If Music Could Talk

Dr. Medulla wrote:

BostonBeaneater wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:The Haight in '67 didn't have as many weirdos as the GOP does in 2016.

Nazis, White Nationalists, Cult members, swindlers, slanderers, there is a seat at the table for all! *


*except for blacks, jews, and queers.

You missed perverts. Lots and lots of perverts.

Oh yeah. Gotta have perverts.

Wolter wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:

BostonBeaneater wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:The Haight in '67 didn't have as many weirdos as the GOP does in 2016.

Nazis, White Nationalists, Cult members, swindlers, slanderers, there is a seat at the table for all! *


*except for blacks, jews, and queers.

You missed perverts. Lots and lots of perverts.

Oh yeah. Gotta have perverts.

They belong to all parties:

BostonBeaneater wrote:

Wolter wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:

BostonBeaneater wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:The Haight in '67 didn't have as many weirdos as the GOP does in 2016.

Nazis, White Nationalists, Cult members, swindlers, slanderers, there is a seat at the table for all! *


*except for blacks, jews, and queers.

You missed perverts. Lots and lots of perverts.

Oh yeah. Gotta have perverts.

They belong to all parties:

Democrats generally have boring perverts. Bill Clinton might like a cigar that's been in Monica's vag, but Newt Gingrich probably like's them up a goat's. It's that extra English that they put on it.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/ ... el-goldman

He's not wrong about conservatism and the Republican party—tho naive in thinking that the essence of the party since Nixon was white resentment—but curious that he doesn't see the Democrats as being a repository of the kind of conservatism that he's looking for. There's this kneejerk assumption that the Democrats are FDR, LBJ, and McGovern.

Dr. Medulla wrote:http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/ ... el-goldman

He's not wrong about conservatism and the Republican party—tho naive in thinking that the essence of the party since Nixon was white resentment—but curious that he doesn't see the Democrats as being a repository of the kind of conservatism that he's looking for. There's this kneejerk assumption that the Democrats are FDR, LBJ, and McGovern.

Yeah, I liked that article as far as it goes, but it's hard not to read his description of a future conservative party and not conclude the Dems already got there.

tepista wrote:

Brooose is #sowoke.

Rat Patrol wrote:

tepista wrote:

Brooose is #sowoke.

Not actually him, I believe.

Silent Majority wrote: Not actually him, I believe.

A cheap Springsteen knockoff? The nerve! He sings "Born to Jog" and "Visually Impaired by the Light" and "Tenth Avenue Cold Front"

tepista wrote:

Silent Majority wrote: Not actually him, I believe.

A cheap Springsteen knockoff? The nerve! He sings "Born to Jog" and "Visually Impaired by the Light" and "Tenth Avenue Cold Front"

"I'm slightly warm."

Silent Majority wrote:

Rat Patrol wrote:

tepista wrote:

Brooose is #sowoke.

Not actually him, I believe.

Brooose and his doppelganger are #sowoke.

Maybe, says the right, we were too quick to judge the Communists so harshly …

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Maybe, says the right, we were too quick to judge the Communists so harshly …

I assumed that post was a joke. I didn't realize she is a conservative writer. Oof.

matedog wrote:

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Maybe, says the right, we were too quick to judge the Communists so harshly …

I assumed that post was a joke. I didn't realize she is a conservative writer. Oof.

So many self-described conservatives are so oblivious to the contradictions in their principles (and I use that term very charitably) because part of their schtick is overt hostility to any kind of intellectual rigour. Their beliefs are whatever they want at the moment, regardless of the greater significance underlying those desires. So, yeah, they'll seize upon tenets of Communism, Nazism, monarchism, libertarianism, and theocracy without any reflection on how these things might be problematic. You can't really argue with someone like that because it is, fundamentally, the worldview of an adolescent—I want what I want right now and I'll do anything I can to get it. No surprise that any serious conservative intellectuals no longer have a voice.

Dr. Medulla wrote:

Maybe, says the right, we were too quick to judge the Communists so harshly …

"Mr. Gorbachev...keep up that wall!"