Posts by Idiot Savant
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It seems the high horse has become a bad horse. With an evil death whinny and a chorus of beer-drinking cowboys.
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It's weird, because, as far as I can tell, it consist of taking everyone who disagrees with a certain species of liberalism, and treating that as the defining feature of their philosophies.
Except authoritarianism is a defining feature of their philosophies. The NeoCons and fascists are just your typical power-worshipping "might makes right" authoritarians. Libertarianism masks this benearth the language of freedom, but when you unpack it, it turns out the same: money makes right, and everyone else gets to be their slaves in a pratical sense (while their oppressors claim that they are "free" all the same - a move Orwell would be proud of). In the case of Marxists and their descendents, it's more subtle - they carry the poison of Rousseau, via Kant and Hegel - the idea that only rational freedom counts, and that people must be "forced to be free". Throw in a view that rationality is defined by class-interests and that those who deny this or want to act outside their class-interests are suffering from "false consciousness", and you have a recipe for authoritarianism and oppression as nasty as anything you'll find from the power-trippers.
But clearly, this is just bourgeois liberalism denying the impeccable logic of the People.
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But I will cop to this -- you bet your life that I'm damn sick of being tarred by association with right-wing nuts.
Here's a suggestion: get better friends. Or stop hanging around in the same circles. Either should work.
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As Emma suggested, we could learn from our Deaf community and adopt a symbol for sarcasm - (!)
But that rather defeats the purpose.
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'Child-beaters" ring any bells, Idiot?
We have a winner! An actual poo-label! Now, come back when you've got the sort of torrent of shit written about in Stoddart's thesis, and maybe people will take you seriously.
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I'll throw in "blitzkrieg". Originally pejorative when used by Easton, Douglas was quite proud of it though.
Bzzt! It's an actual description, especially since Douglas adopted it with his "blitzkreig principles".
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WTF is it?
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Just glancing at the SOLOPassion comments thread on this paper, I wondered: is "pomowanker" a widespread poo label, or is it something unique to Perigo et al?
I think that one's an artefact of the Rand cult, since they call themselves "objectivists".
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Wow:
It turns out that two years ago Tony handed them a weapon with which they're now cutting him down. He did something vile and inexcusable.
Not nearly as vile and inexcusable as they, though.
For make no mistake: the crazed mobs baying for his blood and bowels couldn't care less about his assault on his ex-partner. It's not that that has made them rabid. It's his exceptional talent for which they seek to hang, draw and quarter him.
So, its not that people are outraged by a serious assault, no, its just "tall poppy syndrome". These people are utterly demented.
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Sacha: no. But they're planning her funeral anyway, since it will happen eventually.
Christopher: touche. But you may notice that my vehemance about Thatcher is the exception, rather than the rule.