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Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:01 PM

The true difference between liberals and conservatives/teabaggers.

Last edited Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:34 AM - Edit history (1)

I've said this before, but I think that bears repeating given the state of lunacy we're seeing from the other side.

Liberals will spend hours debating whether 4 is 2 + 2 or 1 + 3.

Conservatives will go to their hourly teabagger rallies, hear the speaker/screamer/screecher proclaim that 2 + 2 = 3, and then yell that anyone who says different is a traitor, communist, nazi, socialist, is committing treason, etc., ad infinitum! They will genuinely believe it, too!

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Reply The true difference between liberals and conservatives/teabaggers. (Original post)
MarianJack Jul 2013 OP
Dawson Leery Jul 2013 #1
MarianJack Jul 2013 #3
d_r Jul 2013 #2
MarianJack Jul 2013 #4
Initech Jul 2013 #5
MarianJack Jul 2013 #6
Jackpine Radical Jul 2013 #7
MarianJack Jul 2013 #9
dgauss Jul 2013 #8
MarianJack Jul 2013 #10
mwooldri Jul 2013 #20
Pholus Jul 2013 #26
Whiskeytide Jul 2013 #11
MarianJack Jul 2013 #12
Whiskeytide Jul 2013 #13
MarianJack Jul 2013 #15
mwooldri Jul 2013 #21
MarianJack Jul 2013 #27
PowerToThePeople Jul 2013 #14
MarianJack Jul 2013 #16
Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2013 #36
MarianJack Jul 2013 #41
Iliyah Jul 2013 #17
MarianJack Jul 2013 #28
Fearless Jul 2013 #18
MarianJack Jul 2013 #29
mwooldri Jul 2013 #19
MarianJack Jul 2013 #31
Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2013 #37
RedCappedBandit Jul 2013 #22
MarianJack Jul 2013 #32
Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2013 #38
awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #23
MarianJack Jul 2013 #33
kentauros Jul 2013 #42
nadinbrzezinski Jul 2013 #24
DCBob Jul 2013 #30
MarianJack Jul 2013 #34
nadinbrzezinski Jul 2013 #39
MarianJack Jul 2013 #40
nadinbrzezinski Jul 2013 #43
dgauss Jul 2013 #25
MarianJack Jul 2013 #35

Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:14 PM

1. +1

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Response to Dawson Leery (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:32 PM

3. Thanx!

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:17 PM

2. yes, you make a good point

and I can agree with you completely to an extent. I think that most liberals will initially think of 2+2=4, because society has programmed us to think of that equation. Ever since we were children, we have heard people in authority saying that 2+2=4, and so we assume it. But many of us will wonder if there is more to the story, and begin to question. Of course, logic bears that there are only so many numbers that can exist in this fact family. However, what about 3? Why have we forgotten three? In many cultures, three is considered a magic number. But in main stream America, we jump right past 3 and go straight to 2+2. We really should consider the implications of this on 3. And why should it be 3+1=4? Why not 1+3? Seriously. Should we assume that because 3 is the greater number that it should always come first? How could that possibly be fair to all the ones in the world? Who will speak for the ones? I will, that's who. I've seen too much in this life to be afraid now to stake my support for 1+3. It is really the only option that is fair to everyone, if you think about it. 1+3, that's for me.

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Response to d_r (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:35 PM

4. When I think of 3,...

...I can only imagine the denomination of bill with either richard nixon's or george w turdhead's picture on it...maybe saint ronald, too!

Thanks for the smile!

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 09:45 PM

5. Also - we can spell our protest signs correctly!_

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Response to Initech (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:12 PM

6. True!

In my school/single days however, I was ALL FOR a "Pubic Option!"

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Response to MarianJack (Reply #6)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:17 PM

7. Hair, hair.

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Response to Jackpine Radical (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:28 PM

9. Or, in my case,...

...less hair, less hair!...or would it be hare?

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:25 PM

8. Well put and right to the point.

And obviously 4 is 2+2. The people that think 4 is 1+3 are just trying to stir things up.

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Response to dgauss (Reply #8)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:30 PM

10. I also say 2+2, dang it!

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Response to dgauss (Reply #8)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:40 PM

20. Exactly, let's get to the point.

3.2 + 0.8 equals 4, no? Or should I worry about rounding?

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Response to dgauss (Reply #8)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 12:45 AM

26. But you are completely missing that it is important which two comes first.

Is it 2+2 or 2+2, cause that difference matters!

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:30 PM

11. 1s, 2s and 3s .....?

...Well, clearly you're all closet prime-ists! No one ever even thinks of 4+0, do they? Especially the 0s!! They're nothing in your minds! I'm alerting and putting you all on ignore!

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Response to Whiskeytide (Reply #11)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:33 PM

12. Prime numbers because...

...we don't want division!

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Response to MarianJack (Reply #12)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:37 PM

13. Oh man - that's good!!

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Response to Whiskeytide (Reply #13)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:42 PM

15. Thanx!

Great sig line you have there!

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Response to Whiskeytide (Reply #11)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:42 PM

21. You forget the point.

Is 3.999 + 0.001 = 4? Or could 3.999 be as good enough as 4?

I think we have a point here. Or a 4 point 0...

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Response to mwooldri (Reply #21)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:20 AM

27. And I'd never want...

...a pointless exercise!

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:38 PM

14. what pisses me off (as a socialist)

 

Is that they use fascism/communism/socialism all as the same form of gov. And BO is all of them. Fascism is NOT Socialism!! They are polar opposites.

Right wingers are always misusing language in order to confuse people.

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Response to PowerToThePeople (Reply #14)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 10:44 PM

16. Also, don't forget that...

...right wingers are soft headed idiots.

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Response to PowerToThePeople (Reply #14)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 08:34 AM

36. I know a conservative

Who told me that Obama is a Marxist, a socialist, a fascist and an anarchist. Apparently simultaneously. I told him that statements like that is why I believe that ignorance is a mark of American conservatives.

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Response to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #36)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:41 AM

41. He forgot...

...Muslim and athiest and Anti-Christ...or did he?

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:24 PM

17. LOL

and they feel no pain concerning the misspelled signs either, hahahahahaha

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Response to Iliyah (Reply #17)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:22 AM

28. I sometimes suspect...

...that they spend much of their time feeling no pain.

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:29 PM

18. *Whether

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Response to Fearless (Reply #18)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:23 AM

29. Thet's fyne!

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:38 PM

19. I wonder what conservative liberals are?

And is a liberal conservative the same as a conservative liberal?

There are some good people in the world who call themselves conservative. It is sad in this day and age that the people who are considered to be "liberal" in the USA are viewed as "conservative" elsewhere... and conservatives in the USA are considered "far right"... as for the Tea Party... I think the rest of them world thinks of them as being "batshit crazy". Apologies to batshit by the way.

So to put your statement in "the rest of the world eyes" we have conservatives who can spend hours debating the topic "The answer is 4, what's the question", even with actual liberals or *omg* socialists... the far right and batshit crazy people will hear the speech saying 2+3 = 3 and anyone who disagrees is also batshit crazy (in their eyes anyway). Again, apologies to batshit. I understand batshit is useful as a natural fertilizer.

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Response to mwooldri (Reply #19)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:26 AM

31. I'm reluctant to call teabaggers "batshit" crazy.

I not only have too much respect for bats, I have too much respect for the shit, too!

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Response to mwooldri (Reply #19)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 08:37 AM

37. Oh yes. In Europe, Obama would be considered a center-right politician

But then, American conservatives actually know nothing about socialism. (Hint: Actual socialists do not like Obama, since he clearly is not a socialist.)

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:45 PM

22. 3+.999999999999999999 repeating = 4

What now

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Response to RedCappedBandit (Reply #22)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:28 AM

32. I have no idea!

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Response to RedCappedBandit (Reply #22)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 08:42 AM

38. I spent over an hour trying to convince one of my co-workers of that

Actually, I was trying to show him that 0.99999... = 1.

The proof is simple:

x = .99999...

multiply both sides by 10, giving

10x = 9.99999....

subtract the first equation from the second:

10x = 9.99999....
- x = .99999...

giving 9x = 9

divide both sides by 9, and x = 1. He simply would not believe that it was valid.

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:47 PM

23. Some liberals even debate the proper spelling..

 

Of "whether". Just kidding.

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Response to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #23)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:30 AM

33. You make a good point.

How's the whether in your area today? Up here in Maine it's reigning like hell!

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Response to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #23)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:45 AM

42. Right.

It should be spelled "khwatharaz."

whether (conj.)
Old English hwęšer, hwešer "which of two, whether," from Proto-Germanic *khwatharaz (cf. Old Saxon hwedar, Old Norse hvarr, Gothic huažar, Old High German hwedar "which of the two," German weder "neither", from interrogative base *khwa- "who" (see who) + comparative suffix *-theraz (cf. Sanskrit katarah, Avestan katara-, Greek poteros, Latin uter "which of the two, either of two," Lithuanian katras "which of the two," Old Church Slavonic koteru "which". Its comparative form is either. Phrase whether or not (also whether or no) recorded from 1650s.




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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:50 PM

24. I hate to say it...

 

But hyper partisans on both sides...act the same way.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #24)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:25 AM

30. at least you are consistent.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #24)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:32 AM

34. Normally I'd agree, but...

...I believe teabaggers have a special crazy shelf of their own.

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Response to MarianJack (Reply #34)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:30 AM

39. I am talking from my experience at this place

 

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #39)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:39 AM

40. True, there are some here...

...whom I choose NOT to engage.

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Response to MarianJack (Reply #40)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:59 AM

43. I see it as part of the hyper partisanship that

 

Is not helping. A simple example...Filner, my mayor, refuses to resign after chasing some skirts. (He did more than that, but).

He is a Republican...nope...he's a Democrat...but the automatic reaction is the only side is morally bankrupt, we are pure as newly fallen snow.

I find that offensive, but.

Now let me check the status of emergency pressers with our young and the restless...city hall edition.

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Response to MarianJack (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 12:43 AM

25. Lots of good points on this thread!

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Response to dgauss (Reply #25)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 07:33 AM

35. Many of them are...

...on top of the teabaggers' soft little heads.

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