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Old 01-13-2011, 11:29 AM
 
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I think a more interesting thread would be one investigating the psychology of anti-birthers.
Normal psychology doesn't prove very interesting.

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Constitutional abortionists.
Some people believe that abortion is wrong, and also believe that it is wrong for the government to be involved in such matters.

I used to call them "conservatives", but that term has been hijacked by the loonies of the authoritarian Right, who will claim to be defending the Constitution while they roll back civil rights and every other societal advance we've made over the past couple of centuries.

You manufacture the threat to justify your agenda. Classic.
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:30 AM
 
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This country has been running lawless for quite some time now.

All law derives from the Constitution.

When the Constitution is suspended, or held at bay, well, I'll let you define that situation.

For me, it is anarchy prerequisite to fascism.
Agree.

Some people don't know history...
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:31 AM
 
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Agree.

Some people don't know history...
That's for damn sure.
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:40 AM
 
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I don't disagree, but I still think that for at least some of them, this birther business is a proxy for something else.
Yes, it's a proxy for warning about what ergohead described, the descent into fascism. Erode the Constitution, and that's what you get.
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I know this because on boards significantly less moderated than this one, when you wind up a birther sufficiently, it is often the case that the racist rhetoric seeps out.
Find a post in this thread that mentions race as an issue other than your own posts, yet, JournoLister Strel?
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:43 AM
 
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Yes, it's a proxy for warning about what ergohead described, the descent into fascism. Erode the Constitution, and that's what you get.
So then it is a proxy for generalized Neo-McCarthyist right wing loony paranoia?

Thanks, I knew that already.

Spare me. You can wrap yourself in the flag and the Constitution all you like, you are no protector of our national ideals. You just hate Obama.

That's your only motivation here, not some high-falootin constitutional ideal that you have done a fine job proving that you do not even understand, even if you could be objective, which you obviously cannot.

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Find a post in this thread that mentions race as an issue other than your own posts, yet, JournoLister Strel?
You won't mention it, you're way too slick for that and you know it wouldn't fly on THIS board.

But we both know the truth about you and your real motivations.
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:49 AM
 
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That's for damn sure.
Raising your hand?
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:50 AM
 
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Raising your hand?
And pointing a finger right at you.

You got schooled on this thread.

Live with it.
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:57 AM
 
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You won't mention it, you're way too slick for that and you know it wouldn't fly on THIS board.

But we both know the truth about you and your real motivations.
You're starting to sound like Loughner. He claimed to know made-up things, like you do.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRjwPWaxiY
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:57 AM
 
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Normal psychology doesn't prove very interesting.
To an abnormalist, it does.

Poe was a character.

"Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe."

THE BEATLES - I AM THE WALRUS LYRICS


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Some people believe that abortion is wrong, and also believe that it is wrong for the government to be involved in such matters.

I used to call them "conservatives"
Me too!
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Old 01-13-2011, 11:59 AM
 
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And pointing a finger right at you.

You got schooled on this thread.
More made-up stuff, huh? Hmmm...
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