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lil mortimer posted:If you don't want to put up with your liberal relatives gloating at the Thanksgiving table, pretend you're a liberal and come up with fun scenarios like, "I made an A in biology but three other students got Fs so my professor asked if it would be okay if I'd take a C so everyone can have a passing grade." Heh, or you can give everyone at the table a shot glass full of eggnog and tell them you're just trying to be fair. Your relatives won't be mad at you because you aren't arguing with them and maybe they'll understand why "spreading the wealth" just makes no darn sense.
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lil mortimer posted:If you don't want to put up with your liberal relatives gloating at the Thanksgiving table, pretend you're a liberal and come up with fun scenarios like, "I made an A in biology but three other students got Fs so my professor asked if it would be okay if I'd take a C so everyone can have a passing grade." Heh, or you can give everyone at the table a shot glass full of eggnog and tell them you're just trying to be fair. Your relatives won't be mad at you because you aren't arguing with them and maybe they'll understand why "spreading the wealth" just makes no darn sense. I get the strongest impression that so many conservatives must have grown up in really lovely situations to have such a massive hoarding FYGM mentality over everything. They look around at the plenty and wealth of the modern world and think 'There's barely enough to go around! Why should I share!'
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Nov 21, 2012 17:14
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lil mortimer posted:If you don't want to put up with your liberal relatives gloating at the Thanksgiving table, pretend you're a liberal and come up with fun scenarios like, "I made an A in biology but three other students got Fs so my professor asked if it would be okay if I'd take a C so everyone can have a passing grade." Heh, or you can give everyone at the table a shot glass full of eggnog and tell them you're just trying to be fair. Your relatives won't be mad at you because you aren't arguing with them and maybe they'll understand why "spreading the wealth" just makes no darn sense.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:27
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lil mortimer posted:If you don't want to put up with your liberal relatives gloating at the Thanksgiving table, pretend you're a liberal and come up with fun scenarios like, "I made an A in biology but three other students got Fs so my professor asked if it would be okay if I'd take a C so everyone can have a passing grade." Heh, or you can give everyone at the table a shot glass full of eggnog and tell them you're just trying to be fair. Your relatives won't be mad at you because you aren't arguing with them and maybe they'll understand why "spreading the wealth" just makes no darn sense. Look man just because you spend the holidays drinking alone doesn't mean we all do.
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I agree with whomever said Hannity is the absolute worse. Sure, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and all the others are really bad, but there's something about Hannity that hits me in a way no one else does. The guy constantly falls all over himself in order to uphold the virtue of the Republican party. The other guys usually find one or two things wrong with the party. Not Hannity, though... And he has the smuggest "I'm a Republican!" face God could've created. If you've never heard a Hannity argument, you're lucky. I've never heard more loaded gotcha questions out of anyone else's mouth. He is definitely talented.
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Guilty Spork posted:"This Thanksgiving, if your relatives disagree with you on politics, you should ruin the evening by being an argumentative rear end in a top hat. For AMERICA!" -- Sean Hannity This is funny, because the point of that segment (according to Hannity) was not to argue with your "gloating liberal relatives" now that Obama has been re-elected. Instead Hannity advised his listeners to avoid arguing by "not getting angry," but instead to pretend to agree with your insufferable fucker of a liberal aunt (roughly paraphrasing there) by saying that all wealth should be seized and redistributed, and all A's should be made into C's, and generally (I'm not exaggerating here, only paraphrasing) to be a smarmy, passive-aggressive megacunt who trolls his own family at the dinner table. I can not emphasize enough how this really was the gist of the segment. FAMILY VALUES
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Nov 21, 2012 18:52
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Don't worry, if Romney had won the election I'm sure Hannity would have encouraged his conservative listeners to restrain themsaahahahahahaha. He is a Republican cheerleader of the worst type, who will say nothing negative about the direction of the party or its leaders until they lose, at which point it was because liberals rigged the election or the candidates weren't Reaganesque enough.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:01
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Back when I had to drive around with my parents conservative radio was constantly on so now my brain has been permanently rewired that whenever I hear or read Hannity's name I immediately get the "Freedom Ring" song stuck in my head. He was playing that like every commercial break eight years after 9/11 and I have no idea what a song about someone's mom burning down their house to kill herself and her abusive husband has to do with AMERICA but whatever.
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Nov 21, 2012 20:37
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His show still uses that song. I think it still uses the "ALL ABOARD THE STOP OBAMA EXPRESS" as well. Hannity keeps going on about how much fun he's having since Obama won. Fun, guys! See, I'm loving this! I'm not mad, honest!
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Hannity is easily the worst. Rush,Levin,Savage,Coulter are just parodies of themselves now and so easily characterized that a left wing person can just laugh at them as some sort of dark humor. Not Hannity though, the smug arrogant sureness and total hatred and disdain towards any ideas and any person not hisown/himself makes anyone with a shred of decency want to throw him down a flight of stairs. Even Bill O'Reilly who used to be the arch-conservative jackass comes across as almost (but not really) reasonable by today's post right shifted overton window world.
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Nov 21, 2012 22:39
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lil mortimer posted:His show still uses that song. I think it still uses the "ALL ABOARD THE STOP OBAMA EXPRESS" as well. Hannity keeps going on about how much fun he's having since Obama won. Fun, guys! See, I'm loving this! I'm not mad, honest! His show the day after the election was a lot of fun. He wasn't bitter! He was so not bitter, in fact, that he insisted like a couple dozen times that he wasn't bitter.
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'Outfoxed', a documentary on fox news and it's position as an arm of the republican party is up on Netflix. If you or any of your friends have come of age after or during the 2008 election, I HIGHLY recommend it. It was made shortly after the '04 election, which were dark times. It's amazing how bleak poo poo looked back then.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:'Outfoxed', a documentary on fox news and it's position as an arm of the republican party is up on Netflix. If you or any of your friends have come of age after or during the 2008 election, I HIGHLY recommend it. It was made shortly after the '04 election, which were dark times. It's amazing how bleak poo poo looked back then. Yeah, it was a time when the lunatics were running the asylum - and it took the shock of katrina incompetence + the EXTENDED disaster of the iraq and other wars + the 2008 crash to wake people up to the fact that the American right really doesn't have a loving clue how to run a country. The Bush admin is already going down in history as one of the most hated administrations ever - and it's entirely deserved. We're not going to fully recover from the extensive damage they did for decades.
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Spacedad posted:Yeah, it was a time when the lunatics were running the asylum - and it took the shock of katrina incompetence + the EXTENDED disaster of the iraq and other wars + the 2008 crash to wake people up to the fact that the American right really doesn't have a loving clue how to run a country. He's no James Buchanan, but Bush was certainly the worst in my lifetime.
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Axetrain posted:Hannity is easily the worst. Rush,Levin,Savage,Coulter are just parodies of themselves now and so easily characterized that a left wing person can just laugh at them as some sort of dark humor. Not Hannity though, the smug arrogant sureness and total hatred and disdain towards any ideas and any person not hisown/himself makes anyone with a shred of decency want to throw him down a flight of stairs. Even Bill O'Reilly who used to be the arch-conservative jackass comes across as almost (but not really) reasonable by today's post right shifted overton window world. His sniveling voice is worst part too - hearing that peevish demagoguery coming from someone with such an insufferable nasal twang. He's basically a walking caricature of 'willfully ignorant and over-privileged college republican.' Edit: Charlie Brooker pretty much nails it when he talks about Hannity here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEk864YrKw Spacedad fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Nov 21, 2012 23:16
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Spacedad posted:He's basically a walking caricature of 'willfully ignorant and over-privileged college republican.' Except for the part where he went to college.
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Zwabu posted:Except for the part where he went to college. Ah yes.  And the disdain and irrational distrust for those who did go to college.
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Nov 21, 2012 23:21
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lil mortimer posted:or you can give everyone at the table a shot glass full of eggnog and tell them you're just trying to be fair. Your relatives won't be mad at you because you aren't arguing with them and maybe they'll understand why "spreading the wealth" just makes no darn sense. Wait what? Why didn't you buy more eggnog? Because that is what you WHOULD do if you don't have enough for a full glass for everyone. He is literally making fun of basic courtesy now.
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quote:I get the strongest impression that so many conservatives must have grown up in really lovely situations to have such a massive hoarding FYGM mentality over everything. They look around at the plenty and wealth of the modern world and think 'There's barely enough to go around! Why should I share!' Well, not Hannity. He grew-up in a very posh NYC neighborhood, made a name for himself by airing an AIDS denialist piece (and then being defended by the ACLU over his first amendment rights when the radio station tossed him out on his rear end) and made a an absolute killing by going on the afternoon talk radio circuit (starting in Athens, which shouldn't much of a surprise). He really is just a human-shaped poo poo stain, always has been and always will be. There wasn't some cruel factor in his life that twisted him into what he is today; he just smugly decided one day to loft the scepter and grace the throne as the king of Fortress Retard. EDIT: Spacedad posted:Ah yes. In fairness, he did attend university. I mean, he dropped out, but he still went. The Ender fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Nov 21, 2012 23:39
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I'll never not love this interview with Bill Clinton wiping the floor with Chris Wallace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2513JFJsY
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Nov 21, 2012 23:48
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Aatrek posted:I'll never not love this interview with Bill Clinton wiping the floor with Chris Wallace. Stuff like this and the way FOX news presents itself these days is why you will never again see a prominent democrat on the FOX network.
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Aatrek posted:I'll never not love this interview with Bill Clinton wiping the floor with Chris Wallace. I have to say, I watch a lot of that interview with a very sick feeling stirring in my gut. "Look, we were gonna go stomping around and kill anyone caught in our path much sooner in an attempt to assassinate Bin Laden, but those brown people and the CIA and the FBI wouldn't allow it until after 9/11!" I can appreciate Clinton absolutely dominating Wallace rhetorically, but my God that man is a loving rear end in a top hat. Great way to bow out of the office, Bill, bombing a pharmaceuticals plant in order to deflect attention from your affair. The Ender fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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For all I know, it was posted already in this very thread (between this, the election threads, the freeper thread, the forwarded email thread oh god it goes on and on I'm getting fuzzy) but the response to the "socialist classroom thought experiment" is this, as posted by another SA user.Mo_Steel posted:There are so many obvious lines of attack on this particular often reused parable (socialism is improperly used in the example, Obama has presented a mostly center-right administration particularly where economics is concerned, etc.), but the most obvious one is that the structure and distribution of grades is nowhere close to analogous to money.
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lil mortimer posted:That was the hour of Hannity I listened to yesterday. The bon mots of Sean Hannity form the entirety of right-wingers smug talking points at work and Thanksgiving. They look to him desperately as a savior.  quote:It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. America is under oppression by ultra-liberal extremists which have yielded governing authority to the United Nations. It is up to an underground conservative group (known as F.O.I.L.) led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden’s plans to nuke New York City. woke wedding drone fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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Nov 22, 2012 02:07
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SedanChair posted:The bon mots of Sean Hannity form the entirety of right-wingers smug talking points at work and Thanksgiving. They look to him desperately as a savior. ...That comic is satirical, right? Right? EDIT: Hahahahahahahaha http://www.comiccritique.com/cgi-bin/greview.pl?id=380 quote:I can imagine the difficulty Mike Mackey encountered trying to get this story published. All sorts of controversial comicbooks get published — pornography and, in the past, graphic horror — but comicbooks from an overt conservative point of view are rare, and this is the only one I know of that demonizes liberals. So hats off to Mackey, artist Donny Lin and the others who were able to achieve publication of Liberality For All in an era where soon it perhaps will not be possible. 4/5 stars for this genius masterpiece. The Ender fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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Axetrain posted:Hannity is easily the worst. Rush,Levin,Savage,Coulter are just parodies of themselves now and so easily characterized that a left wing person can just laugh at them as some sort of dark humor. Not Hannity though, the smug arrogant sureness and total hatred and disdain towards any ideas and any person not hisown/himself makes anyone with a shred of decency want to throw him down a flight of stairs. Even Bill O'Reilly who used to be the arch-conservative jackass comes across as almost (but not really) reasonable by today's post right shifted overton window world. There was a video of him calling out alexdra pelosi at a tea party rally and being all smug about it, but I can't find it. He is a grade a douche bag.
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Phone posted:Conservative "jokes". Conservatives actually ARE funny - just not intentionally. They are eternally Elmer Fudds to the Bugs Bunnys of the world. It's funny to see a bully get taken down a peg whereas it's just mean watching a bully pick fights and abuse others. Case in point, crazy youtube lady. Absolutely loving hilarious, but not intentionally so on her part at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35bjOgPK9Y Conservative stand-up "comedy." This guy is insufferable.
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lil mortimer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35bjOgPK9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_s7yirG63w "comedy".
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SedanChair posted:The bon mots of Sean Hannity form the entirety of right-wingers smug talking points at work and Thanksgiving. They look to him desperately as a savior.
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Myrdhale posted:I get the strongest impression that so many conservatives must have grown up in really lovely situations to have such a massive hoarding FYGM mentality over everything. They look around at the plenty and wealth of the modern world and think 'There's barely enough to go around! Why should I share!' I don't think you even need to go so far as "grown up", I think this is why many poorer people vote conservative - they look at what they have and think "I can't afford to share! I'd be destitute!" I grew up in an incredibly conservative extended family and the "plenty and wealth of the modern world" just plain does not factor in to the mathematics of it all. All of that stuff exists as infrastructure, somewhere else. All of the wealth and excess we see in our day-to-day life are necessary components of the machine that makes America the best country in the history of the world. The only assets Obama wants to redistribute are YOUR assets (or, worse still, dismantle the machine!). I think I'm a little more sympathetic than most because of my family, but I really believe that for most poor to middle conservatives//Republican voters FYGM mentality doesn't factor in to it -- they're entirely dominated by fear. Fear that the lazy poor criminal is going to take all of their money and roll around in a government Lexus while they and their family starve on the street, fear that reducing the defense budget means invasion of an unstoppable army of religious warriors so devout they'll kill themselves to kill you, fear that even the slightest increases of taxation drives you into unemployment overnight. Of course, if you think about any of that for one single goddamn second you realize it's all absolute nonsense, but peoples' lives are so utterly dominated by this sort of thing because it creates a positive feedback loop, and you always, ALWAYS have a media source you can tune into to see that not only are your deepest fears legitimate, but it's worse than you imagined. I'm glad that this thread exists, but I think some posters are maybe a little too spiteful towards the rank-and-file conservative. Not to absolve them of blame for their backwards, hateful opinions, but what the right wing media does is, I think, so much more disgusting than we give them credit for even here. I can only imagine how much mental anguish guys like Beck and O'Riley and Hannity have caused over the last few years.
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Onion Knight posted:I don't think you even need to go so far as "grown up", I think this is why many poorer people vote conservative - they look at what they have and think "I can't afford to share! I'd be destitute!" I grew up in an incredibly conservative extended family and the "plenty and wealth of the modern world" just plain does not factor in to the mathematics of it all. All of that stuff exists as infrastructure, somewhere else. All of the wealth and excess we see in our day-to-day life are necessary components of the machine that makes America the best country in the history of the world. I despise the right-wing media less for their horrible opinions than for the way that they cynically abuse and manipulate their audience to wring cash out of them. What's worse is that their audience gets nothing in return except a worthless certificate, or a gimmie hat, or just a gnawing suspicion that they didn't give enough to defeat whatever godless horde is just over the horizon. I pity rank-and-file right-wingers even more than I hold them in contempt.
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Spacedad posted:Conservatives actually ARE funny - just not intentionally. They are eternally Elmer Fudds to the Bugs Bunnys of the world. It's funny to see a bully get taken down a peg whereas it's just mean watching a bully pick fights and abuse others. Just to remind you, 3-time Presidential hopeful Willard 'Mitt' Romney held down a peer in high school and shaved his head as a "prank". Not to mention that his Al Smith's dinner set was hilarious; I liked the part where he whined about everything throughout the entire set.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I despise the right-wing media less for their horrible opinions than for the way that they cynically abuse and manipulate their audience to wring cash out of them. What's worse is that their audience gets nothing in return except a worthless certificate, or a gimmie hat, or just a gnawing suspicion that they didn't give enough to defeat whatever godless horde is just over the horizon. I pity rank-and-file right-wingers even more than I hold them in contempt. Follow the leader. I'm glad mittens wasn't voted in as we would be with war with Iran right now. Ludicrous you say? hah.
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Phone posted:Just to remind you, 3-time Presidential hopeful Willard 'Mitt' Romney held down a peer in high school and shaved his head as a "prank". Not to mention that his Al Smith's dinner set was hilarious; I liked the part where he whined about everything throughout the entire set. Mitt Romney is so smug and entitled, he forced Americans to admit that rich people can be jerks sometimes. That's actually quite an accomplishment, more than Trump ever attained. The final burst of schadenfreude quintessence is that Romney, Romney, the ultimate Rockefeller Republican, had been sucked into the truth vortex of the right-wing entertainment industry. Weren't you supposed to be an elite, Mitt Romney? Shouldn't I have caught you listening to Diane Rehm, and not Sean Hannity?
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CatCannons posted:Follow the leader. I'm glad mittens wasn't voted in as we would be with war with Iran right now. Ludicrous you say? hah. He wouldn't be president yet... you think Obama would be that much of an rear end in a top hat lameduck to start a war right before he get's out and leave it on his predecessor?
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SO ANGRY posted:He wouldn't be president yet... you think Obama would be that much of an rear end in a top hat lameduck to start a war right before he get's out and leave it on his predecessor? That reminds me of someone, tree? stream? something something forest.
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SedanChair posted:The bon mots of Sean Hannity form the entirety of right-wingers smug talking points at work and Thanksgiving. They look to him desperately as a savior. I've never gotten the adoration that G. Gordon Liddy gets from right-wingers. He's literally a criminal scumbag who was in prison for four years for literally being the mastermind behind Watergate.
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