Woggle Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 You people seriously have a skewed view of what a liberal is.
D-Lish Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 All liberals love sushi. Even if they're vegetarians. mm, yeah- hence the sarcasm- thought prefacing it with "Oprah" would have been the dead giveaway dear.
SoulSearch_CO Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 All liberals love sushi. Even if they're vegetarians. This is the ONLY thing in this entire thread I came across that applied to the liberal I dated. But then - he was an attorney, so maybe that's where he got poisoned. He was pretty damn near normal.
Awesome Username Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 This is the ONLY thing in this entire thread I came across that applied to the liberal I dated. But then - he was an attorney, so maybe that's where he got poisoned. He was pretty damn near normal. Perception score!! Yeah, I usually avoid the political discussions because people get angry REAL FAST, and 99 percent of the time they're not going to change their mind about their views so it's wasted breath anyway.
unstuck Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 The modern "liberal" man has been told to be sensitive and in touch with his feminine side and can show his emotions. He has been completely emasculated, which is not very attractive to women no matter how much women SAY that is what they want in a man.
SoulSearch_CO Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 Perception score!! It's actually pretty funny just how MUCH the guy loves sushi. For Halloween, he and one of his kids went as pieces of sushi, another kid was a sushi chef and his daughter was a "sushi princess." LMFAO Weirdos.
Throne Of Lies Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 My liberal and conservative friends have traveled an equal amount. So I don't buy into the myth that liberals are somehow more worldly than conservatives. I find that the instances which they travel under are different though-- the conservatives traveled for military obligations, jobs, or mission service, while the liberals traveled for vacation or schooling. So even though both groups have traveled, they came away with very different experiences. Generally killing people or trying to stop them from killing each other gives one a less rosy view of other cultures than being indoctrinated by them or paying them to accommodate you. I think that conservatives as a group are less conflicted than liberals. There is no expression 'conservative guilt' for example. The liberal intelligencia often makes this out to be an expression of their simpleton nature, but I think it is just a healthier outlook on life. Conservatives tend to have a less abstract concept of fairness, and greater tendencies towards rationalism and self-reliance. Liberals are only more recently represented in the artistic community to a greater degree than conservatives, and mostly due to the fact that the fragile egos of the liberal artistic elite cannot tolerate any group that is unlike them. In literary circles, hollywood, and popular music, conservatism is a dangerous handicap. A look into the past shows many of the greatest artists were deeply conservative, especially in the language arts.
burning 4 revenge Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 I can think of Dotoevsky, Kipling and perhaps Ezra Pound Not too many though Like who else?
Awesome Username Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 Liberals are only more recently represented in the artistic community to a greater degree than conservatives, and mostly due to the fact that the fragile egos of the liberal artistic elite cannot tolerate any group that is unlike them. In literary circles, hollywood, and popular music, conservatism is a dangerous handicap. A look into the past shows many of the greatest artists were deeply conservative, especially in the language arts. Nail on head, right there.
knaveman Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 Hey, thanks for the laughs. This thread is great! Keep up the good work.
Woggle Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 I consider myself a liberal though I don't blindly tow the line and I am nothing like the sterotype. I love a good steak plus I can't stand radical feminists. I also am a supporter of the 2nd amendment but on the other hand I think some mild socialism is not a bad thing and I am fully supportive of gay rights. My gay uncle is the only adult that ever seemed to care when I was young and will forever be grateful for that. As for being tough I challenge any of these macho conservative rednecks to live the life I was living on the streets and survive.
Throne Of Lies Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 LoL- 'street smarts'. What a myth. I've passed out on a sidewalk in freaking Co-Op City wearing pearl snaps, cowboy boots, skinny jeans, and a 400 dollar belt buckle and didn't have a finger laid on me. I'm about 130 pounds and fair skinned Native American. I've nailed an Ecuadoran doctor in the bathroom of a Bronx unemployment office and made blatant passes at groups of tough girl cholas up by 142nd street. 'Tough guys' always think their street smarts matter for something- but they don't realize that pretty much every city in America is about as dangerous as day-old pizza. The only time I've ever been actually in danger in a city was twice in Juarez, and once in Sydney during the race riots back in 05. And I freely admit I don't have half the get stuff done know-how that nearly any redneck I'm acquainted with does. BTW I'm think of Tennyson, Keats, Gower, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, James, and London. Someone will say 'OMG but they were for civil right, lol!' and not realize that civil rights was a conservative position long before it was a liberal one.
TheLoneSock Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 Isn't there a huge chance that a liberal boyfriend is going to turn out gay? Don't liberal guys cry a lot and have weird clingy relationships with their mothers? Lol you asked this question in a forum full of liberals, conservatives are the minority here. I guess you chose the right place to ask it, but don't be surprised if you get a bunch of them riled up and spitting venom in your direction. Nearly all guys love their mama though. I'm not sure about the gay thing, or the crying thing, but yes in my experience liberal guys have been pretty feminine, I meet them all the time in college (where conservatives are the minority there as well).
burning 4 revenge Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 BTW I'm think of Tennyson, Keats, Gower, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, James, and London. Someone will say 'OMG but they were for civil right, lol!' and not realize that civil rights was a conservative position long before it was a liberal one. You may well be right with the exception of Hemmingway. He was uber-masculine to the point of nausea, but I'm not sure I'd classify him as politically conserative He seemed quite happy fighting Spanish fascists and even buddied up to Castro at first in his Cuban years I think of him more as a liberal pragmatist like Orwell Steinbeck is also questionable as Im pretty sure the Grapes of Wrath was a pretty solid endorsement of something along the lines of the New Deal Now both Hemingway and Steinbeck may have been socially conservative, but most people were in that day in age. I would be no means call them Republicans
Trimmer Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 As serious as a heart beat! I think "Serious as a heart attack..." was the phrase you're looking for. Isn't there a huge chance that a liberal boyfriend is going to turn out gay? Don't liberal guys cry a lot and have weird clingy relationships with their mothers? Maybe so, but there's also a 62.3% better chance that they'll have a bidet in their bathroom, so on the balance, it may be worth it to you...
Throne Of Lies Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 I'm thinking more East of Eden than grapes of wrath. And in Grapes, the idea of some government handout would have been inimical to them- it would have destroyed their dignity as people, and the struggle to retain that dignity is the entire purpose of the novel. I'm Hella conservative and I would have fought against the facists. I have this general rule of not being aligned w/ swastikas- Fighting alongside commies to kill Nazis isn't an indictment on your conservatism. By that logic, the entire US military 1941-1945 would have been liberal. Hemingway was obsessed w/ individual freedoms and a life free from interference by any external source. I don't think that would align him with the current, hyperinvasive Democratic party of the United States.
burning 4 revenge Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 I'm thinking more East of Eden than grapes of wrath. And in Grapes, the idea of some government handout would have been inimical to them- it would have destroyed their dignity as people, and the struggle to retain that dignity is the entire purpose of the novel. I'm Hella conservative and I would have fought against the facists. I have this general rule of not being aligned w/ swastikas- Fighting alongside commies to kill Nazis isn't an indictment on your conservatism. By that logic, the entire US military 1941-1945 would have been liberal. Hemingway was obsessed w/ individual freedoms and a life free from interference by any external source. I don't think that would align him with the current, hyperinvasive Democratic party of the United States. Well Hemingway fought the Nazis too, but I didnt mention them because I dont consider them to be conservatives. In fact I consider them radicals and anyone with a heart would be opposed to such things But Franco was a conservative in the classic sense and many of the Republican forces opposing him were socialists. Thats not a justification of either side, but its a fact that the Spanish socialists were a great cause celebe' for American and European liberals As far as the Grapes of Wrath are concerned Im not sure Id think of the New Deal as handouts. Some of it maybe, but much of it was meant to put America back to work by developing our infrastructure and thereby stimulating the economy. And in many cases the hand outs that were given were necessary...if there is no work is it particularly ethical to let those without work starve? I did find some stuff that said Hemingway would be considered right of center today though...I guess its all in the context of what is written and who reads it.
Throne Of Lies Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 That is what I am talking about, the Nazi task force assigned to shore up the Spanish fascists. The tuetogen or gothic force or something, I forget the name, where Rommel and Gallad and a lot of the other famous Nazis cut their teeth. Fighting Nazis or the forces closely allied w/ them is no demonstration of liberal ideology. The New Deal was definitely not a handout in the sense that our current welfare and social engineering programs are. Still, it was fundamentally a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor and more significantly, from the young to the old, the unborn to the living. Knowing that the cost of their recovery was contingent upon cheating unborn generations wouldn't have gone over too well, I think
lostinthesupermarket Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 (edited) Isn't there a huge chance that a liberal boyfriend is going to turn out gay? Don't liberal guys cry a lot and have weird clingy relationships with their mothers? 1st question: No, I don't think so. A liberal would be more likely to come out as gay and live openly, a conservative would be more likely to use a woman as a beard to disguise his actual sexuality b/c he would want to conform to a traditional and image and life (marriage/kids), would be more likely to have a lot of guilt about being gay, and would be more likely to lose friends by coming out. I once dated someone who was confused about his sexuality, but he didn't really have any interest in politics. Maybe if he'd decided his political orientation, then his sexual orientation would have become clear to him too? 2nd question: Sometimes. Edited December 13, 2009 by lostinthesupermarket
Author Starring_Emma Posted December 13, 2009 Author Posted December 13, 2009 Progressives is where it's at anyway. Living on welfare and watching Oprah all day while stoned isn't progressive. Getting a job and not murdering unborn children is progressive.
Author Starring_Emma Posted December 13, 2009 Author Posted December 13, 2009 Hey, thanks for the laughs. This thread is great! Keep up the good work. Thanks! ...and remember kids, always make the "RIGHT" choice!
tkgirl Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 Not any less of a chance that all conservatives have tiny penises, which is why they're pro gun, like to make lots of money to impress people they couldn't normally impress, and have secret extra marital gay sex affairs with latino men at the airport bathroom, despite taking a pro family stance in politics. love it!
calizaggy Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 I do picture lefties as having the "poor me" complex much more often. Or "It isn't fair".. "i am held down" What words do you seldom hear a liberal mention? Self confidence.. Initiative..Self reliance..Enterprise.. optimism... The lefty has little confidence in his own abilities, so he is "pro collective". Or "pro socialism"..
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