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Please terminate this thread with as much prejudice as you feel warranted. This is NOT adding to the general quality of BR discussion.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
You all disgust me.
Am I happy with the election result? No. Do I see hypocrisies present in both sides? All the time. Do I bring them up? Sometimes, but not last night and not now.
I had hoped that after this election, being without the disputes that marred that of 2000 and to a lesser extent 2004, we'd be able to band together and support our President-elect, soon to be President, and hope that he'd do a fine job in leading the country. Instead, I check the Backroom today and I find 3 or 4 threads of the same old trollishas if nothing has changed.
Come on, conservatives, we're better than this. The country means more than winning an argument or feeling better.
"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
Mafia: Promoting peace and love since June 2006
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"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Will you please stop trying to be mature, gracious and and and reasonable! Heaven forbid it might rub off on some.
Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi
...But, unlike you, my party is not vindictive and exclusive, and your party will not be forced into sub-basements to hold committee meetings, or threatened with the nuclear option.![]()
Last edited by Hosakawa Tito; 11-06-2008 at 01:46. Reason: additional irony
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
Meet the new chimp, same as the old chimp.
What's the big deal with chimp? Yes, it may have been used as a racist term, but in this instance it's clearly not the case. I my opinion people should be allowed to call him anyway they want. They can call him chimp, gorilla, polar bear, panda, black bear, great white shark...
It's clear that this is not the case of racism. People may use derogatory terms when referring to him because they don't like him, because they believe he will be worse than Bush, because they believe they're clairvoyant and think that they know he'll be worse then Bush or because they're just being mean. If Obama (or any other politician) isn't ready for that, he should have stayed out of politics. People have a right to have a bad opinion about him, even though he's still not in the office... It is silly to do that, but hey, everyone's entitled to an opinion.
The man is not even in the door of his new gaff and already there is a flame war on here.
He only deserves to be criticised when he actually is in office an he is doing stupid things he aint done any things in office yet so criticism is a bit premature.
An bringing up Bush does not count cos two wrongs don't make it right if yer annoyed Obama won thats is your problem apparently millions of americans had no such problem and from the looks of the electoral map they were everywhere.
They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
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Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul.
Yes please close the thread, obviously one side of the political spectrum is completely unable to look in a mirror.![]()
RIP Tosa
A) If you are going to call him the President Chimp you will have to distinguish him from the other one much like Bush Snr vs Jr.
B) Digs and insults should were possible be original and relevant to the candidate. Bush gets called Shrub... that is both, he also gets called a Chimp because it is relevant to his mannerisms and speech impediment (I think it is rude because he is obviously intelligent but has communication problems).
C) Don't use insults that have any religious or racial connotations for the candidate in question. Sure you can call Bush a Chimp because of his mannerisms, but because of prior racial statements calling a man who identifies himself as African+American has racist connotations. Like calling Conny Chung...Ms Ching or some other thing that could dubiously be seen as racist.
Thread closed, please think and come up with witty remarks that have no racist double meanings attached.
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