A Campaign To Silence Conservative Speech

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boomerang

Lifer
Jun 19, 2000
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Don't look here, look over there! Right where my finger's always pointing. The hate from the left hurled towards the right is confusing. I've never seen more nice folks turn into raving lunatics filled with hate for anything conservative than I have when discussing where the country is at with liberals. Basically it comes down to "It's all conservatives fault, they have to be cast out." The hate is tangible, I don't get this from conservatives as much even though conservatives are a bit more angry in general at things IME.
In the Joan Rivers thread we've got a poster whose only contribution was something along the lines of 'good, one more Republican dead'. Where is that level of hate taught?
 

Greenman

Lifer
Oct 15, 1999
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Rage and insults and feigned indifference will be two ways the CBD will respond to news pointing out one of the effects of having one.

Any response that you don't like will be a symptom of the condition. That's the fun part of making up a defect, you get to decide what constitutes the symptoms, and change the definition as you go along. The closest analog out in real the real world would be "cooties".
I find it more than a little amusing that apparently grown men are pointing fingers and shouting "COOTIES" when they read something they disagree with, the associated mental image makes me smile.
Of course, it's the dreaded cooties that make me think this way. I see the world through cootie colored glasses.
 

Orignal Earl

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Oct 27, 2005
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Newell, you need to get out into the sunshine. Step in some dog shit. Elude a mugger. Find some self-medication in a back alley. Your obsession with conservatives is symptomatic of a brain defect. What is it you are crying out about? What are you really trying to tell us you poor tortured soul?

Progressives eh
 

Londo_Jowo

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Jan 31, 2010
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Liberals are less likely to have their thinking colored by feeling, not impervious to it. Try to understand that it takes a lot to be patient and understanding with conservatives whey they have such political success and that success is destroying the nation. Just imagine you might react if some clown you were giving a ride to tried to grab the steering wheel and drive you off a cliff. You are asking for calm while you're killing us here. But rage and anger are meaningless, irrational feelings given the facts, which are that you can't help being what you are and no rage or anger is therefore rationally justified.

There is no escape for the logical liberal. He has only his cross to carry. The more conscious people always have to carry the weight of understanding. For you is the bliss of ignorance.

Give me a break many liberals can't seperate emotion from logic. Where do you think the term bleeding heart liberal came to be?
 

Newell Steamer

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Jan 27, 2014
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Pure comedy gold coming from the person that starts so many pfffft pfffft pffffg blarg tbis or that threads.

You are just mad for not liking the image you see in the mirror I am holding up.

I am not just typing in a bunch of words - I am providing real world examples of defective alarmists and sensationalists. Take it up with the subjects of the story, not the person pointing it out.
 

werepossum

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Jul 10, 2006
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Don't look here, look over there! Right where my finger's always pointing.

The hate from the left hurled towards the right is confusing. I've never seen more nice folks turn into raving lunatics filled with hate for anything conservative than I have when discussing where the country is at with liberals. Basically it comes down to "It's all conservatives fault, they have to be cast out." The hate is tangible, I don't get this from conservatives as much even though conservatives are a bit more angry in general at things IME.

"Oh look look a squirrel!" mentality of most Americans does fit nicely with this playbook. Always nice distractions for both sides.

But here with OP as well as in congress, the shit that parks in corners of both sides of our political aisle smells the same not because it's different in nature. It's the protection that each side affords that excrement that is the real problem, one that can be fixed. The shit will always look to splat on something especially if the area is not only not fenced off from turdage, but rather it invites the turdage. Shouldn't the folks who can't think be cast out from both sides?, rather than the most obnoxious non thinkers being granted asylum as long as they wear a certain color?
Well said, if a tad Martin Lutherish. lol
 

Matt1970

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Mar 19, 2007
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In the Joan Rivers thread we've got a poster whose only contribution was something along the lines of 'good, one more Republican dead'. Where is that level of hate taught?

I just saw that. In his mind the only good Republican is a dead Republican.
 

dank69

Lifer
Oct 6, 2009
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Give me a break many liberals can't seperate emotion from logic. Where do you think the term bleeding heart liberal came to be?
From the farthest left liberals. Of course, most conservatives apply that term to all liberals.
 

Moonbeam

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Nov 24, 1999
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Any response that you don't like will be a symptom of the condition. That's the fun part of making up a defect, you get to decide what constitutes the symptoms, and change the definition as you go along. The closest analog out in real the real world would be "cooties".
I find it more than a little amusing that apparently grown men are pointing fingers and shouting "COOTIES" when they read something they disagree with, the associated mental image makes me smile.
Of course, it's the dreaded cooties that make me think this way. I see the world through cootie colored glasses.

But you fail to account for the fact that my viewpoint has been scientifically docomented.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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American Conservatives would be taken more seriously if they werent being represented by Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

Shoot them, hide the bodies, and move forward.
 

rudder

Lifer
Nov 9, 2000
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Rage and insults and feigned indifference will be two ways the CBD will respond to news pointing out one of the effects of having one.

They are looking in a mirror and do not like what they see,.. so they lash out.

The ugliness is not the mirror itself, but, the image. And, instead of acknowledging they are wrong, they place the 'fault' onto the mirror itself.

The mirror isn't making alarmists and sensationalist ugly - alarmists and sensationalists make alarmists and sensationalist ugly.

Eventually (over the course of a few centuries), society (a quite organic, versatile and adaptive being) will push these false flag waving defects out. There is no place in society or people who constantly cry wolf.

We never see you two post at the same time. What is up with that? Especially with all the mirror talk. Usually with multiple personalities there is some sort of conflict... but not in this case. Very interesting.
 

Newell Steamer

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Jan 27, 2014
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We never see you two post at the same time. What is up with that? Especially with all the mirror talk. Usually with multiple personalities there is some sort of conflict... but not in this case. Very interesting.

Don't like what one person says; he is crazy.

Don't like that two people are saying the similar thing; it's the same person pretending to be two different people.

Hey, Inspector - did you ever manage to catch the Pink Panther??
 

kage69

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
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Why would liberals want to suppress conservative speech? That would put a real dent in the exposure of feet going into mouths and heads being lodged in rectums - behavior that liberals count on to make their people and ideas sound better.

Yeah, most popular "news" channel by viewers plus complete domination of talk radio, clearly the victim complex is warranted this time right? Lol
 

Jhhnn

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Nov 11, 1999
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It's a hatchet job in the Rev Moon's rag, and not a very good one.

The whole thing is about conservative funders' desires to buy free speech (pay for political campaigns) while remaining anonymous. That's the fundamental issue.

They can, at present, pay lots of 501(c)4 tea party groups to read from their script while remaining anonymous. OTOH, they can't fund politicians' campaigns anonymously, and politicians can't legally coordinate with 501(c)4 groups. That last part is what they're trying to change while claiming victimhood. That's what John Doe 2 is about.

Philosophically, The people either have the right to know where the money in politics comes from or they don't. Repubs say they don't & are doing their damndest to have it that way.

Which means they're persecuted for their beliefs, obviously.