Why are technical message boards overwhelmingly liberal?

[shira]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: shira
[I am shocked. Why is it you become invisible in most threads not having to do with Iraq?

I don't become invisible. It may be that when you read some of my more liberal opinions in here that you don't even realize it's TLC making the statement.

Plus, I pick and choose my battles. Not to mention that many threads are damned to perdition from the git-go.

That's a circular response. It's basically saying "I avoid non-Iraq-related threads because I choose to participate in Iraq-related threads."

The question is, WHY? Why no vociferous contributions to abortion-related threads? Why no vociferous contributions to gay-rights-related threads? To Evolution-related threads?

If the quality of the threads is a consideration, then I'd have thought you'd avoid Iraq-related threads completely, as they're generally among the worst.

Let's put this another way: What's so special about Iraq? I consider Iraq to be essentially irrelevant to U.S. security. It was and continues to be a huge waste of everything. My characterization of the Iraq was and is: We destabilized a large Middle-Eastern country for no valid reason, attracted an international-terrorist presence that wasn't there to begin with, have now reduced that international-terrorist presence to lower levels (but still above the pre-Iraq baseline), and are left with a country that's far from being stable and drains major U.S. resources at a time we can ill-afford it. Not to mention the consequent loss of U.S. prestige and moral standing (how can we, for example, tell Russia to get out of Georgia when we still occupy Iraq?)

I know, I know. You argue that Iraq is a big message to other would-be Saddams to behave themselves or face the consequences. But given the current U.S. attitude toward Iraq (and it's pretty darned negative), EVERYONE (including those would-be Saddams) knows the U.S. isn't about to "kick butt" in another country any time soon. Absent some specific new terrorist act against the U.S., carried out by a known group at a specific location, there's no way the American public is going to back another war - we've learned our lesson. If I were a would-be Saddam, I'd feel pretty confident.

So why would you be so committed to arguing in threads that deal with such a dead-end, depressing topic? And why the conspicuous absence from threads on all sorts of other topics where you could show those liberal tendencies of yours?

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: shira

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: shira
[I am shocked. Why is it you become invisible in most threads not having to do with Iraq?

I don't become invisible. It may be that when you read some of my more liberal opinions in here that you don't even realize it's TLC making the statement.

Plus, I pick and choose my battles. Not to mention that many threads are damned to perdition from the git-go.

That's a circular response. It's basically saying "I avoid non-Iraq-related threads because I choose to participate in Iraq-related threads."

The question is, WHY? Why no vociferous contributions to abortion-related threads? Why no vociferous contributions to gay-rights-related threads? To Evolution-related threads?

If the quality of the threads is a consideration, then I'd have thought you'd avoid Iraq-related threads completely, as they're generally among the worst.

Let's put this another way: What's so special about Iraq? I consider Iraq to be essentially irrelevant to U.S. security. It was and continues to be a huge waste of everything. My characterization of the Iraq was and is: We destabilized a large Middle-Eastern country for no valid reason, attracted an international-terrorist presence that wasn't there to begin with, have now reduced that international-terrorist presence to lower levels (but still above the pre-Iraq baseline), and are left with a country that's far from being stable and drains major U.S. resources at a time we can ill-afford it. Not to mention the consequent loss of U.S. prestige and moral standing (how can we, for example, tell Russia to get out of Georgia when we still occupy Iraq?)

I know, I know. You argue that Iraq is a big message to other would-be Saddams to behave themselves or face the consequences. But given the current U.S. attitude toward Iraq (and it's pretty darned negative), EVERYONE (including those would-be Saddams) knows the U.S. isn't about to "kick butt" in another country any time soon. Absent some specific new terrorist act against the U.S., carried out by a known group at a specific location, there's no way the American public is going to back another war - we've learned our lesson. If I were a would-be Saddam, I'd feel pretty confident.

So why would you be so committed to arguing in threads that deal with such a dead-end, depressing topic? And why the conspicuous absence from threads on all sorts of other topics where you could show those liberal tendencies of yours?

Abortion? Evolution? Gay-rights? I've said my piece on all of those subjects in here. I'm nearly 50 years old. I've argued those subjects for years, long before there was ATP&N, long before there was this thing called the internet, and probably long before you were even born. I have no desire to reread and rehash the same old rhetorical crap people have been spouting for decades now.

Iraq is a current issue. That's why I argue it. So don't assume you know why I argue about Iraq because clearly you don't have the first clue.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: Genx87
I think if you look at most boards they break down the same way. Liberals tend to have a bigger mouth and are happy to use it. Rarely do you see conservatives out pissing and moaning about things like a liberal. We tend to piss and moan in private and damn the world!

Watch the conventions. RNC will be protested like there is no tomorrow. I dont know about the DNC, but I suspect if there are any protesters they will be ultra lefties pissed off at how centrist Obama has become.

Conservatives are content with the way things are. Liberals are always progressive. This is the drive of mankind. It's especially true in America, where we like to reinvent ourselves and see failure as an opportunity.

TBH, I like being around liberals. They're far more interesting and fun.

Haha, judging by this forum seeing failure as an opportunity is BS. The only opportunity the liberals see is another reason to call America a failure and how everything we do is wrong and that we should be more like Europe.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: Genx87
I think if you look at most boards they break down the same way. Liberals tend to have a bigger mouth and are happy to use it. Rarely do you see conservatives out pissing and moaning about things like a liberal. We tend to piss and moan in private and damn the world!

Watch the conventions. RNC will be protested like there is no tomorrow. I dont know about the DNC, but I suspect if there are any protesters they will be ultra lefties pissed off at how centrist Obama has become.

Conservatives are content with the way things are. Liberals are always progressive. This is the drive of mankind. It's especially true in America, where we like to reinvent ourselves and see failure as an opportunity.

TBH, I like being around liberals. They're far more interesting and fun.

Haha, judging by this forum seeing failure as an opportunity is BS. The only opportunity the liberals see is another reason to call America a failure and how everything we do is wrong and that we should be more like Europe.

Paranoid much? Or just have a puny ego?

Liberals don't claim that America is a failure or that everything we do is wrong, they just believe that everything can be improved.

Which, of course, is painfully obvious. The patent office is still open. The 'good old days' sucked.

Or think of it like the old business mantra, "If you're not moving forward, you're falling behind." Meaning that the competition doesn't stop progressing just because you do.
That is, from the liberal perspective, how conservatives are fscking America.

And it's pretty much undeniable unless one spins it in that nasty litter bitter way you just did here.
Now, you don't have to agree with what constitutes progress (God knows I don't), but there's no excuse for standing in the way of it.

 

[JSt0rm]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I'm nearly 50 years old.

ahh see this guy is a baby boomer. no wonder his views are all fucked up. The baby boomers have rocked this country from the first day they were shat out of their mothers. It's time for them to move aside and let more responsible thinking people take over.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: JSt0rm01

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I'm nearly 50 years old.

ahh see this guy is a baby boomer. no wonder his views are all fucked up. The baby boomers have rocked this country from the first day they were shat out of their mothers. It's time for them to move aside and let more responsible thinking people take over.

Heh. When I was a snot-nosed punk like yourself I felt the same way about 50 year-olds too. When you turn 50 some snot-nosed punk will feel the same way about you. Then maybe you'll finally see the way of things.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan
Let me see if I've got this straight...

Liberals are younger, smarter, more logical, less afraid of thinking, more educated, progressive, reinvent themselves and see failure as an opportunity, idealists, nobel, etc.

Conservatives are older, stupid, less logical, afraid of thinking, less educated, content with the way things are, too busy listening to AM radio, tend to have a persecution complex, think everyone else is stupid and greedy and won't shut up about it, whiners, rarely bother to formulate arguments or counter-arguments, post a lot of really stupid things, lack a fundamental willingness for critical thinking, basically assholes about their views, 'know' they are right, accuse others of being clearly stupid and a lesser person than them for not agreeing with them, bigots, etc.

I think this collage of comments from the various posts above clearly answer the OP's question.

a large number of muslim terrorists have been engineers and such "educated technical" people. never mind the obvious unabomber. educated in certain areas is not really related to ability to think politically. more often enough they are just easily led sheep of a different kind.