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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on November 04, 2012, 08:23:11 AM
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jcgoldie (43 posts)
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Does that use of "democrat" as an adjective piss anyone else off?
I know he didn't start it but Romney uses it all the time talking about "democrat leaders"... duhhh the adjective is democratic, jackass!
Codeine (12,260 posts)
1. It pisses off just about everyone on this site, actually. . . nt
KelleyD (35 posts)
3. Like fingernails on a chalkboard! n/t
flamingdem (19,916 posts)
8. That needs to go in the garbage along with Willard!
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I was going to post about this and looked it up... it's been a slur since 1940
:yahoo: We've been getting on your nerves for 70+ years.
regnaD kciN (17,197 posts)
10. It always pisses me off when the Publicans do that...
That doesn't bother us. Nice try though.
TomClash (10,691 posts)
14. Me
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A long time pet peeve. It is an insult.
Applan (491 posts)
45. I think they use it as a petty jibe to piss us off
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They know full well what they are doing
No kiddin. I didn't know that.
budkin (2,724 posts)
43. Yes. It's to imply that we aren't Democratic.
Take it a step further. You're Communists.
catbyte (2,842 posts)
49. It is my pet peeve. I immediately disregard anyone who uses it. pisses me off to no end.
My west MI gal.
Glad to oblige.
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As zeitgeist will attest, I've said this since nee 2006-07 timeframe on SCC and now here:
"There's nothing democratic about Democrats."
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budkin (2,724 posts)
43. Yes. It's to imply that we aren't Democratic.
There's no implying to it. You are NOT Democratic in any shape form or fashion.
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"Democrat party."
The primitives can shove that up their rectal apertures and smoke it.
"Democrat party."
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MrSlayer (19,668 posts)
4. The right wingers are such children.
They really are a bunch of petulant brats.
They get so pissed off when someone leaves the ic of of democratic, even by their own people, and we are the children? :mental:
BlueCaliDem (3,669 posts)
44. Exactly! I correct them, but not in an angry way
because that's what they want.
On the other hand . . . they hate to be addressed with Teabaggers.
Who's the children again?
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TomClash (10,691 posts)
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A long time pet peeve. It is an insult.
I agree! I'd probably knock the crap out of anybody who dared to call me a democrat.
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So democrat party members in good standing get insanely pissed off that they are democrat party members?
More proof that leftism is a mental disease.
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On the other hand . . . they hate to be addressed with Teabaggers.
It doesn't bother any "teabaggers" I know. We want you to use it as often as possible.
For one, it disgusts normal folks who actual do know what the sexual slang "teabagging" means, to think you vile democrats would use such a term. And for two, those that don't know, well, most people love tea, so it's all good.
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I aim to please..... :-)
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Actually, being called a democrat doesn't tick them off at all. Its been used for all the five decades of my life, so its not a new term at all.
Its just that one day liberals discovered it was a good way to start fights and to make themselves the victime before any debate begins.
I've been in conversations where they tried to insult me by calling me a republic instead of a republican. Doesn't bother me at all. Its just makes the liberal look petty and childish. I just ignore "republic" and carry on with the conversation. It bothers them that I don't even acknowledge the insult.
Its not really offensive to any liberal. Its a pretend offense.
Its a make believe insult.
Its just another reason not to respect democrats, democratics, or whatever the H--- the little commies want to be called today.
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Response to jcgoldie (Original post)Sat Nov 3, 2012, 08:04 PM
union_maid (2,479 posts)
18. It's annoying
It's meant to be irritating and it is, but I mostly think it makes the person using the term sound stupid. It started being used by the folks we fondly think of as "morans" and no matter who says it now, it makes me think of a third rate RW radio host or someone at a pro-war rally holding up a misspelled sign.
This chambermaid from the democrat party thinks she can trick us into stopping with the democrat party usage by associating it with stupidity. But who's the stupid one, chambermaid? Now run along and bring me some fresh towels.
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It doesn't bother any "teabaggers" I know. We want you to use it as often as possible.
For one, it disgusts normal folks who actual do know what the sexual slang "teabagging" means, to think you vile democrats would use such a term. And for two, those that don't know, well, most people love tea, so it's all good.
I always looked at it as I/we are "Teabagging" them. I would always rather be the teabagger than the teabagee. Consequently I have never understood why democrat party members use the childish term but I never claim that democrat party members are very smart.
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The members of the Democrat Party that posts at DemocratUnderground.com are always getting pissy about something. I think it's because of all the racism and hatred that they have.
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To all the DUmmies:
:crybaby:
That is all.
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It's an interesting linguistic dichotomy, the use of the two party names as nouns and adjectives.
In 'Republican Party' the 'Republican' is an adjective in the same way that 'Democratic' is in the phrase 'Democratic Party.' The similarity ends there, however, which is the source of so much deliciously-impotent Democrat rage.
'Republic' is an actual thing with its own distinct meaning, which is a type of national political system. The same is not true of 'Democrat,' which means an individual who believes in democracy and hence is the reason the current Democratic Party maintains the name (Ironically the party names are probably more appropriate than ever, since the Republicans believe in a strictly-chartered representational democracy while the Democrats seem committed to class warfare, division into interest groups, and ultimately mob rule).
A member of the Republican Party is therefore necessarily referred to in everyday language as a Republican, the adjectival form standing in for the more cumbersome phrase 'Member of the Republican Party,' where 'Member' is the operative noun and everything else modifies and classifies it, because it would make no sense to refer to him as a 'Republic' since he isn't an independent country with a voting population of one, electing himself to its own government for life.
Not true for the Democrats, however. "Member of the Democratic Party' is certainly just as cumbersome, but shortening it to 'Democratic' is just a non-starter, since the word is unambiguously an adjective in form, and therefore simply too grammatically out of place to stand in for the modified noun phrase. Amusingly (For us) the shortened form does transmute very easily back into an adjective, so that 'Democrat' means both a member of a certain Left-wing redistributionist party, but also of or pertaining to policies or things associated with that party, as distinct from the nonpartisan, classical meaning of the adjective 'Democratic.'
So, there is a clear linguistic reason why members of one party are 'Republicans' but members of the other are 'Democrats,' rather than Republics vs. Democrats, or Republicans vs. Democratics. There is also a clear linguistic reason why the policies or actions of one party are 'Republican' and those of the other party are 'Democrat,' rather than 'Republicanist' vs. 'Democratic.'
No charge for the lesson, lurking DUmmies. Consider it valuable citizen education gained while lurking at better-informed and better-written fora than DU, HuffPo, or the like.
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Ironically the party names are probably more appropriate than ever, since the Republicans believe in a strictly-chartered representational democracy while the Democrats seem committed to class warfare, division into interest groups, and ultimately mob rule).
As long as the mob agrees with them. Otherwise the mob better shut up sit down and do what they say.
Like all things they believe in, they have a double standard.
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It's an interesting linguistic dichotomy, the use of the two party names as nouns and adjectives.
In 'Republican Party' the 'Republican' is an adjective in the same way that 'Democratic' is in the phrase 'Democratic Party.' The similarity ends there, however, which is the source of so much deliciously-impotent Democrat rage.
'Republic' is an actual thing with its own distinct meaning, which is a type of national political system. The same is not true of 'Democrat,' which means an individual who believes in democracy and hence is the reason the current Democratic Party maintains the name (Ironically the party names are probably more appropriate than ever, since the Republicans believe in a strictly-chartered representational democracy while the Democrats seem committed to class warfare, division into interest groups, and ultimately mob rule).
A member of the Republican Party is therefore necessarily referred to in everyday language as a Republican, the adjectival form standing in for the more cumbersome phrase 'Member of the Republican Party,' where 'Member' is the operative noun and everything else modifies and classifies it, because it would make no sense to refer to him as a 'Republic' since he isn't an independent country with a voting population of one, electing himself to its own government for life.
Not true for the Democrats, however. "Member of the Democratic Party' is certainly just as cumbersome, but shortening it to 'Democratic' is just a non-starter, since the word is unambiguously an adjective in form, and therefore simply too grammatically out of place to stand in for the modified noun phrase. Amusingly (For us) the shortened form does transmute very easily back into an adjective, so that 'Democrat' means both a member of a certain Left-wing redistributionist party, but also of or pertaining to policies or things associated with that party, as distinct from the nonpartisan, classical meaning of the adjective 'Democratic.'
So, there is a clear linguistic reason why members of one party are 'Republicans' but members of the other are 'Democrats,' rather than Republics vs. Democrats, or Republicans vs. Democratics. There is also a clear linguistic reason why the policies or actions of one party are 'Republican' and those of the other party are 'Democrat,' rather than 'Republicanist' vs. 'Democratic.'
No charge for the lesson, lurking DUmmies. Consider it valuable citizen education gained while lurking at better-informed and better-written fora than DU, HuffPo, or the like.
Schooled! :-)
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As long as the mob agrees with them. Otherwise the mob better shut up sit down and do what they say.
Like all things they believe in, they have a double standard.
They have done everything possible to increase the size of the mob and create ever more government dependency in the population, so that they will ultimately have an ironclad majority of stakeholders in the electorate. Where they go once they get there is anyone's guess, but if history is any measure, it wouldn't be good for freedom and liberty.
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They have done everything possible to increase the size of the mob and create ever more government dependency in the population, so that they will ultimately have an ironclad majority of stakeholders in the electorate. Where they go once they get there is anyone's guess, but if history is any measure, it wouldn't be good for freedom and liberty.
That is true, but what they fail to realize is, even if they get that mob put together it will fall apart. You get that many greedy, selfish, envious people together and the infighting will be their own undoing.
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Actually, being called a democrat doesn't tick them off at all. Its been used for all the five decades of my life, so its not a new term at all.
Its just that one day liberals discovered it was a good way to start fights and to make themselves the victime before any debate begins.
I've been in conversations where they tried to insult me by calling me a republic instead of a republican. Doesn't bother me at all. Its just makes the liberal look petty and childish. I just ignore "republic" and carry on with the conversation. It bothers them that I don't even acknowledge the insult.
Its not really offensive to any liberal. Its a pretend offense.
Its a make believe insult.
Its just another reason not to respect democrats, democratics, or whatever the H--- the little commies want to be called today.
democrat party is a mole trap at the DUmp. It's a sure way to get an early lunch.