Bullseye! Of course, in the real world, the discussion wouldn't get past 20 seconds before the lib screamed "racist" at the conservative and stormed off in a blind rage. They become very uncomfortable when their world-view and what they consider "the truth" is challenged and they tend to lash out at the challenger.
1. She let herself be cross-examined for a quarter hour without once trying to take the initiative. Golly, liberals are stupid. /snark
2. Excuse my language, but if either of the factions symbolized in that video gets its way, we're screwed. (Although the male may be intended to depict an open-minded independent rather than a partisan conservative. Whatever.)
3. I wish the Right expressed a quarter of the skepticism about "missile defense" that they do about "global warming". (Both sets of quotes in the preceding sentence are intended to express skepticism: not denial, skepticism.)
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Brilliant.
Bullseye! Of course, in the real world, the discussion wouldn't get past 20 seconds before the lib screamed "racist" at the conservative and stormed off in a blind rage. They become very uncomfortable when their world-view and what they consider "the truth" is challenged and they tend to lash out at the challenger.
Jim beat me to it…. + profanity and other name calling
"Of course, in the real world…"
And re the Tea Party:
Conservative Republican, negative rights Libertarian or classical liberal He: "Hey, the people are revolting."
Democrat leftist, fashionista or Progressive and women's lib She: "Yes, they are disgusting."
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so." – Ronald Reagan
The 2001: A Space Odyssey reference at the end was a nice touch.
"Racism is very subtle these days."
Banging head on desk here…
1. She let herself be cross-examined for a quarter hour without once trying to take the initiative. Golly, liberals are stupid. /snark
2. Excuse my language, but if either of the factions symbolized in that video gets its way, we're screwed. (Although the male may be intended to depict an open-minded independent rather than a partisan conservative. Whatever.)
Afterthought:
3. I wish the Right expressed a quarter of the skepticism about "missile defense" that they do about "global warming". (Both sets of quotes in the preceding sentence are intended to express skepticism: not denial, skepticism.)
Is that water cooler filled with milk?
@gs: Defense is and always has been the smallest part of the budget. The largest is entitlement spending.