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There is an apocryphal belief that among the Indigenous people of the north there are more than 30 words for snow. Well, Im from New Jersey and I can tell you that in Americas great Garden State we dont need so many words. In fact, along our stretch of the I-95 corridor there are probably 30 different ways we deploy just a single two-word phrase: Fuck you.
It can be a greeting, an expression of disbelief, a paroxysm of surprise or awe, an expression of affection, a reaction to a particularly delicious meal, and an expression of anger in its many different forms. You get the idea.
All of which is to say, I am an expert in the use of the term. And, because I also am a denizen of Washington, D.C., I have come to understand how it has become central to the politics of our moment.
The Republican Party has become the party of Fuck you. Fuck you is the motivation of its alienated voters. It is its legislative strategy. It is its views toward the laws and Constitution of the United States. It is its reaction to morality and values. It is its foreign policy mantra with our allies. Fuck you is even its message to the historians of the future.
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Biophilic
(4,597 posts)orthoclad
(4,621 posts)Not "hypocrites". They love it when we say that - they succeeded in triggering us.
Their version of "justice" is "I am your retribution".
We keep making the mistakes of calling them dumb, or stupid, and we have fun making up funny names for them, but the reality is that they are simply "scoundrels".
Scoundrels with power. And "Manson Family" values.
(Thank you ancianita)
DENVERPOPS
(9,850 posts)I was behind a really expensive Porsche. He had a bumper sticker on his Porsche and I thought what the hell, who would put a bumper sticker on a Porsche. When we got to a light, I was able to pull up right behind him.
The bumper sticker read: GOT MINE, FUCK YOU.
I thought, wow, is that the epitome of todays society's thinking...........
OMGWTF
(4,388 posts)will be constantly saying, "WTF?" to themselves.
BigmanPigman
(52,147 posts)marble falls
(61,755 posts)Cha
(304,419 posts)the party of FOFA!
ShazzieB
(18,404 posts)And now the "Party of NO" has devolved into the "Fuck You Party." That sobriquet fits the current Republican Party to a T.
"Fuck You Unless You're a Rich, White, Straight, Cis, 'Christian' Male" would be more accurate, but it would be hard to fit that on a bumper sticker (or even a t-shirt)!
maxsolomon
(34,929 posts)The crux: