You watch Red Dwarf and are familiar with Tom Lehrer? Are you secretly related to me? I feel like I need to start a bromance with you somehow.
I also prefer NPR over sports radio(I can't stand the Jim Rome types on sports radio). I wear boxers not briefs. I think anyone who orders a steak well done should be dragged into the restroom and shot. I believe all men should sport beards and women push up bras. I think that if you bother to eat an organic vegan diet you should probably quit smoking and drinking so much damn coffee.
Do we still sound like brothers?
I also prefer NPR over sports radio(I can't stand the Jim Rome types on sports radio).
I wear boxers not briefs.
I think anyone who orders a steak well done should be dragged into the restroom and shot.
I believe all men should sport beards and women push up bras.
I think that if you bother to eat an organic vegan diet you should probably quit smoking and drinking so much damn coffee.
Do we still sound like brothers?
Are you abnormally short, frail, and lacking skin pigment? That seems to be the final hurdle.
My wife would definitely divorce me for taking up this suggestion. Sometimes I really should appreciate her for what she is.
She doesn't want to talk about things with me very much. . . . feels too threatened with ideas or something. . . . I told her once that women who don't want to talk to their mates are on the same level as . . .. well. . . . the exact term would push the buttons on the filter in here. . . .
I consider that gays have "sold out" on their maleness and their possible posterity, and I hold it as a fundamental truth that people are better served by leaning towards either a male or female gender in accordance with the hope of having some kids come along.
I got a gay start in life. With no father around and a completely incompetent mother, I was abused by some folks in the neighborhood. When I tried to tell anyone what was happening, I was told I was a damn liar.
I am not your stereotypical notion of someone who just doesn't understand people.
People like you. There, I said it.
I hear a lot more intense hate for Republicans than I hear for Democrats. The Republicans seem to direct their political hate not directly at Democrats but at what they perceive to be be evils in our society (degradation of Christian values, illegal immigration and the non-American immigrant communities, welfare state, etc.) but in that they seem fairly often to have a more something needs to be done but the damn Democrats are benefiting from it so they won't do it attitude. It's really from the hard core liberals that I hear the most shocking sentiment. They view the intentions of the Republicans as evil and the Republicans as hateful puppet masters with their hordes of mindless hate and fear fueled followers. Now, don't get me wrong, Conservatives have no lack of hatred for Reid and Pelosi, along with their disgust with Obama, but I hear much more shocking general hatred coming from liberals in regard to conservatives. Like everything would be flowers and sunshine if we could only get rid of "those types".
I recently started visiting the Tribune comment section and holy ****. I dare you to express a moderate position there. Be prepared to get mass shouted down and have every aspect of your being ridiculed. The "intellectuals" there know your type and they aren't going to stand for it for a goddamn second.
I can't believe honestly you think the Dems are worse. Look how far right the entire Republican Party have gone. They are led by tea party types, and no one can even agree with the President without fear of being an outcast. That is flat out embarrassing, and impeding any potential progress we could make.
Whether you believe one side is worse than the other the point is what we are doing isn't working. This entire time Obama has been in office it's been extreme fear mongering on the right. That isn't helping the country. Neither is all the bickering back and forth from both sides. We've got to stop demonizing leaders to this extreme.
Dems want to do too much and Reps want to do too little. In a sick way it kinda works.Screw a two party system.... democracts suck, and republicans suck.
How about everyone just being americans and all on the same team to do what's best for our country. (Crazy idea right)
You do realize the "other side" has is planning on shutting down the government in a couple weeks unless the POTUS gives up his signature piece of legislation that he campaigned on and passed several years ago? That he won re-election on while the GOP ran against it?
Do you seriously not regard that as scorched earth tactics? What does a compromise even look like if that's the demand?
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Dems want to do too much and Reps want to do too much. In a sick way it kinda is terrible.
The left just is NOT going to even consider compromise.
If you deeply believe something is morally wrong, how the hell can you compromise? What kind of person does that make you?
If you really think even a minority of these politicians, from any side, have deeply held moral beliefs they are fighting for, I have a bridge for sale with deeply held moral beliefs.
Who's talking about politicians here? They just say the right things to get elected. I'm talking about people who elect them.
So is this "people like you" as opposed to "people don't like you" or is it "people like you" as opposed to "people who are not like you"?
So then you are saying that no one should ever compromise? Is it more important to hold out to get exactly what your moral code tells you is right, at the risk of never getting anything, or better to take one step forward even if it isn't ideal?
(and the first post of mine you quoted was directly about the politicians, not sure how you get here from there)