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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe true difference between liberals and conservatives/teabaggers.
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I've said this before, but I think that bears repeating given the state of lunacy we're seeing from the other side.
Liberals will spend hours debating whether 4 is 2 + 2 or 1 + 3.
Conservatives will go to their hourly teabagger rallies, hear the speaker/screamer/screecher proclaim that 2 + 2 = 3, and then yell that anyone who says different is a traitor, communist, nazi, socialist, is committing treason, etc., ad infinitum! They will genuinely believe it, too!
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEACE!
d_r
(6,907 posts)and I can agree with you completely to an extent. I think that most liberals will initially think of 2+2=4, because society has programmed us to think of that equation. Ever since we were children, we have heard people in authority saying that 2+2=4, and so we assume it. But many of us will wonder if there is more to the story, and begin to question. Of course, logic bears that there are only so many numbers that can exist in this fact family. However, what about 3? Why have we forgotten three? In many cultures, three is considered a magic number. But in main stream America, we jump right past 3 and go straight to 2+2. We really should consider the implications of this on 3. And why should it be 3+1=4? Why not 1+3? Seriously. Should we assume that because 3 is the greater number that it should always come first? How could that possibly be fair to all the ones in the world? Who will speak for the ones? I will, that's who. I've seen too much in this life to be afraid now to stake my support for 1+3. It is really the only option that is fair to everyone, if you think about it. 1+3, that's for me.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...I can only imagine the denomination of bill with either richard nixon's or george w turdhead's picture on it...maybe saint ronald, too!
Thanks for the smile!
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Initech
(100,097 posts)In my school/single days however, I was ALL FOR a "Pubic Option!"
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...less hair, less hair!...or would it be hare?
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dgauss
(882 posts)And obviously 4 is 2+2. The people that think 4 is 1+3 are just trying to stir things up.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEACE!
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)3.2 + 0.8 equals 4, no? Or should I worry about rounding?
Pholus
(4,062 posts)Is it 2+2 or 2+2, cause that difference matters!
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)...Well, clearly you're all closet prime-ists! No one ever even thinks of 4+0, do they? Especially the 0s!! They're nothing in your minds! I'm alerting and putting you all on ignore!
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...we don't want division!
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Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)Great sig line you have there!
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mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Is 3.999 + 0.001 = 4? Or could 3.999 be as good enough as 4?
I think we have a point here. Or a 4 point 0...
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...a pointless exercise!
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PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Is that they use fascism/communism/socialism all as the same form of gov. And BO is all of them. Fascism is NOT Socialism!! They are polar opposites.
Right wingers are always misusing language in order to confuse people.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...right wingers are soft headed idiots.
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Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Who told me that Obama is a Marxist, a socialist, a fascist and an anarchist. Apparently simultaneously. I told him that statements like that is why I believe that ignorance is a mark of American conservatives.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...Muslim and athiest and Anti-Christ...or did he?
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and they feel no pain concerning the misspelled signs either, hahahahahaha
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...that they spend much of their time feeling no pain.
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Fearless
(18,421 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEECE!
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)And is a liberal conservative the same as a conservative liberal?
There are some good people in the world who call themselves conservative. It is sad in this day and age that the people who are considered to be "liberal" in the USA are viewed as "conservative" elsewhere... and conservatives in the USA are considered "far right"... as for the Tea Party... I think the rest of them world thinks of them as being "batshit crazy". Apologies to batshit by the way.
So to put your statement in "the rest of the world eyes" we have conservatives who can spend hours debating the topic "The answer is 4, what's the question", even with actual liberals or *omg* socialists... the far right and batshit crazy people will hear the speech saying 2+3 = 3 and anyone who disagrees is also batshit crazy (in their eyes anyway). Again, apologies to batshit. I understand batshit is useful as a natural fertilizer.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)I not only have too much respect for bats, I have too much respect for the shit, too!
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Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)But then, American conservatives actually know nothing about socialism. (Hint: Actual socialists do not like Obama, since he clearly is not a socialist.)
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)What now
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEACE!
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Actually, I was trying to show him that 0.99999... = 1.
The proof is simple:
x = .99999...
multiply both sides by 10, giving
10x = 9.99999....
subtract the first equation from the second:
10x = 9.99999....
- x = .99999...
giving 9x = 9
divide both sides by 9, and x = 1. He simply would not believe that it was valid.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Of "whether". Just kidding.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)How's the whether in your area today? Up here in Maine it's reigning like hell!
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kentauros
(29,414 posts)It should be spelled "khwatharaz."
whether (conj.)
Old English hwæðer, hweðer "which of two, whether," from Proto-Germanic *khwatharaz (cf. Old Saxon hwedar, Old Norse hvarr, Gothic huaþar, Old High German hwedar "which of the two," German weder "neither" , from interrogative base *khwa- "who" (see who) + comparative suffix *-theraz (cf. Sanskrit katarah, Avestan katara-, Greek poteros, Latin uter "which of the two, either of two," Lithuanian katras "which of the two," Old Church Slavonic koteru "which" . Its comparative form is either. Phrase whether or not (also whether or no) recorded from 1650s.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But hyper partisans on both sides...act the same way.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...I believe teabaggers have a special crazy shelf of their own.
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...whom I choose NOT to engage.
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Is not helping. A simple example...Filner, my mayor, refuses to resign after chasing some skirts. (He did more than that, but).
He is a Republican...nope...he's a Democrat...but the automatic reaction is the only side is morally bankrupt, we are pure as newly fallen snow.
I find that offensive, but.
Now let me check the status of emergency pressers with our young and the restless...city hall edition.
dgauss
(882 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...on top of the teabaggers' soft little heads.
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