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funk100
United Kingdom172 Posts
but then this, geese guys, just come'on ok. theese tea party arses are just.... dumb . | ||
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MoltkeWarding
5195 Posts
Say what you want about Americans, but they don't like to simply lie down and shut up, and when they do thrash out in anger, they're capable of mass organization. If nothing else, it's a sign of vitality. | ||
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let_FLY
80 Posts
On September 18 2010 05:55 Hidden_MotiveS wrote: Wow, reading the wiki now. Here are my thoughts. I think America, and most countries these days are in a strange state. The population worldwide is growing, and it's common knowledge that stupider people have more children. This means that genetically, people will become more and more stupid. Since natural selection no longer exists for intelligence (stupid people have a high chance of reproducing), this state will continue. So in theory, the average IQ (if not normalized) should be decreasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence But it isn't! The average IQ is rapidly getting smarter. I attribute this to a rapid improvement in the educational systems worldwide. This means that education is a bigger deal than genetics in determining how smart people are. (I'm aware IQ is not a great measurement of intelligence, but it is something to go by). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect What we're seeing today is the clash between the people who have taken greatly to the the improved educational systems (high tier universities) and become significantly smarter than people from previous generations, and the people who have not and seem really ignorant on just about every subject. The difference is so great it's like homo sapiens is branching in evolution into homo smartius and homo stupidius, even though genetically, both are the same. How does what I've been saying tie in with the Tea Party? Well in my opinion, the people voting for the Tea Party are members of the Homo Stupidus Species lol. Many of these non-thinking conservative, unreasonable (blind religion creationism in school, guns, no abortion, no stem cell research) voters probably just didn't get a good education, and the few that did, were probably raised in a way to think too conservatively from a young age. I'd also like to note that the rapid expansion in information technology has caused people to become louder about their ideas. Stupid people can be misinformed and enraged more easily. I'm aware that this was a jumble of ideas, but I hope you can connect what I am trying to say into these summarizing lines. The people voting for Conservatives are about as intelligent as people from previous generations. They only seem stupid because you are relatively smarter than them because you took advantage of an improved educational system. I think I'll keep my post count like this for a few days.  Sorry I didn't bother to find better sources, and sorry for almost sounding nazi here. I don't advocate exterminating genetically less intelligent people; I probably am one. There is a huge flaw with your initial argument, what you're describing isn't evolution. Think of it like this, if 2 parents get together who are muscular does that mean their kid will just pop out muscular? The obvious answer is no. The same goes for lower intelligence parents and offspring. | ||
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Nayl
Canada413 Posts
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Gann1
United States1575 Posts
trust me, i'm from delaware. she may have gotten 53% of the registered republican vote, but she won't even come close to 50% of the majority vote. it's a shame because Castle would've made a good senator... he's done a good job for us in the House for a long time. | ||
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jungsu
United States279 Posts
You are correct. | ||
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phungus420
United States179 Posts
On September 18 2010 07:33 Scruffy wrote: The Tea Party is a movement of people who are tired of our out of control government sending us into an oblivion of debt. It is concerned with losing freedoms and our status in the world. Does that make them crazy? No it's not. The Tea Party is just a catch phrase for a radicalized religious group wanting to impose Iran style theocracy on the United States, You can claim to be about small government, but imposing adherence to religious dogma on the populace requires massive government spending and growth, and this is exactly what the tea party claims they want. You really believe a morality police and the bureaucracy to go along with it will be free? The tea party supports massive spending and increased debt, they just want to borrow money from China to pay for different things then those on the left. Controlling spending is nothing but hollow rhetoric though, you can't simultaneously support 2 costly foreign wars, the drug war and all that entails, and new religious based legislation and enforcement thereof, while reducing spending. Spare me the small government rhetoric and constitutional arguments. You right wingers have your own interpretation of the constitution; but that does not make make your opinions correct; in fact, the majority of the framers would dispute your interpretation. Though there are some, like Hamilton, that would certainly support some of your ideals. But that's one of the big things with the whole constitutional argument. It completely ignores reality. The framers themselves couldn't agree on exactly what everything meant; there is no way to look back on it now and honestly claim you know the specificities of each clause. The constitution is written in common sense English, as such it follows common sense principles; stating flatly Congress does not have the right to regulate health care under the commerce or general wealfare clauses is pretty esoteric and narrow, but common sense dictates Congress surely does. Also I find it amusing you cons go off on these tangents about things like medicare and social security, but then completely ignore the drug laws. Have some intellectual coherency, stop flip flopping all over the place. After 4 years of rampant liberalism, we can see how that worked out (complete failure). Bush's compassionate conservatism isn't the answer either as far as I'm concerned. What, Bush is a liberal now? I just don't get it, how can you function with that much cognitive dissonance? | ||
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slowzerg
United States62 Posts
On September 18 2010 07:33 Scruffy wrote: The Tea Party is a movement of people who are tired of our out of control government sending us into an oblivion of debt. It is concerned with losing freedoms and our status in the world. Does that make them crazy? Question: Where were those guys 2001-2008? I suppose they were all stewing in their juices all throughout the Bush years and Obama was merely a tipping point, right? Excuse us if we don't buy that  How serious are these self-proclaimed conservatives about cutting spending, anyway? Here's some interesting data. From http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/02/corrected_graph_for_conflicted.html (Source of data in blog post is ANES) ![[image loading]](http://www.themonkeycage.org/conflictedconservatives%20revised.png) The only one that has close to a simple majority is Foreign Aid, which is a fraction of the annual US budget. As a side note, of that small fraction that is US foreign aid, only 12.8% is humanitarian - the rest is military/economic/political/developmental.(Source) | ||
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Sadist
United States7328 Posts
On September 18 2010 07:33 Scruffy wrote: She made the comments about masturbation when she was young and had more religious zeal. But thankfully, we can rely on the MSM to take that out of context. The Tea Party is a movement of people who are tired of our out of control government sending us into an oblivion of debt. It is concerned with losing freedoms and our status in the world. Does that make them crazy? After 4 years of rampant liberalism, we can see how that worked out (complete failure). Bush's compassionate conservatism isn't the answer either as far as I'm concerned. What we need is a strong economy and a revitalization of America. And if the Tea Party can do it, then I am all for it. Yet there are tons of tea baggers who are anti abortion (like the smut who won in delaware) FREEEEEEEEEEDOM. | ||
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LlamaNamedOsama
United States1900 Posts
On September 18 2010 07:33 Scruffy wrote: She made the comments about masturbation when she was young and had more religious zeal. But thankfully, we can rely on the MSM to take that out of context. The Tea Party is a movement of people who are tired of our out of control government sending us into an oblivion of debt. It is concerned with losing freedoms and our status in the world. Does that make them crazy? After 4 years of rampant liberalism, we can see how that worked out (complete failure). Bush's compassionate conservatism isn't the answer either as far as I'm concerned. What we need is a strong economy and a revitalization of America. And if the Tea Party can do it, then I am all for it. IF they can do it. Too bad a touch of common sense and a glance at Tea Party attitudes/policies show pretty clearly they can't. Also, there's pretty much zero link of "4 years of rampant liberalism" to complete failure. How was the subprime mortgage crisis a result of liberalism, again? | ||
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herve
152 Posts
On September 18 2010 07:33 Scruffy wrote: She made the comments about masturbation when she was young and had more religious zeal. But thankfully, we can rely on the MSM to take that out of context. The Tea Party is a movement of people who are tired of our out of control government sending us into an oblivion of debt. It is concerned with losing freedoms and our status in the world. Does that make them crazy? After 4 years of rampant liberalism, we can see how that worked out (complete failure). Bush's compassionate conservatism isn't the answer either as far as I'm concerned. What we need is a strong economy and a revitalization of America. And if the Tea Party can do it, then I am all for it. It's a "grassroots movement" funded by some of the richest men in America. But I'm sure they're in it for your "lost freedoms" and not for their own agenda. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=1 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer | ||
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foeffa
Belgium2115 Posts
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On September 18 2010 07:56 MoltkeWarding wrote: Hmm, I have considerable admiration for the tea party if only because they've made it this far. In most other countries you would have a few days of disorganized protests and maybe wasteful rioting. Say what you want about Americans, but they don't like to simply lie down and shut up, and when they do thrash out in anger, they're capable of mass organization. If nothing else, it's a sign of vitality. I'd say more a sign of American stupidity... | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
On September 18 2010 11:32 foeffa wrote: Rofl wtf is it with these Tea Party retards getting elected? This would be f'ing hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. Huge facepalm. -_- None of them have actually been elected as of now. This was just the primary and in Nov they have to go up against the Democrats in the general elections. Thankfully, the tea baggers are so damn extreme that it will be near impossible to get moderate republicans, independents and most everyone else to actually vote for them. | ||
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gdroxor
United States639 Posts
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ymir233
United States8275 Posts
In 2008, O'Donnell called then presidential candidate Barack Obama "anti-American" because "he did not vote for English as the (nation's) official language. What does that say?". BAHAHAHAHA wtf is this shit | ||
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TOloseGT
United States1145 Posts
On September 18 2010 09:09 Gann1 wrote: she won't be elected trust me, i'm from delaware. she may have gotten 53% of the registered republican vote, but she won't even come close to 50% of the majority vote. it's a shame because Castle would've made a good senator... he's done a good job for us in the House for a long time. You sure? If anything, the Tea Party does surprise me sometimes with what they come up with. However, lets hope she doesn't get farther than this primary. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
On September 18 2010 12:38 On_Slaught wrote: None of them have actually been elected as of now. This was just the primary and in Nov they have to go up against the Democrats in the general elections. Thankfully, the tea baggers are so damn extreme that it will be near impossible to get moderate republicans, independents and most everyone else to actually vote for them. Never underestimate the power of idiocy in this country, just look at Sarah Palin has no idea what the Senate does, and if I remember correctly had to have the VP debates rules changed because she had no fucking clue at all in what to do. Yet all of this the Republicans/Conservatives of this country worship her. | ||
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Gann1
United States1575 Posts
sadly, her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, is a gigantic asshole  i guess i have to vote for the asshole over the lunatic, though. | ||
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