August 30, 2013
— Ace Ann Althouse writes of Flaubert's La Dictionairre d'Idees Reçues, or "Dictionary of Received Ideas." A comical, cynical spoof of the Thoughtless Thoughts people are infected with.
This is what I think Jonah Goldberg was talking about in his Tyranny of Clichés.
It's these automatic thoughts that cling to the brain like parasites that destroy thinking and reason. Rather like, and I don't think this could possibly be a cliché, alien Body Thetans of idiocy that are interfering with the lucid functioning of our own spirit Thetan.
Amusing Ourselves to Death briefly noted the long, long history of Thoughtless Thoughts. In pre-literate cultures, when all knowledge was stored in human memory and recalled by verbal trope, it was useful to have cute and memorable aphorisms, appellations and other received wisdom in the form of canned cliché. Thus all dawns reflexively had rosy fingers, and were you to dig into the ground, you'd find some money rooting all evils.
Although we've long since gained the capacity to write and read, we've kept many of the Automatic Associations we've been taught.
Liberals, I think, are especially prone to this, for a bunch of reasons. First of all, they dominate the culture and the natural dialogue so their Thoughtless Thoughts crowd out all others. Perhaps there are some anti-gay people who would like to establish the Meme Thetan that Gays Are In Revolt Against God, but they can't, because liberals have established their own reflexive clichés about gays: They improve neighborhoods, like cupcakes a whole heck of a lot, and are perfect fashion accessories for women entering their middle years.
And beyond that, while liberals really like to think that they Think an awful lot (reflexive liberal Thoughtless Thought on liberals: Our major failing is that we're too reasonable and overthink things!!!), in fact, they don't think very much at all.
I think in terms of psychographics, Liberals are better Students than the right. Understand here that I speak of the group, not any individual case. I think Liberals are more educable, and conservatives more resistant to education.
And there's a flip-side to this: People who are more "educable," as I call it, are also more pliable, more deferential to Assumed Authority, more dedicated to the goal of Pleasing Teacher. Less likely to rebel, less likely to quesiton.
This is why they make, on paper, such fine administrators of the National Bureaucratic state. And why they make, in reality, such terrible ones.
There's an old bit of Received Wisdom I heard about the Chinese Bureaucracy, an idea and innovation squashing institution that nevertheless persisted for over a thousand years (and still does). It persisted so long because, while it is bad, it was never quite awful enough to spark a revolution. It was always on every Emperor's to-do list to reform the bureaucracy -- but always at number 12 on the list.
No Emperor ever gets to number 12 on his list. No Emperor ever gets much further than Number 3.
And so a fundamentally poor cadre for administering the state limped along for over a thousand years, retarding Chinese advancement... but its effects were merely subtly pernicious.
Had the Chinese Bureaucracy been worse, China would have done better.
And so it is with Liberals, as far as group psychographics. They're overinvested in repeating back What Teacher Said and underinvested in questioning received wisdom.
I've been on about this basic point for years. I can't credit someone as a thinking person when I ask him for his first reaction to the word-stimulus "USAToday" and I can predict his response -- "McPaper" -- as precisely as I can predict that a cow will come trotting toward the barn when I ring the milking bell.
(Caveat: I have no idea if there's such a thing as a milking bell.)
No one who reacts with the precisely predictable conditioned behavior of a moth drawn to a light-bulb can be credited as fully "thinking."
As Jonah Goldberg argues (I take it-- I haven't read the book), part of the reason for the liberal dominance over the culture and lately politics as well is that it is extremely hard to argue someone out of a proposition he was never argued into in the first place. The public did not decide Barack Obama was extremely intelligent, cultured, articulate, and spiritually uplifting. The public had this word-cloud about Barack Obama drilled into their heads for two years so that when they finally saw the man speak, in all his umming and uhhing glory, there was hardly any space in their minds for their own analytical and impressionistic portrait of Barack Obama. The neurons necessary for storing such electrical wisdom were already all taken up by Extremely Intelligent, Cultured, Articulate, Spiritually Uplifting.
Oh and possibly actually The Second Messiah. Or, to our Jewish friends, just The Messiah.
Sometimes I catch a little heat from commenters who object to my going off-script, as it were, to get into these sorts of Not Really Politics topics.
I have to tell you that if you're conceiving of "politics" as the surface game of just shouting back and forth that abortion either is, or is not murder, I don't think you understand how people's minds are actually shaped. People talk in the language of reason but they actually think, or rather do not think, in the language of myth.
Any effort to reclaim the nation for the Enlightenment and for Classical Liberalism must begin with Breitbart's oft-quoted motto, "Politics is downstream of culture."
Defects in political thinking -- such as an embrace of socialism -- are merely the symptoms. To address the actual disease, one has to first treat the underlying disease, which are defects in thinking, period, and minds fevered by all the superstitions spread virally by the plague-rats of Chomsky, Marx, Zinn, Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, and the rest of the forever chattering National Greek Chorus of Dumb.
I could go on. I usually do. But I'll wrap up.
I don't think most people grasp what Breitbart's slogan means. It's not just knowing what's going on on Girls, for crying out loud. It's understanding that people's political landscapes are just the surface expression of deeper structures of thought and tectonic plates of superstition.
And having blathered on too long, I'd like to suggest our own sort of Devil's Dictionary, or Dictionary of Received Ideas, those reflexive, look-ma-no-thinking Thoughtless Thoughts the American public has been conditioned to believe without even realizing they believe anything of the sort.
Easiest and most prominent starting entry:
RIGHTWING. Should be followed by "extremist." Possessed of something called "Lizard Brains." Usually found beating their wives, bashing gays, and shooting black people for no reason at all. Hate Science. Grizzled veterans of the War on Women. Opposed by pragmatic, rational, non-ideological centrist problem-solvers (see Democrat).
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Posted by: Country Singer at August 30, 2013 10:02 AM (L8r/r)
Conservatives who attend Ivy League schools- crazy.
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:03 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:03 AM (xZxMD)
Welfare programs- help the poor.
Wants= rights
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:04 AM (gXnjx)
My response would have been "Pie Charts" and then I would be hungry.
Is that the same?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 30, 2013 10:05 AM (wrS2o)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:06 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: Future Historian at August 30, 2013 10:06 AM (Hx5uv)
GLOBAL WARMING
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 30, 2013 02:04 PM (uYaYO)
SEE ALSO: Climate Change, Climate Confusion, AGW, Global Cooling, Ice Age.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:07 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:07 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 30, 2013 10:07 AM (ZshNr)
In lefty speak:
AK-47 = any "scary" black gun = fully-automatic rifle = "Die Hard" in the streets
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:08 AM (4df7R)
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Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:08 AM (bufJH)
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That's absolutely true but I note that these people love their disease as a meth freak loves his and will resist at all costs a cure.
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 30, 2013 10:09 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:09 AM (VtjlW)
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Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:09 AM (gXnjx)
In lefty speak
"Fossil fuels" = "factories belching clouds of black smoke" = "19th century factories rife with death and disease"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:09 AM (4df7R)
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Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:11 AM (kXoT0)
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Posted by: GnuBreed at August 30, 2013 10:11 AM (cHZB7)
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My country 'tis of thee
sweet land of diversity
Of thee I sign.
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 30, 2013 10:11 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:11 AM (4df7R)
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Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2013 10:12 AM (lnFK0)
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Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:12 AM (/PCJa)
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Posted by: Lincolntf at August 30, 2013 02:07 PM (ZshNr)
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Whatever sound that is made to make cows associate it with alfalfa. Cows love alfalfa. My uncle and, for that matter, every farmer I've known just honks the horn on the pick-up to get the cows to come.
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 10:12 AM (i6YPp)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:12 AM (/PCJa)
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Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: awkward davies at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (WK8VM)
I have long believed that having a working knowledge of "what people think about stuff" is crucial to success in my work as a trial lawyer. You can't hope to bring jurors over to your preferred result unless you can first key into commonly-held perceptions of topics relevant to the case. Once they hear what they expect to hear, you gain credibility because the jury sees that you're one of them; and once you're seen as one of them they'll open up and can be persuaded.
I've seen attorneys lose good cases because they had no clue about where the facts stood with the jury at the outset of the case and they polarized the jury by their obliviousness. Over the years I've developed a good working catalog of what I can reliably anticipate will be juror preconceptions on law-related topics and I flog them like a rented mule at trial. Whether I personally share them or not. It works like a charm.
How this all fits into the larger questions of political culture I have no clue. I yield the floor to John Boehner on this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (8ZskC)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: real joe at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (G5Y/L)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 02:11 PM (kXoT0)
I'd like to take this moment to point out that teachers throughout my school years praised my penmanship. You know, in case you need any help.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (k8u3n)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 02:12 PM (i6YPp)
Yup, my Grandpa never had to honk the horn. The minute the truck cleared the gate, there were the cows.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:13 AM (kXoT0)
It's not complete til the pics get posted.
I'm just sayin'...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at August 30, 2013 10:14 AM (fwARV)
Posted by: Roy at August 30, 2013 10:14 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:14 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 30, 2013 10:14 AM (uYaYO)
Posted by: Eton Cox at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (q177U)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 02:13 PM (gXnjx)
Similarly, "profit" = "greed"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 30, 2013 02:14 PM (uYaYO)
And they shall atone by making the diversity training wide and deep and facking mandatory.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: BuckIV at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (gedHR)
FIFY. Dude, I didn't hear anything; I saw writing.
Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (kqqGm)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 02:08 PM (bufJH)
You're doing it wrong. At least from how I took ace's suggestion. See that would be our sort of unthinking view whe nthe liberals do it. This would be the unthinking ideas that liberals want to push into the public.
Like
TRADITIONAL: Wanting to go back to a time where black people had separate drinking fountains.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2013 10:15 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:16 AM (gXnjx)
[Ace:] ...."Opposed by pragmatic, rational, non-ideological centrist problem-solvers (see Democrat)."
Well that's how they fancy themselves...but when was the last time that Democrats ever actually solved any problems.
They do things, things that they declare are "solutions"...but their 'solutions' always just make things worse!
Posted by: wheatie at August 30, 2013 10:16 AM (Hy+VQ)
No?
Ok, then.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 30, 2013 10:16 AM (j149p)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 02:14 PM (VtjlW)
Did you catch my post after it?
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:16 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: CanaDave - We're all Rodeo Clowns now... at August 30, 2013 10:17 AM (Q3Q2H)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:17 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: zsasz at August 30, 2013 10:18 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2013 02:15 PM (LI48c)
SEE ALSO: "Women in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:18 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:18 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Vendette at August 30, 2013 10:18 AM (dw9bg)
Posted by: BuckIV at August 30, 2013 02:15 PM (gedHR)
And you would be wrong. An udder filled with milk is distinctly uncomfortable. A cow-comfortable milking parlor keeps them happy.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2013 10:19 AM (HjPtV)
Posted by: motion view (@motionview) at August 30, 2013 10:19 AM (2yPl+)
They just interviewed a republican congresswoman on some committee who will be on the conference call with the president today.
Posted by: caustic at August 30, 2013 10:19 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (8sCoq)
"Fools rush in where angles fear to tread."
Real wisdom is knowing which of the two cliches apply in any one circumstance.
(Caveat: I have no idea if there's such a thing as a milking bell.)
Yes there is. On my grandfather's dairy farm, it was the sound of the air compressor starting up. Cows really want to be milked, they want the special food treat, and they have a social order that determines which animal goes first.
Posted by: One man wrecking crew at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (LTAfJ)
--I'll try harder.
I think my definition of union was in the right direction.LIBERTARIANISM: See ANARCHY, SOMALIA
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (bufJH)
Newspapers- a conglomerate of bien pensants with high verbal ability (and thus ability and authority), who, while not often truthful in the conventional sense, are truthy in the larger sense and teach people what to properly think. See also: K-12 education.
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (gXnjx)
Actually, Liberals in Canada hate the word 'reform' because today's Conservative Party had its roots in the Alberta 'Reform' party.
Posted by: CanaDave - We're all Rodeo Clowns now... at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (Q3Q2H)
Posted by: LaQuisha Jeantell Largess' at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (3lMGK)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Roy at August 30, 2013 10:20 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:21 AM (XdnQT)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2013 10:21 AM (HjPtV)
I think you are describing or putting a handle on the kneejerk thought process of progressives (and conservatives, and most all of U.S.'ens ). And the stereotypical reaction of certain individuals or groups to certain topics or ideas. That process came about because of all the input any one person has received during his or her lifetime.
And that input, those things that trickled down the funnel to eventually harden that little mind full of mush into jello, or in some cases, concrete, came from:
1) Daddy and mama
2) THE CULTURE, including but not limited to POP CULTURE
3) Relatives and friends and peers
4) Kindergarten through high school (and if the poor sod was really unlucky, a bunch of left wing garbage in college).
So, the input is a bit recursive, because Daddy and Mama also learned from THE CULTURE, so did relatives and teachers and writers and music moguls, etc.
And THE CULTURE morphs with each iteration.
Posted by: Sphynx at August 30, 2013 10:21 AM (OZmbA)
Posted by: wiserbud at August 30, 2013 10:21 AM (WCe8r)
Posted by: motion view (@motionview) at August 30, 2013 10:21 AM (2yPl+)
Sarah Palin = Uneducated "snowbilly" backwards hick who wants to turn the United States into a whites-only, Christian country that starves the poor, lets old people die in the snow, murders homosexuals, and evicts children from orphanages.
SEE ALSO: "Christian Nation."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (4df7R)
Lately this blog has a bunch of solid, well reasoned posting--primarily by the host. Even the comments have added their own cogent amplification to the subject discussed.
I truly have enjoyed it.
This raises a question--to what avail is it to engage in discourse with these people who have co-opted the term liberal?
They aren't, in the classic sense,obviously.
So would it not be more productive to seek to enlighten those who aren't quite so rabid?
I have definite thoughts on this,but for another time.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (SAMxH)
MCCARTHYISM - 1. noun - The period of time before the glorious Civil Rights movement and the heroic anti-war movement when evil racist Republicans falsely labeled any good-hearted liberal just trying to make the world a better place a communist spy. (Ex. "McCarthyism tried to silence voices for change like... Alger Hiss.") 2. noun - Anything conservatives say that has too much persuasive power to deal with logically or factually. (Ex. "That's.... that's... that's..... McCarthyism!")
Great idea... let's have more!
Posted by: The Regular Guy at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (qHCyt)
Posted by: real joe at August 30, 2013 02:13 PM (G5Y/L)
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The American indian's spirituality far surpasses that of the evil white man. Indians are one with nature. They left eveything as they found it; pristine and beautiful.
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (i6YPp)
I had that book, where is it now? Dr. Postman appeared on TV speaking about this in a Sunday preacher half hour format sort of show. About a million years ago.
Posted by: ktnxbai, now with tin foil lace wigs at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (5aT64)
Cows...especially Milk Cows...want to be milked.
They usually line up at the milking shed, waiting to get relieved of their burden.
They moo and cry from the pain, if they're not relieved.
Posted by: wheatie at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (Hy+VQ)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:22 AM (VtjlW)
Republicans: evil, racist, bigots, who drag their knuckles, who want the worst things for America despite no visible results to demonstrate this and ample evidence to the contrary.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:23 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: wiserbud at August 30, 2013 02:21 PM (WCe8r)
FIFY.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:23 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (YrqgX)
Rape - only done by conservatives and every time they have sex. Democrats and leftists never rape.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (lnFK0)
disease, which are defects in thinking, period, and minds fevered by all
the superstitions spread virally by the plague-rats of Chomsky, Marx,
Zinn, Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, and the rest of the
forever chattering National Greek Chorus of Dumb.
In order for free thought to flourish again, things would have to become a lot quieter...pretty much impossible in this non-stop world of media bombardment, government interference and forced education...they don't want people to have any free time to think.
Posted by: CanaDave - We're all Rodeo Clowns now... at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (Q3Q2H)
Posted by: caustic at August 30, 2013 10:24 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 30, 2013 10:25 AM (n8LUb)
"We"- the term used to identify a Democratic administration acting improperly. See: Japanese Internment, Vietnam War, NSA, etc.
Bush Administration- the source of all ills.
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:25 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: Roy at August 30, 2013 10:25 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 30, 2013 10:25 AM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (xZxMD)
Posted by: phil at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (lB/5N)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: chelsea blaster at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (W6bkf)
A great question. I had a brief discussion with an OWS-type (more talk than action), and after some back-and-forth on economic issues, he said "What would you do if you were a dictator?" I was stunned. I told him I had never imagined myself as a dictator. He was stunned. I learned something from that exchange.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (HjPtV)
Equality- accepting liberal thought.
Choice- the things we allow you to do.
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: radar at August 30, 2013 10:26 AM (eNZFc)
Or pro-God people who can be bothered to read His opinion on the matter.
Or more truthfully that we are all in revolt against God most if not all of the time and gays don't warrant a special exclusion just because they're popular.
Posted by: Methos at August 30, 2013 10:27 AM (hO9ad)
CONFEDERATE = See racist, Republican voter, conservative, libertarian, non-socialist.
Posted by: George Z at August 30, 2013 10:27 AM (Bv9qa)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:27 AM (gXnjx)
Obama Daughters -- sacred little Princesses who must be shielded BY the press. See also Chelsea Clinton, Amy Carter.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:27 AM (kXoT0)
A "new" federal program, because the old existing one didn't work!Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (XdnQT)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Beto at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: Roy at August 30, 2013 02:25 PM
MILK STRIKE - Corporate-oppressed farmers seeking living wages.
Posted by: CheLC LaWedgie at August 30, 2013 10:28 AM (6xhLc)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:29 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 30, 2013 10:29 AM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: pat at August 30, 2013 10:29 AM (6pmd9)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:29 AM (/PCJa)
114Problem: That which can only be (and must be) corrected by a Federal program.
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Crisis: That which can only be (and must be) corrected by a Federal program without a lot of that useless debatin.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 30, 2013 10:29 AM (SO2Q8)
CHILD - Any individual under the age of 26, and any person in the military in a war.
ADULT - A person over the age of 12, capable of making their own decisions with regards to sex, contraception, and abortion.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2013 10:30 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 30, 2013 10:30 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: fluffy at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (7y1wy)
Posted by: Sphynx at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (OZmbA)
Common Sense: (Adj) - trust me, no need to go thinking about it.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (r2PLg)
That one could use some more thought and cleaning up but I've got to head to work.
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: buzzion at August 30, 2013 02:30 PM (LI48c)
FIFY.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:31 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: awkward davies at August 30, 2013 10:32 AM (WK8VM)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:32 AM (gXnjx)
Do not interfere with Congress' vacation
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:32 AM (8sCoq)
And here I thought that was the bulls job.
Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at August 30, 2013 10:32 AM (MnSla)
Patterico nails it with a line about TFG's attack being just strong enough not to be mocked:
"RANDOM THOUGHT: I bet if Obama thought he could use the military domestically to avoid being mocked, heÂ’d do that too."
I would NOT put it past him. If he thought he could get away with it, he'd on the phone right now.
Posted by: EC at August 30, 2013 10:32 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 30, 2013 10:33 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:33 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (XdnQT)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: ktnxbai, now with tin foil lace wigs at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (5aT64)
The Greatest Good That Shall Not Be Abridged -- Infanticide by tortuous dismemberment at any time of any pregnancy.
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Just think Kermit Gosnell is not in prison for being a serial killer and the number of human beings he chopped up tallies far higher than the totals of Bundy, Dahmer, and Gacy.
If one thought one might be a serial killer, one ought to go to medical school and become an abortionist, your victims will be brought to you, and you will be paid for killing them.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (fzFF6)
Posted by: Vendette at August 30, 2013 10:34 AM (dw9bg)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:35 AM (gXnjx)
anti-cliche hypothesis.
Cliches have there function--especially in an increasingly balkanized society.
A short phrase that gives everyone access to the same collection of ideas and does it efficiently?
Eh--color me unimpressed by that being the root evil.
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 02:31 PM (r2PLg)
--I used to say that cliche's became cliche's because they had at least some truth to them (like stereotypes). Now I consider them more ob/noxious because they are so often concocted to recruit LIVs, who think themselves HIVs (heh) when they can parrot cliche's like "The New Deal got us out of the Great Depression."
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:35 AM (bufJH)
So someone start this off. Sections on the four pillars of deceit.
Posted by: Typical white person with regular prejudices at August 30, 2013 10:35 AM (qxcKC)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:36 AM (gXnjx)
Good War = War that does not significantly serve American Interests.
Kosovo / Bosnia = Good War.
Iraq War = Bad War.
Bombing Syria = Good War.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 30, 2013 10:36 AM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: wiserbud at August 30, 2013 10:36 AM (WCe8r)
Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:37 AM (XdnQT)
The only way to counter The Narrative constructed by the Left is to come up with one of our own. We could call our narrative 'The Truth', and it would be written on the basis of reason, evidence, fact, and historical precedent, without partisan bias or embellishment. Our ideology and worldview would be shaped by this truthful narrative, not the other way around, with the caveat being that 'Truth' starts with 'T' and 'T' rhymes with 'P' and 'P' stands for pool hall, and you know where that leads, brother.
Sorry, what were we talking about?
Posted by: A Very Highly Paid RNC Consultant, thank you very much at August 30, 2013 10:37 AM (gNlvW)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:37 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 10:37 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:37 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:38 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:38 AM (gXnjx)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:38 AM (xZxMD)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (rXcBX)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (YrqgX)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Vendette at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (dw9bg)
I don't know if I accept this--
anti-cliche hypothesis.
I wouldn't say it's the cliches that are the problem. It's how those cliches are created and promulgated to the general population.
All of the examples we've listed in this thread are examples of such cliches, but they are cliches that are untrue. At the very least they are heavily slanted toward one point of view. That's what makes them dangerous, and what makes them so hard to counteract. When the average person hears the term "pro-life," their immediate first response is to picture someone -- probably middle age, white, dressed in plain clothing -- holding a sign that says "Abortion is murder!" with "Come to jesus!" on the reverse side, shouting at poor, cowering young rape victims as they try to get through the crush of such protesters in front of the local Planned Parenthood.
It's patently untrue. But thanks to pop culture and the MFM, that's what people THINK. And since it's a pre-made image that required no effort on their part to construct, it simply settles into their brain like a brick and mortar wall labeled "TRUTH." Trying to undo that belief is almost impossible without a sledgehammer of rhetoric and cultural significance with which to break it down.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (DrC22)
I don't know about y'all but I'm hearing a war whistle.
""The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own." —President Obama
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 02:37 PM (ELdpj)
--Not the first time Zero co-opted that MLK quote.
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:39 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: CheLC LaWedgie at August 30, 2013 10:40 AM (6xhLc)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:40 AM (xZxMD)
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Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique
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the slightly downward jutting lewdness is remarkable
Posted by: Beto at August 30, 2013 02:28 PM (MhA4j)
My earlier post was performance art and SHALL NOT be mocked.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:40 AM (kXoT0)
ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk 55s
Patriots announce 10 cuts, Tim Tebow not among them http://wp.me/p14QSB-9fYB
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:40 AM (8sCoq)
With all due respect, barry, get bent.-Methos
Posted by: Methos at August 30, 2013 10:40 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: xanderphife at August 30, 2013 10:40 AM (3ePq6)
Posted by: edj[/i] at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (klzyR)
Posted by: dogfish at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (nsOJa)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (Xul2G)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2013 02:39 PM (m2CN7)
Hello?!?!
You *play* to *win* the game!
Posted by: Herm Edwards at August 30, 2013 10:41 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:42 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 30, 2013 10:42 AM (YrqgX)
Posted by: dogfish at August 30, 2013 10:42 AM (nsOJa)
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 10:42 AM (r2PLg)
Not sure it means anything, but Obama's real SS number starts 666-...
Posted by: Methos at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (hO9ad)
160 I don't know if I accept this--
anti-cliche hypothesis.
Cliches have there function--especially in an increasingly balkanized society.
A short phrase that gives everyone access to the same collection of ideas and does it efficiently?
Eh--color me unimpressed by that being the root evil.
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 02:31 PM (r2PLg)
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It's marketing, tasker.
Clichés are the same thing as Marketing Slogans.
The harm comes in...when they are Lies.
Some clichés are based on truth.
And those usually develop over time, on their own.
But the dishonest clichés need repetition, forced on us, to get established.
Such as when the Dems come out with the same 'talking point', on the same day...and repeat it over and over.
Posted by: wheatie at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (Hy+VQ)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 02:37 PM (ELdpj)
--Not the first time Zero co-opted that MLK quote.
Obama has no morals. I'm not saying he's immoral, but amoral. Like most leftists, he believes that if he believes it, it must be right.
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (xZxMD)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:43 AM (XdnQT)
Posted by: imp at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (uERWk)
Cicero (or Ace) - please expand on this with a book, link or examples:
52 ... I've seen attorneys lose good cases because they had no clue about where the facts stood with the jury at the outset of the case and they polarized the jury by their obliviousness. Over the years I've developed a good working catalog of what I can reliably anticipate will be juror preconceptions on law-related topics and I flog them like a rented mule at trial. Whether I personally share them or not. It works like a charm.
Thank you
Posted by: Ponderosa at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (5nur/)
ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk 55s
Patriots announce 10 cuts, Tim Tebow not among them http://wp.me/p14QSB-9fYB
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 02:40 PM (8sCoq)
TIM TEBOW: The most divisive player in NFL history. Not convicted (yet) of any felony. See also PRO-LIFE, HOMOPHOBE
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: holmes at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (gXnjx)
And yes, now that I think about it, one of the things that makes discussions with leftists so deeply unsatisfying, is that you get the feeling that their whole half of the discussion comes from "I pulled it from my word cloud," not "I engaged some brain cells." Some of them would be smart if they actually used their brains. I don't know why they don't want to.
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (bKA83)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:44 AM (ZPrif)
and libs n lefties are often the best students because they can memorize and regurgitate whatever they're supposed to memorize and regurgitate. Add into the mix the lefty teachers and perfessors telling them that they are the best and brightest, and what do you expect? People with more than a skid stain of intellectual modesty or humility?
Posted by: Mallfly at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (bJm7W)
Go ahead and tell the Brits you're a bit of a bender, Barry.
The giggling will mean they like you.
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (uYaYO)
Posted by: Vendette at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (dw9bg)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 02:41 PM
No, he doesn't want to start WWIII, nothing like that. President Obama just wants to show the world that he's not a pussy, which--as someone on here pointed out a few days ago--is something pussies do.
Posted by: A Very Highly Paid RNC Consultant, thank you very much at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (gNlvW)
Posted by: dogfish at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (nsOJa)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 02:41 PM (/PCJa)
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The dems/marxists love chaos. They NEED chaos.
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (i6YPp)
Wasn't going to start, but screw it.
We all know the problem, it needs no further definition.
Concentrate on FIXING it. I can't remember who to attribute the phrase "long march through to institutions " to right now, but no matter.
Long march MUST start at the local, or dogcatcher level.
Forget DC, save the few who are worth retaining, and get involved in your community--school board, town and county supervisor, etc.
This is how it starts. One huge advantage we have is the instantaneous communication available--some thing the progs lacked. An idea in Peoria can reach Albany with a few keystrokes.
If we don't win this segment, the whole cannot be won.
Pick that apart and tell me how wrong I am.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:45 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 30, 2013 10:46 AM (xmcEQ)
Racist: a Caucasian who disagrees with a socialist.
Public education: compulsory attendance at State-worshipful indoctrination centers operated by dues-paying members of the NEA/AFT/AFSCME cartel.
Robert Wright (Three Scientists and Their Gods) quotes some prominent physicist to the effect that "When most people think they're thinking, all they're really doing is rearranging their prejudices".
Homeschool.
Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatrick at August 30, 2013 10:46 AM (UBL96)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 10:46 AM (ELdpj)
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There is a plumber here in Tulsa who has a beautifully lettered sign on his truck that says:
Cunnilingus Plumbing
Guaranteed To Lick Your Problem
I almost drove off the road the first time I saw him drive by.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:47 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:47 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:47 AM (XdnQT)
And the main evidence is that the next door neighbor turned his TV up so he couldn't hear you beating your wife.
Not that he told the cops that, they just inferred it from the noise complaint they got from the next neighbor over.
Posted by: Methos at August 30, 2013 10:47 AM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 02:43 PM (8sCoq)
--Here's a good case in point. That MLK like has rhetorical power when used by a clergyman protesting genuine injustice. Using that line to serve a petty partisan purpose to engage support for a particularly morally dubious war (I am not sure if that FB post was solely related to the MLK 50th anniversary or not) is taking rhetorical and logical shortcuts, which is the point of using cliche's in politics with so many LIVs around.
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:47 AM (bufJH)
Bush - 1. woody branched plant; a woody plant that is smaller than a tree.
2. The cause of all of the problems in the world; past and present.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2013 10:47 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:48 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Obama at August 30, 2013 10:48 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:48 AM (DrC22)
"Pro-life" that's a label--and on that I get your point.
It isn't a cliche.
And we can still choose not to use their language.
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 02:42 PM (r2PLg) p
"Cliche" as in "a term or phrase that brings with it a host of presupposed and preconceived notions." As ace describes in his post, received ideas are those that become part of our subconscious, such taht we don't even realize we have them or that there is any other way to think. Pro-lifers are ALL crazed, wild-eyed, Bible thumping Jesus freaks. That's just how it is... even though it's not.
And their language isn't "pro-life." Their language is "anti-choice."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 30, 2013 10:48 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 02:43 PM (ELdpj)
But the constitution... oh shit, nevermind.
Posted by: real joe at August 30, 2013 10:48 AM (G5Y/L)
Ace,
Beautiful post. The problem is that we have lost our way to do this. It's basic fucking marketing people.
Reagan was a genius at it. What did he use: Humor and mockery.
A liberal was a joke. Period. Their ideas were not to be entertained, they were to be laughed at.
Communism: it was evil, oppressive and, above all, fucking miserable and they couldn't get shit done.
At the end of the 1980s liberals and commies had become a laughingstock.
Venezuela was running out of toilet paper. Where is a prominent Republican coming up with some awesome jokes on that one??? The fucking idiots.
Not only does the GOP need a revamped GOTV operation. They need some dedicated fucking comedians just writing pure mockery on this shit.
The dems have their operation up and running FOR FUCKING YEARS. It's called the media, comedy central, and SNL.
Where are our jokemakers???
Posted by: Prescient11 at August 30, 2013 10:48 AM (tVTLU)
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Chelsea Hrothgar at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (XdnQT)
Holy fucking shit. He *WANTS* to start WWIII.
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I wouldn't mind quite so much if i thought he wanted to win it.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: Larches Sojnnoh at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 30, 2013 10:49 AM (xmcEQ)
...they never use "pro-life" anyway; it's always "anti-choice" or "anti-women."
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 30, 2013 10:50 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:50 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:50 AM (DrC22)
Communism: it was evil, oppressive and, above all, fucking miserable and they couldn't get shit done.
At the end of the 1980s liberals and commies had become a laughingstock.
Venezuela was running out of toilet paper. Where is a prominent Republican coming up with some awesome jokes on that one??? The fucking idiots.
Prescient11
This and this and this
Posted by: Sphynx at August 30, 2013 10:51 AM (OZmbA)
Posted by: EC at August 30, 2013 10:51 AM (GQ8sn)
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Fine with me, my reply from now on..."You gotta fat ass and your mother/kids/sister is ugly."
Posted by: dananjcon at August 30, 2013 10:51 AM (jvd3N)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:51 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:51 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:51 AM (xZxMD)
Posted by: irongrampa at August 30, 2013 02:45 PM (SAMxH)
what about violence? It's immediate, it's satisfying, and some of us aren't getting any younger
This comment intended for entertainment purposes only.
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:52 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:52 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 30, 2013 10:52 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Lauren at August 30, 2013 02:37 PM (ELdpj)
What the FUCK does that even MEAN?!?
Posted by: © Sponge at August 30, 2013 02:46 PM (xmcEQ)
--Originally a MLK line, although I think he was also alluding to someone before him. It means that even as a Christian preacher who there believed in a happy ending for the universe, one can't be a neo-Pelagianist and just do nothing. That's a fine sentiment for a Christian urging individual involvement and action to right society's wrongs, but 0bama is hijacking it to mean the government has to do the "bending."
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:53 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 30, 2013 10:53 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: dogfish at August 30, 2013 10:53 AM (nsOJa)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:53 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: Random letter of the Alphabet, after S at August 30, 2013 10:53 AM (qP3is)
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 10:54 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Dave S. at August 30, 2013 10:54 AM (BfZ1r)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at August 30, 2013 10:55 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:55 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 30, 2013 10:55 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 10:55 AM (i6YPp)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2013 10:55 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: JackT at August 30, 2013 10:56 AM (PrrRo)
Posted by: Mekan at August 30, 2013 10:56 AM (hm8tW)
and... breaking news:
http://tinyurl.com/qeedtgo
but you must be a racist if you link, you bad bad mans.
Posted by: ktnxbai, now with tin foil lace wigs at August 30, 2013 10:56 AM (5aT64)
Posted by: tasker at August 30, 2013 10:56 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: L, elle at August 30, 2013 10:57 AM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: Vendette at August 30, 2013 10:57 AM (dw9bg)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 10:57 AM (i6YPp)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 30, 2013 10:57 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 10:58 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2013 10:58 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Obama at August 30, 2013 10:58 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: L, elle at August 30, 2013 02:57 PM (0PiQ4)
--Was he the troll who kept tell us how awesome the USSR was?
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 10:58 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2013 10:59 AM (xZxMD)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 30, 2013 10:59 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: L, elle at August 30, 2013 02:57 PM (0PiQ4)
Not only here, but at several blogs, including Patterico's. Go there and see the awesome takedown.
Posted by: EC at August 30, 2013 11:00 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: TexasDan at August 30, 2013 11:00 AM (Fa3Hi)
Any other chemical poisoning: OMFG! EVIL CAPITALISM!
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 11:01 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 11:01 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 02:58 PM (bufJH)
**
The food isn't that great but cock is to die for!
Posted by: Edward Snowden at August 30, 2013 11:02 AM (jvd3N)
Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2013 11:02 AM (DrC22)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 11:03 AM (i6YPp)
I'm old enough and seen enough that violence don't scare me none.
Still need to solve this mess peaceably--but if that fails, then look the hell out.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 30, 2013 11:03 AM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Soona at August 30, 2013 11:05 AM (i6YPp)
But you you feckless limp wristed sorry excuse for a human being, I won't even call you a sorry excuse of a male because you have no testicles to speak of. All you have sirrah is your over-inflated sense of self importance. You are far more hat than cattle and there seems no reason to hope that will ever change. What your gutting of the military continues to do under the guise of 'sequestration' is amazingly sickening.
How sickening is it? I was just over on Black Five. And well I did see red. The red of blood. The blood of a valiant man who died for this country in a far off land. And because of your sequestration, this man, who has been MIA for 43 long and agonizing years, will be buried Sept. 28th in Arlington without a military provided missing man formation of aircraft.
And instead of trying to work your corrupt and venal system called DC to get a special dispensation that you wretched piece of flotsam would no doubt enjoy denying, they have rallied and organized their own fly-by. A fly-by that includes a plane like the one Major Sizemore was killed in back in 1969, an A-26 Invader. But it comes at cost and they need people to donate money to pay for fuel.
http://tinyurl.com/msywrwq
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 30, 2013 11:05 AM (aUpYR)
Posted by: West at August 30, 2013 11:06 AM (1Rgee)
Posted by: Hurricane Chelsea at August 30, 2013 11:06 AM (pginn)
Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2013 11:08 AM (bufJH)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 30, 2013 11:09 AM (mvenn)
COMMUNISM: Just Another Economic System ®
CONSTITUTION: Considered some people only 3/5s of a person. See Also: ANTIQUATED and RACIST
IVY LEAGUE: Your Betters
Posted by: grognard at August 30, 2013 11:10 AM (/29Nl)
1 - a people with a long history of persecution and oppression, which is why they overwhelming support Liberal causes;
2 - the people who are oppressing the Palestinians and blocking the Middle East Peace Process and paying off Western Politicians to do their bidding (cf http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=705 or http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/media/internet/news.php?q=1262024557)
Also, Jews are White people according to most non-white racists and non-white people to most white racists. Lord only knows what the Martians would think about us if they ever stopped by for a weekend
Posted by: Mallfly at August 30, 2013 11:15 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Hurricane Chelsea at August 30, 2013 11:16 AM (pginn)
See: Dark Ages. Alternate: The M.E. after the rise of Islam.
Progress is not always inevitable.
Posted by: West at August 30, 2013 11:23 AM (1Rgee)
Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at August 30, 2013 11:28 AM (/tWHq)
Posted by: panzernashorn at August 30, 2013 11:36 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: panzernashorn at August 30, 2013 11:40 AM (MhA4j)
Best thing they could do is go volunteer to make Mexico into Utopia for all of the Mexicans.
Posted by: panzernashorn at August 30, 2013 03:40 PM (MhA4j)
I don't hate Mexicans that much to subject them to that.
Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at August 30, 2013 11:44 AM (/tWHq)
Posted by: Taco Shack at August 30, 2013 11:45 AM (C+qQ0)
Sorry, Ace, but this claim makes about as much sense as a sack of wet mice.
Posted by: Brennan at August 30, 2013 11:51 AM (SmV3Z)
Posted by: Sailfish at August 30, 2013 11:53 AM (CxW3E)
No Emperor ever gets to number 12 on his list. No Emperor ever gets much further than Number 3.</i>
I think you left out what that Received Wisdom is.
Posted by: dicentra at August 30, 2013 11:58 AM (VrEQt)
You can copy most of DD verbatim and pretend it was written in 2013 without missing a beat.
Posted by: dicentra at August 30, 2013 11:59 AM (VrEQt)
Posted by: Rick at August 30, 2013 12:02 PM (Gfgj6)
Posted by: Rick at August 30, 2013 12:04 PM (Gfgj6)
Posted by: BCochran1981
IIRC docs do this for cholera or dysentery. Plenty of clean drinking water til it goes away. So let's treat leftism by swirly.
Posted by: DaveA at August 30, 2013 12:05 PM (DL2i+)
>>.You can copy most of DD verbatim and pretend it was written in 2013 without missing a beat.
it's a fun read. I haven't actually read it; i've just seen various definitions quoted.
It must be free on Kindle-- I'll get it.
Flaubert's similar work was inspired by Bierce's. I read some of it last night. It was pretty funny.
Just some things are kind of funny. Like the French view of the English, circa 1906:
THE ENGLISH: All rich.
That's it, that's the entry. Just "all rich."
There was one for Germans like:
GERMANS: Always precede with "blond." What a splendid military. We might have beaten them but we weren't quite ready.
Posted by: ace at August 30, 2013 12:32 PM (/IWYB)
it makes sense the way I intend it. I was considering Meghan McArdle's writing about the New Class, the Institutional Class, and how they're generally quite establishment/conformist/rules-obeying/risk-avoiding. This is their psychology and their internal intellectual landscape as well.
This will have some benefits (they are good at sucking up received wisdom) and some very big drawbacks (they are not really good at much else).
Posted by: ace at August 30, 2013 12:38 PM (/IWYB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 30, 2013 01:31 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: He Who Controls The Communication Wins The War at August 30, 2013 01:58 PM (nbGZj)
I would also like to point out that a sack of wet mice makes sense to a cat. This, however...
"I think in terms of psychographics, Liberals are better Students than the right. Understand here that I speak of the group, not any individual case. I think Liberals are more educable, and conservatives more resistant to education."
...does not.
Because in my understanding, "resistant to education" means "not at all humble" or "as arrogant as the day is long."
Where you have people who emote rather than ponder, there's not a lot of real learning to be done. They just have to learn the latest incantations, learn to react viscerally to anything that contradicts the paradigm (such as it is), and Be Tribal In All Things.
Conservatives, OTOH, can swap out "Facism is right-wing" for "Hitler was a man of the Left" as soon as you explain it to them. However, we absorbed all the conventional wisdom just as much as the Left did but we are able to ditch it when it's debunked.
Posted by: dicentra at August 30, 2013 02:04 PM (VrEQt)
Posted by: wattyler1381 at August 30, 2013 04:52 PM (F2Vrz)
Posted by: JohnW at August 30, 2013 04:55 PM (aM/gc)
@133: Reading this post, I can't say I disagree with you....and that's precisely why I have grown to so loathe my fellow "Americans" so deeply and passionately. I feel like an expat, a stranger in a strange world who feels absolutely no connection to his supposed countrymen. It's the same feeling I noticed during Hurricane Sandy - seeing something horrible happen to New York and New Jersey affected me in the same way as when earthquakes and mudslides kill lots of people in places like Bangladesh. I have vague sympathy for them, but it doesn't affect me or bother me in any real sense.
THIS!
Posted by: mac at August 31, 2013 12:47 AM (TMssB)
Posted by: Dodd at August 31, 2013 06:43 AM (bKKqX)
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