WilliamPitt (55,093 posts).
I don't give a shit about Rand Paul, or Obama's political standing, or House GOP motivations.
If this Syria nonsense makes for strange bedfellows, so be it.
Stop trying to tell me I'm allied with Rand Paul, or screwing the president, or assisting the House GOP because I think attacking Syria is dangerous, foolish madness.
You're wrong, we're right. Period, end of file.
If Mr. Obama didn't want his balls in this particular vise, he should not have dangled them there. I'm not going to support blowing more children sideways out of their bedrooms and potentially sparking a region-wide conflagration just because the president boxed himself in, or because it means I might agree with a Republican. Of all the reasons to support this shitstorm, those are easily the dumbest of the lot.
The hyper-authoritarian impulse to support WHATEVER THE BOSS SAYS NO MATTER WHAT WHAAARGARBLE is not solely a right-wing phenomenon.
I was not born with that particular gene, and I thank God for it every single day.
So go peddle those papers somewhere else. You're wrong, and you're boring
WilliamPitt (55,093 posts)
If Mr. Obama didn't want his balls in this particular vise, he should not have dangled them there.
I'm not going to support blowing more children
MisterP (12,349 posts)
74. and it helps further empty out politics: bystanders can mumble "now the left and right are the same"
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because the politics of illusion has identified "Dem" with "left" (to the point where "left" means "anything the Dems support")--so the closer the policies and the louder the fighting, the more the media can decry "the widening split between left and right" in the US, as though the Dems have moved too far left
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Response to MisterP (Reply #74)
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 02:22 PM
Star Member leftstreet (24,154 posts)
87. +1
How ironic that voting rights are under attack, as more and more people find less reason to vote
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Thu Sep 5, 2013, 04:07 PM
MissDeeds (4,060 posts)
126. So true
"...transformation into Bushbots is complete". It amazes me how many of the people who called blind, unquestioning Bush followers "sheeple" have now become the very same thing they disparaged. It's wrong, and it's dangerous, regardless of whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.
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Response to MissDeeds (Reply #126)
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 09:59 PM
7962 (499 posts)
175. This may transform DU in a way..
I've seen stuff excused by many on here for years. You'd see a story about something stupid some GOPer would say or do, but anything equally stupid by a dem would be brushed off, or if you were the unlucky one to bring it up you were instantly a "troll" or worse.
Maybe now people will see that just because its YOUR side doesnt make it right. It certainly seems like its happening with this event.
175. This may transform DU in a way..
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Thu Sep 5, 2013, 09:59 PM
7962 (499 posts)
175. This may transform DU in a way..
WilliamPitt (55,093 posts)
The hyper-authoritarian impulse to support WHATEVER THE BOSS SAYS NO MATTER WHAT WHAAARGARBLE is not solely a right-wing phenomenon.
I was not born with that particular gene, and I thank God for it every single day.
So go peddle those papers somewhere else. You're wrong, and you're boring
Pitt, I'm only going to say this once, but for sake of civility, I'll say it nicely:Just think, every time you vote in an election Pitt and Mrs. Pitt will cancel it out with theirs. :whistling:
Get the **** out of my state.
Pretty please.
Any one here not give a shit that wee willie doesn't give a shit?The needle on my give-o-shit meter hasn't even quivered.
Pitt is such a racist.
Good point. :)
If we disagree with the smartest man in the world, we're called racists. I think someone needs to call Chris Matthews and report this.
LostOne4Ever (1,089 posts)
158. I bet at the end of the day
That when all votes are counted far more republicans are going to vote for war than democrats, and far more democrats are going to vote against war than republicans. Just like the Amash vote on the NSA.
Also, its important to note that just because Rand Paul is against war does not mean that we are against war for the same reason. He just does not give a shit about the Syrian people (unless they are Christian ) while we don't want to make things worse and stain our hands with unnecessary and innocent blood.
Thanks for standing up against these baseless accusations!
:banghead: :lol:Yeah, that.