Poll

Since joining BF2S's D&ST, have your political views strayed to the...

Far Left9%9% - 6
Left7%7% - 5
Moderate Left19%19% - 12
Center (more or less)26%26% - 17
Moderate Right9%9% - 6
Right19%19% - 12
Far Right7%7% - 5
Total: 63
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|6709|67.222.138.85

ATG wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

dude fuck. off.
Well said. Or, said from a whale. Or, swell ahead.
Didn't I get an AWM from you not so long ago for something less harsh?
The last one was for "Isn't there some stripper you should be banging while her five year old listens from the other room? " in DST.

The one before that was for karma abuse on 3/15.
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

ATG wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

dude fuck. off.
Well said. Or, said from a whale. Or, swell ahead.
Didn't I get an AWM from you not so long ago for something less harsh?
I got banned for a lot less than what I endure in this thread, hell all threads for that matter....

yet, somehow this goes unanswered, I guess it is because I am not PUSSY enough to report this shit.
11 Bravo
Banned
+965|5239|Cleveland, Ohio
lol awm, close, i dunno lol...some stupid mod saying.  gg
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5360|London, England

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

lowing wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

dude fuck. off. about what I believe and who I do/do not like. Socialism communism entitlement welfare and social liberalism can die in a fucking fire. You have to realize that in so many areas of academia these words are so overloaded that you can't make heads or tails out of it. "neo" is a poor attempt at differentiating between true liberalism - the love of personal liberty and rights - and the "liberal" democrats.

Conservatism does not mean the love of personal liberty and rights, it is about stability and keeping things the way they are. A conservative in a welfare state wants to maintain a welfare state. Obviously that is not what you are for.

The problem is liberal should not be synonymous with the Democratic Party and conservative should not be synonymous with the Republican Party. That is just not what the words mean. It's not "redefining" anything, it's using the words as they are meant to be used and not as they are used in partisan rhetoric. So yeah, there is a lot lost in translation.

Frankly to differentiate we should just call social liberals bleeding hearts and be done with it, neo is stupidly overloaded as well.

also read my edit to the other post
I see so "neo-con" was not meant as the evil step mother to conservativism, it was coined by liberals, to mean a throughback to true conservatism of yesteryear..I understand now.

andwhy is no one addressing the lack of desire to fix the word racism back to what it mean a mere year and a half ago? I mean as long as we are into fixing words all of a sudden.
Well more like they coined neo-con so they could go on about how fucked up the neo-cons are, without going against anything that conservative used to mean. Both sides are doing it so they can essentially have their cake and eat it to, but there truly is a difference between what the word meant then and what the word meant now.

What did racism mean a year and a half ago?
The term neo-con was actually coined by the neo-cons themselves... They were and are essentially interventionist war-hawk Christian-Socialists (the ones that actually figured out that Christian and Socialist values are almost identical). They are the uber-authoritarians.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

lowing wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

dude fuck. off. about what I believe and who I do/do not like. Socialism communism entitlement welfare and social liberalism can die in a fucking fire. You have to realize that in so many areas of academia these words are so overloaded that you can't make heads or tails out of it. "neo" is a poor attempt at differentiating between true liberalism - the love of personal liberty and rights - and the "liberal" democrats.

Conservatism does not mean the love of personal liberty and rights, it is about stability and keeping things the way they are. A conservative in a welfare state wants to maintain a welfare state. Obviously that is not what you are for.

The problem is liberal should not be synonymous with the Democratic Party and conservative should not be synonymous with the Republican Party. That is just not what the words mean. It's not "redefining" anything, it's using the words as they are meant to be used and not as they are used in partisan rhetoric. So yeah, there is a lot lost in translation.

Frankly to differentiate we should just call social liberals bleeding hearts and be done with it, neo is stupidly overloaded as well.

also read my edit to the other post
I see so "neo-con" was not meant as the evil step mother to conservativism, it was coined by liberals, to mean a throughback to true conservatism of yesteryear..I understand now.

andwhy is no one addressing the lack of desire to fix the word racism back to what it mean a mere year and a half ago? I mean as long as we are into fixing words all of a sudden.
Well more like they coined neo-con so they could go on about how fucked up the neo-cons are, without going against anything that conservative used to mean. Both sides are doing it so they can essentially have their cake and eat it to, but there truly is a difference between what the word meant then and what the word meant now.

What did racism mean a year and a half ago?
I hope you see the inconsistency in that thought... NEO con is an insult on top of insult of being a conservative while NEO liberal is praise for what liberalism used to be. It makes no sense. How about you first figure out what you want NEO to mean before you start attaching it to shit?

a year and a half ago? it meant the belief of ones race is superior to that of another, for various reasons. Now it is going against Obama, Islam, pro-securing our borders, anything anti-welfare etc.....
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|6709|67.222.138.85
What is an insult and what is praise is entirely perspective dependent.

neo means new. It is entirely bullshit that means nothing, except to differentiate x movement from neo x movement.

Complain about that to people who actually use the term racism like that.
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5360|London, England

lowing wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

lowing wrote:

I see so "neo-con" was not meant as the evil step mother to conservativism, it was coined by liberals, to mean a throughback to true conservatism of yesteryear..I understand now.

andwhy is no one addressing the lack of desire to fix the word racism back to what it mean a mere year and a half ago? I mean as long as we are into fixing words all of a sudden.
Well more like they coined neo-con so they could go on about how fucked up the neo-cons are, without going against anything that conservative used to mean. Both sides are doing it so they can essentially have their cake and eat it to, but there truly is a difference between what the word meant then and what the word meant now.

What did racism mean a year and a half ago?
I hope you see the inconsistency in that thought... NEO con is an insult on top of insult of being a conservative while NEO liberal is praise for what liberalism used to be. It makes no sense. How about you first figure out what you want NEO to mean before you start attaching it to shit?

a year and a half ago? it meant the belief of ones race is superior to that of another, for various reasons. Now it is going against Obama, Islam, pro-securing our borders, anything anti-welfare etc.....
Umm, yeah, so they're tapping into white guilt. It's what they've always done so why are you so upset by it now? It's not so much to attack you as it is to keep their own people in line. Accuse an American Liberal of racism sometime and watch him bend over backwards to prove that he's not. He'll list the rappers he likes, the black friend he had back in middle school etc. It's actually hysterical to watch. So... it's being done more to manipulate and keep their own troops in line than it is a real attack on conservatives. The white guilt idiots are so trained that they will never allow themselves to come down on the side of an issue that might make them 'guilty' of racism. It's sad, and sadly effective.

Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-05-02 13:59:05)

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

JohnG@lt wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

lowing wrote:


I see so "neo-con" was not meant as the evil step mother to conservativism, it was coined by liberals, to mean a throughback to true conservatism of yesteryear..I understand now.

andwhy is no one addressing the lack of desire to fix the word racism back to what it mean a mere year and a half ago? I mean as long as we are into fixing words all of a sudden.
Well more like they coined neo-con so they could go on about how fucked up the neo-cons are, without going against anything that conservative used to mean. Both sides are doing it so they can essentially have their cake and eat it to, but there truly is a difference between what the word meant then and what the word meant now.

What did racism mean a year and a half ago?
The term neo-con was actually coined by the neo-cons themselves... They were and are essentially interventionist war-hawk Christian-Socialists (the ones that actually figured out that Christian and Socialist values are almost identical). They are the uber-authoritarians.
"In January 2009, at the close of President George W. Bush's second term in office, Jonathan Clarke, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, proposed the following as the "main characteristics of neoconservatism"[46]:

"a tendency to see the world in binary good/evil terms
low tolerance for diplomacy
readiness to use military force
emphasis on US unilateral action
disdain for multilateral organizations
focus on the Middle East
an us versus them mentality"."

this............and the liberals, EU, bf2s... etc... ran with it
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5360|London, England
Well, the neo-cons are why Medicare Part D was passed, why Social Security and Medicare will never be touched by the Republicans, why the military budget will never be touched. They're just as guilty of spending excessive amounts of money as the Dems are.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

JohnG@lt wrote:

lowing wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:


Well more like they coined neo-con so they could go on about how fucked up the neo-cons are, without going against anything that conservative used to mean. Both sides are doing it so they can essentially have their cake and eat it to, but there truly is a difference between what the word meant then and what the word meant now.

What did racism mean a year and a half ago?
I hope you see the inconsistency in that thought... NEO con is an insult on top of insult of being a conservative while NEO liberal is praise for what liberalism used to be. It makes no sense. How about you first figure out what you want NEO to mean before you start attaching it to shit?

a year and a half ago? it meant the belief of ones race is superior to that of another, for various reasons. Now it is going against Obama, Islam, pro-securing our borders, anything anti-welfare etc.....
Umm, yeah, so they're tapping into white guilt. It's what they've always done so why are you so upset by it now? It's not so much to attack you as it is to keep their own people in line. Accuse an American Liberal of racism sometime and watch him bend over backwards to prove that he's not. He'll list the rappers he likes, the black friend he had back in middle school etc. It's actually hysterical to watch. So... it's being done more to manipulate and keep their own troops in line than it is a real attack on conservatives. The white guilt idiots are so trained that they will never allow themselves to come down on the side of an issue that might make them 'guilty' of racism. It's sad, and sadly effective.
I think it is simpler than that........They can not defend their own position with true facts, so they must discredit yours by insisting your opinion is nothing more than racist and dismissing it... Perfect really, you are discredited, ( even if in their eyes) and they do not have to address what you say, therefore do not have to lie, or leave themselves wide open to being exposed and discredited themselves in a far truer sense. This forum is a perfect example of that very tactic.
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5360|London, England

lowing wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

lowing wrote:

I hope you see the inconsistency in that thought... NEO con is an insult on top of insult of being a conservative while NEO liberal is praise for what liberalism used to be. It makes no sense. How about you first figure out what you want NEO to mean before you start attaching it to shit?

a year and a half ago? it meant the belief of ones race is superior to that of another, for various reasons. Now it is going against Obama, Islam, pro-securing our borders, anything anti-welfare etc.....
Umm, yeah, so they're tapping into white guilt. It's what they've always done so why are you so upset by it now? It's not so much to attack you as it is to keep their own people in line. Accuse an American Liberal of racism sometime and watch him bend over backwards to prove that he's not. He'll list the rappers he likes, the black friend he had back in middle school etc. It's actually hysterical to watch. So... it's being done more to manipulate and keep their own troops in line than it is a real attack on conservatives. The white guilt idiots are so trained that they will never allow themselves to come down on the side of an issue that might make them 'guilty' of racism. It's sad, and sadly effective.
I think it is simpler than that........They can not defend their own position with true facts, so they must discredit yours by insisting your opinion is nothing more than racist and dismissing it... Perfect really, you are discredited, ( even if in their eyes) and they do not have to address what you say, therefore do not have to lie, or leave themselves wide open to being exposed and discredited themselves in a far truer sense. This forum is a perfect example of that very tactic.
Dude, that goes both ways. The Republicans do it just as often, they just do it differently. 'Racist' is the new 'UnAmerican' or 'You hate America'.

Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-05-02 14:08:56)

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

JohnG@lt wrote:

lowing wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


Umm, yeah, so they're tapping into white guilt. It's what they've always done so why are you so upset by it now? It's not so much to attack you as it is to keep their own people in line. Accuse an American Liberal of racism sometime and watch him bend over backwards to prove that he's not. He'll list the rappers he likes, the black friend he had back in middle school etc. It's actually hysterical to watch. So... it's being done more to manipulate and keep their own troops in line than it is a real attack on conservatives. The white guilt idiots are so trained that they will never allow themselves to come down on the side of an issue that might make them 'guilty' of racism. It's sad, and sadly effective.
I think it is simpler than that........They can not defend their own position with true facts, so they must discredit yours by insisting your opinion is nothing more than racist and dismissing it... Perfect really, you are discredited, ( even if in their eyes) and they do not have to address what you say, therefore do not have to lie, or leave themselves wide open to being exposed and discredited themselves in a far truer sense. This forum is a perfect example of that very tactic.
Dude, that goes both ways. The Republicans do it just as often, they just do it differently. 'Racist' is the new 'UnAmerican' or 'You hate America'.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08 … -american/ it goes both ways in the sense that Democrats accuse racism ON TOP OF calling you UNAMERICAN for not believing their bullshit.
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5360|London, England

lowing wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

lowing wrote:


I think it is simpler than that........They can not defend their own position with true facts, so they must discredit yours by insisting your opinion is nothing more than racist and dismissing it... Perfect really, you are discredited, ( even if in their eyes) and they do not have to address what you say, therefore do not have to lie, or leave themselves wide open to being exposed and discredited themselves in a far truer sense. This forum is a perfect example of that very tactic.
Dude, that goes both ways. The Republicans do it just as often, they just do it differently. 'Racist' is the new 'UnAmerican' or 'You hate America'.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08 … -american/ it goes both ways in the sense that Democrats accuse racism ON TOP OF calling you UNAMERICAN for not believing their bullshit.
Oh noes...



Who cares? Seriously, is there anything more infantile than grown men and women trying to one-up each other on the race to the intellectual bottom for votes?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

JohnG@lt wrote:

lowing wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


Dude, that goes both ways. The Republicans do it just as often, they just do it differently. 'Racist' is the new 'UnAmerican' or 'You hate America'.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08 … -american/ it goes both ways in the sense that Democrats accuse racism ON TOP OF calling you UNAMERICAN for not believing their bullshit.
Oh noes...



Who cares? Seriously, is there anything more infantile than grown men and women trying to one-up each other on the race to the intellectual bottom for votes?
not the point I was making. The point I was making was exactly the point I made, and nothing more
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6108|eXtreme to the maX

lowing wrote:

liberal and conservative works just fine. No complaints from the conservative camp, of course the conservative label has not done itself in quite like the those that tote the liberal banner.
You mean Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld have so thoroughly and permanently screwed the meaning of 'conservative' that real conservatives now have to call themsleves the 'Tea Party'?
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
11 Bravo
Banned
+965|5239|Cleveland, Ohio
btw for all of you who enjoy saying warren buffet is the economic man...he says goldman sackofshit commited no fraud.  hmmmm
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5360|London, England

11 Bravo wrote:

btw for all of you who enjoy saying warren buffet is the economic man...he says goldman sackofshit commited no fraud.  hmmmm
There's nothing illegal about betting that something is going to fail. They made the mistake of profiting off of the stupidity of others when the 'others' in this case was the government and it's retarded decision to bail out AIG.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
lowing
Banned
+1,662|6653|USA

Dilbert_X wrote:

lowing wrote:

liberal and conservative works just fine. No complaints from the conservative camp, of course the conservative label has not done itself in quite like the those that tote the liberal banner.
You mean Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld have so thoroughly and permanently screwed the meaning of 'conservative' that real conservatives now have to call themsleves the 'Tea Party'?
The Tea Party is a a reference to the Boston Tead Party, an anti-tax action.

They are against the radicalism and fascism of the Obama administration. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bush Cheney or Rumsfeld..It is not an attempt to invent a new political affiliation.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6603|132 and Bush

afaik this is what started the new "Tea Party" .. it was right after this rant.
@2:10
Xbone Stormsurgezz
CameronPoe
Member
+2,925|6557
Drunk in a pub on the Shannon but I will say this: anyone who has a staunch clearly defined political persuasion is a cunt, as they say in Ireland.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6108|eXtreme to the maX

lowing wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

lowing wrote:

liberal and conservative works just fine. No complaints from the conservative camp, of course the conservative label has not done itself in quite like the those that tote the liberal banner.
You mean Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld have so thoroughly and permanently screwed the meaning of 'conservative' that real conservatives now have to call themsleves the 'Tea Party'?
The Tea Party is a a reference to the Boston Tead Party, an anti-tax action.

They are against the radicalism and fascism of the Obama administration. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bush Cheney or Rumsfeld..It is not an attempt to invent a new political affiliation.
I know what it is, why not call themselves conservatives?
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6603|132 and Bush

Because now they get to wear their three cornered hats.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
ruisleipa
Member
+149|6224|teh FIN-land

lowing wrote:

They are against the radicalism and fascism of the Obama administration. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bush Cheney or Rumsfeld
Obama's administration isn't fascist ffs. What a fucking stupid thing to say.

but radicalism...ooooooh. something else to be scared about. Obviously radicaism is bad cos what we need is more of the same shit you had for the last 8 years prior to Obama.

As for your last sentence quoted above LOOOL noooo of course not hahahahaaahaha. Sucker.

Last edited by ruisleipa (2010-05-02 23:06:09)

Shahter
Zee Ruskie
+295|6777|Moscow, Russia
holy shit! this thread is fucking awesome. i'm completely out of pop-corn here, brb.

p.s. oh, on topic: my "political views" didn't change at all - i was pretty sure my political leanings ment jack shit before i joined these forums and i'm still sure of that now. so, i just don't give a fuck.
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
Varegg
Support fanatic :-)
+2,206|6812|Nårvei

Best thread ever

@lowing: To keep discussing this topic is a lost case for you ... what should be important to you is your opinion and not what terminology it belongs to. I applaud you for not loosing your temper in this thread.

@Uzique & G@lt: You two should get a room and train for the world championship in syncronized fapping - that a member of this forum lacks your brilliant education and mensa "prospect" membership doesn't mean he is an idiot by default, to keep calling him a retard in every other post doesn't exactly highlight the point of the discussion does it?

@Certain moderator: We simply don't tell our members to fuck off.
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