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- gdog05, on 11/13/2009, -40/+302Suck is indeed the case with TeaBaggers. Suck is always the case...
- SweetNeo85, on 11/14/2009, -13/+253Can we please define this word... ELITIST?
Elite: a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status.
And thats...... bad? Are there people who actually take PRIDE in their ignorance?
"Well, me, I'm not an elitist, I'm just your average Joe."
This attitude reeks of laziness and ***** *****.
Surround yourself with information and then form an opinion!
Don't form an opinion based on ignorance and prejudice and then disparage those who sought out
education and insight! - eastwood24, on 11/13/2009, -22/+219The more marginalized a group becomes, often the more radical they become. Our country needs the political right to be dominated by pragmatic libertarians. Not fringy teabagger types or fanatical christians.
- spookyttws, on 11/14/2009, -8/+193I guess I'm too young (I'm 24) to ever remember the Democrats as being the party that ignores the middle/lower classes. I have only been shown Republicans who are only looking out for big business contracts and stopping regulation by any means so that businesses like Haliburton can pull in trillions of dollars through no bid contracts. And in the past the past 15 years they've gone super Religious- which should have nothing to do with government. I'm not saying the Democrats have all the answers (or even most of them) but they seem to be the more accepting of freedoms, especially when it comes to gay and minority rights.
- dirtymerkin, on 11/14/2009, -30/+193Not all wingnuts are idiots....about a third of them are evil.
- Ouze, on 11/14/2009, -20/+173The teabagger movement is the best thing to happen to the Democratic Party in decades.
- Bartboy919, on 11/14/2009, -10/+105Yes, I agree, people who think that death panels are real, Obama wants to pull the plug on grandma, Climate Change is a fraud, and that Obama's Czars are from Soviet Russia should totally not be called idiots...
- Zaetha, on 11/14/2009, -19/+102Dear Tea-Baggers:
Like you are "just asking questions", we are "just making assumptions".
Fair game.
Regards, the Internet. - scyphozoa, on 11/14/2009, -17/+94dumb people hold back democracy
- qwerter, on 11/14/2009, -11/+85Care to clarify? I know you can't mean "teabaggers," seeing as how they used that term for themselves...
- Hecubus452, on 11/14/2009, -17/+90Even if it is elitist, they're still ***** idiots.
- strangewill, on 11/14/2009, -3/+74Guess which one is the most threat to the stability and prosperity of the US?
- CaptCarrot, on 11/13/2009, -6/+76I disagree. But then, I'm elitist.
- jwanderson, on 11/14/2009, -10/+75Haha, yeah, the elitists invented the term teabaggers to smear these people...
Oh wait, no, they created that term for themselves, completely uninformed as to its internet connotations. - algaeturd, on 11/14/2009, -14/+72I almost feel bad stereotyping the entire teabagger movement but so far, everything I've seen and everyone I've met who associates themselves with that group is highly uninformed about the factual state of things like health reform and budgets.
But what kind of legitimacy does a group gain when they wrap themselves in the flag and hide under the guise of 'returning to our forefathers' America' when they supported Bush & Cheney for 8 years?
In my book, that alone is enough to prove they don't know what they're talking about. We lost more freedom under Bush & Co. in those 8 years than we had in our entire previous existence. And did you see them marching for freedom or making the government smaller or getting them out of our lives?
The simple, direct answer is NO. They didn't care that Bush was working with telecoms to tap our phones and read our emails. They didn't care about removing due process, they didn't worry about legislation being rammed through congress or lack of transparency. None of this seemed to bother any of them until HE stepped into office.
My biggest problem IS their apparent lack of education. I don't give a ***** if you graduated magna cum laude from the best school in the world, if you think that reforming health care means this country is becoming a socialist country, you're a ***** uneducated moron. Uneducated in the sense that you never studied governments throughout history or what socialism really means when a country becomes a 'socialist' country.
Their number one tactic is scaremongering and we all know where they learned that. And it wasn't down at the local community college. It was sitting at home watching Bush and Fox News.
"if you do this, something BAD will happen. Obama is DIFFERENT, I'm not saying he's a muslim terrorist, but we certainly shouldn't say it's not possible. He's different. He was born in another country. He isn't a christian. "
All of this stuff makes you look like an uneducated scumbag regardless of whether or not you've gone to school. And if I was a part of a group an the loudest members were birthers and people who have never studied government ONCE in their lives, I'd go up and smack them and ask them to leave. Because if those people are the minority, THEY'RE DROWNING THE REST OF YOU OUT. And they have become the faces of the teabag movement: A bunch of scared, uneducated people who understand very little about government who suddenly think they're country is turning on them. It's NOT because he's black..it's that he's DIFFERENT. And scary.
And you want him to fail to prove a simple ***** point and that makes me think you hate America.
Do you hate America, teabaggers? It's not because I disagree that I think you're uneducated hate mongers, it's because you so very rarely make any kind of legitimate point that is backed up by history or facts or truth. - BerateBirthers, on 11/14/2009, -14/+63If you are pragmatic, you aren't a Republican.
- workfaster, on 11/14/2009, -4/+50Uh, I don't think Palin is dumbing herself down for anyone. She's actually that way in real life.
- ftc08, on 11/14/2009, -25/+67Citation needed in advance. But I saw somewhere the IQ breakdowns of the 2004 election. There was a very strong correlation of red below 100, and blue above it.
- Ouze, on 11/14/2009, -3/+44Speaking of teabaggers, I don't understand, for the life of me, the concept behind this "9/12" project. Getting back to 9/12 - why would we want to do that? The country was in shock on 9/12 - scared, confused, ready to give the government a blank check to "protect us" with ***** like waterboarding and the patriot act, despite the fact the government on 9/12 was the same incompetent one that failed to "protect us" on 9/11. Bottom line, what a dumb concept.
- dgn3, on 11/14/2009, -3/+43is it elitist to think everyone is an idiot?
- reddikilowatt, on 11/14/2009, -3/+41The teabagers are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The problem is that they don't know who to be mad at. They thought their guy (Bush, inc) was looking out for them, but it turns out he was on the side of the New York banksters and the military-industrial complex. When everything you believe turns out to be wrong, it hurts and the first thing you do is try to kill the messenger. Then you go after the opposition. A few people will realize the enemy is the ruling class we've allowed to be created, but far too few to change the political culture of the party.
I worry that it is just too late for the big government conservatives to realize the fundamental flaw in their beliefs, and that's going to keep us rolling down the road to destruction. - Expl0siv0, on 11/14/2009, -3/+37The thing is, I'd support Republican leaders who were willing to do more than just naysay. I'm not saying that every single Republican ever is just opposing Obama and not proposing anything of their own. Obviously there are exceptions.
But one example of not creating their own solutions would be during the 2008 campaign. I, for one, didn't really know what any of McCain's plans were. The Republicans, instead of being leaders and coming up with something and getting our attention, just resorted to false claims of "socialism", "Muslim", and "terrorist" with regards to the opposition. There was never a coherent and consistent message from them. - diggitydad, on 11/14/2009, -2/+36elitist/elitism
The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their PERCEIVED superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources. - aces2mexico, on 11/14/2009, -0/+32“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Thomas Paine - cmotdibbler, on 11/14/2009, -2/+34An Elitist is someone who went to college and doesn't vote Republican, at least if you watch Fox News.
- skyjumperz, on 11/14/2009, -5/+37Maybe people who view life mostly as a money-collecting game tend to vote Republican.
- pintomp3, on 11/14/2009, -14/+45No, It's not Elitist to Think the Round-earthers Are Idiots
No, It's not Elitist to Think the Creationists Are Idiots
No, It's not Elitist to Think the Global Warming Deniers Are Idiots
No, It's not Elitist to Think the Birthers Are Idiots
No, It's not Elitist to Think the Truthers Are Idiots
Thanks, works quite well. - uncleosbert, on 11/14/2009, -3/+34everyone who reads world net daily.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Personhood_movem ... - DagonwebNL, on 11/14/2009, -6/+35Correctly. We in Europe recognize the percentage of americans with these ideas quite well, and we have a fair idea where this is headed. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
And don't think for a second I am exaggerating - the percentage of americans, or the body of ideas associated with this gut movement - it stands for darwinism, plain and simple. These people may claim they are conservative, of 'real americans' or christians, but they are plain lying. They are tribalist, demagogue. They are a posse. They advocate the law of the jungle. - SweetNeo85, on 11/14/2009, -4/+32I disagree. To me, racial prejudice and sexism are based on erroneous assumptions that white = elite, or male = elite. It is not erroneous, however, to assume that elite does in fact = elite. Better = Better. I do understand your point, I just parse the language differently.
- seraph1982, on 11/14/2009, -3/+30Considering it's roots are from when Bush was still president, I agree 100%, and I'm not surprised it was Bush that spawned this malcontent bunch of protesters - he was a god awful president.
- Slick0, on 11/14/2009, -6/+32Why is it so bad to elect intelligent, well educated people? Why is it so bad that the people that run things know more than Joe Six-pack? I would rather have a guy that thinks I'm a slumdog idiot running the country, than some guy that knows more about mufflers and the Yankees than he knows about politics. People have elected their elites run the country since the birth of democracy for one simple reason: They're smarter than most of us! How many countries have high school dropouts in high offices? I don't think there are many in the developed parts of this planet.
This debate is going from promoting diversity in politics, to going after those who don't dress, talk and act like the masses...
Stay in school, kids! - 4321234, on 11/14/2009, -2/+27So I can't look down on anyone? Even idiot teabaggers? That seems a little harsh.
- uncleosbert, on 11/14/2009, -8/+33"You all squirmed and writhed when Bush did it - you know you did, admit it - but now it's okay for some reason? Really?"
really what? there are still anti-war protests. when obama was in san francisco code pink met him with a petition. seriously, wtf are you even talking about? - jmunjr, on 11/14/2009, -19/+43The Tea Party movement was started in 2007 by Ron Paul supporters. We have nothing to do with the Neo-cons you guys are mistakenly associating with the movement. We are better than those idiots, and yes we are better than the liberals too. Excuse me and forgive me, we are not better, the Constitution is better.
- overridemymind, on 11/14/2009, -4/+28HA! AFRAID to talk to? Wow. Some of Fox's viewers really are deluded, you know? Obama talking to Fox News would be like arguing with a five-year-old on Xbox live. Eventually, it'd turn out to be a giant waste of time that didn't get him anywhere, as well as directly giving Fox more material to twist around and use against him. It's not a matter of Obama being afraid to talk to Fox -- it's a matter of wasting time talking to a distorted news network.
I guess he's "afraid" to talk to Limbaugh and Beck too, right? Yeah, I'd be afraid, too. Those nutters are ***** scary. - greenroom628, on 11/14/2009, -3/+25i don't think IQ is a very good indicator of one's correlation to the way they vote. there were idiots that voted for kerry because puff daddy (or p.diddly or whatever he's called now) said they either had to do it or die. yeah, that worked well...
what i do find as an interesting corollary is the relationship of conservatives to creationism.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/09/conservatives ...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/06 ...
say what you will, but a lot of scientific evidence leads to the theory of evolution, but those that identify themselves as conservatives...especially protestant conservatives, do not agree that we evolved. i think that speaks volumes beyond IQ. - ftc08, on 11/14/2009, -1/+23killtr0city replied in the thread above with it,
http://weird-*****.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/u ... - stevenwalters, on 11/14/2009, -9/+30You Tea Baggers might have had a shot at the very beginning of starting something that anyone could have gotten behind, but it quickly went from something that seemed to make sense into some sort of whack-job super-partison anti-Obama campaign. Wasn't it originally about how the whole government was *****? You guys let too many outsiders (Fox News, Palin etc) shape it for you and now things are right back to the left/right ***** we're normally used to.
You guys want a revolution? Come back to the rest of us when you drop the partisan *****, because I think we ALL have a problem with what our government has become. - rocknog, on 11/14/2009, -0/+21Hey now, the tea partiers used to be libertarians. Unfortunately the GOP caught a whiff of it and descended upon that movement like zombies on a scientific conference. I think a lot of people made the call prematurely, but it was pretty much inevitable that the Republicans would try to turn the tea parties to their own advantage in order to distance themselves from... themselves.
- superkeer, on 11/14/2009, -1/+22You can be elite and not be elitist. At the same time you can be an idiot and also be an elitist.
- ParticleMan420, on 11/14/2009, -3/+24did you know that lions spend most of the day sleeping?
- skyjumperz, on 11/14/2009, -9/+29The Tea Party movement is just a result of the right-wing echo chamber screaming about "socialism".
The problem is - a lot of people (idiots of course) consider that echo chamber trustworthy. So if you've got personal trust invested in Hannity and he's panicking about this Socialism thing, you might start to panic too. Human nature. - scyphozoa, on 11/14/2009, -1/+20I would say to you that democracy functions only when the voting population is informed. I know that sounds like informed would imply "agrees with me" but its not the case. We have such heated, blind partisanship and propaganda platforms that have nothing to do with actually running a super power nation.
I don't mean to sound as pretentious as I'm sure I do, but if the voting populous is filled with undereducated, mis or ill informed voters then the process of democracy is compromised.
So, much like communism or socialism, democracy inevitably fails to exist outside of a Utopian context.
or like I originally said, dumb people hold back democracy. - overridemymind, on 11/14/2009, -0/+19@ Emperor03 -
How is Bartboy's statement a straw-man argument? It basically translates to, "Yes, I agree, people who <believe things that are completely ludicrous, illogical, and downright stupid> should totally not be called idiots" with an obligatory /s at the end.
It's not a matter of the teabaggers being people I disagree with -- It's a matter of the teabaggers being people that logic, a little research, and a smidgen of critical-thinking disagree with. - Sraser, on 11/14/2009, -0/+19Umm datruef, he said he was from Europe, but did not actually tell you what country he was from.
How do you know his country actually needs fixing? Or are you one of these people who fail to realize that some European countries have the highest quality of living in the world? - zephc, on 11/14/2009, -6/+24Exactly. Somewhere along the line Neocons co-opted the Tea Party movement. Think about the name - Tea Party - revolutionary in symbolism, very american. Glenn Beck, BillO, etc aren't clever enough to think of that analogy.
- DangerCollie, on 11/14/2009, -7/+25Let's suppose tebaggers had a party platform. What would it be?
- Get rid of Medicare, Medicaid and the VA. Can't have any socialized medicine, now can we?
- Everyone gets to walk around with assault rifles, just like they do in Afghanistan.
- End all government intrusion...except for smoking pot in the privacy of your home, getting an abortion in the privacy of your doctor's office, or letting people of differing sexual orientation have any collective rights. Except for all those things, get government out of our lives.
- The energy crisis can be solved by drilling more holes in the ground.
Those are the things you stand for. Look, face it, you have no workable solutions to any of the big problems we're facing today. You're all noise and don't stand for anything tangible. So, yeah, you're idiots. - nomadignatius, on 11/14/2009, -4/+22Its crazyness like the Tea Baggers and Birthers that have driven me out of the Republican party. STFU Fox! Conservative - yep, I believe our government to be the single most selfish, useless, bureaucratic, and impotent entity in the history of mankind and want it to keep its hands as far out of my life, my family, and my wallet as possible. Republican - sorry, not drinking that KoolAid.
- noahgelman, on 11/14/2009, -4/+22Basic knowledge and understanding fail
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