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msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
2. This sums up the Fringe, farthest Left perfectly.....
Sat Aug 13, 2016, 04:20 AM
Aug 2016

What we can't do is sacrifice our own principles and adopt some of their philosophy in order to recruit them to our side. We can't do that for two distinct reasons; one, it will dilute our overall effort to repair the damage that they've caused and two, we really don't need those assholes. Fuck 'em. IF they want to come over to our side, it's going to have to be on OUR terms, not theirs. Again, we must show them the example that we know what we're doing. Eventually, they'll come around. No need to pander to them. 

I'm pretty much tired of trying to convince those motherfuckers that they're wrong. Logic, facts and basic human decency will never work on people who feel completely entitled to be illogical, hypocritical, gullible, bigoted, ill-tempered and stupid. We all live in a country where people who all about that feel that they have a Gawd-given right to do so. It makes them blind to all the things that they benefit from, in that those same things are entitled to us all. We're not talking about nice people, we're talking about obtuse assholes. 

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K and R gopiscrap Aug 2016 #1
This sums up the Fringe, farthest Left perfectly..... msanthrope Aug 2016 #2
Yeah, fringes have more in common than not... MrScorpio Aug 2016 #4
the left isn't as violent as the right. alfredo Aug 2016 #23
Complete intolerance is just that, whether it comes Hortensis Aug 2016 #13
I don't care if they shut up or not. I just don't want them in power. marble falls Aug 2016 #3
The problem is Cosmocat Aug 2016 #5
"This country WILL continue to indulge conservatives." MrScorpio Aug 2016 #6
Unfotunately, my friend Cosmocat Aug 2016 #15
I'm afraid you are right. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #28
In the name of bipartisanship..It's what our side does. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2016 #19
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2016 #22
For some people it takes a ton a bricks to fall on their head. Won't be a ton yet, I guess. Festivito Aug 2016 #7
I agree but would like to add the following. The Right wing media and the Republicans conditioned Trust Buster Aug 2016 #8
The only hope bucolic_frolic Aug 2016 #9
"winning elections is not going to make them go away" annabanana Aug 2016 #10
+1 for education. Add leadership by example. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #16
fucking a SheriffBob Aug 2016 #11
Nicely said. pwb Aug 2016 #12
You've hit the nail on the head Nuzedit44 Aug 2016 #14
There was only 24 working days he had a filibuster proof majority. nt fleabiscuit Aug 2016 #21
And yet this moldy meme lives on and on and on at DU. Hekate Aug 2016 #26
I hope some POS con reads your rant and it pisses them off! Rex Aug 2016 #17
Well, fuck 'em if they can't handle the truth MrScorpio Aug 2016 #18
Agree fuck em, fuck em if they can or cannot handle it. Rex Aug 2016 #20
The U.S.A. has always suffered an extreme level of anti-intellectualism on the left and right. hunter Aug 2016 #24
No, but they are dying out ThoughtCriminal Aug 2016 #25
K/R progressoid Aug 2016 #27
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