Another HATE SITE from the RIGHT?

United States
August 2, 2008 9:43am CST
Yes, it is true. Many on the right are in possession of more brains than compassion. Is it fair that these superior intellectually endowed heartless people be allowed to continuously get away with skewering their political opponents using hilarious satire? See what I mean here. http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=2168&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=3888e753b5e8b7a922eafd40a1baff82 I say that while it is reasonable to limit freedom of speech to the extent of not being allowed to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater, it it permissible to the point of only being rude to tell a joke in a loud voice in that same crowded theater. What do you say?
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@lvaldean (1612)
• United States
2 Aug 08
Actually I thought it was pretty funny. Fairly imaginative and well written. It is the quiet before the storm. I say have at it. At least to some extent they are skewering the right things, his political views and stands. I tire of the same old B$.
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• United States
2 Aug 08
A sense of humor is a valuable thing. It can get one through most things.
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@lvaldean (1612)
• United States
2 Aug 08
I call it a sense of the ridiculous. Most people take things far to seriously. So what I say. Anyone who steps up and wants political office opens themselves up to skewering. They are public property and public domain. If they don't like it tough! Those that follow blindly and cry fowl (spelling intentional) need to get a sense of humor, it is politics after all. In the end one can only hope that the majority of the people investigate the candidates with enough sense to vote pragmatically and logically for the person(s) who will do the least harm. This is especially true in this election year. I strongly believe that we are electing a lame duck president. I don't believe we are electing a president with a snowballs chance in Hades of being re-elected after the first four years, not unless something really dramatic happens to change the paradigm. So I am going at it from who will do the least harm. Given all the issues, given who is in the legislature, given all the needs of the country....who will do the least harm. I don't give a hoot for rhetoric. I don't give two damns for the ballons and the speeches. I don't give spice for the fear factor. I continue to dig under the covers and in the end someone will come out ahead for who will do the least harm, not the most good because right now I think that is a far fetched notion so just the least harm. All the rest .... including the weeping and wailing, including the fear tactics, character assignation; well that just drips down the walls of politics as usual. Disgusting but politics as usual.
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• United States
2 Aug 08
Certainly a very realistic pragmatic view of politics.
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
3 Aug 08
This is a great article that seems to describe what has been happening for the last sixty years or so in America. All we have to do is look at the history of other countries, and their failed political doctrines and see what doesn't work. Hell, all we have to do is look at the failed policies of the past in America and see what doesn't work.... like the carter administration and the Windfall Profits Tax on the oil companies.... yet this moron wants to do it all over again.
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• United States
3 Aug 08
Please, don't get me going about that moron traitor Carter. I was on active duty as an US Army officer when he was elected. His national defense policy was a disaster. The US Army was short ammo, fuel, money for training, and repair parts while he was President. At the same time he had a foreign policy in the middle east and central america that was sure to lead to war in his second term. A war that given his defense policy would have lead to a possible major defeat for the USA. Believe me when I tell you that I am not the only former officer from that era who has made this evaluation. The Carter Presidency was a major setback for the USA. All future Presidents should study Carter's actions, analyze their effect, and not repeat those mistakes. That Obama wants to do anything the way Carter did it, is enough to warn me away from voting for him.
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• United States
4 Aug 08
I remember it as well. Couldn't find replacement parts for the vehicles, and anything easily removed like light bulbs tended to disappear in the night. Carter was an idiot, and now we got one who wants to be just like him.
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
2 Aug 08
Conservatives are logical base not emotional base. Sometimes you need someone who is heartless in these evil days. I like the way the story compares ancient Atlantis and the good ole America. Rahgun for Reagan, Aurum Aqua for Goldwater, Buklee II for William F Buckley Jr, El Rahshu for Rush Limbaugh. Will Obama doom America like Beri Ubomo doomed Atlantis hopefully not bacause McCain should win. I wonder why there was no Atlantis name for McCain, maybe McCaln. Ubomo throwing his grandmother under the chariot has to be the funnest part of this story. Did you notice that the statue of Ubomo was missing something, I geuss Atlantis had a Jesse Jackson also.
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• United States
2 Aug 08
I missed that about the statue and them having to have a Jesse Jackson. Good one!
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Thank you for the link. I bookmarked it. It is pretty funny. I always loved the onion, and this is very similar. Freedom of Speech? This is a necessity in our great land. People just need to have the brains to differentiate fact from entertainment.
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• United States
4 Aug 08
Encouraging people to have a sense of humor is a good thing. This is a good site.
@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
2 Aug 08
Actually, I found it to be well thought out and slightly humorous. I do have a few comments/questions regarding your post. 1) "Many on the right are in possession of more brains than compassion. Is it fair that these superior intellectually endowed heartless people..." Are you trying to say that people on the right are, overall, smarter than people on the left and in the middle? If that is the case, perhaps these people DO know better than the rest how things should be done and the rest should start to emulate them and follow their lead. OR, are you trying to say that people who are intelligent have little or no compassion? I, personally, have found that MOST bullies and abusers are people of average to below average intelligence. There are exceptions to every rule, however. 2) "...while it is reasonable to limit freedom of speech to the extent of not being allowed to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater, it it permissible to the point of only being rude to tell a joke in a loud voice in that same crowded theater." This is not the same thing at all. Anytime someone "shouts" or "tells a joke in a loud voice"; they are subjecting everyone in the vicinity capable of hearing to the "shout" or "joke". Unless you go looking for this piece, the average person on the Internet would have no idea it even existed. Therefore, only people who desire to be subjected to this article are even aware it exists. That is hardly the same thing or in the same category.
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• United States
3 Aug 08
The linked article is satire. In that same light, my post is satire, too. Please, feel free to not take any of it serious. It isn't serious. Anything satiracle when looked at closely can have lots of holes poked into its logic. It is the same as there being no perfect analogy. There is not any perfect satire, either.
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@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
3 Aug 08
Are your facts right? I am under the impression that those on the right were scaredy-cat terrified of new ideas. I have heard them being described as intellectually vacuous.
• United States
3 Aug 08
Ah... someone else who truely understands satire! Thank-you.
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