First rule of DU: EGO - we're too fabulous to fail in fair world!
ej510 (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-27-11 11:29 PM
Original message
Duers! Why are Republicons allowed to lie?
ahem!
DUmbass...
...even if we were lying about you, you would still have to come out from behind the rampart of tombstones at DU and challenge the assertions leveled against you. Your "So there I was standing in the checkout line when I totally pwned this freeper" stories are not rebuttals in a free marketplace of ideas.
TygrBright (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-27-11 11:38 PM
Response to Original message
2. Trick question?
I mean, it must be.
Because everyone knows the answer.
GOPpies are allowed to lie because they own the media, the politicians, the police, the military, the courts, and, well... the economy.
Who's gonna stop 'em?
So... trick question, huh?
suspiciously,
Bright
Hm-m-m...conservatives own everything and have all the power...
...BUT...
...socialism is supposed to be able to provide the superior civilization.
got it!
Webster Green (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-27-11 11:43 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. That sums it up quite nicely.
Particularly the fact that they own the media.
FOX News = all 500 cable channels
And yet...they cheer all the celebre-titties that spew all their leftist bullshit from deep within the bowels of their Beverly Hills McMansions.
Anakin Skywalker (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-27-11 11:39 PM
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3. The mainstream media does not want to call them up on their lies.
Average Joes are too busy working and trying to survive to care. Joe Schmoes are too stupid and are buying into the Republicons' lies. So here we are.....
Nothing like the sage advice of someone who takes his name from a shitty character from the worst sci-fi mythos ever shit onto celluloid.

provis99 (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-28-11 12:32 AM
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6. because enough people in this country support them.
They don't care about the lies; they just care about getting the conservative policies they want.
Well, we can't have THAT in a free society, can we?
lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-28-11 12:53 AM
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10. Because no one slaps them in the face every time they open their mouths.
The BK at Hwy 34 and 11th in Greeley CO, Saturday at 1600 local time.
saras (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-28-11 01:17 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. We have a winner!
Yep - the only thing bullies respond to is superior force. Unpleasant but true. We need to separate the actual bullies involved from the social and economic mechanisms by which they wield power, then treat them like the bullies they are. The obvious way would be to freeze all their assets, or use the legal system to systematically confiscate them.
It's what we keep waiting for the Dems to do, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that they won't ever get the collective cojones.
The BK at Hwy 34 and 11th in Greeley CO, Saturday at 1600 local time.
Have superior force. Will travel.
patrice (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-28-11 01:20 AM
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12. Because they are superior beings with superior responsibilities than those the rest of us
live for.
They assume there is a hierarchy of humans and they are above others in that hierarchy and their superior position relative to the rest of us requires commitment to certain superior responsibilities that often necessitate lying "for the greater good".
Please note this assbag's name is drawn from the same latin root as Patrician. Note how blissfully unaware are they of the ironies they inflict upon themselves.
Please also note that while it is grousing about the presumed conservative sense of noblesse oblige it fails to note how ObamaCoup was a pack of lies passed by a group of people with a superiority complex who think they are acting in our own best interests because us proles don't know what is good for us.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1375638I think as we get deeper into the campaign season next year these RWers-too-stupid/deceitful threads will drown all others on DU. Obama is in a bad way. The last thing they want to do is run on their record so they would rather run on the hope your sense of wanting to be with their herd trumps what you're feeling in the wallet.
The articles and selectively cited studies will give way to a cicada-like din of "we're too smart to lose!"