prole Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Conservatism, if it can be defined as a coherent set of beliefs at all, is at its core irrational. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 well thats going a bit far. conservative monetary policy isn't irrational...its Darwinian. Perhaps it can be a bit cruel, but you can't be maximally efficient without a little cruelty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Unfortunately, many republicans wield their monetary policy as a weapon to further disenfranchise those that don't live according to their social agenda, so it's really just one side of a double-edged sword. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 It's ironic, all that social conservatism out there right now in the GOP; they believe in life and liberty, but only as it applies to their own personal values. Hell-bent on legislating their own form of rigid christian moralism under the guise of "freedom," their intolerant, overbearing and puritanical ways betray the very principles they pretend to stand for. How could any rational person call themselves a Republican right now?    Did you know that under slavery (which was a regrettable institution) more black children lived in 2-parent homes than today when we have an African American president? TRUE STORY!!  How is that relevant to anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 well, that joke went way over your head, Kev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 It's ironic, all that social conservatism out there right now in the GOP; they believe in life and liberty, but only as it applies to their own personal values. Hell-bent on legislating their own form of rigid christian moralism under the guise of "freedom," their intolerant, overbearing and puritanical ways betray the very principles they pretend to stand for. How could any rational person call themselves a Republican right now?    Did you know that under slavery (which was a regrettable institution) more black children lived in 2-parent homes than today when we have an African American president? TRUE STORY!!  How is that relevant to anything?  Answer 1: "Exactly!" Answer 2: "Ummm can you click and read?" Answer 3: "STFU, boner" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Did you know that under slavery (which was a regrettable institution) more black children lived in 2-parent homes than today when we have an African American president? TRUE STORY!! Cool, it didn't take long for the latest racist meme from the Karl Rove and his Skinnerboxians to make it's way to cc. Â I bet I could sell Karl a performance-based compensation system that monitors the spread of his memes from inception to blogs and forums and he would get paid by both the speed and breadth of penetration. Ya gotta admire him for always finding lowest common [social] denominator to rally the republicans around election after election. Â Man, if that isn't hook, line, and sinker - and they swim straight into the net as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 (edited) Economic policy on the Right is dominated by economic liberalism and market fundamentalism. This has also been the case with the Democrat Party starting with Carter, continuing unabated since Clinton's "triangulation". That the GOP practices a more extreme brand of laissez-faire capitalism is what keeps people like Jay_B coming back to them, despite the efforts of the socially conservative wing to impose Christian sharia law. The GOP's Faustian bid with social conservatives, beginning with Reagan's courting of Falwell and the Moral Majority, is essentially a way to maintain electoral support amongst populations who're being fucked over by their economic policies. At this point, the GOP is facing an enormous crisis: on the one hand the rising inequalities in wealth and power, crumbling institutions, financial crises, reliance on unsustainable bubbles to maintain economic growth, debt, etc. that are the enduring legacy of economic liberalism (Reaganomics, trickle-down, supply-side, neoliberalism) are plain to see but they've no alternative to the tax-cut, deregulation, privatization paradigm they've been (up to now) successfully peddling. On the other, demographic shifts and cultural progress has outstripped the angry Christian white-man narrative employed since Nixon's reactionary "silent majority" movement and now threatens electoral aims. The resulting confusion has widened the schisms within the GOP (David Brooks vs. Ron Paul), but luckily for the corporations and the wealthy, the gangbangsters and the cops, the Democrats have proven more than willing to cleave to the status quo. Â Â Edited July 13, 2011 by prole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Did you know that under slavery (which was a regrettable institution) more black children lived in 2-parent homes than today when we have an African American president? TRUE STORY!! Cool, it didn't take long for the latest racist meme from the Karl Rove and his Skinnerboxians to make it's way to cc. I bet I could sell Karl a performance-based compensation system that monitors the spread of his memes from inception to blogs and forums and he would get paid by both the speed and breadth of penetration. Â 1 pt for using "meme" but you blew the opportunity to include "narrative". Shame on you for dropping the ball on libtard lexicon-usage comprehensiveness! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 It's ironic, all that social conservatism out there right now in the GOP; they believe in life and liberty, but only as it applies to their own personal values. Hell-bent on legislating their own form of rigid christian moralism under the guise of "freedom," their intolerant, overbearing and puritanical ways betray the very principles they pretend to stand for. How could any rational person call themselves a Republican right now?    Did you know that under slavery (which was a regrettable institution) more black children lived in 2-parent homes than today when we have an African American president? TRUE STORY!!  How is that relevant to anything?  Answer 1: "Exactly!" Answer 2: "Ummm can you click and read?" Answer 3: "STFU, boner"  You get zero points for being original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 i think we need to ban the word meme from any further discussions of anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Definitely let's eliminate 'meme' because anything that helps republicans realize how susceptible they are to social engineering definitely has no place in spray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Definitely let's eliminate 'meme' because anything that helps republicans realize how susceptible they are to social engineering definitely has no place in spray. Â and you'd be an expert in social engineering - bread and butter for your political persuasion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Fine, no memes so let Rove and krew go back to using Willy Horton then. It was good enough to scare our parents to vote repub so it should be good enough for us. No need for any complex trickery here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 and you'd be an expert in social engineering - bread and butter for your political persuasion! That would be James Carville on our side of the fence, but then Karl came along and made Carville's republican wife Mary Matalin look like Shirley Temple. No one, and I mean no one plays their suckers - oops, base - better than Rove & Co. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Fine, no memes so let Rove and krew go back to using Willy Horton then. It was good enough to scare our parents to vote repub so it should be good enough for us. No need for any complex trickery here. Â For "our parents" - give me a break, gramps. Â Driving around in a tank, looking like a total douche out of water doesn't help much either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Fine, no memes so let Rove and krew go back to using Willy Horton then. It was good enough to scare our parents to vote repub so it should be good enough for us. No need for any complex trickery here. Â For "our parents" - give me a break, gramps. Â Driving around in a tank, looking like a total douche out of water doesn't help much either. Â Here's lookin' at you! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Fine, no memes so let Rove and krew go back to using Willy Horton then. It was good enough to scare our parents to vote repub so it should be good enough for us. No need for any complex trickery here. Â For "our parents" - give me a break, gramps. Â Driving around in a tank, looking like a total douche out of water doesn't help much either. Â Here's lookin' at you! Â Â Holy crap... I didn't know Mike D was a Mountie. I bet he has shorts over polypro too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 do they still make polypro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 do they still make polypro? polyporn? Â All fixed for ya..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 do they still make polypro? polyporn? Â All fixed for ya..... Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 [video:youtube]jBGR2I6pFYk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prole Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Â I wasn't going to vote for the GOP until I got this in my inbox. Thanks Grandpa! Â [font:Comic Sans MS]There is a relatively new terminology in the cyber world called, 'going viral'. It's when an email gets blasted around so much, everyone seems to know about it. This email is a true candidate to go viral.. Pass it on-and on-and on![/font] Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Funny how they were able to lay Obama's picture over W's so well from the original poster... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Did you know that under slavery (which was a regrettable institution) more black children lived in 2-parent homes than today when we have an African American president? TRUE STORY!! Â Was that when master lived in the house and mom lived in the slave quarters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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