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Gmork - 2014-05-17

So Bryan is apparently on board with burning the hearts of gay men so they cannot be used for transplants.


Potter - 2014-05-17

Great username synchronicity.

I think if I sat through 12 minutes of this glorious blowhard I'd try to commit suicide.


infinite zest - 2014-05-17

ass. Boneyard Bitch. Cunt. Dick. Elephant cum. Gerbil. Hell. Incest. Jiz. Kangarooooo. Limey. Motherfuckmasters. Nintendo. Out. Pussy. Queer. Right to free speech. Shit. Tweaked. Unicorn cum. Vagina. Walrus fucks. Xenophobia. Y are u doing this? Zealot motherfucker.


infinite zest - 2014-05-17

F is for I forgot. Fuck you.


memedumpster - 2014-05-17

He seems to be asking if we want to replace all cuss words with new cuss words over the span of a single generation. He doesn't realize the Cuss Cluster of neurons doesn't care what word is stored in it.

From now on, assholes are called "fischers."


infinite zest - 2014-05-17

Well I guess in Fischer's defense, Dan Savage is trying to do it too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neolo gism

(just in case anyone didn't know)


infinite zest - 2014-05-17

Also, if it works in Russia, it must be good for the US... fuckmotheringchristholeinabasket. I didn't even watch it until just now.


memedumpster - 2014-05-18

Republicans are the worst people on Earth, this is not an easy badge to polish. Sometimes they have to look to the pros for tips, which is why they automatically side with fascists.


Merzbau - 2014-05-18

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_%28novel%29#Glossary


dairyqueenlatifah - 2014-05-18

Well, Dan Savage is nearly as big an idiot, so it's not surprising.


infinite zest - 2014-05-18

Dairy Queen, I respect your opinion no matter what but why do you think Dan Savage is an idiot? I kinda knew him when a good friend of mine used to do the Savage Love comics so I'm a little biased and we worked at the same video store. I rarely read The Mercury (where SL is in Portland) these days so maybe he did or said something I don't know about? The Santorum thing is like 10 years old.


Miss Henson's 6th grade class - 2014-05-18

You know Dan's illustrator, Misako? Is that her name? Anyway, I always liked her stuff!


Gmork - 2014-05-17

7:25 "The three legs of the stool of conservatism"

Usually I only see them with two legs.


SixDigitDebt - 2014-05-18

That's because the stools are upsidedown.


infinite zest - 2014-05-18

I usually see them with four, or just no legs at all. But I don't really examine my stools all that much.


Hooker - 2014-05-18

Is there honestly nothing too radical for American conservatives to say? I mean, the most radical right-wing thing I can think of is terrorist attacks against abortion clinics, but conservatives seem to condemn those in the most sheepish, "well, of course we don't support _that_..." way. Meanwhile, I imagine you would be hard pressed to find a liberal commentator that is taken seriously come out in support of something like consenting-adult incest, total elimination of the department of defence, mandatory busing, or whatever other far-left idea you can think up.


Hooker - 2014-05-18

I mean, this is something I'm constantly astounded by, but what sets talking about banning swearing in the media (when it is already regulated, and the free market enacts a lot of self-regulation!) apart for me is just how pointlessly stupid a hill to die on this is. It's an illustration of how relatively riskless to the individual saying any fucking stupid thing you want out loud is for American conservatives (I say for the individual because, clearly, this is a contributing factor to the rapidly diminishing relevance of conservative thought).


cognitivedissonance - 2014-05-18

Free-market regulation only works when a half-Irish usurper isn't in office.


memedumpster - 2014-05-18

"Is there honestly nothing too radical for American conservatives to say?"

Yes, "love one another."


Miss Henson's 6th grade class - 2014-05-18

This always gets me. Since the sixties, American liberals have more or less given up a lot of their boldest proposals and more or less admitted that, save for a couple of issues, the country has gotten more conservative since 1980 or thereabouts. A Democratic president actually promised to end welfare as we knew it, though whether he managed it or not is another issue entirely.

Meanwhile, the right does seem to have gone off the deep end and it's not very good about marginalizing its fringe. I've got some hope that religious, moral-majority conservativism of the kind espoused here may be fading, if only for demographic reasons. But the party's libertarian wing comes up with policies that most Republicans would have considered far too radical thirty years ago and Republican candidates still give speeches at Bob Jones University every election cycle.

It's fashionable to say that extremists on both sides are at fault, but the American far left barely exists as a voting block and doesn't even consider itself Democratic, for the most part. The spectrum is seriously unbalanced.


Oscar Wildcat - 2014-05-18

Did you forget the Birchers? Old skool Republican crazy isn't much different from new skool. As you say, what's really changed is that the Democrats have given up on ideology entirely. Is that a good thing? Well, it can provide more moderate leadership. It can also win elections. But think about all the good things that Hopey could do if he were actually what the right wing thinks he is, rather than being what we used to call a moderate Republican. We might have a single payer health system, rather than this fucked apart nonsense of the ACA. And so on.


memedumpster - 2014-05-18

History shows that progress must utilize the same military criminality as oppression to get anything done in the world. Most liberals are raised thinking songs, books, philosophies, arts, inventions, and goodness can make the world better.

They absolutely cannot, never have, and never will.

It takes war.

There is no reason to think it can be done any other way, and I refuse to participate in the human species on these terms.

Fuck all progress if you have to murder a million poor for every single goddamned step of it.


Miss Henson's 6th grade class - 2014-05-18

I didn't forget the Birchers, but as far as I know, they never represented the mainstream of the party but were a proudly radical fringe. The "center" of everything's shifted sharply right since their heyday, though.


Oscar Wildcat - 2014-05-18

And the party has never been weaker in terms of real power at the voting booth. Ronald Reagan got a hella lot of Democrat votes. Can't see that happening now even if they ran Jesus. Or rather, they did, and their Supply Side Jesus went tits up last election cycle so now what?


EvilHomer - 2014-05-18

As horrible as this is, he's hardly alone, and given the current of speech rights, his proposal really isn't all that radical. Most developed nations already have rather draconian laws against the use of language deemed "offensive"; the United States is the one of the few countries where such regulations meet effective opposition (in regards to public speech at least; there are already deeply entrenched regulatory bans on profanity in the mass media)... and, if polling data indicating the public's dimming views about freedom of speech is to be trusted, even our system's laudably enlightened attitude may not last much longer. Indeed, the idea that the ruling class should reserve the right to dictate how we speak, "for the good of society", is one of the few issues where blustering ideologues on both the left and right can find common ground.

Blasphemy laws have been common throughout history, and sadly, we are still not so far progressed above Mr Fischer as we might like to believe.


Miss Henson's 6th grade class - 2014-05-18

Yes and no. European countries do have laws against Holocaust denial and hurtful speech, and the appropriateness of these can certainly be debated. I'm not sure anyone's gone so far as to try to regulate common-or-garden non-specific swearing over there, though


dairyqueenlatifah - 2014-05-18

It's true. Speech laws throughout the rest of the world are frightening. The idea that you're not allowed to say something that might hurt someone else's feelings is insane to me.

I think people who insist the Holocaust never happened are beyond retarded and ill informed but I'd never dream of removing their right to say it.


infinite zest - 2014-05-18

I'm one of those people who doesn't like the word "retarded" used as something derogatory. But I accept it anyway. I have a little brother who is technically "retarded" and work with young adults and adults with developmental disabilities so I see that word the same way as people see "nigger." But should it be banned? Short answer is no.

I've worked at very few jobs where swearing is allowed. It's fun to throw on a record while you're working and it's got plenty of swearing, but even then I'm not like "hi my name is joe and what in the fuck do you want?" What's more ironic is that this guy wants to ban words that predated the constitution. I don't have time to look them all up, but I think we all know fuck's acronym, shit and cunt have been around since like forever.. I wonder if George Washington, which he has to remind us, was our first president, because I forgot, wasn't simply talking shit about someone talking shit about his bad teeth.


Gmork - 2014-05-18

Common usage dictates definition. More people use "retarded" as slang for "stupid", in the same way many people call something "gay" without even forming a homphobic thought in their brain. It's not nice to use those words, because not everybody has the same definition for it, but at least there is a large portion of lazy use that is without bigoted context.


oddeye - 2014-05-18

Fuck that.


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