08-22-2009, 02:13 PM
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insect of destiny
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Dissent is no longer the New Patriotism.
I'd just gotten used to Dissent being the New Patriotism when low and behold Dissent is no longer the New Patriotism. I'm really pissed about all this as I am always the last to be notified.
Stop dissenting everybody, don't you know you're a traitor if you do? You're probably a terrorist if you keep on dissenting. Everybody get in line and do the hokey pokey as the leader announces the steps like when you were in first grade. You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out. That's it. Just your left foot. That's what it's all about.
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08-22-2009, 02:24 PM
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internet pope
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Does bringing automatic rifles to town meetings count as dissent, or are you just talking about wearing anti-government t-shirts?
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08-22-2009, 02:26 PM
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my thirsty wanted whisky
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Not sure, but I know pro-Obama T-shirts count as anti-government.
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08-22-2009, 02:30 PM
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Anger is an Energy
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Geez bug, when did you decide to stop being any fun?
All you do these days is whine about politics.
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08-22-2009, 02:36 PM
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It's so bad!
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08-22-2009, 02:37 PM
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insect of destiny
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Sorry, I'll try to be more gentle in the future but when you really get down to it this thread only vaguely implies politics. It's really you that sees it that way. I could have been talking about turnip farming being the new patriotism, couldn't I have.
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08-22-2009, 02:39 PM
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internet pope
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08-22-2009, 02:41 PM
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Anger is an Energy
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You just used to be more entertaining than this. Dance monkey, dance!!!! And leave my sore spot alone, all that cheating got me herpes and this current flare up is a real bitch.
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08-22-2009, 02:46 PM
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It's so bad!
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Anyway, dissent's was never the new patriotism. Dissent is the old patriotism, only not really. Unwavering loyalty to God and country is also the old patriotism, only yes really. Many of the people who are vocally trashing Obama are the same ones that called anyone who criticized Bush a traitor. The irony is lost on them. Last edited by Donald M.; 08-22-2009 at 02:50 PM. |
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08-22-2009, 02:47 PM
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Dissent is healthy but it's depressing how much of the current uproar is based on incorrect and/or falsified information.
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08-22-2009, 02:49 PM
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Marie Antoinette, My Hero
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And a long post about how Fly went to work this morning, dissected pigs for a while, then fell through a dimensional portal to an alternate Earth where Rush Limbaugh was President and pushing for health care reform, while Barack Obama was organizing the political resistance on behalf of the insurance companies. Or something like that. Fly's brilliance was always about narrative, more than political commentary, I have to agree. õ Poor Fly, so burdened with expectations! |
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08-22-2009, 02:54 PM
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08-22-2009, 05:10 PM
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If youv'e got an actual opinion, that's based on something, and not just bigotry thinly veiled as dissent or opposition, that's fine. There's damn little of that. Most of it is just astoundingly obvious. If you don't like the current plan, please, by all means, come up with a counter proposal. I've yet to see much of anything on that front. What I have seen are a hell of a lot of lies, not even opinions, just lies.
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08-22-2009, 05:40 PM
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Dissent stopped being the New Patriotism when the phrase "You're either with us or against us" became pragmatic but official political discourse.
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08-22-2009, 05:45 PM
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