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Note to self:
Bias confirmation is so powerful
conservatives will even take a gay man seriously for once

:lol:
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kalm wrote:Liberal to me simply means open minded and pro-freedom.
:rofl: OK Trip.
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https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/conse ... 1831029271

Some chick on deadspin wrote something in response to this article and said this:
One of the first prominent right-wing fags whose sexuality was central to his scam was Milo Yiannopoulos. Remember this guy? He’s basically banned from the Internet and reportedly deep in debt at the moment.
"Right-wing fags" :lol:

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89Hen wrote:
kalm wrote:Liberal to me simply means open minded and pro-freedom.
:rofl: OK Trip.
:?

Trip Has become like an evil combo of Marx, Saul Alinsky, Ocasio-Cortez, and Krampus.

He’s what goes bump in the night for you conks.

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Chizzang wrote:So there is finally an article written by a gay guy
that evangelicals will actually read and value his opinion...

well how about that

:lol:
I narrowed your extra wide brush for you

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Chizzang wrote:Note to self:
Bias confirmation is so powerful
conservatives will even take a gay man seriously for once

:lol:
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kalm wrote:
89Hen wrote: :rofl: OK Trip.
:?

Trip Has become like an evil combo of Marx, Saul Alinsky, Ocasio-Cortez, and Krampus.

He’s what goes bump in the night for you conks.

:lol:
I like Trip. I think he's naive, short-sighted and prone to stereotyping/painting with a broad brush but I appreciate his idealism. Does that mean I'm not a conk? 89 says I'm really a conservative.
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houndawg wrote:
CID1990 wrote:It's true, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I'll be gone before the real fun starts

Conservatives at the State Dept are like hen's teeth and we jokingly refer to ourselves as the "new queers".... we're the "Q" in LGBTQ

One thing is for sure - if you want to talk about touchstone liberal topics at DoS nobody will mess with you. But if you criticize any of the progressive golden calves you'll get a VERY strident reaction. It's like everybody has a permission slip to call you a moron or a Nazi if you don't have the correct viewpoints

:shock:

Is the chain of command aware of this situation? Nobody should have to work in that kind of pressure-cooker atmosphere. :ohno:
don't tell me how people do or don't behave in my workplace and I won't tell you what height your customers prefer to have their grass cut

BTW it isn't called "chain of command" at DoS

That's too militaristic and we don't want to sound like a bunch of retrogressive knuckle dragging baby killers
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I think that if you look at various definitions of "conservative" and "liberal" the big picture is that in those terms "conservative" means resistant to change while "liberal" means open to change.

For that reason I think that sometimes there are questions about what we label as "conservative" or "liberal." Sometimes the positions we call "conservative" in the United States are calling for change while positions we call "liberal" are calling for the status quo. I think you all can think of examples of those things.
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kalm wrote:
89Hen wrote: :rofl: OK Trip.
:?

Trip Has become like an evil combo of Marx, Saul Alinsky, Ocasio-Cortez, and Krampus.

He’s what goes bump in the night for you conks.

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UNI88 wrote:I like Trip. I think he's naive, short-sighted and prone to stereotyping/painting with a broad brush but I appreciate his idealism. Does that mean I'm not a conk? 89 says I'm really a conservative.
Gotta have some idealism to balance out all the jaded motherfuckers here. :coffee:
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∞∞∞ wrote:
UNI88 wrote:I like Trip. I think he's naive, short-sighted and prone to stereotyping/painting with a broad brush but I appreciate his idealism. Does that mean I'm not a conk? 89 says I'm really a conservative.
Gotta have some idealism to balance out all the jaded motherfuckers here. :coffee:
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houndawg wrote:
CID1990 wrote:It's true, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I'll be gone before the real fun starts

Conservatives at the State Dept are like hen's teeth and we jokingly refer to ourselves as the "new queers".... we're the "Q" in LGBTQ

One thing is for sure - if you want to talk about touchstone liberal topics at DoS nobody will mess with you. But if you criticize any of the progressive golden calves you'll get a VERY strident reaction. It's like everybody has a permission slip to call you a moron or a Nazi if you don't have the correct viewpoints

:shock:

Is the chain of command aware of this situation? Nobody should have to work in that kind of pressure-cooker atmosphere. :ohno:
Hell. They are probably the ones promoting it. When I was at the VA prior to retiring, people had shrines to Obama in their offices. The only time the Logan Act was even mentioned is if someone said or did something conservatives.


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kalm wrote:
89Hen wrote: :rofl: OK Trip.
:?

Trip Has become like an evil combo of Marx, Saul Alinsky, Ocasio-Cortez, and Krampus.

He’s what goes bump in the night for you conks.

:lol:
I was referring to Trip's knee jerk of conservatives being afraid of new ideas.
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89Hen wrote:
kalm wrote:
:?

Trip Has become like an evil combo of Marx, Saul Alinsky, Ocasio-Cortez, and Krampus.

He’s what goes bump in the night for you conks.

:lol:
I was referring to Trip's knee jerk of conservatives being afraid of new ideas.
I don't know if he linked to any articles but there have been several that show studies (the Journal Science, Psychology today) suggesting that's the case (or they are at least more driven by fear), including this recent one...
From the moment Donald Trump began his Presidential campaign the fearmongering has been almost non-stop. When Trump proclaimed that rapist and murderers were crossing into the United States from Mexico, it stirred up something in his support base and since that time, the President has continued to divide our country. It turns out, the brains of his conservative voters are wired differently and Trump’s messaging is targeting their thought processes with surprising efficacy.

https://hillreporter.com/brain-scan-stu ... fear-16707

Boo!

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:lol: Yeah, I'm probably going to skip that article. Fear-mongering you say?

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UNI88 wrote:
kalm wrote:
:?

Trip Has become like an evil combo of Marx, Saul Alinsky, Ocasio-Cortez, and Krampus.

He’s what goes bump in the night for you conks.

:lol:
I like Trip. I think he's naive, short-sighted and prone to stereotyping/painting with a broad brush but I appreciate his idealism. Does that mean I'm not a conk? 89 says I'm really a conservative.
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GannonFan wrote:American democracy is a much harder thing to take that kind of control over (just too messy and too for the moment), but from the suppression of speech, to the seemingly okay attitude towards violence against those who have different ideas, to the seemingly easy attitude to finding any ways to change government (Electoral College, court packing, etc) to ensure lasting political control that hasn't been found at the ballot box are all things that are far more similar to a fascist point of view than anything we've seen to date.
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Being conservative is a choice. Being gay is not.

You're judged according to the choices you make, not who you are as a person.

Nobody plays the victim card quite like Republicans though...
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∞∞∞ wrote:
UNI88 wrote:I like Trip. I think he's naive, short-sighted and prone to stereotyping/painting with a broad brush but I appreciate his idealism. Does that mean I'm not a conk? 89 says I'm really a conservative.
Gotta have some idealism to balance out all the jaded motherfuckers here. :coffee:
There's nothing wrong with idealism. Having a healthy dose of it is essential to improving our country. Our country should always be improving itself.

It's when you discount everyone else and think you have all the answers is when people get pissed. It's amazing that Democrats and Republicans have all the answers.
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∞∞∞ wrote:Being conservative is a choice. Being gay is not.

You're judged according to the choices you make, not who you are as a person.

Nobody plays the victim card quite like Republicans though...
Oh give me a fucking break. That's just flat out hypocritical bullshit, Trip. I'll gladly call out Republicans for their crap as well as the Dems, but you've got to be fucking kidding me with this. It's like you can't even help yourself. You've lost all objectivity. :ohno:
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Ibanez wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote: Gotta have some idealism to balance out all the jaded motherfuckers here. :coffee:
There's nothing wrong with idealism. Having a healthy dose of it is essential to improving our country. Our country should always be improving itself.

It's when you discount everyone else and think you have all the answers is when people get pissed. It's amazing that Democrats and Republicans have all the answers.
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Ibanez wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote:Being conservative is a choice. Being gay is not.

You're judged according to the choices you make, not who you are as a person.

Nobody plays the victim card quite like Republicans though...
Oh give me a fucking break. That's just flat out hypocritical bullshit, Trip. I'll gladly call out Republicans for their crap as well as the Dems, but you've got to be fucking kidding me with this. It's like you can't even help yourself. You've lost all objectivity. :ohno:
Both sides do it, but I thought Republicans were supposed to be tougher minded. This article is an example of why that might be a myth. For further examples, see all the posts on this board pining on about how bad white males have it in America. I suggest starting with pwns or AZ.
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Ibanez wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote:Being conservative is a choice. Being gay is not.

You're judged according to the choices you make, not who you are as a person.

Nobody plays the victim card quite like Republicans though...
Oh give me a **** break. That's just flat out hypocritical bullshit, Trip. I'll gladly call out Republicans for their crap as well as the Dems, but you've got to be **** kidding me with this. It's like you can't even help yourself. You've lost all objectivity. :ohno:
I was never objective to begin with. And I'm perfectly ok with that.
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∞∞∞ wrote:
Ibanez wrote: Oh give me a **** break. That's just flat out hypocritical bullshit, Trip. I'll gladly call out Republicans for their crap as well as the Dems, but you've got to be **** kidding me with this. It's like you can't even help yourself. You've lost all objectivity. :ohno:
I was never objective to begin with.
Truer words have never been spoken by you.

Who needs objectivity when blind loyalty works so well for you, right?
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