RyrineaNara wrote...
KCFender wrote...
How does complaining over prices have anything to do with one's politics? I get the TC is a simple troll, but I still think this just goes to show that Republicanism is a brain-virus. It's all hubris and inane finger-pointing. It's always cute to call people pinkos/commies/socialists. Unfortunately, one can't do the reverse and call Republicans fascist ****s, at least not without it being horribly taboo.
So even if TC is just joking, shame on him anyways for perpetuating this brand of stupidity.
I hardly think that Republicanism is a brain virus as you called it. Not all republicans result to name calling like you did.
Hell, most the republicans I know are very intelligent people who just have different view points than me. The one who do name calling are people like Plain. :happy:
If I may politiely reply to this.
Perhaps your personal experiences are nicer than the norm.
Look at network television. Glenn Beck is a prime-time slot pundit on America's most watched 24 hours news network. Every day he calls people in this country Socialist in a fasion that even Joe McCarthy would find a bit much. And I hear this stuff personally, from Republicans, on a regular basis.
Sure there are Democrat pundits on other networks who lambast the Republicans. But there isn't that vitriol labeling. We're living in a nuanced government that isn't purely capitalist or socialist and was never meant to be either of those things. That we have ONE political party that is using these blanket-statement labels on a
regular basis is a BAD thing for all of us, and I won't apologize for calling that out when I see it, though I guess it always pays to be polite about it.
So whether or not the TC was simply joking, even making these kinds of jokes is a double standard that pisses me off.
Would it be okay to call the TC a Fascist Nahtzee as long as I say I'm
joking? Do wee see that kind of name-calling towards people of the right-wing political persuasion as nearly as much we see the "commie/socialist" tag thrown out there?
That is all. I'd just like things to be "fair and balanced". I should be able to call the TC a ****.