The local wingnut was outraged that I said that Oslo was wingnut terrorism

[UTUSN]

He used to be a radio news reader, yet has always fallen back on "I've never heard this or that" (like, about the B.F.E.E. history).

So when I sent him some links from the news and here about this dude's wingnut politics and dropped a comment about "wingnut terrorism" he FLASHED without even apparently having kept up, saying that this was "feverish even for you"!1 He said this had nothing to do with terrorism, that I can't draw equivilances in politics with other countries, that what did this dude's "shooting kids" have to do with politics and terrorism, that he was only a mentally deranged individual!1

He has almost always stayed polite with me despite my unrelenting barbs.

So I replied:

What it really sounded like you were saying is that there can be NO “terrorism” from the Right. That this Norway dude and anybody else from the Wingnut side who does their thing are just mentally ill.

So, the Oklahoma Bomber, the abortion-doctors killers, the wingnuts killing undocumented immigrants at the border, and all other Wingnuts who do these things are NOT “terrorists”?

This harks back to that never-to-be-forgotten flaw in thinking when you asserted that all Liberals should be CHEERING for the the California Recall because things like the Recall and the Referendum were Progressive innovations in the ‘20s. Where you totally missed that alleged auto thief Darryl ISSA spent a million bucks in drumming up signatures for the Recall, a FAKE recall not a grassroots phenom, in order to get himself (he thought) into the governor’s spot.

So, repeating, you believe that NO individual Wingnut can be a terrorist, the way individual suicide bombers are, that these dudes are just individually mentally deranged. Uh huh.

[KittyWampus]

1. Then you walked away, not having made a dent in the dumbass's pile of stupid.

[UTUSN]

2. Haha, no, then I Refreshed because we only contact via e-mail. But

"the dumbass's pile of stupid" is great description!1

[Taverner]

3. Good to see someone is bursting their bubbles

Willful ignorance is a dangerous thing

[Tx4obama]

4. And the Republican that purposefully crashed his plane into an office tower in Austin, Texas.

Because of IRS issues.

[freshwest]

5. Personal responsiblity for their heart's desires are always shoved on someone they consider inferior

[Shandris]

7. You misunderstand the conservative lexicon.

They ARE taking 'personal responsibility'. The ONE MAN is 'personally responsible', and absolutely no one else is.

The whole of their philosophy is based on the One True Scotsman argument. Any conservative/right-winger who would do harm is, to them, no TRUE conservative. It's how they can distance themselves from the atrocities of their side.

Besides, with as many dissociative angles as one has to take to be a conservative, it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a conservative that didn't do SOMETHING to 'prove' they 'werent conservative' should plausible deniability become a requirement.

[freshwest]

9. Cross purposes. They blame the victims. First, last and always. God made them do it, or some RW

Philosophy justifies doing it. Rape, plunder, murder, they aren't guilty. The ones who are dead or maimed brought it on themselves.

Women dress too provocatively. Gays don't walk and talk right. Murder victims didn't run fast enough. Gifford and the kid in AZ should have been armed. LIberals destroyed society and should be shot on sight. A bird shit on my SUV. Kill 'em.

I"m a bit short tempered today, about as angry as I was the day that Gifford got shot. So I'll just say - eff 'em.

But you have a nice night.

[malaise]

6. I know what you mean but I think it's complicated

because to think like a wingnut requires madness

[UTUSN]

8. "wingnut requires madness." Similar thing I said might also have set him off:

I said, although I do, feverishly, believe that wingnuttiness is a mental disorder.


Frankly, his jab at me, "FEVERISH EVEN FOR YOU," took me aback. I know never to trust a wingnut but we've been engaging for years and I let my guard drop, so it was his dropping his mask of civility to let his bottled up contempt show, being personally demeaning for last resort "winning".