

This thread is comedy gold.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Then RD accomplished his goal?

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine