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Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:50:36 +0000

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By: David Willis

David Willis — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:17:25 +0000

It wouldn’t have been, sadly. We were in and out like ninjas. Maggie had to get home to study for her midterm, and it’s a long-ass trip!

By: Thomas Wrobel

Thomas Wrobel — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:12:36 +0000

I don’t think being against Fox news is being politicized anyway. Just because they lean one way, doesn’t necessarily mean you have to lean the other in order to find them [hyperbolic/inaccurate/under researched/miss-representational/whatever/etc].

By: BraveMax

BraveMax — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:57:01 +0000

Wish I’d known y’all were in DC. I’d have taken you out for a drink or something! I was avoiding the mall like the plague because of the giant Metro clusterfuck >_<

By: gwalla

gwalla — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:55:25 +0000

Two wrongs do not make a right!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:41:55 +0000

Yeah, I caught the mass media thing at the end AFTER I posted. Even if you were just repeating what he said changed, it may have been offensive, but the addition of the mass media thing brings it into good context.

By: David Willis

David Willis — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:39:06 +0000

Please understand that I didn’t genuinely mean what I said, but only presented it as an equally hyperbolic and off-the-mark comment as the one I was responding to.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:35:23 +0000

… Wow. just.. wow..

By: David Willis

David Willis — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:30:47 +0000

You should be offended when people call you “conservative.” I mean, when people call you “conservative,” they’re saying that you’re against civil rights and individual freedoms, and that you’re in favor of erecting a Christian theocracy.

I mean, that’s what “conservative” really means, isn’t it?

Congratulations, together we’re the mass media.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:54:03 +0000

Meh, Liberal isn’t more about stealing money than Conservative is about being greedy with money. We could spend months debating the differences, even years, and I doubt it would do any good. Like my Grandpa says, ‘Never argue with a cow. You’re just wasting your time, and getting the cow upset.’ We’d get nowhere, and people would just get upset in the longrun.

Liberal is, in my opinion, the emotional party. Their idea is to protect people, provide, and let live. Trouble is, it’s gotten in recently to believe that the only way they can do that is to provide a funded wide blanket for everyone, and the only way you can fund that is to tax it from producers. The idea is good, but it encourages laziness and in the long run hurts about as many people as it helps.

It’s like the butterfly and spider anology. A butterfly is caught in a spiders web, and you feel bad for it, so you release it. Well good for you, you saved the butterflys life. But the spider is now starving, and may die because it’s meal was released.

I’m a strong conservative, but I do have respect for sensible liberal policies. Alot of good has come from pulling to the left, like elimination of child labor, public education (well, public education sucks right now, but the idea is still good), etc… But when you begin to accelerate towards the ‘We’ll take most of you’re money, and then give you what you need’ mentality, it is scarily close to communism…