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Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

Mark A. Siefert said:
I changed my mind.

There are people in this world who, because of their beliefs, need to be kicked around (both figuratively and literally) to keep them in check, lest they ruin civilization.



No. I found out that I should stay right where I am.

I like being "bipolar"--or whatever the hell my so-called problem is. Particularly when all the "normal" people are all to willing to tolerate stupidity in the name of "civility."
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Of course insulting and calling people names is a GREAT way to get them to change their minds on topics.
You just get a kick out of insutling people and name calling, and are trying to find some lame excuse for it.
If you are anything in person the way you are here, I bet you have very,very,few friends.
 
WinstonCountyWildman said:
the repubs dropped the ball when they allowed extremist "xtian" types to take over the party. They removed moderates like me from the party when they switched to these nutjobs and their ideals.

A perfect example of their mindset is the governor of alabama outlawing sex toys in the 21st damned century. With all the drugs and crime and poverty etc the best thing he could raise hell about and dwell on for over a year was whether or not grown adults could buy sex toys for their personal use without rotting in hell for it.

Selling a dildo or vibrator to an adult in Alabama will now cost you 10,000 dollars but you can sell a minor a gun and it will run you 500 bucks.
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Makes sense, the gun only endangers lives, vibrators endanger souls.
 
dudalb said:
Of course insulting and calling people names is a GREAT way to get them to change their minds on topics.
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What ever gave you the notion that I am out out to "change minds?" They are wrong, that's all there is to it.

This is a war. I don't want to live WITH the conservatives, religionists, and other assorted advocates of woo. I want them destroyed. I want them silenced. I want them marginalized. I want them forgotten.

I want to go the rest of my life without ever hearing from right winger, a Christian, or a new ager ever, ever again.

dudalb said:
You just get a kick out of insutling people and name calling, and are trying to find some lame excuse for it.
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No, I just have no desire to watch civilization crumble while the "skeptics" have tea and cookies with the people wielding the jackhammers.

dudalb said:
If you are anything in person the way you are here, I bet you have very,very,few friends.
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To quote my favorite play (not my favorite translation, though):

CYRANO
By dint of seeing you at every turn
Make friends,--and fawn upon your frequent friends
With mouth wide smiling, slit from ear to ear!
I pass, still unsaluted, joyfully,
And cry,--What, ho! another enemy?

LE BRET:
Lunacy!


CYRANO:
Well, what if it be my vice,
My pleasure to displease--to love men hate me!
Ah, friend of mine, believe me, I march better
'Neath the cross-fire of glances inimical!
How droll the stains one sees on fine-laced doublets,
From gall of envy, or the poltroon's drivel!
--The enervating friendship which enfolds you
Is like an open-laced Italian collar,
Floating around your neck in woman's fashion;
One is at ease thus,--but less proud the carriage!
The forehead, free from mainstay or coercion,
Bends here, there, everywhere. But I, embracing
Hatred, she lends,--forbidding, stiffly fluted,
The ruff's starched folds that hold the head so rigid;
Each enemy--another fold--a gopher,
Who adds constraint, and adds a ray of glory;
For Hatred, like the ruff worn by the Spanish,
Grips like a vice, but frames you like a halo!
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I'd rather have one or two friends who like me for who I am than a score of "friends" who prefer a socially acceptable facsimile.
 
Mark A. Siefert said:
What ever gave you the notion that I am out out to "change minds?" They are wrong, that's all there is to it.

This is a war. I don't want to live WITH the conservatives, religionists, and other assorted advocates of woo. I want them destroyed. I want them silenced. I want them marginalized. I want them forgotten.
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I see, Christopher Hitchens is an advocate of woo, now. Glad you alerted me. :p

I want to go the rest of my life without ever hearing from right winger, a Christian, or a new ager ever, ever again.
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You can want in one hand, and crap in the other: see which one fills up first. On the other hand, unplug your TV and PC, then stick your fingers in your ears forever, and you may get your wish. :p
No, I just have no desire to watch civilization crumble while the "skeptics" have tea and cookies with the people wielding the jackhammers.
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Militancy à outrance sure give you a nice warm feeling inside, doesn't it?
I'd rather have one or two friends who like me for who I am than a score of "friends" who prefer a socially acceptable facsimile.
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Nice quotation, a Mark S original. :)
Hell yes, I'm angry! What's more, I'm about to get angry at anyone who isn't angry
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That's how lynch mobs get started, and how things like "The Terror" of the French Revolution are sustained.

DR
 
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Darth Rotor said:
Hell yes, I'm angry! What's more, I'm about to get angry at anyone who isn't angry
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That's how lynch mobs get started, and how things like "The Terror" of the French Revolution are sustained.
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Germane to the thread (and somewhat ironically), that's also how the Tea Party people got started and maintain themselves as well.
 
Mark A. Siefert said:
"Blah, blah, blah... Mark is evil."

Yeah, I get that. :mad:
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No, you are not evil, you are angry (apparently continuously), which clouds thinking and reasoning.

I've walked many a mile in the Angry Shoes, I know very well what I am talking about. :(

GrenMe said:
Germane to the thread (and somewhat ironically), that's also how the Tea Party people got started and maintain themselves as well.
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Good point.
 
Mark A. Siefert said:
What ever gave you the notion that I am out out to "change minds?" They are wrong, that's all there is to it.

This is a war. I don't want to live WITH the conservatives, religionists, and other assorted advocates of woo. I want them destroyed. I want them silenced. I want them marginalized. I want them forgotten.

I want to go the rest of my life without ever hearing from right winger, a Christian, or a new ager ever, ever again.



No, I just have no desire to watch civilization crumble while the "skeptics" have tea and cookies with the people wielding the jackhammers.



To quote my favorite play (not my favorite translation, though):



I'd rather have one or two friends who like me for who I am than a score of "friends" who prefer a socially acceptable facsimile.
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What is ironic is change a few words and this could have come from a religious fundy.
And I love the way he lumps all "religionist" together.
I would say Mark has issues...big issues.
 
dudalb said:
What is ironic is change a few words and this could have come from a religious fundy.
And I love the way he lumps all "religionist" together.
I would say Mark has issues...big issues.
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More like the whole subscription.
 
And they're not above turning against Sarah Palin for endorsing McCain in Arizona.

Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Sarah Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement.
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http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/22/conservatives-beware-of-mccain-regression-syndrome/


And Glenn Beck said that "This Sarah Palin thing really bothers me."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/26/171255/724

Oh, how quickly they turn.

Steve S
 
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