tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post6805667438484772950..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-41741410367331169812013-01-23T19:03:49.628-05:002013-01-23T19:03:49.628-05:00Liberals are Ass Holes, don't agree with me? ...Liberals are Ass Holes, don't agree with me? Just look at Ducky!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71639396195544741742013-01-23T17:32:22.690-05:002013-01-23T17:32:22.690-05:0021. liberals are perhaps less gungho about militar...21. liberals are perhaps less gungho about military adventures than Bush.<br /><br />22. applies to any zealot.<br /><br />23. Liberals don't think it's stupid to try and understand why crime happens. Might even be helpful.<br /><br />24. see 15<br /><br />25. risible.<br /><br />26. A mass extinction event is not preferable to unemployment: discuss.<br /><br />27. Is it displays of xianity, or the assumption of xianity that some campaigners resist?<br /><br />28. Sure: if you're a conservative, it's probably because you think everything's fine. If you're a liberal, it's probably because you think things need to change.<br /><br />29. True -- it's liberals who insist on certain standards of safety for food, drugs, toys etc. Remember the good old days, when the kids could play for hours with a spike?<br /><br />30. Probably something like this already happens to companies.<br /><br />31. False.<br /><br />32. applies to Americans.<br /><br />33. Bravery is rare whatever your politics. And popular culture's fascination with crime and wrong-doing started soon after the invention of story-telling.<br /><br />34. Avoidance if you can manage it is better than getting into scrapes, even if you're good at fighting. I'm not good at fighting, so I'd just try to lawyer my assailant to death instead.<br /><br />35. Everyone has access to the law.<br /><br />36. A range of attitudes to personal space are represented in every political movement.<br /><br />37. anyone who acts like this is more noticeable. How do you know how many liberals you didn't notice because they were quiet?<br /><br />38. I'm happy with the set of mandatory vaccines in the uk. In america overtreatment is common, and that probably extends to innoculations.<br /><br />39. I know no evidence of this.<br /><br />40. in other words liberals support enforcement of the law?jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-6913489389684773152013-01-23T14:40:35.108-05:002013-01-23T14:40:35.108-05:00erratum - GSMD.erratum - <a href="http://www.themayflowersociety.com/" rel="nofollow">GSMD</a>.Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-64545413576401731592013-01-23T14:39:37.714-05:002013-01-23T14:39:37.714-05:00...and you're right, FT. I don't think th......and you're right, FT. I don't think that ducky's ancestors are listed in the GMSD. They must have waited for much later boat...Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-85853296119790423512013-01-23T14:24:17.441-05:002013-01-23T14:24:17.441-05:00...not until now....not <a href="http://wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/dudgeon-both-high-and-low/" rel="nofollow">until now</a>.Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-50740786686825466542013-01-23T12:54:14.139-05:002013-01-23T12:54:14.139-05:00FT, I like that new term: anti-Semantic.
It does...FT, I like that new term: anti-Semantic. <br /><br />It does get to the real problem with the semantics of politics today, all seemingly slanted leftward.<br /><br /><br /><br />Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76540774128152204912013-01-23T11:37:45.533-05:002013-01-23T11:37:45.533-05:00BTW, just as point of interest, has anyone ever he...BTW, just as point of interest, has anyone ever heard anyone speak of <b>"low dudgeon?"</b> FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-85739402670265210562013-01-23T11:36:13.012-05:002013-01-23T11:36:13.012-05:00"I find ducky's disdain for white trash e...<i>"I find ducky's disdain for white trash extremely telling. He'd defend gangsta' in a minute, but put a teardrop tattoo on a white boy and the duck goes high dudgeon."</i><br /><br />In his case hating "white trash" must be form of "projection," don't you think?FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-50468321946199879662013-01-23T10:23:21.790-05:002013-01-23T10:23:21.790-05:00btw - When are you renouncing money and moving to ...btw - When are you renouncing money and moving to that Catholic Worker monastery again?Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-47313734051469249732013-01-23T10:22:07.359-05:002013-01-23T10:22:07.359-05:00I guess Defender's all hate Peep O'Day boy...I guess Defender's all hate Peep O'Day boys.<br /><br />Klan, meet nalK.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23826477780016681852013-01-23T10:15:19.534-05:002013-01-23T10:15:19.534-05:00For a Modern, self-proclaimed Leveller, you sure h...For a Modern, self-proclaimed Leveller, you sure hate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteboys" rel="nofollow">Whiteboys</a>.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-7770875248686741922013-01-23T10:10:18.816-05:002013-01-23T10:10:18.816-05:00I find ducky's disdain for white trash extreme...I find ducky's disdain for white trash extremely telling. He'd defend gangsta' in a minute, but put a teardrop tattoo on a white boy and the duck goes high dudgeon.<br /><br />Racist, much?Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-69850671565917775212013-01-23T09:23:53.723-05:002013-01-23T09:23:53.723-05:00Oh, Waylon, semantics create so many causes for pe...Oh, Waylon, semantics create so many causes for perplexity and misunderstanding, don't they?<br /><br /><b>Sometimes I wonder if these days haven't caused me to become downright <i>anti-Semantic?</i></b> ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-42700075849449591002013-01-23T08:54:06.601-05:002013-01-23T08:54:06.601-05:00FT, in Canada there are more than two parties and ...FT, in Canada there are more than two parties and they are left of center, including the Progressive Conservatives which, of course, are touted by the media as being right wing and even "extreme right wing" by some of those on the left. The Liberal party is more to the left and then the New Democratic Party which is what I think the so-called progressive left calls itself. To confuse things even more there are regional parties which are popular in areas with strong regional agendas, like Quebec where ethnic fires are stoked similar to the color agenda used by demagogues in your country to inflame passions and divide people ethnic/color lines.Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60625910490565125722013-01-23T08:43:41.038-05:002013-01-23T08:43:41.038-05:00Unless I completely misunderstand the term, Jez, C...Unless I completely misunderstand the term, Jez, <b>Classical Liberalism is the antithesis of arbitrary authoritarian rule</b>.<br /><br />Why "Tyrannism?" (I would insist in the double-n, as in <i>tyranny</i> by the way. ;-)<br /><br />I think most of us are weary of the established terms, partly because they have become so instantaneously polarizing they are now quasi-inflammatory. Also, as I've mentioned any number of times, the shifting use of terms by crypto-Marxists has caused so much confusion -- <i>as it was fully intended to do</i> -- it has rendered those terms terms virtually meaningless.<br /><br />My contention is that <b>in <i>essence</i> there is no appreciable difference between the supposed opposites Fascism and Marxism</b>. <br /><br />They meet back-to-back on a circle. In practice BOTH lead to the same abominable place -- Tyranny, Despotism, Totalitarianism, Subjugation, Exploitation and Victimization of the populace.<br /><br /><b>Tyrannism</b> -- possibly a new umbrella term -- neatly covers all forms of governance that result in a population enslaved by a regime. That leftists would like us to believe their policies work "for the greater good of all," does nothing to obviate their dismal effects. Those supposedly "enlightened," "humanistic" policies still result in enslavement.<br /><br /><b>I would add that <i>hierarchy</i> of one kind or another remains a necessary evil</b>. <br /><br />Libertarianism -- as conceived and practiced by our Founders -- was intended to be the least hierarchical, least arbitrary, least dictatorial form of governance ever. It never worked perfectly, of course, and was doubtless fraught with inconsistencies, but it worked astonishingly well until Abraham Lincoln -- through sheer force of will amid a tragic confluence of events -- made himself our Dictator. <br /><br />"Progressivism" has continually sought to undermine and defeat our Constitution since it's inception.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-17490957404230729212013-01-23T04:31:18.989-05:002013-01-23T04:31:18.989-05:00How does your neologism 'tyranism' differ ...How does your neologism 'tyranism' differ from established terms such as 'totalitarianism' or 'authoritarianism?' And does it include classical liberalism?jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60561920759750994222013-01-23T04:27:57.875-05:002013-01-23T04:27:57.875-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-31203074791349283862013-01-22T22:23:34.608-05:002013-01-22T22:23:34.608-05:00Sticks and stones, Canardo.
STICKS and STONES!
A...Sticks and stones, Canardo.<br /><br />STICKS and STONES!<br /><br />And wasn't it you who told me, "Never let your enemies define you? }<br /><br />;-)>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-83657795732522375742013-01-22T21:26:58.127-05:002013-01-22T21:26:58.127-05:00FT, surely you care whether you're called a Na...FT, surely you care whether you're called a Nazi, Fascist, conservative, white supremacist, Randoid, fundamentalist, dominionist, paleoconservative, crunchy conservative or just a refugee from a juggalo convention (look it up).Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-58606097905202928922013-01-22T21:08:00.351-05:002013-01-22T21:08:00.351-05:00Hi, Waylon,
Thanks for your thoughts. It's fu...Hi, Waylon,<br /><br />Thanks for your thoughts. It's funny, because I had Ducky in mind far more than I did you, when I posted those last remarks aimed at academic hair-splitting.<br /><br />I don't know much about popular perceptions in Canada, but here in the US the term "liberal" was usurped by the early progressives, because their rhetoric was not going down too well, so they decided to switch and call themselves "liberals." <br /><br />The term stuck for a long time here n the states, until a large number of folks caught in to the rottenness of the game "liberals" have been playing. so guess what?<br /><br />They're back to calling themselves "progressives" once again. <br /><br />I don't give a rat's rump wHAT they CALL themselves. A skunk by any other name would still stunk out loud.<br /><br />At any rate they're all "Marxists" at heart -- at least as far as I'm concerned.<br /><br />Classical Liberals are few and far between these days. Ron Paul may be the only one among the prominent politicians who might qualify.<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-40972351588137403402013-01-22T20:35:14.734-05:002013-01-22T20:35:14.734-05:00FT, I don't consider myself to be "tinker...FT, I don't consider myself to be "tinkering with the artificial constructs of academicians" but simply pointing out that seeking a catch-all label for the most vile of theories to enslave mankind and settling on the term "liberal" to represent all these ideological constructs seems odd to me, since it seizes a comparatively decent idea in history that actually did advance the rights of mankind while delimiting the power of the tyrannical minority over the majority of humans on the planet.<br /><br />All I'm saying something rotten in the state of America and this label seems to me to be one of the items of reeking stench, especially when all you have to do is tune into FoxNews and hear the term sneered at you on a daily basis.<br /><br />It's probably to enhance a better understanding and avoid misunderstandings to use precise meanings and I see nothing wrong with the specific labels of synonymous usage of socialist, communist, Marxist, progressive and Fabian as meaning the advancement of the tyrannical state and subjecting of the enslaved majority to used, abused and disposed of by the minority of the elect. Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-2036858369223520492013-01-22T19:08:11.184-05:002013-01-22T19:08:11.184-05:00PLEASE try to understand that I am not here to qui...<b>PLEASE try to understand that I am not here to quibble over the fine points that <i>supposedly</i> separate Marxists, Bolshviks, Stalinists, Socialists, Fabians, Progressives, Liberals, Collectivists, Anarchists, Feminists, Laborites, Civil Rights Activists and "Liberation" movements.</b><br /><br />You may tinker with the artificial constructs academicians have devised to make themselves feel important all you like, but the POINT is that <b>ALL these various movements and isms are branches limbs and twigs from the SAME tree</b>.<br /><br />You have to call it something, because listing all those terms over and over is too cumbersome, so "liberalism" will just have to do. Besides the "list" that inspired this discussion did not originate with me, and <i>it</i> aimed it's wrath, scorn and indignation at "liberals."<br /><br /><b>A while back I coined the term TYRANNISM to cover it all -- including "Theocracy" by the way -- but the term never caught on, so "LIBERALISM" it must be.</b><br /><br />Of course Emma Goldman was in no way a "Classical Liberal," but very few people have the vaguest idea of what that means anymore, BECAUSE of the deliberately confounding, disorienting, obfuscatory activities of a large collection of firebrands who sought to "level the playing field," achieve "Social Justice" and transform reality into Utopia by undermining the foundations of Civilization by unseating the Rich, destroying Religion -- particularly Christianity --, destroying the Family, reinterpreting Western History in the most pejorative light, redefining Right and Wrong, and perverting our sense of Morality.<br /><br /><b>The unifying factor among all these various "movements" and "isms" is that each was founded, developed and implemented by born TROUBLEMAKERS or misguided, hopelessly naive DO-GOODERS.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-64984846480373701122013-01-22T18:54:45.971-05:002013-01-22T18:54:45.971-05:00Get with the program, duckman.Get <a href="http://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2013/01/death-by-water.html?m=0" rel="nofollow">with the program</a>, duckman.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-68533894445848742742013-01-22T17:53:37.895-05:002013-01-22T17:53:37.895-05:00...every man a low paid corporate Prole with a gua......every man a low paid corporate Prole with a guaranteed "window seat" on the government directed economy that produces Lada's nobody wants or buys.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-49556059414651623272013-01-22T17:48:10.189-05:002013-01-22T17:48:10.189-05:00We're talking Liberalism 5.0. The New Left...We're talking Liberalism 5.0. The New Left's ultimate surrender to corporatism and crony capital.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.com