wautd wrote:I consider any group which reminds me to nazi brownshirts as a bad thing.
Naw, the Brownshirts were actually organized... after a fashion (telling it takes Teabaggers to make Brownshirts look "good").
I think the Teabaggers are inevitable, so I try to seek the lemonade in the lemons-- finally, the right-wing has a way to come right out and show the world their true colors, as hateful, racist, dumbfucks trying to pretend they have an agenda. They remove any veneer of civility that the conservatives might have fig-leafed for themselves.
So it is not exactly that they are "good", except in a cynical way.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
I wonder if I should be disturbed by that fact that the Teabaggers on average are more likely to have college degrees compared to the general American population.
Turns out that a five way cross over between It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Ali G Show, Fargo, Idiocracy and Veep is a lot less funny when you're actually living in it.
For all the whine and whinge about "liberal professors", the business courses in colleges are pretty conservative (which is funny, because in the proper, original, classic definition of "conservative", that means they'd want more state control over the economy, but, alas...)
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
The disproportionate degrees effect is probably because so many of them are white, not because they're exceptionally intelligent. Minorities don't make up much of the Tea Party, and that's a significant fraction of the lower class right there; factor in the part of the lower class that is on public assistance and has a sense of decency and you've probably eliminated a majority of the people in the bottom quartile of the economy.
The remaining lower-middle to middle class population is more likely to have college degrees by default.
yeah they got started by unemployed business majors who were upset that their real estate and day trading jobs weren't comming back despite the bail outs for the companies that used to employ them.
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Coyote wrote:What do they have degrees in, though?
For all the whine and whinge about "liberal professors", the business courses in colleges are pretty conservative (which is funny, because in the proper, original, classic definition of "conservative", that means they'd want more state control over the economy, but, alas...)
Indeed, for example, one of the bigger Universities around here is Brigham Young University which cranks out quite a few MBA's a year and BYU is about as conservative as they come.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
