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Comment Pariser? Really? (Score 1) 408

Seeing as this is the moron behind moron.org, excuse me, moveon.org, a group of lefticle trash who are running an 0:infinity track on accomplishing their political goals and predicting destruction of our precious bodily fluids if we don't all become socialists right now, I'm hardly going to click on the link. I'm sure he'd love it if we were all forced to see his opinion on everything, but yes, I'd enjoy a default parameter to exclude him, and support preferences that figure that out. I'm certainly interested in legitimate left commentary. But really, these are the extreme Anti-Fox, Anti-Tea Party, How Can We Dial Up The Idiocy To Another Level losers. I'm amazed anyone would waste bandwidth on them.

Comment Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... (Score 1) 945

Liberals usually work incrementally.

As a liberal, I can play this argument too: It starts with short-term tax cuts to stimulate spending after a recession. Then later on the short-term has become a decade and then permanent. And the cuts go deeper, and deeper. Then comes a deficit commission and Social Security and unemployment insurance is gone and you have a significant population of desperate unemployed people starving to death on the streets.

I don't see what the problem is. Your position is that people are entitled to my goods and labor without my consent for their own benefit. That's called slavery. Don't promote the fallacy that I "benefit" from it too. Slaves were given medical care and housing. If someone less dedicated or capable "Starves to death" (I challenge you to find a statistically relevant number of cases, and further to demonstrate that such people can survive without a guardian making decisions for them in any society), I'm not clear on how I am morally culpable. You've a tautology that the state is entitled to whatever amount of my goods and labor it deems appropriate, and I am selfish to refuse. I offer a counter. I desire to perform anal sex on someone. Please provide me with a recipient.

Comment Re:Did you type this on a manual typewriter? (Score 1) 776

If you have to "pound frantically for a nonexistent clutch (and sometimes hit the brake...)" I guess you're not as good a driver as you think you are. Speaking as someone who's driven stick construction equipment, military trucks, semis, little Toyotas in the Middle East, US, Brit and Canadian manuals, and automatic combat vehicles, construction equipment and American cars. There are a small number of advantages to sticks. Automatics are superior in all other regards. If you really think you need to change gears, you just adjust revs accordingly...and as to the previous poster, if he can't get an auto to accelerate fast enough to avoid being hit in traffic, he should probably let someone else drive, before he gets squashed.

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